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The Snowden Affair: Web Resource Documents the Latest Firestorm over the National Security Agency
Recent press disclosures about National Security Agency (NSA) electronic surveillance activities — relying on documents provided by Edward Snowden — have sparked one of the most significant controversies in the history of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Today, the nongovernmental National Security Archive at The George Washington University posts a compilation of over 125 documents –… Continue reading
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FAIR TV: Terror Alerts and the NSA, Snowden's Asylum, Covering Weiner By Peter Hart
10 August 2013 — FAIR Blog The media are using the government’s warnings about a terror attack to boost NSA surveillance. Plus media get mad about Russia’s decision to grant whistleblower Edward Snowden temporary asylum. But what’s the U.S. record on extradition? Plus ABC covers the Anthony Weiner campaign–and can’t much figure out why they’re Continue reading
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Snowden's Asylum and Double Standards By Peter Hart
usat-snowdenNSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum by Russia, which has generated coverage focusing on the U.S. outrage at Russia’s decision. “Defiant Russia Grants Snowden Year’s Asylum” is the headline at the New York Times (8/2/13), where readers were told of the “risk of a breach in relations with the United States” and… Continue reading
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Snowden’s next stop: Latin America split on Snowden extradition
The regional block’s reaction will mark a “new era of Latin American sovereignty,” Eva Golinger, attorney and author, told RT. Continue reading
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Ecuador’s Correa: Solution for Edward Snowden’s destination ‘in hands of Russia’
“At this moment, the solution of Snowden’s destination is in the hands of Russian authorities,” Correa said in an interview with the private Oromar channel, according to AFP. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 23 June 2013
23 June 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks’ Assange urges support for Snowden, slams Obama ‘betrayal’ CNN London (CNN) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urged the world Saturday to “stand with” Edward Snowden, the man who admitted leaking top-secret details about U.S. surveillance programs, according to the text of a speech posted on Twitter. http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/22/world/europe/uk-wikileaks-assange/index.html Continue reading
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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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Julian Assange exposes British eavesdropping agency’s correspondence
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange The UK government eavesdropping agency, GCHQ, is facing embarrassing revelations after its internal correspondence was made public by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 14 April 2013
14 April 2013 — williambowles.info Wikileaks cables: Don’t think you’re supporting Pak, Indira Gandhi told … Indian Express This is what Indira Gandhi told US President Richard Nixon just days before India-Pakistan war when she met him in Washington in November 1971, according to a US diplomatic cable made public by Wikileaks. The cable Continue reading
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Has The Arab League Mortally Wounded Itself By Declaring War On Syria? By Franklin Lamb
It is Syria, along with Palestine, out of all the 22 Arab League members, who most consistently and steadfastly have represented Arab Nationalism, Arab resistance to occupation, and the stated goals enunciated 66 years ago when the Arab League was established. Continue reading
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Is a Zionist Connection at Play to Frame Wikileaks’ Assange in Sweden? By John Goss, Rafik Saley, and Okoth Osewe
Petersson should know about Sweden having an extradition treaty with the US because he signed it on December 16, 2004 together with US Attorney General John Ashcroft and other permanent European representatives from Finland and Belgium. The purpose of the treaty was to help the US with its illegal war on terror. 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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Assange’s health could drastically worsen in embassy – lawyer
Assange WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could suffer serious health problems if he stays in London’s Ecuadorian embassy, warned his lawyer. The whistleblower faces immediate arrest and extradition to Sweden should he leave the building. Continue reading
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London: Parasites’ Paradise (Or the Best Criminal Sanctuary Money Can Buy) By Prof. James Petras
Whenever financial swindlers prosper at the expense of investors or bank jiggers interest rates to bugger their competitors or tax evaders flee fiscal crises or rent gouging petrol monarchies recycle profits or oligarchs pillage economies and drive millions to drink, drugs and destitution they find a suitable secure sanctuary in London. Continue reading
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Video: Omar Khadr Returned to Canada After US and Canada Ignored International Law for Years
Michael Ratner: The Khadr case and others show how human rights have deteriorated in the US; Assange right to fear extradition 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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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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Wikileaks/Julian Assange Newslinks 18-19 August 2012
19 August 2012 — williambowles.info End the war on WikiLeaks, demands Julian Assange in embassy speechMorning Star Today at 18:06 The West must end its war on whistleblowers, Julian Assange demanded today as the diplomatic crisis over his extradition continued. Continue reading
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Julian Assange urges US to end Wikileaks ‘witch-hunt’
Julian Assange has urged the US to end its “witch-hunt” against Wikileaks, in his first public statement since entering Ecuador’s London embassy. Continue reading