The New Dark Age

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  • Upcoming Events for Julian Assange

    29 October 2019 — Defend Wikileaks 5 November LONDON: Rappers MIA and Lowkey to perform and Julian Assange’s father John Shipton to speak outside the Home Office Facebook event page Eventbrite page 6:00PM Continue reading

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  • Brexit News Links 27-28 October 2019

    28 October 2019 • 14:15 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Brexit: European leaders agree extension to 31 January https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50205603 Tories keep lying about the NHS, but a new poll shows the truth http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/6gI7RsJ5HhA/ Continue reading

  • Did this happen in the home of Magna Carta? By John Pilger

    In a special comment written for Consortium News, John Pilger describes the disturbing scene inside a London courtroom last week when the WikiLeaks publisher, Julian Assange, appeared at the start of a landmark extradition case that will define the future of free journalism. Continue reading

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  • Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2019 (19/19)

    28 October 2019 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/oct/email-28-10-19.pdf Please  to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1.   EU migration agenda highlights its shortcomings 2.   EU: PNR: Council to “explore” surveillance and profiling of all forms of mass transport 3.   Refugee crisis: latest news from across Europe (15-21.10.19) 4.   Refugee crisis: latest news from across… Continue reading

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  • Julian Assange News Links 27-28 October 2019

    28 October 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Assange extradition – Evidence of a CIA kidnap plot emerges, denial of legal privilege and now a closed court without scrutiny https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/assange-extradition-evidence-of-a-cia-kidnap-plot-emerges-denial-of-legal-privilege-and-now-a-closed-court-without-scrutiny/ Stop the US extradition of WikiLeaks publisher… Continue reading

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  • European Union delays Brexit extension decision as Corbyn tries to avoid general election By Robert Stevens

    Boris Johnson, right, and Jeremy Corbyn walk through the Commons Members Lobby in Parliament, London [Source: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, pool] Continue reading

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  • Britain obstructs Spanish investigation into CIA spying on Julian Assange By Oscar Grenfell

    In a blatant attempt to obstruct justice, British judicial authorities are stymying an investigation into the US Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) illegal spying on WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange. El Pais reported on Wednesday that a request by Spanish judge José de la Mata to interview Assange via videolink had been rejected by the United Kingdom… Continue reading

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  • Julian Assange News Links 23-25 October 2019

    25 October 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Liberating Assange: A Woeful Lack of Leadership https://www.globalresearch.ca/liberating-assange-lack-leadership/5693079 Open Letter to PM Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, and Kevin Hollinrake https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/open-letter-to-pm-boris-johnson-priti-patel-sajid-javid-and-kevin-hollinrake/ Continue reading

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  • Brexit News Links 24-25 October 2019

    25 October 2019 • 16:40 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Johnson Seeks UK Snap Election to Break No-Brexit/Brexit Deal Impasse https://www.globalresearch.ca/johnson-seeks-uk-snap-election-break-no-brexit-brexit-deal-impasse/5693045 At What Point Do We Admit Brexit Was About Tax Evasion? https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-point-do-we-admit-brexit-was-about-tax-evasion/5693048 Brexit: EU agrees… Continue reading

  • British Workers By Tony Norfield

    As we wait impatiently while the Brits go through the interminable travail of Brexit, let us have a look at who they are. Not directly in a social, cultural or political sense, but by reviewing the data on UK employment. Work gives a foundation for people’s daily lives and will, in turn, have an impact… Continue reading

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  • The Skripals, Salisbury and the curious case of Dawn Sturgess’s inquest By Craig Murray

    The killing of poor Dawn Sturgess was much the most serious of the events in Salisbury and Amesbury that attracted international attention. Yet nobody has been charged, no arrest warrant issued and no inquest held. The inquest for Dawn Sturgess has today been yet again postponed, for the fourth time, and for the first time… Continue reading

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  • Brexit News Links 22-23 October 2019

    23 October 2019 • 15:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back How the BBC and ITV turned into full-on Tory propaganda mouthpieces http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/KQIvgovtQN0/ Boris Johnson’s hospital building programme – just another lie? https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/boris-johnsons-hospital-building-programme-just-another-lie/ Continue reading

  • Refurbishment Is the Dirty Word We Should Be Using, Just Look at the Achilles Street Estate

    Imagine living on a council estate and being given a ballot on the proposed destruction of your home as part of a ‘regeneration’ plan. Imagine that the council makes all kinds of lavish promises regarding your future housing and security, but then refuses to back up these promises with anything resembling a legally-binding contract. This… Continue reading

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  • Britain’s shameful treatment of a political prisoner

    By TruePublica: Britain is no better than any other despotic regime if this is how it treats a journalist/whistleblower in custody. It makes no matter what your personal views on Julian Assange are. He is a political prisoner and like any other prisoner in the hands of the British state he should be treated with… Continue reading

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  • The US/UK trade deal is truly frightening – here’s what’s coming

    By TruePublica Editor: In the magical illusions of the smoke and mirrors ideology behind Brexit, we should be acutely aware of what a trade deal with America means. In our article this week – The MAGA Agenda – it seems that among those on the radical right – the government, their acolytes and corporate donors… Continue reading

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  • Julian Assange News Links 22 October 2019

    22 October 2019 • 15:50 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Slow-Motion US/UK Killing of Julian Assange Anti-Assange Court Continues Unfair Extradition Hearing to Railroad Assange to US Continue reading

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  • Assange in Court By Craig Murray

    I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday’s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange’s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening. Continue reading

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  • Judge Denies Assange Extension on Extradition Hearing

    The judge in Julian Assange’s extradition process on Monday denied his lawyer’s appeal for more time to prepare his case as the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher weakly told the court he was unable to “research anything” in the conditions under which he is being held in high-security Belmarsh Prison. Continue reading

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  • Brexit News Links 21 October 2019

    21 October 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Brexit: MPs’ vote on deal ruled out by Speaker John Bercow https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50128740 Brexit: No 10 to push again for vote on Boris Johnson’s deal https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50117284 Continue reading

  • Brexit News Links 19-20 October 2019

    20 October 2019 • 13:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Labour to push for commons vote on new Brexit referendum http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/U-SsdFfHkkQ/ Jeremy Corbyn says he’ll challenge the government ‘all the way’ over Europe http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/eIXgaMh_5Fc/ Continue reading