Liberties
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OTF – The “Independent” Internet Freedom Organization That Makes All Your Favorite Privacy Apps – is Staffed Full of Spies
WASHINGTON – The Open Technology Fund (OTF) is one of the most influential and celebrated organizations in the hacking and internet freedom communities. Well over two billion people globally use OTF-produced software, including communications app Signal and web browser Tor, services that are specifically marketed to privacy-conscious consumers looking to circumvent government censorship and surveillance. Yet its close… Continue reading
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Chris Hedges: PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Nils Melzer, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, is one of the very few establishment figures to denounce the judicial lynching of Julian Assange. Melzer’s integrity and courage, for which he has been mercilessly attacked, stand in stark contrast to the widespread complicity of many human rights and press organizations, including PEN America, which… Continue reading
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BREAKING: We’ve launched a legal challenge against Johnson’s Covid IDs
We’ve just started a legal challenge against Boris Johnson’s mandatory Covid passport scheme for England. Johnson’s draconian, discriminatory and pointless Covid IDs breach privacy rights and equality law, and must be stopped, now. Continue reading
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BREAKING: Julian Assange Files Appeal to UK Supreme Court
I know we just sent out an update yesterday, but we wanted to alert you to some breaking news. Just hours ago, Julian Assange filed an appeal in his extradition case. We’ve included the official statement from Stella Moris and the UK’s Don’t Extradite Assange campaign. Continue reading
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“Coerced Vaccination”: The Left’s Contempt for Bodily Autonomy during the Covid-19 Pandemic. A “Gift to the Right”?
When did parts of the left get so contemptuous of the principle of “bodily autonomy”? Answer: Just about the time they started fetishising vaccines as the only route out of the current pandemic. Only two years ago most people understood “bodily autonomy” to be a fundamental, unquestionable human right. Continue reading
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Voices of Concern: Aussies for Assange’s Return
With Julian Assange now fighting the next stage of efforts to extradite him to the United States to face 18 charges, 17 of which are based on the brutal, archaic Espionage Act, some Australian politicians have found their voice. It might be said that a few have even found their conscience. Continue reading
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New York Times Editorial Board Calls on Biden to Drop Assange Prosecution
The hard work of press freedom activists is paying off! Mainstream outlets are increasingly speaking out against the prosecution of Julian Assange, with The New York Times editorial board the latest to join in. Continue reading
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The Assange Issue Is NOT Complicated: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The most powerful regime on the planet imprisoning a journalist for journalistic activity is as brazen and obvious an act of tyranny as you could possibly come up with, and yet you still get pseudoleft pundits acting like you’re some kind of weird freak for expecting them to oppose it. Continue reading
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Julian Assange – If He Had Written About Russia or China, He Would Have Been Hero and Nobel Prize Candidate
In a miserable travesty of justice which is actually no surprise in our decayed western civilization – or rather non-civilization, Julian Assange is about to be extradited to the United States from the UK’s most notorious Maximum-Security Prison, Belmarsh. Continue reading
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Your Man Back in the Public Gallery: Assange Extradition, US Appeal Result
On Thursday afternoon I was in Edinburgh High Court to get back my passport, which had been confiscated during my own court proceedings avowedly to stop me going to Spain to testify in the trial of David Morales of UC Global. He stands accused by whistleblowers in his own company of spying on Julian Assange,… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News LInks 11-13 December 2021
13 December 2021 — The New Dark Age A Day in the Death of British Justice https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/12/a-day-in-the-death-of-british-justice/ The Assange Case Is the U.S. Defending Its Right to Lie https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/12/12/assange-case-us-defending-its-right-lie/ Journalism, Assange and Reversal in the UK High Court. The Extradition Procedure https://www.globalresearch.ca/journalism-assange-reversal-high-court/5764386 Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 11 December 2021
11 December 2021 • 16:30 — The New Dark Age Chris Hedges: Julian Assange Could Soon Be Extradited To The United States https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2021/12/11/chris-hedges-julian-assange-could-soon-be-extradited-to-the-united-states/ MPs blast government inaction on Julian Assange https://www.rt.com/news/542911-mps-australian-government-inaction-julian-assange/ John Pilger: A Judicial Kidnapping https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/12/11/john-pilger-a-judicial-kidnapping/ Continue reading
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Julian Assange
I’m writing to share our statement on today’s UK court ruling on the extradition of Julian Assange. I hope you’ll join us in speaking out for press freedom and human rights. A British court today ruled that Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States to face Espionage Act charges. We condemn this decision, and reiterate our condemnation of… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 10 December 2021
10 December 2021 • 21:30 — The New Dark Age Assange ruling a dangerous precedent for journalists and British justice https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/12/assange-ruling-a-dangerous-precedent-for-journalists-and-british-justice/ U.K. court permits Assange extradition to U.S. on spying charges https://www.veteranstoday.com/2021/12/10/u-k-court-permits-assange-extradition-to-u-s-on-spying-charges/ Continue reading
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Assange ruling a dangerous precedent for journalists and British justice
On Friday, the English High Court paved the way for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States and tried over the publication of hundreds of thousands of documents, some of which contained evidence of US and British war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Continue reading
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Assange Plans To Appeal High Court Decision Backing Extradition To United States
Attorneys for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plan to appeal to the Supreme Court in the United Kingdom after the country’s appeals court overturned a decision that blocked the extradition of Assange to the United States. Continue reading
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Concentration of Power
Well, it is nice to be free again, though as I said on release, I shall never really feel free while Julian is still imprisoned and while Scotland is still part of an imperialist United Kingdom. I expect most of you have seen my release, but for those who have not: Continue reading
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Democracy: More Dictatorial Powers Sought By Johnson
2 December 2021 — True Publica TruePublica Editor: Make no mistake, the principles of democracy are being dismantled in Britain. I have written many articles making that very point. Continue reading
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New update: Let’s stop Covid passes across the UK
Last week, Scotland dropped plans to expand their vaccine passport scheme and in fact added testing as an option. We’ve reviewed their new 70 page Covid passport report, and it’s damning – it found no evidence at all, in two months of their vaccine passport scheme, that it had any benefit to public health. We’re telling them… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 