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Hundreds of peaceful climate change protesters arrested in UK By Paul Mitchell
Around 400 peaceful climate change protesters have been arrested in the UK over the past three days.According to the Metropolitan Police Service, 290 protesters at Oxford Circus, Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus and Parliament Square were taken into custody in London on Monday and Tuesday. Protests in the Scottish capital Edinburgh led to 29 arrests. Continue reading
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Julian Assange Newslinks 16-17 April 2019
17 April 2019 21:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting US DOJ likely to bring more charges against Assange: media reports The Assange Poop Smear Was Concocted to Cover Ecuador’s $4.2 B IMF Loan https://www.mintpressnews.com/assange-poop-smear-concocted-cover-ecuadors-4-2-b-imf-loan/257554/ Phoenix in Knightsbridge: An exercise in daylight deceit https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/04/17/phoenix-in-knightsbridge-an-exercise-in-daylight-deceit/ Continue reading
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Assange Arrest: Background and Implications (Videos)
17 April 2019 — TRNN Our recent coverage of the arrest of Julian Assange Continue reading
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11am today – LIGHT rail disruption today to highlight Government’s disastrous inaction on climate and ecological emergency
For Extinction Rebellion, today is a day focused on international solidarity with the many grassroots activists around the world, coinciding with the International Day of Peasants Struggle. [1] We intend to focus on the threats to our food supply from the ecological and climate emergency highlighting the links between food, land use and the ecological… Continue reading
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The Official Skripal Story is a Dead Duck By Craig Murray
One of the striking things about the official Skripal story is the way its more wildly improbable aspects have been released to the mainstream media over a long period, so as to manage their impact. So, for example, police acknowledgement that the perfume bottle Charlie Rowley found was sealed and could not have been the… Continue reading
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Extinction/Rebellion, Day 2
17 April 2019 — extinction/rebellion International Rebellion, Day 2 The sun may not have been shining quite so brightly in London today – it may have even rained a little – but by golly does the rebel soul still burn bright in the capital tonight! Continue reading
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Julian Assange and the Agenda for Global War James Petras
For almost a decade Washington has sought to silence, jail and eliminate the world’s most prominent investigative journalist, Julian Assange (JA) and his team of co- workers at Wilkileaks. Never has the mass media been so thoroughly discredited by official documents which directly contradict the official propaganda, mouthed by political leaders and parroted by ‘leading’… Continue reading
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CIA Director Used Fake Skripal Incident Photos To Manipulate Trump
An ass kissing portrait of Gina Haspel, torture queen and director of the CIA, reveals that she lied to Trump to push for more aggression against Russia. Continue reading
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Julian Assange and the Problem of ‘Solidarity’ by Ash Sarkar
It’s been almost a week since Julian Assange had his asylum revoked by the Ecuadorian government. As a result, he was arrested by the Metropolitan policefor his failure to appear in court in June 2012 regarding allegations made by two Swedish women in which they accused him of sexual molestation, coercion and rape. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Assange Arrest – Part 1: ‘So Now He’s Our Property’
If ‘journalism’ meant what it is supposed to mean– acting as the proverbial ‘fourth estate’ to challenge power and to keep the public informed – then Julian Assange and WikiLeaks would be universally lauded as paragons. So would Chelsea Manning, the brave former US Army whistleblower who passed on to WikiLeaks more than 700,000 confidential… Continue reading
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Julian Assange Newslinks 16 April 2019
16 April 2019 20:50 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Julian Assange’s Victory https://journal-neo.org/2019/04/16/julian-assange-s-victory/ From Tribe, to King, to ‘Democracy’ to Mafia. The Criminalization of US Politics https://www.globalresearch.ca/tribe-king-democracy-mafia/5674526 Continue reading
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Extinction/Rebellion News 15 April 2019
16 April 2019 — extinction/rebellion Webversion After so many months of preparation and planning, today our Rebellion has begun! In 25 countries around the world, rebels of all kinds and backgrounds have begun taking non-violent direct action in a bid to save our planet from catastrophe. From today onwards we will be writing history. Continue reading
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Julian Assange’s Nightmarish Future
The WikiLeaks publisher is in a maximum-security prison that has been called the UK’s Guantanamo Bay, Elizabeth Vos reports. Continue reading
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Assange BULLETIN – 2: 15 April 2019
15 April 2019 — Countercurrents Assange and Lula the same case to silence their voices, says Chomsky If Assange is criminalized & incarcerated, you’ll never be free again, says George Galloway Assange must face Swedish justice first: 70 UK MPs and peers The US case against Assange could change the future of journalism Journalists in the… Continue reading
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Julian Assange Newslinks 14-15 April 2019
15 April 2019 18:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Demonstrators denounce the arrest of Julian Assange outside Belmarsh prison http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/bafDE32BJuE/ Today’s links http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/04/todays-links_15.html Continue reading
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In his own words: Assange’s statement By Philip Roddis
Do you know the Swedish Chief Prosecutor initially handling the allegations of rape against Julian Assange found no case to answer? Are you aware she was succeeded by Marianne Ny, who has pursued a legally dubious course? Have you read Assange’s detailed statement? Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly Issue: 14 April, 2019
14 April 2019 — Welfare Weekly Benefit claimant with broken back killed himself after being found ‘fit for work’ by DWP He was left pennniless and unable to pay the rent or top up his electricity meter. Continue reading
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Brexit – The truth about the economy and what’s next
Last December, TruePublica broke the news that the mainstream media had either misunderstood or blatantly misquoted a very particular study about the real cost of Brexit. The most accurate of reports of that study in the MSM stated that –“Theresa May’s Brexit deal is expected to cost the UK economy as much as £100bn over the next… Continue reading
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Julian Assange Newslinks 14 April 2019
14 April 2019 15:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting WikiLeaks’ Publication of the Collateral Murder Video, Documents on the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, US Diplomatic Cables: Why Assange’s Extradition Must be Opposed at All Costs https://www.globalresearch.ca/julian-assanges-extradition-opposed-all-costs/5674347 The Arrest of Julian Assange: “Send a Chill into the… Continue reading
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You have the right to always remain silent! By Pepe Escobar
WikiLeaks editor Kristinn Hrafnsson, right, and Assange’s UK lawyer Jennifer Robinson, left, outside Westminster Magistrate’s Court. Photo: AFP/WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto Continue reading