Liberties
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Julian Assange News Links 18 September 2019
18 September 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back The World’s Most Important Political Prisoner Antiwar.com We are now just one week away from the end of Julian Assange’s uniquely lengthy imprisonment for bail violation. He will receive parole from the Continue reading
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Edward Snowden: Would he like to live and die in Paris?
September 17 will see private international publishing company Macmillan Publishers Ltd release a book by former employee of the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) Edward Snowden. Memoirs by the ex-NSA agent titled “Permanent Record” will hit the shelves in twenty countries, including the United States which he escaped more than six years ago. Continue reading
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ORG London: Exposing AdTech’s underbelly
Join us in London to hear a digital marketing expert blow the whistle on personal data abuse by digital advertisers and tell us how we can “opt out” of the corporate surveillance economy. Continue reading
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The World’s Most Important Political Prisoner
We are now just one week away from the end of Julian Assange’s uniquely lengthy imprisonment for bail violation. He will receive parole from the rest of that sentence, but will continued to be imprisoned on remand awaiting his hearing on extradition to the USA – a process which could last several years. Continue reading
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British judge jails Assange indefinitely, despite end of prison sentence By Oscar Grenfell
In a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning, British District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange will remain in prison, despite the fact that his custodial sentence for “absconding” bail expires on September 22. Continue reading
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Assange on the Untold Story of the Grounding of Evo Morales’ Plane During Edward Snowden Manhunt
Assange explains the details of the operation to get Snowden to a safe place and how it was disrupted by US intel in cahoots with European allies. Continue reading
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Media Dead Silent As Award-Winning Journalist Crumbles The Myths Surrounding Julian Assange
The Facts: Award winning Australian Mark Davis explains the smear campaign mainstream media is using against Assange. Journalist Greg Bean compares his work to the time that the printing press was invented, putting ‘information’ in the hands of the people. Continue reading
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“There is a need to revive the spirit of liberation” By Adri Nieuwhof
Almost a decade ago Israeli forces raided Palestinian community leader Ameer Makhoul’s home in Haifa and arrested him. After corresponding with Makhoul during his nine years in prison, I spoke with him recently via Skype, for his first interview since his release. Continue reading
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Media blacks out Roger Waters’ performance in defence of Assange By Oscar Grenfell
On Monday evening, Roger Waters and John Pilger staged a powerful event in defence of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange outside the British Home Office in central London. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 3-4 September 2019
4 September 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Imprisoned activist Jeremy Hammond called to testify before US grand jury, most likely against Julian Assange https://williambowles.info/2019/09/04/imprisoned-activist-jeremy-hammond-called-to-testify-before-us-grand-jury-most-likely-against-julian-assange/ ‘Nothing!’ Media refuse to cover Roger Waters concert in support of Julian Assange Continue reading
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‘Nothing!’ Media refuse to cover Roger Waters concert in support of Julian Assange
If most rockstars performed one of their iconic hits outside the British Home Office, the media would lap it up. Not so, if the star is Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters and he sings for jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Continue reading
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Roger Waters ‘Serenades’ British Home Secretary, Calling for Release of Julian Assange
Thousands of supporters gathered last night outside the British Home Office demanding to end to the unlawful detention and persecution of Julian Assange, who is currently being held in London’s notorious Belmarsh Prison. Continue reading
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Roger Waters to perform in London Today, 2 September in defense of Julian Assange By Kevin Reed
The world-renowned bassist, singer and songwriter Roger Waters will perform his iconic Pink Floyd song “Wish You Were Here” in London on September 2 in solidarity with Julian Assange. The performance will take place at 6pm on Monday in front of the office of British Home Secretary Priti Patel on Marsham Street in the heart… Continue reading
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Julian Assange: Deprivation of Justice and Double Standards in Belmarsh Prison
Alfred de Zayas, former UN Rapporteur, has described the actions of the British authorities in pursuit of Assange as “… contrary to the rule of law and contrary to the spirit of the law.” What we see on the surface is an illusion of British justice, masking a political agenda behind it. Continue reading
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Clinical psychologist Lissa Johnson: They are trying to break Assange “physically and psychologically” By Oscar Grenfell
Australian clinical psychologist Lissa Johnson has been an outspoken defender of Julian Assange, writing extensively on the grave implications of his persecution for democratic rights and freedom of speech. Continue reading
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Breaking The Media Blackout on the Imprisonment of Julian Assange
The same media that has spent years dragging Assange’s name through the mud is now engaging in a blackout on his treatment. If you are waiting for corporate media pundits to defend freedom of the press, you’re going to be disappointed. Continue reading
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Julian Assange’s father warns WikiLeaks’ publisher’s health is “declining rapidly” in Belmarsh Prison By Oscar Grenfell
In an interview on August 16 with 3CR, a Melbourne community radio station, Julian Assange’s father John Shipton stated that the WikiLeaks founder’s health is continuing to deteriorate in Britain’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison. Continue reading
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After Epstein – Assange?
By TruePublica: For everything that now happens in the next stage of the Jeffrey Epstein story, one thing is guaranteed – almost no-one will really believe what the authorities say. The central core of distrust in America is the state itself. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, Bin-Laden, Gaddafi and others are all modern-day stories washed… Continue reading
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Killing Julian Assange Slowly By Stephen Lendman
Since April 11 when unlawfully dragged from Ecuador’s London embassy to captivity, Assange has languished under draconian conditions in a UK dungeon at the behest of the Trump regime, wanting him tried in the US for the “crime” of truth-telling journalism. More on this below. Continue reading
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Assange Must Not Also Die in Jail By Craig Murray
The highly dubious death of Jeffrey Epstein in a US maximum security prison is another strong reason not to extradite Julian Assange into one – particularly as many of the same people who are relieved by Epstein’s death would like to see Assange dead too. Continue reading