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Julian Assange Newslinks 7 May 2019
7 May 2019 — The New Dark Age On Venezuela and Corralling Mother Russia https://journal-neo.org/2019/05/07/on-venezuela-and-corralling-mother-russia/ Britain: National Union of Journalists World Press Freedom Day event ignores Julian Assange http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/07/free-m07.html Continue reading
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After nearly two months in jail, Chelsea Manning submits powerful appeal for release By Niles Niemuth
Whistleblower and political prisoner Chelsea Manning submitted an appeal Monday to the federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia asking for her release from jail. Continue reading
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Julian Assange Newslinks 28-29 April 2019
29 April 2019 — The New Dark Age White House correspondents’ tribute to press freedom silent on Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/29/whcd-a29.html UK’s Julian Assange Defence Committee holds public meeting http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/29/assg-a29.html Continue reading
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If war is an industry, how can there be peace in a capitalist World? By Vijay Prashad
On 26 April 1937, twelve bombers of the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria flew low over the Basque country of Spain in the midst of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). They tore down over the small town of Guernica, where they let loose their fiery arsenal. Almost two thousand people died in… Continue reading
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The Chelsea Manning Story- The Trailer
XY Chelsea tells the historic story of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, whose 35-year sentence in an all-male maximum security prison was commuted by President Obama in 2017. XY Chelsea is the journey of her fight for survival and dignity, and her transition from prisoner to a free woman. Continue reading
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Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange On Lockdown: Dennis Bernstein Interviews John Pilger (Part 1) by Dennis Bernstein
In the USA of 2019, truth itself has become a radical act, and to be motivated by belief, instead of profit and corporate power, is to say the least, rare. Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is indeed one of those rare examples of a 21st century truth teller who has been jailed once again – having already… Continue reading
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Wiki-Gate: Julian Assange Was Framed by the People Who Supported Him By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Julian Assange’s arrest (after almost seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy) constitutes a hideous and illegal act. He is imprisoned in Britain’s Belmarsh maximum security prison, pending his extradition to the United States. Continue reading
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US court orders Chelsea Manning to remain in prison By Niles Niemuth
Whistleblower Chelsea Manning remains in jail after a federal appeals court Monday rejected her request to be released on bail and upheld a contempt order against her for refusing to testify before a grand jury impaneled to bring fabricated charges against the media organization WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Assange Arrest – Part 1: ‘So Now He’s Our Property’
If ‘journalism’ meant what it is supposed to mean– acting as the proverbial ‘fourth estate’ to challenge power and to keep the public informed – then Julian Assange and WikiLeaks would be universally lauded as paragons. So would Chelsea Manning, the brave former US Army whistleblower who passed on to WikiLeaks more than 700,000 confidential… Continue reading
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Chelsea and Julian are in Jail. History Trembles By Craig Murray
Tonight both Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange are in jail, both over offences related to the publication of materials specifying US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and both charged with nothing else at all. No matter what bullshit political and MSM liars try to feed you, that is the simple truth. Manning and Assange… Continue reading
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It’s all about Assange… and it’s not
In one sense, this special digest is all about Julian Assange. And in another sense, it’s not. Continue reading
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Ecuadorian president threatens to evict Julian Assange from London embassy By Oscar Grenfell
In a clear threat to expel Julian Assange from Ecuador’s London embassy, the country’s President Lenín Moreno declared in an interview yesterday that the WikiLeaks founder had “repeatedly violated the conditions of his asylum.” Moreno stated that his government would “take a decision” “in the short term” on Assange’s circumstances. Continue reading
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Julian Assange: Socialists and Liberals Must Now Choose Their Side By Craig Murray
Cassandra Fairbanks’ account of her visit to Julian in the Ecuadorean Embassy paints a truly harrowing picture of the conditions in which he is being held. Last week after receiving a message from Julian I applied to the Ecuadorean Embassy to go and see him. I have done this many times but a new regime… Continue reading
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Chelsea Manning Again Takes Fall for Defending Public’s Right to Know By Janine Jackson
Manning isn’t just in prison, she’s in solitary confinement—it’s supposedly not punitive because she won’t help the government make its case; no, it’s “administrative segregation,” generally understood to be for prisoners who might be in danger in the general prison population. US media talk about solitary confinement as though it were like a “time out”… Continue reading
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Chelsea Manning held in solitary confinement for more than two weeks By Kevin Reed
On Saturday afternoon, Chelsea Manning’s support committee issued a press release reporting that she has been subjected to solitary confinement since her incarceration at Truesdale Adult Detention Center in Alexandria, Virginia beginning March 8. Continue reading
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Unsealed documents shed light on state conspiracy against Chelsea Manning By Kevin Reed
On Wednesday, the U.S. Eastern District Court of Virginia unsealed several filings concerning Chelsea Manning’s legal challenge to the subpoena attempting to force her to testify before a grand jury involved in fabricating charges against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Continue reading
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The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange And The Corporate Media
In 2010, US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning was given a 35-year prison sentence after she had leaked more than 700,000 confidential US State Department and Pentagon documents, videos and diplomatic cables about the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to WikiLeaks. Perhaps the most notorious of the releases was a US military video that WikiLeaks… Continue reading
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The guilty silence over the jailing of Chelsea Manning By Andre Damon
It has been ten days since a federal judge imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning for refusing to testify before the secret grand jury in Virginia, which is preparing an indictment against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Continue reading
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Explained: Why Julian Assange & Chelsea Manning hold key to Free Press
ATTENTION: This short segment with Patrick Henningsen (21WIRE) and Mike Robinson (UK Column) explains why it’s absolutely crucial and in the public interest to support Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and WikiLeaks, as all three of these represent fundamental pillars of democracy – the right to publish, the rights of whistleblowers, and a free press. All journalists and… Continue reading
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The Accelerating Assault on Journalism
U.S. soldier Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning’s 35-year sentence represents the harshest punishment issued to date for providing media with evidence of government wrongdoing (Forbes, 8/21/13). She is the first whistleblower to be convicted under the Espionage Act, ratifying the new reality that those who give the press information that the government wants to keep secret… Continue reading
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