Liberties
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Julian Assange Newslinks 12-13 April 2019
13 April 2019 16:39 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Noam Chomsky takes apart the ‘scandalous’ arrest of Julian Assange http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/_fn-HBiV-iE/ After 7 Years of Deceptions About Assange, the US Readies for Its First Media Rendition https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/04/13/after-7-years-of-deceptions-about-assange-the-us-readies-for-its-first-media-rendition/ Continue reading
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XR-CONSCIENTIOUS PROTECTORS APPROACH
If you are arrested and charged as an XR activist you may wish to use the Conscientious Protector approach in a criminal court as a way of ensuring you get to fully express the reasons WHY you have taken non-violent direct action. By doing this you are also taking part in a wider narrative of… Continue reading
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The Assange Arrest is a Warning from History by John Pilger
The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right. Muscle against the law. Indecency against courage. Six policemen manhandled a sick journalist, his eyes wincing against his first natural light in almost seven years. Continue reading
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Assange BULLETIN – 1 12 April 2019
12 April 2019 — Countercurrents No fair trial awaits Assange, says CIA whistleblower Ecuador failed to notify Assange’s defense of asylum withdrawal, says lawyer Violation of principles of human rights protection Impartial trial? UK judge brands Assange ‘narcissist’ Hillary chuckles over Assange’s arrest “Our property now”: (Most) US lawmakers rejoice over Assange arrest Arrest of Assange Continue reading
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Assange’s Extradition to the US Is Imminent: Selected Stories
13 April 2019 — Global Research Chelsea and Julian Are in Jail. History Trembles. By Craig Murray Tonight both Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange are in jail, both over offences related to the publication of materials specifying US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and both charged with nothing else at all. Read more… Continue reading
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Julian Assange Newslinks 11-12 April 2019
12 April 2019 15:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Video: Assange’s Lawyer Says Wikileaks Founder’s Life in Danger if Extradited to the U.S. https://www.globalresearch.ca/assanges-lawyer-says-wikileaks-founders-life-danger-extradited-u-s/5674257 USA v. Julian Assange: DOJ Indictment on Phony Charge Revealed https://www.globalresearch.ca/usa-julian-assange-doj-indictment-phony-charge-revealed/5674255 Continue reading
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Worldwide outrage over arrest of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange By Niles Niemuth
Outrage is mounting after the arrest Thursday morning of journalist and WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Assange was dragged from the embassy by a mob of British police officers and thrown into a jail cell after his political asylum was illegally cancelled by Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno. Continue reading
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Chelsea and Julian are in Jail. History Trembles By Craig Murray
Tonight both Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange are in jail, both over offences related to the publication of materials specifying US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and both charged with nothing else at all. No matter what bullshit political and MSM liars try to feed you, that is the simple truth. Manning and Assange… Continue reading
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How You Can Be Certain That The US Charge Against Assange Is Fraudulent by Caitlin Johnstone
Julian Assange sits in a jail cell today after being betrayed by the Ecuadorian government and his home country of Australia. A British judge named Michael Snow has found the WikiLeaks founder guilty of violating bail conditions, inserting himself into the annals of history by labeling Assange “a narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interest.” So… Continue reading
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The 7 years of lies about Assange won’t stop now
For seven years, from the moment Julian Assange first sought refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, they have been telling us we were wrong, that we were paranoid conspiracy theorists. We were told there was no real threat of Assange’s extradition to the United States, that it was all in our fevered imaginations. Continue reading
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Daniel Ellsberg On Assange Arrest: The Beginning of the End For Press Freedom
This is the first indictment of a journalist and editor or publisher…And if it’s successful it will not be the last.” (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Julian Assange Newslinks 11 April 2019
11 April 2019 19:00 — The New Dark Age London Police Grab Wikileaks Founder from Ecuador Embassy, Admit US Seeks His Extradition https://thiscantbehappening.net/london-police-grab-wikileaks-founder-from-ecuador-embassy-admit-us-seeks-his-extradition/ Lawyer describes US attempts to ensure Assange’s extradition as unprecedented http://tass.com/world/1053341 Continue reading
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Assange Has Been Arrested For US Extradition. The Time To Act Is Now by Caitlin Johnstone
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested and taken into custody by the London’s Metropolitan police, just as WikiLeaks warned days ago was about to happen. Assange’s lawyer Jen Robinson reports that his arrest is related to an extradition request from the United States, which the British government has until now refused to admit exists. Continue reading
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Met Police Arrest Julian Assange
An hour ago the Metropolitan Police arrested Julian Assange, the publisher and editor of Wikileaks, in the Embassy of Ecuador in London. RT has video of the arrest from outside the embassy. Continue reading
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London
11 April 2019 — TASS Ecuador has decided to withdraw diplomatic asylum from Assange LONDON, April 11. /TASS/. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service at the Embassy of Ecuador in London, the Met Police said in a statement on Thursday. Continue reading
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Assange Ecuadorian Extradition Noose Tightens with INA Papers as Latest Slipknot by Jimmysllama
On Monday, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Jose Valencia denied recent allegations that his government is working with the U.K. to expel Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Last week, WikiLeaks announced that “a high-level source within the Ecuadorian state” had informed them that Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno was plotting to expel the publisher within… Continue reading
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UK: Julian Assange threatened with expulsion from embassy By Rob Smith
The President of Ecuador, Lenín Moreno, is threatening to expel whistleblower and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been for the last nine years, “within hours or days”. Moreno has accused Assange of leaking photos of the president and his family, along with intercepted private calls and correspondences.… Continue reading
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In leaked court testimony, Assange denounces his illegal detention By Oscar Grenfell
The WikiLeaks founder and his lawyers had issued a legal challenge, seeking an urgent injunction to block an Ecuadorian government protocol, imposed earlier that month, which banned him from making any political statements, and placed a series of other restrictions on his asylum. In a highly political decision, the case was dismissed late last year. Continue reading
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On the Pavement with Wikileaks By Craig Murray
Entirely unexpectedly, I have been down in London this last three days outside and around the Ecuadorean Embassy, following WikiLeaks’ announcement that their sources indicate Julian might be expelled within hours or days. Plainly Julian’s position within the Embassy has deteriorated fundamentally, to the extent he is now treated openly as a closely guarded prisoner.… Continue reading
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“Assange Is Not A Journalist!” Yes He Is, Idiot By Caitlin Johnstone
As we discussed yesterday, whenever Assange is in the news and people are defending him you always see a bunch of hyper-emotional empire loyalists running around online trying to manage the narrative about him. One of the most common talking points which comes up is that Assange is “not a journalist”. Continue reading
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