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Ecuador Is Literally Powerless in the Face of Drought
Ecuador Is Literally Powerless in the Face of Drought Drought-stricken hydro dams have led to daily electricity cuts in Ecuador. As weather becomes less predictable due to climate change, experts say other countries need to take notice. PHOTOGRAPH: FEDERICO RIOS ESCOBAR/REDUX PICTURES Ecuador is in trouble: Drought has shrunk its reservoirs, and its hydroelectric dams […]
Severe energy crisis paralyzes Ecuador for two days
Severe energy crisis paralyzes Ecuador for two days President Daniel Noboa has suspended work and school on Thursday and Friday, and accuses the outgoing energy minister of having hidden the problem A student reads a text by candlelight in Quito, Ecuador, on April 17, 2024.JOSÉ JÁCOME (EFE) Ecuador is in the dark. Not only because […]
Six-Month Sentence for Lawyer Who Took on Chevron Denounced as ‘International Outrage’
Steven Donziger speaks at a rally for his freedom outside his New York City apartment on July 6, 2021. (Photo: Steven Donziger via Twitter) Six-Month Sentence for Lawyer Who Took on Chevron Denounced as ‘International Outrage’ Conviction of Steven Donziger, said one critic, “perfectly encapsulates how corporate power has twisted the U.S. justice system to protect […]
Assange Is The Only One To Abide By The Law
Assange Is The Only One To Abide By The Law On October 21 2019, Brexit became an entirely irrelevant issue. Or perhaps we should say it had already become that, but on that date it was exposed for all to see that it was. The parading into a courtroom of Julian Assange in London was […]
Lawlessness
Lawlessness With the news that Julian Assange is “wasting away” in Belmarsh prison hospital, and with UN rapporteur Professor Nils Melzer’s report detailing how this happens, I’m once again drawn towards the lawlessness that all “authorities” involved in his case have been displaying, and with impunity. They all apparently think they are literally above the […]
After Assange’s Arrest, Ecuador’s Creep Towards Authoritarianism Becomes a Sprint
After Assange’s Arrest, Ecuador’s Creep Towards Authoritarianism Becomes a Sprint The recent violation of Assange’s rights as both political asylee and citizen of Ecuador sends a chilling message to Ecuadorians who are being increasingly targeted for their political views both within Ecuador and abroad. QUITO, ECUADOR — Last week, Ecuador’s government gravely undermined not only its […]
The Martyrdom of Julian Assange
The Martyrdom of Julian Assange The arrest Thursday of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. The illegalities, embraced by the Ecuadorian, British and U.S. governments, in the seizure of Assange are ominous. They presage a world where the internal workings, abuses, corruption, lies and crimes, especially […]
The Media’s 7 Years of Lies about Julian Assange Won’t Stop Now
The Media’s 7 Years of Lies about Julian Assange Won’t Stop Now Assange was reduced from one of the few towering figures of our time – a man who will have a central place in history books, if we as a species live long enough to write those books – to nothing more than a […]
Cascading Cat Litter
Cascading Cat Litter And so now Julian Assange of Wikileaks has been dragged out of his sanctuary in the London embassy of Ecuador for failing to clean his cat’s litter box. Have you ever cleaned a litter box? The way we always did it was to spread some newspaper — say, The New York Times — on the floor, […]
Facebook Removes Page of Ecuador’s Former President on Same Day as Assange’s Arrest
Facebook Removes Page of Ecuador’s Former President on Same Day as Assange’s Arrest Facebook has unpublished the page of Ecuador’s former president, Rafael Correa, the social media giant confirmed on Thursday, claiming that the popular leftist leader violated the company’s security policies. In a statement republished by Ecuadorean newspaper El Comercio, a company spokesperson said: “Protecting […]
Why Your Hatred Of Assange Is Completely Irrelevant
Why Your Hatred Of Assange Is Completely Irrelevant By the time I publish this we’ll be at or around the 24-hour mark since WikiLeaks announced that two high level Ecuadorian government insiders had told them that Julian Assange faces eviction from the Ecuadorian embassy within days, which seems to have been further confirmed by the Foreign Minister of […]
A Year of Silencing Julian Assange
A Year of Silencing Julian Assange One year ago Thursday, Ecuador’s government under President Lenin Moreno silenced Julian Assange. WikiLeaks wrote on Twitter Wednesday: “… March 28, marks one year that WikiLeakspublisher Julian Assange has been illegally gagged from doing journalism—any writing that expresses a ‘political opinion’? even on his own treatment, after pressure from the U.S. on […]
Assange-Manafort Fabricated Story Is a Plot to Extradite WikiLeaks Founder
Assange-Manafort Fabricated Story Is a Plot to Extradite WikiLeaks Founder The apparently fabricated report by The Guardian linking Russiagate and Manafort to WikiLeaks is laying the case to arrest and extradite Julian Assange to the US, investigative journalist Max Blumenthal told RT. WikiLeaks is ready to sue Britain’s Guardian newspaper for a “fabricated Manafort story” that accused […]
