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Joe Biden presidency on the skids. World must take note
American politics took a dramatic turn on Sunday with the announcement by the West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin that he “cannot vote” for the Build Back Better Act, President Joe Biden’s signature $2.2 trillion bill to overhaul the country’s health care, education, climate, immigration and tax laws. Continue reading
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Mr. Blue and Maria: A Musical Dream
15 December, 2021 — Edward Curtin ejcurtin Sixty years ago in the late fall and early winter, a seventeen-year-old blue-eyed Bronx boy went by himself to see an afternoon showing of West Side Story on Fordham Road in the north Bronx. He took the bus to the theater but walked the few miles home in Continue reading
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The Assange Issue Is NOT Complicated: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The most powerful regime on the planet imprisoning a journalist for journalistic activity is as brazen and obvious an act of tyranny as you could possibly come up with, and yet you still get pseudoleft pundits acting like you’re some kind of weird freak for expecting them to oppose it. Continue reading
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Julian Assange – If He Had Written About Russia or China, He Would Have Been Hero and Nobel Prize Candidate
In a miserable travesty of justice which is actually no surprise in our decayed western civilization – or rather non-civilization, Julian Assange is about to be extradited to the United States from the UK’s most notorious Maximum-Security Prison, Belmarsh. Continue reading
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Week after Biden-Putin meeting, crunch time is coming
Russia is reiterating its ‘red lines’ seeking long-term legal guarantees against NATO’s further advancement to the east and the deployment of weapons on Russia’s western borders. The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on December 10 putting on record its expectation that long term legal guarantees must be given “within a specific time-frame and on the… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 13-14 December 2021
14 December 2021 • 18:30 — The New Dark Age Julian Assange’s mother tells of ‘unending pain’ over possible US extradition https://www.thecanary.co/global/2021/12/14/julian-assanges-mother-tells-of-unending-pain-over-possible-us-extradition/ Julian Assange – If He Had Written About Russia or China, He Would Have Been Hero and Nobel Prize Candidate https://www.globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-had-written-about-russia-china-would-have-been-hero-nobel-prize-candidate/5764648 Top Aussie official blasts hypocrisy of Assange’s possible extradition to US https://www.rt.com/news/543146-assange-extradition-australian-government/ Continue reading
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THE JUDICIAL KIDNAPPING OF JULIAN ASSANGE
In the crudest, most political judgement in memory, two High Court judges in London have ordered the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States, where a trial in a kangaroo court awaits him, followed by a life lost in a barbaric prison system. Continue reading
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Your Man Back in the Public Gallery: Assange Extradition, US Appeal Result
On Thursday afternoon I was in Edinburgh High Court to get back my passport, which had been confiscated during my own court proceedings avowedly to stop me going to Spain to testify in the trial of David Morales of UC Global. He stands accused by whistleblowers in his own company of spying on Julian Assange,… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News LInks 11-13 December 2021
13 December 2021 — The New Dark Age A Day in the Death of British Justice https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/12/a-day-in-the-death-of-british-justice/ The Assange Case Is the U.S. Defending Its Right to Lie https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/12/12/assange-case-us-defending-its-right-lie/ Journalism, Assange and Reversal in the UK High Court. The Extradition Procedure https://www.globalresearch.ca/journalism-assange-reversal-high-court/5764386 Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 11 December 2021
11 December 2021 • 16:30 — The New Dark Age Chris Hedges: Julian Assange Could Soon Be Extradited To The United States https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2021/12/11/chris-hedges-julian-assange-could-soon-be-extradited-to-the-united-states/ MPs blast government inaction on Julian Assange https://www.rt.com/news/542911-mps-australian-government-inaction-julian-assange/ John Pilger: A Judicial Kidnapping https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/12/11/john-pilger-a-judicial-kidnapping/ Continue reading
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Julian Assange
I’m writing to share our statement on today’s UK court ruling on the extradition of Julian Assange. I hope you’ll join us in speaking out for press freedom and human rights. A British court today ruled that Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States to face Espionage Act charges. We condemn this decision, and reiterate our condemnation of… Continue reading
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Assange Plans To Appeal High Court Decision Backing Extradition To United States
Attorneys for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plan to appeal to the Supreme Court in the United Kingdom after the country’s appeals court overturned a decision that blocked the extradition of Assange to the United States. Continue reading
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Biden White House spoofs the Kremlin
This must be a rare occasion when Russian President Vladimir Putin during his 18 years in the Kremlin came out second best in an encounter with an American president. And it had to be at the hands of President Joe Biden who has not yet completed one year in office. Yet, Putin has met with… Continue reading
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U.S. Intelligence Has Found … Easy To Disprove Claims Of A Russian Attack On Ukraine
4 December 2021 — Moon of Alabama A few years back: In his State of the Union message in January, President Bush approvingly cited the report. “ The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa,” said Bush. … On Thursday, standing beside British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bush said of Continue reading
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Biden-Putin meeting is a cliffhanger
What has unfolded in the past 24 hours in the US-Russia diplomatic tango can be seen as a foreplay of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden, which is slated for Tuesday evening. Continue reading
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US Empire Seizes UK’s National Health Service
One of the recent roles of the Parliamentary Healthcare Committee has been to reassure the British public that any claims regarding the ‘Americanization’ of the National Health Service (NHS) were wildly overstated, “creating a climate that risks blocking the joining up of services in the interests of patients.” In fact, the penetration of the healthcare… Continue reading
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“Summit for Democracy” – Enhancing Empire, Not Defending “Democracy”
(Brian Berletic – NEO) – The very first “Summit for Democracy” will be held in early December 2021. Organized by the United States, it will include “leaders from government, civil society, and the private sector,” all unilaterally picked by the United States who, by implication, has unilaterally declared itself arbiter of which nations are deemed… Continue reading
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Camila Saab Speaks Out: Wife of Venezuelan Diplomat “Kidnapped” by US Gov’t Talks to MintPress
On Wednesday, November 24, MintPress News Editor in Chief Mnar Adley sat down to speak with Camila Saab, the wife of imprisoned Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. Saab was on a diplomatic mission to Iran in June 2020, where he was tasked with securing deals for food, medicine and personal protective equipment. His plane stopped off… Continue reading
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