Liberties
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WATCH: The Assange Case Explained
Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria was interviewed by BreakThrough News, and he laid out the essential information about WikiLeaks‘ publisher Julian Assange’s extradition case. (9 minutes) Continue reading
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Where Is My Final Assange Report?
Numerous people have contacted me in various ways to ask where is my promised report on the final day of the Assange hearing, to complete the account? Continue reading
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UK: Stand in solidarity with Simba this weekend
This weekend, across the country thousands of people are taking action against the racism and cruelty of Hostile Environment immigration policies under the banner of ‘Solidarity Knows No Borders’ #SKNB. Continue reading
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Hi Fly: Airline profiting from deportations while owners decry ‘desperate plight of migrants’
The government’s attempts to hastily expel Channel-crossing migrants on charter flights have gathered pace, with a series of deportations over the last two months. Continue reading
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‘None Of It Reported’: How Corporate Media Buried The Assange Trial
One of the most imposing features of state-corporate propaganda is its incessant, repetitive nature. Over and over again, the ‘mainstream’ media have to convince the public that ‘our’ government prioritises the health, welfare and livelihoods of the general population, rather than the private interests of an elite stratum of society that owns and runs all… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 2 September – 5 October 2020
5 October 2020 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age On Contact: Assange Extradition Hearing 6 Wikileaks Revelations Expose Corporate Abuse at Expense of People and Planet Continue reading
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Eyewitness to the Trial and Agony of Julian Assange
2 October 2020 — John Pilger John Pilger has watched Julian Assange’s extradition trial from the public gallery at London’s Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia: Continue reading
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Revealed: Key Assange prosecution witness is part of academic cluster which has received millions of pounds from UK and US militaries
2 October 2020 — Declassified One of the US prosecution’s key medical witnesses in the Julian Assange hearing, who claimed that Assange’s risk of suicide is ‘manageable’ if extradited to the US, works for an academic institute that is funded by the UK Ministry of Defence and linked to the US Department of Defense, it… Continue reading
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Assange’s Seventeenth Day at the Old Bailey: Embassy Espionage, Contemplated Poisoning and Proposed Kidnapping
Today will be remembered as a grand expose. It was a direct, pointed accusation at the intentions of the US imperium which long for the scalp of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. For WikiLeaks, it was a smouldering triumph, showing that the entire mission against Assange, from the start, has been a political one. The… Continue reading
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Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 21
I really do not know how to report Wednesday’s events. Stunning evidence, of extreme quality and interest, was banged out in precis by the lawyers as unnoticed as bags of frozen chips coming off a production line. Continue reading
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Assange Trial: How US Government Is Likely Deceiving British Court To Win Extradition
Attorney Lindsay Lewis, who represented Mostafa Kamel Mostafa in a high-profile extradition case, warns against the U.S. government’s past “unreliable assurances.” Continue reading
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Exclusive: Spanish judge seeks Sheldon Adelson security chief in Assange spying case
A Spanish judge’s request to probe a Las Vegas Sands staffer’s apparent role in a criminal spying operation against Julian Assange indicates the investigation is homing in on US intelligence. Tellingly, the Department of Justice is stonewalling the application. Continue reading
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Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 20
Tuesday has been another day on which the testimony focused on the extreme inhumane conditions in which Julian Assange would be kept imprisoned in the USA if extradited. The prosecution’s continued tactic of extraordinary aggression towards witnesses who are patently well informed played less well, and there were distinct signs that Judge Baraitser was becoming… Continue reading
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Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 19
Today was the worst day for the defence since the start of the trial, as their expert witnesses failed to cope with the sheer aggression of cross-examination by the US Government and found themselves backing away from maintaining propositions they knew to be true. It was uncomfortable viewing. Continue reading
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Defense Witnesses In Assange’s Extradition Trial Counter Key Prosecution Lie About US Solitary Confinement
Prosecutors in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition trial have consistently maintained he would be able to talk through the doors or windows of his cell if he was held in solitary confinement—or what the Bureau of Prisons refers to as “administrative segregation.” Continue reading
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UK: Watch: What you need to know about the Coronavirus Act
Let’s make sure we don’t blame the wrong people here. The police are not the enemy, nor are many government agencies that are operating under difficult circumstances. Both have been given rules, areas of guidance and laws to manage that conflict with our understanding of civil society. But these are not normal times and because… Continue reading
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Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 18
It is hard to believe, but Judge Baraitser on Friday ruled that there will be no closing speeches in the Assange extradition hearing. She accepted the proposal initially put forward by counsel for the US government, that closing arguments should simply be submitted in writing and without an oral hearing. This was accepted by the… Continue reading
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Prosecutors’ Password-Cracking Conspiracy Theory Against Assange Unravels At Extradition Trial
“At the time, it would not have been possible to crack an encrypted password hash, such as the one Manning obtained,” testified Patrick Eller, a digital forensic expert Continue reading
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The Guardian’s deceit-riddled new statement betrays both Julian Assange and journalism
In my recent post on the current hearings at the Old Bailey over Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States, where he would almost certainly be locked away for the rest of his life for the crime of doing journalism, I made two main criticisms of the Guardian. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 