September 10, 2020
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HAPPENING NOW: Julian Assange’s UK Extradition Hearing
10 September 2020 — Shadowproof Donate $25 to support Kevin Gosztola’s daily live coverage ### Kevin Gosztola is covering a major hearing in the extradition case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, taking place right now until September 24. The COVID-19 pandemic means journalists face increased obstacles to travel that may result in diminished coverage. Continue reading
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ColdType Extra No.2 ‘Absolute and Arbitrary Power’
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‘Absolute And Arbitrary Power’: Killing Extinction Rebellion And Julian Assange
The use and misuse of George Orwell’s truth-telling is so widespread that we can easily miss his intended meaning. For example, with perfect (Orwellian) irony, the BBC has a statue of Orwell outside Broadcasting House, bearing the inscription: ‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 10 September 2020
10 September 2020 • 18:30 — The New Dark Age [Once again, not a single story about Assange on the BBC’s website. A total news blackout by the British State Broadcasting Company! WB] Reprieve’s Clive Stafford Smith on US Judicial Unfairness, Assange’s Show Trial Assange targeted for political views in “terrifying threat to First Amendment,”… Continue reading
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Not Just an Orchard, Not Merely a Field, We Demand the Whole World: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2020)
10 September 2020 — Tricontinental Sunil Janah, Mallu Swarajayam and other members of an armed squad during the Telangana armed struggle, 1946-1951. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. When news of the revolution in the Tsar’s empire filtered into British-dominated India in 1917-1918, the reception was universal: if they could… Continue reading
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Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day 8
The great question after yesterday’s hearing was whether prosecution counsel James Lewis QC would continue to charge at defence witnesses like a deranged berserker (spoiler – he would), and more importantly, why? Continue reading
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Assange’s Third Day at the Old Bailey: Bias, Politics and Wars on Journalism
The third day of extradition proceedings against Julian Assange at the Old Bailey resumed on the point of politics. Assange as a figure of political beliefs; Assange as a target of the Trump administration precisely for having them. The man sketching the portrait was Paul Rogers, Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University. Continue reading
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Inside the Gorbachev-Bush “Partnership” on the First Gulf War 1990
Washington, D.C., September 9, 2020 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev quickly decided that joint action with the United States was the most important course for the USSR in dealing with Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait 30 years ago, rather than the long-standing Soviet-Iraq alliance, and built what he explicitly called a “partnership” with the U.S. that… Continue reading
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Assange: Ask not for whom the bell tolls
The western world is inhabited by those who know we are ruled by sociopaths … and that much larger group which, taking at face value the surface forms of democracy informed by independent media, either cannot or will not accept this admittedly frightening truth. Continue reading
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The 1% blunder: How a simple but fatal math mistake by US Covid-19 experts caused the world to panic and order lockdowns
In February, US Covid guru Anthony Fauci predicted the virus was ‘akin to a severe flu’ and would therefore kill around 0.1 percent of people. Then fatality rate predictions were somehow mixed up to make it look ten times WORSE. Continue reading
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