7 September, 2020 — Netpol
In Britain, there are laws that are supposed to protect our civil liberties – specifically the Human Rights Act 1998, which has often proven extremely effective as a means of challenging in court injustices by the state that violates our rights. This may go a long way to explaining why the governing Conservative Party has repeatedly threatened to scrap it since 2015.
9 September 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Community control puts us on the path to both defunding and abolishing the police – so why are many Black Lives Matter chapters withholding support?
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Democrats are up in arms over Trump’s latest mouth-burst, but the truth is that both corporate parties have made the people suckers for endless, “bipartisan” wars.
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9 September 2020 — Assange Defence
Today was Day 3 of Julian’s resumed extradition hearing in London. Outside the courtroom, advocates are demanding transparency in the hearings, and Assange Defense co-chairs Noam Chomsky and Alice Walker published a powerful critique of the media’s unfocused coverage of the case.
9 September 2020 — Craig Murray
CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH
This morning we went straight in to the evidence of Clive Stafford Smith, a dual national British/American lawyer licensed to practice in the UK. He had founded Reprieve in 1999 originally to oppose the death penalty, but after 2001 it had branched out into torture, illicit detention and extraordinary rendition cases in relation to the “war on terror”.
8 September 2020 — Consortium News
Police ejecting Julian Assange from Ecuadorian embassy in London, April 11, 2019. (YouTube)
By Pepe Escobar
Special to Consortium News
This is the tale of an Ancient Greek tragedy reenacted in AngloAmerica.
Amid thundering silence and nearly universal indifference, chained, immobile, invisible, a squalid Prometheus was transferred from the gallows for a show trial in a faux Gothic court built on the site of a medieval prison.
9 September 2020 • 21:00 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-publishing.
Julian Assange – The week that journalism and the rule of law in Britain drowns
30 August 2020 — Peoples Democracy
THERE is a commonly-held view that the current crisis in capitalism, which has resulted in a massive output contraction and increase in unemployment, is because of the pandemic; and that once the pandemic gets over, things will go back to “normal”.
The New Dark Age 