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Doctors For Assange Ratchet Up Pressure
Doctors for Assange have launched a new campaign to get proper medical treatment for the imprisoned WikiLeaks journalist by publishing a letter in Britain’s leading medical journal. Continue reading
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Grenfell Tower – ‘Independent experts’ advised by lobbyists for combustible insulation manufacturers
Two of the Grenfell Inquiry’s independent experts were invited to attend an advisory group meeting with lobbyists for combustible insulation manufacturers. Both previously advised the inquiry against banning these products from high rises. Continue reading
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The Lancet publishes letter from doctors: “End torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange”
This week’s edition of the Lancet—the world’s pre-eminent peer reviewed medical journal—carries a letter from 117 medical doctors in 18 countries, renewing their call for urgent action to save the life of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Their letter appears less than one week before the start of the US extradition hearing in London that may… Continue reading
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Dresden Terror Bombing, Like Hiroshima, a Maniacal Warning to Moscow
This weekend 75 years ago, the German city of Dresden was razed to the ground by British and American aerial bombardment. At least 25,000 mainly civilians were destroyed in raid after raid by over 1,200 heavy bombers, indiscriminately dropping high explosives and incendiaries. It took seven years just to clear the rubble. Continue reading
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Labour Party leadership candidates profess Zionism at Jewish Labour Movement hustings
Labour members will begin voting for the new leader of the party this week. Of the original contenders, three remain—right-wingers Sir Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy and the chosen candidate of the Corbyn “left,” Rebecca Long-Bailey. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 14-18 February 2020
18 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 Julian Assange: Father fears ‘worried’ son’s extradition https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51530280 Twitter Locks WikiLeaks’ Account Days Before Assange’s Extradition Hearing Begins http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/IOTioiNj9e0/twitter-locks-wikileaks-account-days-before-assanges-extradition-hearing-begins.html Continue reading
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John Pilger: It is time for Julian Assange to be saved, not betrayed
The truth is that Australia could have rescued Julian Assange and can still rescue him. Leaders of his homeland who have betrayed him should be called out; history and decency will not forget them or those who remain silent now. Continue reading
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Candidates to replace Corbyn denounce him as anti-Semitic
Emily Thornberry posted – but later deleted – a shamelessly anti-Palestinian tweet that same night. The posting clearly implied it was “anti-Semitic” for Labour conference delegates to fly Palestinian flags. Continue reading
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Time Warp UK By Craig Murray
The resignation of Savid Javid yesterday as Chancellor without even presenting a budget mirrors the resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston’s father – and in so doing says something extraordinary about lack of social progress in the UK in the intervening 130 years. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 12-14 February 2020
14 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 SEP builds support for Free Assange and Manning rallies in Australia http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/14/rall-f14.html Free All Political Prisoners –- Including Julian Assange And Chelsea Manning https://popularresistance.org/free-all-political-prisoners-including-julian-assange-and-chelsea-manning/ Continue reading
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DeSmog UK Weekly: *Bumper Cabinet Reshuffle Edition*
Who is really in charge of the UK’s government? Is it a) the elected MPs that won a landslide victory for the Conservative Party in December last year? Or b) the special advisors that always walk a respectful 5 paces behind them holding a device that looks suspiciously marionette-like? Continue reading
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IRR News (29 January – 12 February 2020)
Nearly two years since the Windrush scandal broke, only 36 people have received compensation, from a fund meant to compensate up to 15,000, while thousands, whose lives were ruined by the Home Office, and who remain in debt, find the compensation forms impossible to fill in, as they are being asked to produce the same… Continue reading
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Prevent and Countering Violent Extremism usher in ‘whole society’ surveillance
In the aftermath of Sudesh Amman’s attacks in London on February 2, the Evening Standard London ran as its frontpage an appeal from Counter-terror police chiefs, calling for the public to take a more active role in stopping terror threats. Continue reading
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Poll: Labour members say anti-Semitism crisis “invented”
Almost three quarters of the UK Labour Party’s members agree that the anti-Semitism crisis in the party has been “invented or wildly exaggerated.” Continue reading
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Assange Extradition: Blatant Judicial Double Standards
The judge who was previously in charge of the Julian Assange extradition case was in the headlines again over another extradition case, this time refusing to extradite a UK couple because they faced a life sentence for murder, with no prospect of release. Continue reading
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Antisemitism threats will keep destroying Labour
If there is one issue that denotes the terminal decline of Labour as a force for change – desperately needed social, economic and environmental change – it is not Brexit. It is the constant furore over an “antisemitism crisis” supposedly plaguing the party for the past five years. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 7-12 February 2020
12 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 Rank-and-file teachers in Sydney adopt resolution defending Assange and Manning http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/12/nswt-f12.html Britain’s Got A Supreme Court Scandal: NEW Damning Emails Show UK Corruption In The Case Against Julian Assange… Continue reading
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The Jamaica Charter Flight Underscores the UK’s Broken Deportation System
Despite unprecedented public outrage, a deportation flight to Jamaica left at dawn on Tuesday morning with 17 people onboard. A last minute court order meant another 25 people who had been threatened with removal remained in the UK. Continue reading
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Kissing International Law Goodbye to Satisfy Israeli Ambitions
Palestinian chiefs say that Trump’s so-called peace plan contains 300 violations of international law and they will take it up with the Security Council. That’s nearly two violations per page. Given the document was put together by America and Israel, both lawless and criminal to the core, no-one is surprised. It is a brazen expression of criminal… Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly 8 February 2020
8 February 2020 — Welfare Weekly Landmark High Court ruling could see thousands of unmarried parents given higher bereavement benefits Landmark High Court judgement that denying new-style bereavement benefits to unmarried, cohabiting partners with children is incompatible with human rights. Read more Continue reading
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