19 April 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
The non-stop demonization of Julian Assange will proceed unabated, faithful to guidelines established over a decade ago, Pepe Escobar writes.
The Made by FBI indictment of Julian Assange does look like a dead man walking. No evidence. No documents. No surefire testimony. Just a crossfire of conditionals.
24 April 2019 — Global Research – If Americans Knew
Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange is incarcerated in a UK prison that has been called “Britain’s Guantanamo.” His crime was exposing actions the US government, the media, the Democratic–Clinton machine, Israel, and others wanted kept hidden, including war crimes and torture.
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23 April 2019 — Defend Wikileaks
On Motherboard’s CYBER Podcast
Motherboard:
…speaking of press freedom, there’s something that’s happened recently in the news with Julian Assange, and I know people immediately thought of you as well because you’re in asylum right now…
What was your perspective of how the us media has been dealing with this situation in particular, and how do you think this affects press freedom?
18 April 2019 — Peoples Dispatch
In a note given to his parents who visited him at El Inca prison, Ecuador, software developer and activist Ola Bini said there was no substance to his case. He also condemned the war on knowledge being waged by the leaders of the world
Image courtesy: LA Progressive
18 April 2019 — Open Rights Group
Blackmail, scams and damage to people’s lives: in the name of Internet safety
This week the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced that on 15 July 2019 the UK will enforce mandatory age verification for viewing online pornography.
15 April 2019 — Statewatch
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5. EU: MEPs make last-ditch attempt to halt mandatory fingerprinting of all ID holders
6. EP: Civil Liberties Committee to adopt new Regulation on the European Border and Coast Guard
7. Refugee crisis: latest news from across Europe (26.3-1.4.19)
5 April 2019 — True Publica
By TruePublica: Think tanks can be dangerous organisations – and in Britain and America, many of them are just that. Their role is often to amplify a corporate message, to influence outcomes, which could be anything from climate science denial and greenwashing the crimes of fossil fuel and chemical Co’s, to dislodging public interest regulation with all manner of fact distorting reports and bogus studies running against public safety. Not all think tanks are bad – but the fact is, many of them are.
4 April 2019 — Statewatch
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‘Fingerprinting Regulation’ approved – now we need your help to monitor its implementation
On 4 April the European Parliament voted in favour of a Regulation that introduces a requirement for the mandatory fingerprinting of all national identity card holders in the EU – but this is not the end of the story, because now the measures will be implemented by national governments. We need your support to continue monitoring this dangerous new law.
4 April 2019 — WSWS
In the wake of the fascist attack in New Zealand, the Australian government is bulldozing unprecedented laws through parliament this week that will threaten all social media platforms with severe criminal penalties if they host what government authorities consider “abhorrent violent” material.
1 April 2019 — Novara Media
On 1 April 2009, in the midst of a huge protest against the G20 summit in London, newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson was violently assaulted by Metropolitan police officer Simon Harwood. This was an unprovoked attack, causing severe internal bleeding that led to Tomlinson’s death.
1 April 2019 — Statewatch
Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/mar/email-1-apr.pdf
STATEWATCH NEWS
1. EU: New Roles for Frontex agreed – including returning non-EU nationals to non-EU countries
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3. EU: “Policing in a Connected World”: Council to help police access “Novel Actionable Information”
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