Liberties
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The ABC documentary “Hero or Villain”: Undermining the defence of Julian Assange By James Cogan
A two-part documentary on Julian Assange by the state-owned Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) “Four Corners” program, which went to air last month, has been rightly condemned by prominent figures in the campaign to defend the persecuted WikiLeaks publisher. Continue reading
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State Censorship: seizing journalists notes, restricting press freedom
By TruePublica: In our recent article entitled – Rise of the Techno Stasi-State we asked the question was that too strong a news headline after the High Court decided the government’s architecture of mass surveillance over the population was perfectly legal. The legal representative, Chamberlain QC, said on the High Court steps after Liberty-Human-Rights lost… Continue reading
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Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange By Oscar Grenfell
At a Sydney “Politics in the Pub” meeting on Thursday night, award-winning Australian journalist Mark Davis revealed new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times, and refuting the lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder. Continue reading
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Chelsea Manning faces $441,000 in fines and another year in jail for refusing to testify against WikiLeaks By Niles Niemuth
Federal District Judge Anthony Trenga rejected a motion Monday from imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning to reconsider the imposition of daily fines for her principled refusal to testify before a grand jury impaneled to bring frame up charges against WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange. Continue reading
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New Fears for Julian Assange
Legendary journalist John Pilger has been to see Assange in Belmarsh Prison in London and his report is not encouraging. Continue reading
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Assange being ‘treated worse than a murderer’ in prison – John Pilger
Julian Assange is suffering from poor health as a result of mistreatment in prison, according to journalist John Pilger, who recently visited the WikiLeaks founder. Pilger said that he now fears for Assange. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 6 August 2019
6 August 2019 — The New Dark Age Sri Lanka: Colombo University students call for release of Julian Assange Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) members have won important support from Colombo … Jailed Sri Lankan writer Shakthika Sathkumara defends Julian Assange Imprisoned Sri Lankan writer, Shakthika Sathkumara spoke out last week Continue reading
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8chan: Another Mass Shooting, Another Internet Purge This is the third “mass casualty event” in less than a year that was immediately followed up by censorship of the internet
Last year, after the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the new social-media platform Gab was attacked in the press and bullied off the internet. Earlier this year, following the Christ Church mosque attack, New Zealand briefly totally blocked access to several websites. Continue reading
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Assange’s father speaks to the WSWS: “Julian’s resolve is fierce” By Oscar Grenfell
John Shipton, Julian Assange’s father and a leading campaigner for his freedom, spoke to the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) in Sydney yesterday about the conditions of his son’s imprisonment in Britain and the fight to prevent his extradition to the US. The WikiLeaks founder faces the prospect of 175 years in a US jail… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 3 August 2019
3 August 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Only Superman Can Save Julian Assange Now? https://journal-neo.org/2019/08/03/only-superman-can-save-julian-assange-now/ Despite briefing by Julian Assange’s lawyer, Australian politicians still refuse to defend him http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/03/assa-a03.html Continue reading
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DNC lawsuit against WikiLeaks dismissed in major free press victory
In a historic win for WikiLeaks and its editor-in-chief Julian Assange a federal judge in New York dismissed a lawsuit by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) over WikiLeaks’ publication of DNC documents in 2016. The case sets an important precedent for freedom of the press. Continue reading
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Defending Assange and Basic Freedoms: Think Bigger – Much Bigger By Al Burke
Around the globe, well-informed and dedicated souls have for years been explicating the persecution of Julian Assange and its much broader implications. They include the likes of Suzie Dawson in New Zealand, Caitlin Johnstone in Australia, John Pilger in Britain and Joe Lauria in the United States, to mention just a few. Continue reading
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Media silent on dismissal of DNC suit against Julian Assange
A federal court ruling last Tuesday, dismissing a Democratic National Committee (DNC) civil suit against Julian Assange “with prejudice,” was a devastating indictment of the US ruling elite’s campaign to destroy the WikiLeaks founder and of the entire “Russiagate” conspiracy theory peddled by the Democratic Party, corporate media outlets and the intelligence agencies for the… Continue reading
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US federal court exposes Democratic Party conspiracy against Assange and WikiLeak By Eric London
In a ruling published late Tuesday, Judge John Koeltl of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, delivered a devastating blow to the US-led conspiracy against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Continue reading
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UN Rapporteur on Torture’s Letters to UK, Ecuador, US and Sweden
30 July 2019 — Defend Wikileaks UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer visited Julian Assange at HMP Belmarsh on 9 May 2019, and has written letters to the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, Ecuador and Sweden to express that he is “gravely concerned” about Assange’s treatment and to urge the latter three Continue reading
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Police Data Victims Report: Digital Strip Searches
Our digital footprints can reveal where we have been and when, who we have spoken to, the content of our private conversations and, via our internet history, even some of our innermost thoughts. More and more, such data is being sought in criminal investigations. Continue reading
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US, Sweden and Britain dismiss UN finding that they tortured Assange By Oscar Grenfell
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer last weekend publicly released detailed letters he sent to the governments of the United States, Britain, Sweden and Ecuador in May, documenting their responsibility for the “psychological torture” inflicted upon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a result of a decade-long political persecution. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 26 July 2019
26 July 2019 — The New Dark Age Today’s Links 26 July 2019 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/07/todays-links_26.html Despite Mueller debacle, Democrats step up call for crackdown on “foreign meddling” https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/07/26/despite-mueller-debacle-democrats-step-up-call-for-crackdown-on-foreign-meddling/ Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 24 July 2019
24 July 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Indian auto workers speak out in defence of Assange and Manning http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/24/assa-j24.html Today’s links http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/07/todays-links_23.html Continue reading
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The US Police-State Is Now Undeniable: The Assange Case By Eric Zuesse
It’s not just that the United States has a higher percentage of its people in prison than does any other nation on the planet. (El Salvador — the land that was largely made what it today is, by its US trained-and-equipped death squads — is now number 2 on that measure. In another country the… Continue reading
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