Julian Assange receives 4th Annual DANNY Award for Journalism

25 June 2019 — Defend Wikileaks

WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has been granted the 2019 Danny Schechter Global Vision Award for Journalism & Activism by not-for-profit educational foundation The Global Center. As a press release announcing the award explains, The DANNY is “awarded annually to an individual who best emulates Schechter’s practice of combining excellent journalism with social advocacy and activism.”

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The Re-Opening of the Swedish Assange Case Should Be Welcomed By Craig Murray

13 May 2019 — Craig Murray

That the Swedish investigation into the rape allegation against Julian Assange is being re-opened is something that ought to be welcomed. The alternative would be for this accusation to hang unresolved over Julian’s head forever. The Swedish prosecutors now need finally, as my father used to say, either to piss or get off the pot. They need to decide whether there is sufficient evidence to charge or not.

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Julian Assange Newslinks 19 April 2019

19 April 2019 — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting

Ecuador turns to Interpol to arrest former foreign minister & Assange supporter Patino
https://www.rt.com/news/456972-ecuador-foreign-minister-patino-assange/

WikiLeaks calls for unredacted Mueller report
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The Guardian attack on Assange exposed as politically-motivated fabrication By James Cogan

6 December 2018 — WSWS

Last week’s sensationalist allegation by the Guardian newspaper, that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange met with Paul Manafort, American political lobbyist and one-time campaign manager for Donald Trump, has been exposed as a politically-motivated tissue of lies.

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Top Ecuadorian Diplomat Destroys Guardian’s Claim that Manafort Visited Assange

3 December2018 —  Zero Hedge

A former consul and first secretary at the Ecuadorian embassy in London has put the final nail in the coffin of credibility for The Guardian, refuting the paper’s fantastical and wholly unsupported claim that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2013, 2015 and the spring of 2016 – a charge vehemently denied by all parties involved.

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