Liberties
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Overview: USA vs Assange
Julian Assange faces extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States, where he has been indicted on 18 counts for obtaining, possessing, conspiring to publish and for publishing classified information. The indictment contains 17 counts under the Espionage Act of 1917 and one charge of conspiring with a source to violate the Computer Fraud… Continue reading
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WATCH: The Tolpuddle ‘Martyrs’ & Julian Assange
Through the lenses of economics, politics, law and history, an examination of the case of Julian Assange and lessons learned from the Tolpuddle ‘martyrs’. Continue reading
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A Matter of Citizenship: Shamima Begum, Islamic State and Natural Justice
Rarely do terms such as “Islamic State” and “natural justice” keep company. Both seem alien, uncomfortable, fundamentally ill-suited. For one, Islamic State’s own approach to natural justice, archaic and stone-age obscurantist, has tended to be distinctly unnatural and particularly brutal. But it has also invited, in response to its particular brand of terrorism, a troubling… Continue reading
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Damage to the Soul
The imprisonment of Julian Assange has been a catalogue of gross injustice heaped upon gross injustice, while a complicit media and indoctrinated population looks the other way. In a truly extraordinary twist, Assange is now being extradited on the basis of an indictment served in the UK, which is substantially different to the actual indictment… Continue reading
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Open letter calling for the release of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange
On 8 June 2020, responding to a question in the House of Lords about the United Kingdom’s stance regarding the protection of journalists and press freedoms, Minister of State Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon said, “Media freedom is vital to open societies. Journalists must be able to investigate and report without undue interference”. Continue reading
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40+ Rights Groups Call on UK to Free Julian Assange
Dozens of press freedom, human rights, and privacy rights organizations across five continents have co-signed an open letter to the U.K. government, calling for the immediate release of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The publisher, who turns 49 years old today in HMP Belmarsh, is facing extradition to the United States where he has been… Continue reading
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Representing Activists & Political Prisoners: Veteran lawyers Martin Stolar and Robert Boyle on Julian Assange
Watch the latest episode of Randy Credico’s podcast “Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom”, an ongoing exploration of the prosecution and persecution of the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder. Continue reading
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‘The American friends’: New court files expose Sheldon Adelson’s security team in US spy operation against Julian Assange
An exclusive investigation by The Grayzone reveals new details on the critical role Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands played in an apparent CIA spying operation targeting Julian Assange, and exposes the Sands security staff who helped coordinate the malicious campaign. Continue reading
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We now know far more about Covid19 – the Lockdown should end
Virtually overnight our world has turned into a wasteland of closed towns, deserted streets and a few people scuttling along with masks and stricken faces. It’s a place bereft of imagination, the light sucked out; a padded cell in Psych Ward B. Continue reading
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COVID-19 and the Left: an Ignored Civil Rights Crisis; a Missed Opportunity
Reading op-eds these days about the grim progress of COVID-19 through the United States, I sometimes have the eerie feeling that I’ve traveled backward in time and landed in some sort of Cold War-like, hyper-conformist dystopia — but with one disquieting difference. Continue reading
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Watch: World Press Freedom Day: The Prosecution of Julian Assange
Sunday, May 3rd, is World Press Freedom Day, an international celebration of fundamental journalistic principles and an assessment of attacks on reporters’ right to hold the powerful to account. This panel, convened by the Courage Foundation, features two journalists whose reporting on the Snowden documents earned a Pulitzer Prize as well as the UK Bureau… Continue reading
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Pandemic Delays: Postponing the Assange Extradition Hearing
Julian Assange must have had time amidst cramped and hostile surrounds, paper work, pleas and applications, to ponder what circle of Dante’s Hell he finds himself in. Ailing but still battling, the WikiLeaks publisher, through his lawyers, made another vicarious appearance at the Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday to delay the next stage of extradition… Continue reading
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How It Starts
It is a recognised pattern for dictatorship to commence with emergency measures designed to combat a threat. Those emergency measures then become normalised and people exercising arbitrary power find it addictive. A new threat is then found to justify the continuation. Continue reading
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Coronavirus: The view from Germany
29 March 2020 — Youtube An open letter to the Chancellor of Germany Continue reading
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Assange Bail Application Today
Unfortunately I am in lockdown at home in Edinburgh and cannot get down to Westminster Magistrates Court for Julian Assange’s urgent bail application today. Several hearings ago, Magistrate Baraitser stated pre-emptively that she would not grant bail, before any application had been made. Today’s application will argue that Assange’s ill health puts him at extreme… Continue reading
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Reject Using My Unjust Conviction Against Julian Assange
In 2015 I was wrongfully convicted of, and imprisoned for, violating the U.S. Espionage Act. Now, while there is no question that I stand in solidarity with WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange in a British court as he fights extradition, little did I know that my presence is also there as fodder to support extradition. If… Continue reading
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Doctors of Assange Reveals Reports on Mistreatment Have Intensified The Abuse
Doctors 4 Assange, who are the many doctors who sent a letter to the Home Secretary in Great Britain, tweeted a concerning statement today. According to them, Craig Murray’s reporting on the trial of Assange only escalated his mistreatment rather than helping to aid Assange. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 13 March 2020
13 March 2020 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back UPDATE: The Dutch Government’s Show-Trial About MH17 https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/03/13/update-the-dutch-governments-show-trial-about-mh17/ Judge Releases Manning After Suicide Attempt, Effectively Fines Her Supporters $256,000 https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/03/13/judge-releases-manning-after-suicide-attempt-effectively-fines-her-supporters-256000/ Continue reading
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Chelsea Manning Ordered Free From Prison — but Will Still Have to Pay Massive Fines
On Thursday afternoon, a District Court judge in Virginia orderedthat Chelsea Manning be released from jail, where she has been held since last May for refusing to testify before a grand jury. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 7 March 2020
7 March 2020 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back The Travesty Of Julian Assange’s Prosecution Raises Wider Issues Australia: “Teachers for Assange and Manning” campaign in Melbourne http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/07/cfpe-m07.html Continue reading
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