Vanessa Baraitser
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A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying
As we have pointed out since Media Lens began in 2001, a fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission. Over the past week, a stunning example has highlighted this core property once again. Continue reading
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FBI Fabrication Against Assange Falls Apart
On the final day of the Assange extradition hearing, magistrate Vanessa Baraitser refused to accept an affidavit from Assange’s solicitor Gareth Peirce, on the grounds it was out of time. The affidavit explained that the defence had been unable to respond to the new accusations in the United States government’s second superseding indictment, because these… Continue reading
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Assange saga: Real journalism is criminally insane
The Julian Assange saga seemed to have entered a new chapter as he was, in theory, on his way to – conditional – freedom this past Monday, only one day after the first anniversary of the event that started the Raging Twenties: the assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani. Continue reading
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Judge Railroads Assange As Legal Team Objects To Fresh Extradition Request
7 September 2020 — The Dissenter Report from Day 1 of trial portion of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition hearing Kevin Gosztola To support Kevin Gosztola’s reporting on Julian Assange’s extradition hearing, become a paid subscriber of The Dissenter or go to shadowproof.com/donate Judge Vanessa Baraitser rejected a request by the legal team for WikiLeaks Continue reading
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Assange Indictment: Old Wine in Older Bottles
The book of hours on Julian Assange is now being written. But the scribes are far from original. Repeated rituals of administrative hearings that have no common purpose other than to string things out before the axe are being enacted. Continue reading
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Your Man in the Public Gallery – The Assange Hearing Day 3
27 February 2020 — Craig Murray In yesterday’s proceedings in court, the prosecution adopted arguments so stark and apparently unreasonable I have been fretting on how to write them up in a way that does not seem like caricature or unfair exaggeration on my part. What has been happening in this court has long moved Continue reading
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Julian Assange and the Imperium’s Face: Day One of the Extradition Hearings
If we are to believe it, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, the man behind showing the ugliness of power, is the one responsible for having abused it. It is a running theme in the US case against this Australian publisher, who has been given the coating of common criminality hiding the obvious point: that the mission… Continue reading
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