25 February 2020 — RT
Day two of Julian Assange’s US extradition hearing saw his lawyers argue he made great efforts to ensure his leaks endangered no lives and even warned the White House when media outlets were about to dump unredacted files.
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‘Lies, lies and more lies’: Lawyer slams day 2 of Julian Assange’s US extradition hearing, here is how it went down
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Julian Assange News Links 25 February 2020
25 February 2020 • 23:00 — 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 lawyer brings up claim US mulled ‘kidnapping and poisoning’ of publisher – here’s what we know
https://on.rt.com/abnr‘Lies, lies and more lies’: Lawyer slams day 2 of Julian Assange’s US extradition hearing, here is how it went down
https://on.rt.com/abni
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Syria – Army Moves To Liberate M4 Highway – Turkish Russian Standoff Continues
25 February 2020 — Moon of Alabama
The Syrian Arab Army continues its campaign to liberate Idleb governorate. The current main area of operation is in the southeast of the terrorist held area where the SAA attacks in a northern and western direction. The aim of the operation is to bring the M4 highway from Latakia to Aleppo under government control.
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Defense debunks US claims of reckless dump and Assange-Manning conspiracy
25 February 2020 — Defend Wikileaks
- See USA v. Assange: Extradition Day 1 here
- See the Courage Foundation’s live-tweeted thread of the defense’s arguments in court today
Mark Summers QC, arguing for Julian Assange’s legal defense, spent the second day of Assange’s extradition hearing at Woolwich Crown Court thoroughly debunking two key allegations the US government makes against Assange in its extradition request. The US has alleged that Assange attempted to help Manning conceal her identity, and it has alleged that Assange and WikiLeaks released the full unredacted State Department cables in 2011 with a reckless disregard for the harm it could cause.
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JP Morgan Economists Warn of ‘Catastrophic Outcomes’ of Human-Caused Climate Crisis
21 February 2020 — Common Dreams
“Don’t want to hear Greta Thunberg or Extinction Rebellion? Try J.P. Morgan instead.”
Protesters picket outside a Chase Bank branch in November 2019. An Extinction Rebellion campaigner released a leaked document from the bank Thursday in which JP Morgan Chase economists warned the company’s investment in fossil fuels is contributing to the climate crisis. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) Climate campaigners on Friday expressed hope that policymakers who are stalling on taking decisive climate action would reconsider their stance in light of new warnings from an unlikely source: two economists at J.P. Morgan Chase.
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Syria News Links 25 February 2020
25 February 2020 — The New Dark Age
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Overt Trump Regime Support for Al-Qaeda Offshoots in Syria, ISIS-Daesh Et Al are Pentagon/CIA Proxies
https://www.globalresearch.ca/overt-trump-regime-support-al-qaeda-offshoot/5704675Turkey’s Request for U.S. Patriot Missiles to Pressure Russia In Syria Will Not Work
http://infobrics.org/post/30425/
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Erdogan requests talks on Syria
25 February 2020 — InfoRos
Ankara faces a deadlock and tries to save its face amid a sour game in Idlib
Yuri Veselov, military observer
February 2020 was an unfortunate period in Turkey’s policy towards Syria. A powerful offensive by the Syrian government army in the Idlib province entailed the capture of almost half of the province’s territory and control establishment over the international Damascus-Aleppo highway. At least four of Turkey’s largest observation posts found themselves deep in Syrian-controlled areas.
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 24, 2020
24 February 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Oppression is Environmental Injustice / One Dollar Bail, But Still
in Jail / Blacks Continue to Die on the Alter of White Womanhood /
Mumia Speaks on the Cops and Today’s Deadly Economy
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Switzerland at the Heart of a Far-Reaching Surveillance Network Facilitating the U.S.-Backed Operation Condor
24 February 2020 — Internationalist 360°
The atrocities of Operation Condor – the U.S.-backed covert plan by Argentina, Chile, Brazil Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia to eliminate left-wing influence in Latin America – have been gradually revealed through declassified documents that detail the diplomatic manoeuvring and state terror that left tens of thousands of people killed, tortured and disappeared. Argentina is estimated to have the highest death toll with over 30,000 dictatorship opponents killed and disappeared. The Videla dictatorship in Argentina worked in close collaboration with Chile’s dictator Augusto Pinochet, who had ushered in a violent neoliberal experiment in Chile and a far reaching network of international surveillance to keep tabs on, and eliminate, any traces of organised resistance to the dictatorship that had the potential to form abroad.
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Doctors treating Julian Assange in London faced intimidation and state surveillance
25 February 2020 — True Publica
By Laura Tieman: 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 decide Assange’s fate.
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Information Clearing House Headlines 24 February 2020
24 February 2020 — Information Clearing House
Huawei in the Crosshairs
By Mike Whitney
The United States will risk anything, even a nuclear conflagration with China, to maintain its tenuous grip on global power. – Continue====
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COLDTYPE EXTRA NOW ONLINE 25 February 2020
25 February 2020 — Coldtype
COLDTYPE EXTRA IS BACK – Between 2008 and 2014 ColdType featured regular Extra publications, single subject essays, photoessays and book excerpts.
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Bid to free Manning launched as explosive new evidence threatens to end Assange extradition
24 February 2020 — The Canary
Lawyers acting on behalf of imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning have lodged a motion, arguing for her release. This comes as WikiLeaks tweeted that Julian Assange‘s lawyers intend to produce ‘bombshell’ evidence at next week’s extradition hearing.
Meanwhile, more evidence has emerged to further the argument that the extradition hearings should end on the grounds of extreme prejudice by UK authorities.
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Julian Assange News Links 24 February 2020
24 February 2020 • 21:00 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back
Note the BBC headlines below (and elsewhere of course); they invariably emphasise the negative aspects, negative for Assange of course. So, ‘Julian Assange ‘put lives at risk’ by sharing unredacted files’; ‘Julian Assange: Trump ‘offered pardon for Russia denial’; or, ‘just the so-called facts, ‘Julian Assange: What is extradition and how does it work?’. Then there’s the ‘personal’, ‘Julian Assange: Father fears ‘worried’ son’s extradition’. But the most striking thing about the BBC’s coverage is that there isn’t any to speak of! The stories above cover the period 7 February 2020 to today, just a handful, not even. And this is the BBC, allegedly the leading, most trusted, news organisation on the planet, famed for its objectivity, that it always presents all sides of a story. And I’m only dealing with the headlines! WB
Day 1 of Assange’s US extradition hearing: What you need to know
https://on.rt.com/abl4‘We should talk war crimes & killing civilians, not US espionage claims in this court’ – WikiLeaks head Kristinn Hrafnsson
https://on.rt.com/abkwAssange’s Persecution Has Exposed Media Depravity The World Over
Assange Extradition Hearing’
https://off-guardian.org/2020/02/24/discuss-assange-extradition-hearing/
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How we stay blind to the story of power
24 February 2020 — Jonathan Cook
If one thing drives me to write, especially these blog posts, it is the urgent need for us to start understanding power. Power is the force that shapes almost everything about our lives and our deaths. There is no more important issue. Understanding power and overcoming it through that understanding is the only path to liberation we can take as individuals, as societies, and as a species.
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REVEALED: Chief magistrate in Assange case received financial benefits from secretive partner organisations of UK Foreign Office
21 February 2020 — Daily Maverick
The senior judge overseeing the extradition proceedings of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange received financial benefits from two partner organisations of the British Foreign Office before her appointment, it can be revealed.
Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis – Declassified UK
It can further be revealed that Lady Emma Arbuthnot was appointed Chief Magistrate in Westminster on the advice of a Conservative government minister with whom she had attended a secretive meeting organised by one of these Foreign Office partner organisations two years before.
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Four-Way Summit On Idlib Signals Turkey’s Inability To Turn Military Threats Into Reality
25 February 2020 — South Front
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan confirmed his intention to meet with the leaders of Russia and France Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron, as well as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on March 5th in Istanbul to discuss the situation in Idlib.
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Syria News Links 18-25 February 2020
25 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
How to Know If America Is Your Enemy
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/02/24/how-to-know-if-america-is-your-enemy/Syria conflict: Inside the final rebel stronghold
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-51608262
