7 September, 2020 — Netpol
In Britain, there are laws that are supposed to protect our civil liberties – specifically the Human Rights Act 1998, which has often proven extremely effective as a means of challenging in court injustices by the state that violates our rights. This may go a long way to explaining why the governing Conservative Party has repeatedly threatened to scrap it since 2015.
9 September 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Community control puts us on the path to both defunding and abolishing the police – so why are many Black Lives Matter chapters withholding support?
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Democrats are up in arms over Trump’s latest mouth-burst, but the truth is that both corporate parties have made the people suckers for endless, “bipartisan” wars.
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9 September 2020 — Assange Defence
Today was Day 3 of Julian’s resumed extradition hearing in London. Outside the courtroom, advocates are demanding transparency in the hearings, and Assange Defense co-chairs Noam Chomsky and Alice Walker published a powerful critique of the media’s unfocused coverage of the case.
9 September 2020 — Craig Murray
CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH
This morning we went straight in to the evidence of Clive Stafford Smith, a dual national British/American lawyer licensed to practice in the UK. He had founded Reprieve in 1999 originally to oppose the death penalty, but after 2001 it had branched out into torture, illicit detention and extraordinary rendition cases in relation to the “war on terror”.
8 September 2020 — Consortium News
By Pepe Escobar
Special to Consortium News
This is the tale of an Ancient Greek tragedy reenacted in AngloAmerica.
Amid thundering silence and nearly universal indifference, chained, immobile, invisible, a squalid Prometheus was transferred from the gallows for a show trial in a faux Gothic court built on the site of a medieval prison.
9 September 2020 • 21:00 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-publishing.
Julian Assange – The week that journalism and the rule of law in Britain drowns
30 August 2020 — Peoples Democracy
THERE is a commonly-held view that the current crisis in capitalism, which has resulted in a massive output contraction and increase in unemployment, is because of the pandemic; and that once the pandemic gets over, things will go back to “normal”.
8 September 2020 — Dissident Voice
The fine circus that is British justice resumed at London’s Central Criminal Court on September 7, with the continued extradition proceedings against Julian Assange. Judge Vanessa Baraitser was concerned that approximately 40 individuals had received remote video access they apparently should not have. “In error, the court sent out orders to others who had sought access. I remain concerned about my ability to maintain the integrity of the court if they are able to attend remotely.”
8 September 2020 — The New Dark Age
Watch John Pilger’s speech outside the London show-trial of Julian Assange
The working class must demand an end to the show trial of Julian Assange
Sinking Transparency at the Old Bailey: The Assange Extradition Hearing Resumes
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
8 September 2020 — Moon of Alabama
Today the London show trial over the extradition of Wikileaks editor Julian Assange to the U.S. has begun. U.S. prosecutors claim that Assange’s publishing of evidence of U.S. war crimes has violated the U.S. Espionage Act.
Why an Australian publisher who worked from Europe and evidently published truthful evidence of war crimes should by guilty under a political U.S. law is beyond me.
7 September 2020 — RT
8 September 2020 — Craig Murray
I went to the Old Bailey today expecting to be awed by the majesty of the law, and left revolted by the sordid administration of injustice.
There is a romance which attaches to the Old Bailey. The name of course means fortified enclosure and it occupies a millennia old footprint on the edge of London’s ancient city wall. It is the site of the medieval Newgate Prison, and formal trials have taken place at the Old Bailey for at least 500 years, numbering in the hundreds of thousands. For the majority of that time, those convicted even of minor offences of theft were taken out and executed in the alleyway outside. It is believed that hundreds, perhaps thousands, lie buried under the pavements.
7 September 2020 — Consortium News
The dramatic opening day of Assange’s extradition hearing saw U.S. shift from espionage to its superseding indictment as Vanessa Baraitser rejected a defense bid to excise the evidence and adjourn the case to January.
11:30 am EDT: The dramatic first day of the resumption of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing has ended, with technical problems cutting short the testimony of the first defense witness, Broadcast Journalism Professor Mark Feldstein.
7 September 2020 — The Dissenter
Judge Vanessa Baraitser rejected a request by the legal team for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to remove conduct from a fresh extradition request brought by the United States.
7 September 2020 — Good Law Project
Air pollution means that not only are you more likely to contract coronavirus, but you are also more likely to die if you do. That is what multiple scientific studies from around the world say. Yet so far, the Government has refused to clean up our air.
7 September 2020 — The New Dark Age
War On Journalism Resumes On Monday
https://popularresistance.org/war-on-journalism-resumes-on-monday/
Rest In Power, Kevin Zeese
https://popularresistance.org/rest-in-power-kevin-zeese/
7 September 2020 — Craig Murray
Today, the corporate media that cried “Media freedom” when Extinction Rebellion blocked the billionaire owned propaganda presses, is silent as Julian Assange’s Calvary for bringing real truth unfiltered to the public moves on to its next station; the macabre Gothic architecture of the Old Bailey.
6 September 2020 — Off Guardian
Gregory Sinaisky
It is difficult not to notice something contrived in the currently announced “pandemic” of the Novel Covid-19 virus. Media coverage of this event has all the hallmarks of a coordinated hysterical campaign, namely:
6 September 2020 — The Dissenter
4 September 2020 — 21st Century Wire
This really should be one of the biggest public health scandals of the decade, but instead it’s given little attention – mainly because of the high-profile nature of the people and organisations involved.
The United Nations has been forced to admit that a major international vaccine initiative is actually causing a deadly outbreak of the very disease it was supposed to wipe-out.
