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Assange: Ask not for whom the bell tolls
The western world is inhabited by those who know we are ruled by sociopaths … and that much larger group which, taking at face value the surface forms of democracy informed by independent media, either cannot or will not accept this admittedly frightening truth. Continue reading
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Why we need proper legal protections for our right to protest
In Britain, there are laws that are supposed to protect our civil liberties – specifically the Human Rights Act 1998, which has often proven extremely effective as a means of challenging in court injustices by the state that violates our rights. This may go a long way to explaining why the governing Conservative Party has… Continue reading
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Day 3 Assange Hearing
Today was Day 3 of Julian’s resumed extradition hearing in London. Outside the courtroom, advocates are demanding transparency in the hearings, and Assange Defense co-chairs Noam Chomsky and Alice Walker published a powerful critique of the media’s unfocused coverage of the case. Continue reading
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Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 7
This morning we went straight in to the evidence of Clive Stafford Smith, a dual national British/American lawyer licensed to practice in the UK. He had founded Reprieve in 1999 originally to oppose the death penalty, but after 2001 it had branched out into torture, illicit detention and extraordinary rendition cases in relation to the… Continue reading
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PEPE ESCOBAR: Julian Assange, Prometheus Bound
This is the tale of an Ancient Greek tragedy reenacted in AngloAmerica. Amid thundering silence and nearly universal indifference, chained, immobile, invisible, a squalid Prometheus was transferred from the gallows for a show trial in a faux Gothic court built on the site of a medieval prison. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 9 September 2020
9 September 2020 • 21:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-publishing. Extradition Witness Statements Julian Assange – The week that journalism and the rule of law in Britain drowns Continue reading
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Sinking Transparency at the Old Bailey: The Assange Extradition Hearing Resumes
The fine circus that is British justice resumed at London’s Central Criminal Court on September 7, with the continued extradition proceedings against Julian Assange. Judge Vanessa Baraitser was concerned that approximately 40 individuals had received remote video access they apparently should not have. “In error, the court sent out orders to others who had sought… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 8 September 2020
8 September 2020 — The New Dark Age Watch John Pilger’s speech outside the London show-trial of Julian Assange The working class must demand an end to the show trial of Julian Assange Sinking Transparency at the Old Bailey: The Assange Extradition Hearing Resumes by Dr Binoy Kampmark https://countercurrents.org/2020/09/sinking-transparency-at-the-old-bailey-the-assange-extradition-hearing-resumes/ Continue reading
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U.S. War On Journalism – Assange Fights Extradition In British Court
Why an Australian publisher who worked from Europe and evidently published truthful evidence of war crimes should by guilty under a political U.S. law is beyond me. Continue reading
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John Pilger: The Stalinist trial of Julian Assange
Journalist, film-maker and author, John Pilger is one of two to win British journalism’s highest award twice. For his documentary films, he has won an Emmy and a British Academy Award, a BAFTA. Among numerous other awards, he has won a Royal Television Society Best Documentary Award. His epic 1979 Cambodia Year Zero is ranked… Continue reading
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Your Man in the Public Gallery: the Assange Hearing Day 6
I went to the Old Bailey today expecting to be awed by the majesty of the law, and left revolted by the sordid administration of injustice. Continue reading
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DAY ONE OF ASSANGE HEARING: Dramatic Opening Day; First Witness Testifies After Judge Denies Adjournment to January
The dramatic opening day of Assange’s extradition hearing saw U.S. shift from espionage to its superseding indictment as Vanessa Baraitser rejected a defense bid to excise the evidence and adjourn the case to January. Continue reading
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UK: They must clean up our dirty air
Air pollution means that not only are you more likely to contract coronavirus, but you are also more likely to die if you do. That is what multiple scientific studies from around the world say. Yet so far, the Government has refused to clean up our air. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 7 September
7 September 2020 — The New Dark Age War On Journalism Resumes On Monday https://popularresistance.org/war-on-journalism-resumes-on-monday/ Rest In Power, Kevin Zeese https://popularresistance.org/rest-in-power-kevin-zeese/ Continue reading
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Media Freedom? Show me the MSM Journalist Opposing the Torture of Assange
Today, the corporate media that cried “Media freedom” when Extinction Rebellion blocked the billionaire owned propaganda presses, is silent as Julian Assange’s Calvary for bringing real truth unfiltered to the public moves on to its next station; the macabre Gothic architecture of the Old Bailey. Continue reading
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Goodlaw Project: Jacob Rees-Mogg
Yesterday in Parliament, Jacob Rees-Mogg MP was questioned over the PPE fiasco that has seen the Government spend hundreds of millions of pounds on protective equipment that can’t be used by the NHS. The contract in question was handed to Ayanda Capital, an opaque private fund, with links to a Government advisor. His response? Continue reading
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What’s wrong with the Labour Party?
The history of socialism in this country is, generally speaking, a history of failure. This isn’t the fault of all socialists past, it’s a function of specific historical conjunctures – and the formation of the Labour Party, in its specificity, has played a key role. There are a number of reasons for this, rooted in… Continue reading
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Assange Defense and Jimmy Dore Team Up!
On Saturday, September 5, 2020, at 1:00 pm EST, Defend Wikileaks will host a panel discussion featuring Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, and Daniel Ellsberg, preeminent experts on free speech and the fight to protect it, for a discussion on Assange’s persecution just 2 days before his extradition hearing resumes in London. The discussion will be moderated by political comedian Jimmy… Continue reading
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Craig Murray Defence Appeal Renewed
I have today received a bill from my legal team for £60,563.40 in fees to date in defending the contempt of court charge against me for my reporting of the Alex Salmond trial. Continue reading
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