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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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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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Julian Assange arrested after Ecuador tears up asylum deal
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been dragged out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he has spent the last six years. that’s after Ecuador’s president Moreno withdrew asylum. Continue reading
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WATCH Julian Assange dragged out of Ecuadorian embassy and arrested
In exclusive footage from RT’s Ruptly video agency, a disheveled Assange complete with full white beard is seen being carried out of the building by several men holding him by the limbs. 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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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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UK: ‘massive victory’ as injunction against anti-shale campaigners ruled ‘unlawful’ By Andy Rowell
Yesterday, Britain’s fledgling shale gas industry was dealt another significant blow when three senior judges overturned a draconian injunction that had been granted to the company, INEOS, against anti-fracking campaigners. Continue reading
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Is This The Epicentre of Corbyn’s Antisemitism Story?
By TruePublica: The British-American Project for the Successor Generation, to give it its full title, was officially founded in 1985 – “to perpetuate the close relationship between the United States and Britain,” and in the words of BAP’s official history, through “transatlantic friendships and professional contacts”. Today, It has a membership of over “1000 leaders… 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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Welfare Weekly 7 April 2019
7 April 2019 — Welfare Weekly Heartless council removed homeless people’s tents and only belongings Read more Continue reading
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Surrounding land left highly toxic after Grenfell Tower inferno By Thomas Scripps
The preliminary findings of a study into the widespread presence of toxic substances in the area around the fire that destroyed Grenfell tower in London were published in the journal Chemosphere. Continue reading
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The EU Is Tearing the UK Apart Over Brexit By Tom Luongo
Brexit has been a fascinating thing to watch. Despite all of the twists and turns, the incomprehensible motions, legal maneuvers and behavior of Prime Minister Theresa “I Surrender” May, for me there’s been a simple through-line to it all. Continue reading
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Another UK/US ‘deep state’ organisation working under cover as a British think tank
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… Continue reading
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UK local councils sell off billions of pounds in public assets due to austerity By Joe Mount
Local councils across Britain are selling off assets in property and land to the private sector on a huge scale. More than £9 billion in assets has been sold in just over the last five years. Continue reading
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The political implications of the Corbyn/May Brexit talks
The talks on an alternative Brexit deal between UK Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn decisively refute all claims that his election as leader of the Labour Party offered a way forward for working people. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks warns that Julian Assange faces imminent eviction from Ecuador’s London embassy By Oscar Grenfell
WikiLeaks today issued a warning that its founder, Julian Assange, faces imminent eviction from Ecuador’s London embassy, where he sought political asylum in 2012. The publishing organisation indicated that he would then be arrested by the British police. Continue reading
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