Liberties
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Julian Assange and the Inhumanity of the British State: ‘Unofficial’ Solitary Confinement as Torture
26 January 2020 — 21st Century Wire By Nina Cross Up until this week, Assange has been held in solitary confinement in Belmarsh prison. Incredibly, it was the other prisoners along with Assange’s legal team, who have pressured the government officials to respect the law and allow Assange to be removed from solitary confinement, resulting… Continue reading
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Brazil Aims to Criminalize Glenn Greenwald’s Journalism
New York Times: “Federal prosecutors in Brazil have brought charges against US journalist Glenn Greenwald for reporting on leaked cellphone messages showing widespread corruption of Brazilian public officials. Greenwald is accused of being part of a “criminal organization” that hacked into the cellphones of several prosecutors and other officials to obtain the messages.” Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 23-25 January 2020
25 January 2020 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Belmarsh Prison Inmates Prove More Ethical Than Entire Western Empire https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/01/25/belmarsh-prison-inmates-prove-more-ethical-than-entire-western-empire/ Exclusive: In-depth Interview with Investigative Journalist Stefania Maurizi on Assange Countdown to Freedom Continue reading
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Split Hearings: The Assange Extradition Case Drags On
It is being increasingly larded with heavy twists and turns, a form of state oppression in slow motion, but the Julian Assange extradition case now looks like it may well move into the middle of the year, dragged out, ironically enough, by the prosecution. Curiously, this is a point that both the prosecutors, fronted by… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 23 January 2020
23 January 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 ‘We simply can’t get in’: Assange lawyer complains about lack of access to WikiLeaks founder https://on.rt.com/a9ln WikiLeaks Editor: US Is Saying First Amendment Doesn’t Apply To Foreigners In… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 22 January 2020
22 January 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 Empire’s War On Oppositional Journalism Continues To Escalate by Caitlin Johnstone https://williambowles.info/2020/01/22/the-empires-war-on-oppositional-journalism-continues-to-escalate-by-caitlin-johnstone/ Brazil’s Bolsonaro government charges journalist Glenn Greenwald with “cybercrimes” http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/22/gree-j22.html Continue reading
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How To Be A Mentally Sovereign Human
We all showed up naked, slimy and clueless in a world of inexplicable sensory input we couldn’t make head or tail out of. We were then taught what’s what by people who showed up under the exact same circumstances a blink of an eye earlier. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 12-17 January 2020
17 January 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 Julian Assange At The Westminster Magistrates Court https://orientalreview.org/2020/01/17/julian-assange-at-the-westminster-magistrates-court/ Now twenty years later, how did Putin do it? https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/16/now-twenty-years-later-how-did-putin-do-it/ Continue reading
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Short of Time: Julian Assange at the Westminster Magistrates Court
Another slot of judicial history, another notch to be added to the woeful record of legal proceedings being undertaken against Julian Assange. The ailing WikiLeaks founder was coping as well as he could, showing the resourcefulness of the desperate at his Monday hearing. Continue reading
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Upcoming Events for Julian Assange
12 January 2020 — Defend Wikileaks 25 January 2020 Edinburgh: Scotland Must Resist An afternoon of talks in defence of multi award-winning journalist Julian Assange. 2-4pm GMT 4042 40-42 Grindlay Street Edinburgh EH3 9AP United Kingdom Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 4 – 10 January 2020
10 January 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 UN rapporteur Nils Melzer condemns Britain’s criminal role in the torture of Julian Assange http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/10/assa-j10.html JULIAN ASSANGE: Countdown to Freedom–new podcast series–interviews on upcoming extradition trial https://williambowles.info/2020/01/09/julian-assange-countdown-to-freedom-new-podcast-series-interviews-on-upcoming-extradition-trial/ Continue reading
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Migrants Organise: Justice for Simba
7 January 2020 — Migrants Organise From all of us at Migrants Organise, we wish you a very Happy New Year. We are going to have a busy 2020, and wanted to update you about some of our campaigns… Justice for Simba – Sign the Petition & Donate! Last year, one of our members, Simba, suffered a stroke… Continue reading
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Media’s Deafening Silence on Latest WikiLeaks Drops Is Its Own Scandal
WikiLeaks has published yet another set of leaked internal documents from within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) adding even more material to the mountain of evidence that we’ve been lied to about an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria last year which resulted in airstrikes upon that nation from the US, UK and France. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Still Holding Powerful to Account as Founder Julian Assange “Slowly Dies” in Prison
Julian Assange is dying inside Belmarsh Prison in London. Those are his own words, relayed through English journalist Vaughan Smith, who revealed that the Wikileaks founder called him on Christmas Eve to share his greetings. Smith also divulged that Assange told him he is kept in solitary confinement 23 hours per day and is often… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 20-23 December 2019
23 December 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Medical Opinion, Torture and Julian Assange https://orientalreview.org/2019/12/23/medical-opinion-torture-and-julian-assange/ Taking Action For Assange: This Is What Real Activism Looks Like — Politicians Exposed! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/vZ5QO2RkE1k/taking-action-for-assange-this-is-what-real-activism-looks-like-politicians-exposed.html Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 20 December 2019
20 December 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Connecting the Dots https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/connecting-the-dots/ Medical observers blocked from attending Assange hearing http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/20/doct-d20.html Continue reading
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Chelsea Manning must not be forgotten!
Yesterday, December 17, whistleblower Chelsea Manning spent her 32nd birthday alone in a prison cell in Alexandria, Virginia, where she has been locked up for nine months for refusing to testify in a grand jury proceeding against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 17 December 2019
17 December 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Julian Assange’s extradition fight could turn on reports he was spied on for CIA Julian Assange’s fight against extradition to the US could last years, and his argument could hinge on… Continue reading
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Manifesto Club Christmas newsletter – The ‘Silencing of Public Space’
Here’s a Christmas round-up of our work over the past few months. Wishing you a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year – may freedom flourish in 2020…. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 11 December 2019
11 December 2019 — The New Dark Age For the sake of press freedom, Julian Assange must be defended We wrote President Barack Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder, urging them not to prosecute Julian Assange. The Australian hacker and … Julian Assange: A Court of Star Chamber — cruelty beyond belief Publisher, whistleblower, journalist Julian Assange has been… Continue reading
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