5 January 2021 — Craig Murray
I fully expect that Julian will be released on bail this week, pending a possible US appeal against the blocking of his extradition.
Day: January 5, 2021
Chris Hedges: The Empire is Not Done with Julian Assange
4 January 2021 — Mint Press
By Chris Hedges
Princeton, New Jersey (Scheerpost) —As is clear from the memoir of one of his attorneys, Michael Ratner, the ends have always justified the means for those demanding his global persecution.
Shortly after WikiLeaks released the Iraq War Logs in October 2010, which documented numerous US war crimes — including video images of the gunning down of two Reuters journalists and 10 other unarmed civilians in the Collateral Murder video, the routine torture of Iraqi prisoners, the covering up of thousands of civilian deaths and the killing of nearly 700 civilians that had approached too closely to US checkpoints — the towering civil rights attorneys Michael Ratner and Len Weinglass, who had defended Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case, met Julian Assange in a studio apartment in Central London, according to Ratner’s newly released memoir “Moving the Bar”.
UK: New Bill Threatens Future of Free Expression and Civil Liberty
5th January 2021 — True Publica – Big Brother Watch
TruePublica Editor: Big Brother Watch has warned that the recently proposed Online Harms Bill is yet another piece of legislation designed to deceive us into thinking the government is protecting us all when something more sinister is likely. Free expression and civil liberty are at stake. The result is a piece of proposed legislation which is as BBW says is “blunt in its force and will have severe unintended consequences”. Think back to the Regulatory Investigations Powers Act 2000, designed to catch terrorists and high level wanted criminals – eventually used by the BBC to catch licence fee dodgers and local authorities to catch underage sunbed use. There are many laws that the government have brought in since the late 1990s now being used against civil liberty and basic human rights.
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 4, 2021
5 January 2021 — Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Pandemic Reveals Crisis of US Imperialism / Only a “Transformational” Electoral Politics is Useful / AFRICOM Causes Humanitarian Crises on Two Continents
Pandemic Reveals Crisis of US Imperialism
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“I think what we are looking at is a severely wounded, crippled US imperialism as the chief hegemon of world capitalism,” said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations. The coronavirus epidemic “brought the crisis of this economy into bold relief,” said Yeshitela, while China continued its rise “as a major contending force that was rapidly overtaking the US economy – and most of Europe,” as well.
Julian Assange News Links 4-5 January 2021
5 January 2021 — The New Dark Age
Chris Hedges: The Empire Is Not Done With Julian Assange
https://popularresistance.org/chris-hedges-the-empire-is-not-done-with-julian-assange/
Assange Wins. The Cost: Press Freedom Is Crushed
https://popularresistance.org/assange-wins-the-cost-press-freedom-is-crushed/
Julian Assange: Imminent Freedom
5 January 2021 — Craig Murray
It has been a long and tiring day, with the startlingly unexpected decision to block Julian’s extradition. The judgement is in fact very concerning, in that it accepted all of the prosecution’s case on the right of the US Government to prosecute publishers worldwide of US official secrets under the Espionage Act. The judge also stated specifically that the UK Extradition Act of 2003 deliberately permits extradition for political offences. These points need to be addressed. But for now we are all delighted at the ultimate decision that extradition should be blocked.
The New Dark Age 