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Report reveals how Westminster’s electoral system massively failed voters
By Megan Collins: Something is deeply wrong when over 70% of votes count for nothing. That’s what Westminster’s voting system did in December’s election, according to a damning new analysis from the Electoral Reform Society. Continue reading
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Spycops monthly roundup, March 2020
Here’s this month’s roundup of news from the campaign for truth and justice about Britain’s political secret police. Continue reading
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The NHS is still at risk: Email your MP!
Yesterday the government published its objectives for a trade deal with the US. As usual, the document makes a very general claim that the NHS and drug pricing will not be on the table in a trade deal with Donald Trump. But in fact, we know from last year’s leaks that the NHS and drug pricing… Continue reading
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Trump ordered Assange’s seizure by British police and wanted him dead
Journalist Cassandra Fairbanks has revealed an explosive series of communications on the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange between herself and Republican operative Arthur Schwartz. Continue reading
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Assange: Empire of Surveillance and Imperialism
The trial against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a perfect metaphor for how United States imperialism operates in the world today.The Armed Forces, the Department of State, and the CIA caused thousands of deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya or Syria, but it’s the person who showed to the world those crimes who is going to… Continue reading
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Humanity Is Making A Very Important Decision When It Comes To Assange
The propagandists have all gone dead silent on the WikiLeaks founder they previously were smearing with relentless viciousness, because they no longer have an argument. The facts are all in, and yes, it turns out the US government is certainly and undeniably working to exploit legal loopholes to imprison a journalist for exposing its war… Continue reading
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Assange ‘Show’ Hearing Comes to an End, Along with Western Democracy
Julian Assange’s extradition hearing came to an end on Thursday; a trial which, according to his supporters bears all the hallmarks of a ‘show trial’ straight from the pages of a Kafka novel. The former Wikileaks editor, has already served around 13 years in arbitrary detention, despite not having been charged with any crime. If… Continue reading
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FoI reveals UK flying Reaper drone missions outside of operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has revealed in response to an FoI request from Drone Wars UK that British Reaper drones are undertaking missions outside of Operation Shader, the UK’s military operation against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The MoD has refused to say how many ‘non-Shader’ sorties there have been, or where they are… Continue reading
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Can a French Touch Pierce a Neo-Orwellian Farce?
It’s quite fitting that the – imperially pre-determined – judicial fate of Julian Assange is being played out in Britain, the home of George Orwell. As chronicled by the painful, searing reports of Ambassador Craig Murray, what’s taking place in Woolwich Crown Court is a sub-Orwellian farce with Conradian overtones: the horror…the horror…, remixed for… Continue reading
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To Be Assanged: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Assange, verb. Use: To be assanged. Meaning: when the nationless alliance of elites imprison a dissident by using their power to manipulate vagaries in the laws of their respective nations. Eg “I have information on war crimes that I should leak but I don’t want to be assanged.” Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 29 February 2020
29 February 2020 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Aaron Maté, Craig Murray, John Shipton, Angela Richter, Fidel Narvaez, & Sevim Dağdelen on Julian Assange Julian Assange, The Glass Cage And Heaven In A Rage https://orientalreview.org/2020/02/29/julian-assange-the-glass-cage-and-heaven-in-a-rage/ Slovenian journalist… Continue reading
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Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day Four
Yesterday the prosecution continued its argument that the provision in the 2007 UK/US Extradition Treaty that bars extradition for political offences is a dead letter, and that Julian Assange’s objectives are not political in any event. James Lewis QC for the prosecution spoke for about an hour, and Edward Fitzgerald QC replied for the defence… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 28 February 2020
28 February 2020 • 14:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Judge Orders Assange Held in Glass Box During Extradition Trial https://www.mintpressnews.com/judge-orders-julian-assange-glass-box-extradition-trial/265315/ Julian Assange, the Glass Cage and Heaven in a Rage: Day Four of Extradition Hearings… Continue reading
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This Assange “Trial” Is A Self-Contradictory Kafkaesque Nightmare
The first week of the Julian Assange extradition trial has concluded, to be resumed on May 18th. If you haven’t been following the proceedings closely, let me sum up what you missed: Continue reading
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Julian Assange, the Glass Cage and Heaven in a Rage: Day Four of Extradition Hearings
Thursday, February 27, Woolwich Crown Court. The first round of extradition hearings regarding Julian Assange’s case concluded a day early, to recommence on May 18th. It ended on an insensible note very much in keeping with the woolly-headed reasoning of Judge Vanessa Baraitser, who is of the view that a WikiLeaks publisher in a cage… Continue reading
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Julian Assange: British justice in the dock
By TruePublica Editor: Anyone following this case will know that justice is not the intention of the British state when it comes to Julian Assange and his impending extradition to the United States. What we are witnessing, if you can call it that – is the operation of a kangaroo court. This type of court… Continue reading
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Assange Courtroom Drama Speaks to This Illusion of Justice
LONDON – Over the first two days of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s U.S. extradition hearing, the majority of the drama has taken place in the well of the court, but that all changed on Wednesday as the focus gradually drifted to the back of the room, behind adjoined panels of bulletproof glass. Continue reading
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USA v Julian Assange: Extradition Day 4
The first week of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing at Woolwich Crown Court has ended a day earlier than expected, with District Judge Vanessa Baraitser denying Julian Assange’s request to leave the glassed box known as a secure dock in the back of the courtroom. Continue reading
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