September 9, 2020
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Why we need proper legal protections for our right to protest
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… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 9 September 2020
9 September 2020 — Black Agenda Report Sept 19: A Nationwide Day of Protest, and of Dialogue on Community Control of Police 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? Freedom Rider: Losers, Suckers… Continue reading
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Day 3 Assange Hearing
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. Continue reading
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Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 7
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… Continue reading
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PEPE ESCOBAR: Julian Assange, Prometheus Bound
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. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 9 September 2020
9 September 2020 • 21:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-publishing. Extradition Witness Statements Julian Assange – The week that journalism and the rule of law in Britain drowns Continue reading
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The protracted crisis of capitalism
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”. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 