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Video: Julian Assange Pt.3: On Meeting With Google, Responds to Anti-WikiLeaks Attacks From New Film to Finances
Assange addresses what he calls “attacks on all fronts against WikiLeaks,” from a monetary embargo involving some of the world’s largest financial firms to a new Hollywood documentary on WikiLeaks, “We Steal Secrets.” Assange also discusses a little-known meeting he held in June 2011 with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. We air an excerpt of audio… Continue reading
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The NYT's Problem With Leftist Presidents By Peter Hart
Left-wing Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa was poised to win re-election on Sunday. Give that fact, the New York Times went with a peculiar headline for their February 16 piece Continue reading
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The Wrong Economic Prescriptions: Deeper Austerity as a “Solution” to Austerity By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
As the economy shows signs of recession, the leeches return. Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles have issued a new report calling for even deeper austerity. It is not what the economy needs as it stagnates and sputters toward a possible new collapse. Their report combined with President Obama’s State of the Union, the sequestration and… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 21 December 2012
21 December 2012 — williambowles.info Julian Assange: WikiLeaks to release 1 million new documents CNN (CNN) — WikiLeaks is preparing to release more than a million documents next year, the controversial website’s founder said Thursday. Julian Assange did not provide details about their contents but said they “affect every country in the world.” He Continue reading
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Video: Assange’s Christmas Address: Outlines Wikileaks battle plan for 2013
Not much is known about the subject of Assange’s address, but he recently confirmed intentions to run as a candidate for the Australian Senate in 2013. Speculation is also rife that he will use the occasion to officially launch a WikiLeaks political party. Continue reading
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Video: Assange to RT: Entire nations intercepted online, key turned to totalitarian rule
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says all the necessary physical infrastructure for absolute totalitarianism through the internet is ready. He told RT that the question now is whether the turnkey process that already started will go all the way. Continue reading
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Assange: A curious position for the UK to adopt?
There is great relevance in whether or not the US are actively planning to extradite Julian Assange- this is the key aspect to his appeal against extradition to Sweden and a key element in the decision of Ecuador to grant Assange asylum. In this respect, the resolution of the Swedish case against Assange pivots around… Continue reading
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Iran vs the Empire: Fighting dollarization By Eric Walberg
The West’s attempts to destroy the Iranian economy through heightened sanctions—including most imports, oil exports and use of banks for trade operations—is having its affect. According to Johns Hopkins University Professor Steve Hanke, Iran is facing hyperinflation, with a monthly inflation rate of nearly 70% per month and its national currency, the rial, plummeting in… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 27 October 2012: WikiLeaks reveals US detainee policies: Camp Delta
27 October 2012 Ecuador’s President suggests Assange be questioned at EmbassyVoice of Russia, News Today at 00:44 Sweden may send a representative of its prosecutor’s office to Ecuador’s Embassy in the UK to question Wikileaks founder Julian Assange . This was stated by the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, who cited instances when representatives of Continue reading
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Video: Pressure Put on Manning to Implicate Assange
Michael Ratner: As Wikileaks Founder Nears 100 Days in Ecuadorian Embassy Sweden’s refusal to interview Assange in London suggests they are working with US towards extradition Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 26 August – 1 September 2012: Europe / APEC / Kosovo / Saudi Arabia / Assange-Ecuador / Uzbekistan
1 September 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation EU Drift – Destination Unknown (I) 01.09.2012 | 00:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV At the moment, the EU is visibly divided at the face of the crisis. One of the camps comprises the embattled Mediterranean countries plus the predominantly agrarian Ireland, all of whom are sinking into a debt crisis which Continue reading
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ICH 25 August 2012: America’s Descent into Poverty
25 August 2012 — Information Clearing House The Human Cost of War on Iran By Elizabeth Murray The subject of human suffering is almost taboo among these elites, and is generally raised only when negative media publicity, or the prospect thereof, forces them to take action. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32276.htm Continue reading
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Julian Assange arrest plan revealed accidentally
Plans to seize Julian Assange “under all circumstances” the moment he leaves the Ecuadorean embassy in London have accidentally been revealed by a police officer displaying restricted documents outside the embassy. Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 19-25 August 2012: Turkmenistan / USA / APEC / Ecuador-Assange / Syria / Kosovo
25 August 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation <h1 style="font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-family: ‘Times New Roman’, Times, serif; color: #0054a6;”>A Road Show for Turkmen Gas 25.08.2012 | 00:00 | Melkulangara BHADRAKUMARThe Turkmenistan – Afghanistan – Pakistan – India gas pipeline project [TAPI] is being taken out of its Continue reading
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The pursuit of Julian Assange is an assault on freedom and a mockery of journalism By John Pilger
The British government’s threat to invade the Ecuadorean embassy in London and seize Julian Assange is of historic significance. David Cameron, the former PR man to a television industry huckster and arms salesman to sheikdoms, is well placed to dishonour international conventions that have protected Britons in places of upheaval. Continue reading
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ICH 22 August 2012: Why Are Americans So Confused?
22 August 2012 — Information Clearing House Netanyahu is Preparing his Nation for War. Israel war talk fails to ignite U.S. debate USA Today Editorial Netanyahu’s timing – speculative but logical – is that he sees the American political campaign as a moment of maximum leverage. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32254.htm Continue reading
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Assange / Wikileaks Newslinks 22 August 2012
22 August 2012 — williambowles.info UK media lines up behind campaign to extradite Assange and silence WikiLeaksWorld Socialist Web Site Today at 16:33 The British media has played a venal role throughout the ongoing efforts to witch-hunt and silence WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. Continue reading
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My Visit to a London Embassy Under Threat By Jeff Cohen
On Friday, I visited Ecuador’s embassy here in the capital of the former British empire and saw a building surrounded by a phalanx of cops, with several of them at the front door. The embassy is in an upscale neighborhood near Harrods department store. The intimidating police presence was ordered by a Conservative government that… Continue reading
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Video: Police Attack Protestors at Assange Ecuadorian Embassy
Pro-active journalism in action. A US journalist engages, kindof, with the forces of ‘law and order’ outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in Knightsbridge, London. Continue reading
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‘Do some research!’ Christine Assange steamrolls Western journalism
Julian Assange’s mother slammed Western media’s lack of research and grasp of basic facts in an interview with Australian television, as the host tried to get her to “address the allegations” of free speech suppression in Ecuador. Continue reading
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