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FBI is recklessly misusing Trump-era espionage policy to create “Climate of Fear” among scientists—terrorizing families and ruthlessly destroying careers
The Justice Department’s China Initiative Was Established by the Trump Administration to Crackdown on Chinese Economic and Scientific Espionage. However, its primary targets have been academics prosecuted for failing to properly disclose their connection to Chinese universities on grant forms and it has led to numerous miscarriages of justice. Continue reading
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Russia wants to force the US to respect the UN Charter
Russia and China have just written to the United States asking it to respect the United Nations Charter and the word it has given. This approach, devoid of any aggressiveness, calls into question not only the functioning of the UN, NATO and the European Union, but almost all the US advances since the dissolution of… Continue reading
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Putin Speaks
As the Russian president’s year-end presser helped underscore, Europe will increasingly understand itself as the western end of Eurasia rather than the eastern shore of the Atlantic. Continue reading
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Exit Nord Stream 2, Enter Power of Siberia 2
Coming straight from President Putin, it did sound like a bolt from the sky: “We need long-term legally binding guarantees even if we know they cannot be trusted, as the U.S. frequently withdraws from treaties that become uninteresting to them. But it’s something, not just verbal assurances.” And that’s how Russia-U.S. relations come to the definitive… Continue reading
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Chris Hedges: PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Nils Melzer, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, is one of the very few establishment figures to denounce the judicial lynching of Julian Assange. Melzer’s integrity and courage, for which he has been mercilessly attacked, stand in stark contrast to the widespread complicity of many human rights and press organizations, including PEN America, which… Continue reading
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Putin hints at military options in Ukraine
The Rossiya 1 state television in Moscow broadcast today President Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference on Friday. It conveys a much fuller picture of the grave crisis brewing in the Russian-American relations than what the excerpts in the Russian media sought to convey over the weekend. Continue reading
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Protecting the Nazis: The Extraordinary Vote of Ukraine and the USA
By a recorded vote of 130 in favour to 2 against (Ukraine, United States), with 49 abstentions, the Assembly then adopted draft resolution I, “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo‑Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”. Continue reading
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US plays Tibet card as India seeks modus vivendi with China
The cracking sound of ice breaking on the frozen lake of India-China relations will trigger a new wave of US-backed media campaign to instigate the hawks. Armed with satellite imageries made available from the US and peppered with random, free-wheeling remarks by garrulous Indian ex-generals and academics, the Washington Post has drawn attention to the… Continue reading
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What Russia Says About Its Not-An-Ultimatum Demands To The U.S. And NATO
Russia has increased the pressure on the issue. Throughout the last days everyone of higher rank relevant to foreign policy and defense has held some talk on the issue. All of them were translated to English. This will supposedly help to get the attention the Russian steps deserve. Continue reading
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New York Times Editorial Board Calls on Biden to Drop Assange Prosecution
The hard work of press freedom activists is paying off! Mainstream outlets are increasingly speaking out against the prosecution of Julian Assange, with The New York Times editorial board the latest to join in. Continue reading
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The US Fights Asia, Not Just China
(Brian Berletic – NEO) – US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken cut short his tour of Southeast Asia due to concerns over COVID-19, the New York Times would report. The aborted trip comes at a time when the US finds itself struggling for relevance in a region it had once held considerably more sway over. This… Continue reading
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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