24 February 2020 — The Canary
Lawyers acting on behalf of imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning have lodged a motion, arguing for her release. This comes as WikiLeaks tweeted that Julian Assange‘s lawyers intend to produce ‘bombshell’ evidence at next week’s extradition hearing.
Meanwhile, more evidence has emerged to further the argument that the extradition hearings should end on the grounds of extreme prejudice by UK authorities.
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24 February 2020 • 21:00 — The New Dark Age
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Note the BBC headlines below (and elsewhere of course); they invariably emphasise the negative aspects, negative for Assange of course. So, ‘Julian Assange ‘put lives at risk’ by sharing unredacted files’; ‘Julian Assange: Trump ‘offered pardon for Russia denial’; or, ‘just the so-called facts, ‘Julian Assange: What is extradition and how does it work?’. Then there’s the ‘personal’, ‘Julian Assange: Father fears ‘worried’ son’s extradition’. But the most striking thing about the BBC’s coverage is that there isn’t any to speak of! The stories above cover the period 7 February 2020 to today, just a handful, not even. And this is the BBC, allegedly the leading, most trusted, news organisation on the planet, famed for its objectivity, that it always presents all sides of a story. And I’m only dealing with the headlines! WB
Day 1 of Assange’s US extradition hearing: What you need to know
https://on.rt.com/abl4
‘We should talk war crimes & killing civilians, not US espionage claims in this court’ – WikiLeaks head Kristinn Hrafnsson
https://on.rt.com/abkw
Assange’s Persecution Has Exposed Media Depravity The World Over
Assange Extradition Hearing’
https://off-guardian.org/2020/02/24/discuss-assange-extradition-hearing/
24 February 2020 — Jonathan Cook
If one thing drives me to write, especially these blog posts, it is the urgent need for us to start understanding power. Power is the force that shapes almost everything about our lives and our deaths. There is no more important issue. Understanding power and overcoming it through that understanding is the only path to liberation we can take as individuals, as societies, and as a species.
21 February 2020 — Daily Maverick
The senior judge overseeing the extradition proceedings of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange received financial benefits from two partner organisations of the British Foreign Office before her appointment, it can be revealed.
It can further be revealed that Lady Emma Arbuthnot was appointed Chief Magistrate in Westminster on the advice of a Conservative government minister with whom she had attended a secretive meeting organised by one of these Foreign Office partner organisations two years before.
25 February 2020 — South Front
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan confirmed his intention to meet with the leaders of Russia and France Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron, as well as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on March 5th in Istanbul to discuss the situation in Idlib.
25 February 2020 — The New Dark Age
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How to Know If America Is Your Enemy
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/02/24/how-to-know-if-america-is-your-enemy/
Syria conflict: Inside the final rebel stronghold
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-51608262
24 February 2020 — Caitlin Johnson
This is a speech I gave yesterday at a demonstration for Assange with the Socialist Equality Party Australia.
Tomorrow in the UK a judge will start the process of answering a very important question. It’s a question that many of us knew was the heart of this debate back in 2010, ten years ago, when this all started. It’s a question that they have been obfuscating, bloviating, huffily denying, smearing, gaslighting, and distracting from–basically doing anything they can to hide it from view.
24 February 2020 — Indian Punchline
The race for Democratic Nomination in the upcoming US presidential election in November has electrified with the huge victory by Bernie Sanders in the Nevada primary on Saturday. The race has crossed a critical milestone. The primaries so far gave us a sampling of the trend in two regions of America — the American heartland (Iowa) and the Northeast (New Hampshire) — that Sanders is at the top of the heap of Democratic contenders.
The New Dark Age 