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European Parliament votes to protect Wikileaks against financial blockade
In a landmark decision today the European Parliament initiated the drafting of legislation that would stop the arbitrary banking blockades against WikiLeaks and other organizations facing economic censorship. 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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Wikileaks Newslinks 5 November 2012
5 November 2012 ‘WikiLeaks search ban – censorship’, earns US Archives ‘Ministry of Truth’ tag RT The case of WikiLeaks is once again hitting the headlines. That’s after the US National Archive blocked any search attempts containing the name of the whistleblowing website. The move, on the recommendation of Washington, was said to be protecting … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjn_g7a50Kg 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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Australia’s Uranium Bonanza: Making the World a More Dangerous Place By John Pilger
Australia has 40% of the world’s uranium, all of it on indigenous land. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has just been to India to sell uranium to a government that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and whose enemy, Pakistan, is also a non-signatory. The threat of nuclear war between them is constant.… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks intervenes in the U.S. federal election – Vote WikiLeaks!
Last Friday, the Pentagon publicly reissued its threats against WikiLeaks, demanding that we destroy our previous publications and cease “soliciting” U.S. military whistleblowers — and that our failure to do so was an ongoing “crime” and “law enforcement matter”. The FBI file for the pending prosecution of WikiLeaks, according to court records from earlier this… 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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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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‘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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‘Operation Free Assange’: Anonymous take down UK’s Justice Ministry’s website
The website for the UK Ministry of Justice is under attack after hacktivists engaged a mission to try and take down justice.gov.uk in retaliation for Britain’s handling of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Continue reading
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Assange/Wikileaks Newslinks 20 August 2012
20 August 2012 — williambowles.info Julian Assange demands end to US witch-huntWorld Socialist Web Site Today at 16:54 About 200 police lined the streets around the Ecuadorean embassy in London as the WikiLeaks editor addressed hundreds of supporters and media representatives. 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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Video: US war on whistleblowers must end – Assange
“On Wednesday night, after a threat was sent to this embassy and police desceneded on this building, you came out in the middle of the night to watch over it, and you brought the worlds eyes with you. Inside this embassy after dark I could hear teams of police swarming up into the building through… Continue reading
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US in pursuit of Assange, cables reveal
AUSTRALIAN diplomats have no doubt the United States is still gunning for Julian Assange, according to Foreign Affairs Department documents obtained by The Saturday Age. Continue reading
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Assange Newslinks 17-18 August 2012
18 August 2012 Australian government lines up behind British threats against AssangeWorld Socialist Web Site Today at 17:01 Canberra’s refusal to publicly criticise, let alone challenge, the British government further demonstrates its role as a co-conspirator in the persecution of the WikiLeaks founder. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 17 August 2012
17 August 2012 Ecuador determined to save AssangeStrategic Culture Foundation Today at 10:27 Continue reading
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Video: ‘Ecuador has strong record of human rights’: Assange and his mother hail asylum decision
“I am grateful to the Ecuadorian people, President Rafael Correa and his government. It was not Britain or my home country, Australia, that stood up to protect me from persecution, but a courageous, independent Latin American nation”Assange said in an official statement released by WikiLeaks on Thursday. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Newslinks 16 August 2012: Assange gets asylum – UK threatens Ecuador
16 August 2012 Assange granted asylum by EcuadorBBC News Today at 17:58The UK says Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will not be given safe passage out of the country from his London refuge, after Ecuador grants him political asylum. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 5 July 2012: WikiLeaks Releasing Syria Documents
5 July 2012 — Information Clearing House Straight Talking: The Syrian Cauldron By Jeremy Salt The government in Damascus has been deliberately locked into a cycle of violence fed from the outside by the self-styled ‘Friends of Syria‘. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31766.htm Continue reading
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