A British magistrates court ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States and sent the request for his extradition to Home Office Secretary Priti Patel for approval. Views: 0
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Julian Assange Closer To US Transfer After London Court Issues Extradition Order
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has just come a major step closer to being transferred into US custody, after on Wednesday a London court issued a formal extradition order during a hearing. All that awaits is higher government approval for the legal ruling, a remaining limited appeals process notwithstanding. Views: 0
New Julian Assange Developments – A Closer Look
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Julian Assange: A Thousand Days in Belmarsh
Julian Assange has now been in the maximum-security facilities of Belmarsh prison for over 1,000 days. On the occasion of his 1,000th day of imprisonment, campaigners, supporters and kindred spirits gathered to show their support, indignation and solidarity at this political detention most foul. Alison Mason of the Julian Assange Defence Committee reiterated those observations […]
What I Got Wrong About Julian Assange
Above Photo: Screenshot from ‘Collateral Murder’ video released by WikiLeaks. Those who revealed un-redacted cables have never been prosecuted nor requested to remove them from the internet. I wrote a piece for Australian online publisher Crikey just before Julian Assange’s extradition hearings resumed in September 2020 in which I regurgitated a slur that has done enormous harm to his reputation. […]
Chris Hedges: PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange
December 27th, 2021 By Chris Hedges Source Careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks successfully leverage corporate money and backing to seize and deform historic rights organizations into appendages of the ruling class. PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Nils Melzer, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, is one of the very few establishment figures to denounce the judicial lynching of Julian […]
The Hounding of Julian Assange Leaves Honest Journalism With No Refuge
The Hounding of Julian Assange Leaves Honest Journalism With No Refuge Activist Post / Activist Post By Jonathan Cook It is no accident that Julian Assange, the digital transparency activist and journalist who founded WikiLeaks to help whistleblowers tell us what Western governments are really up to in the shadows, has spent 10 years being […]
PEN America And The Betrayal Of Julian Assange
Above Image: Mr. Fish. Careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks successfully leverage corporate money and backing to seize and deform historic rights organizations into appendages of the ruling class. Nils Melzer, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, is one of the very few establishment figures to denounce the judicial lynching of Julian Assange. Melzer’s integrity and courage, for […]
THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: PEN America & The Betrayal Of Julian Assange
THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: PEN America & The Betrayal Of Julian Assange – By Chris Hedges SM Source – scheerpost.com “…Careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks successfully leverage corporate money and backing to seize and deform historic rights organizations into appendages of the ruling class….Those in power, as Noam Chomsky points out, divide the world into “worthy” […]
On Contact: Slow-Motion Execution Of Julian Assange
[embedded content] On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the torture of Julian Assange with his father, John Shipton. Julian Assange committed the empire’s greatest sin – he exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption, and innumerable war crimes. Republican or Democrat, Conservative or Labour, Trump […]
For Third Year, Committee To Protect Journalists Excludes Assange From Jailed Journalist Index
Above Photo: Committee to Protect Journalists executive director Joel Simon (Screen shot from CPJ promo video on YouTube). A record number of journalists are imprisoned throughout the world, according to the annual prison index released by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). But that number excludes WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. CPJ, which is based in […]
Voices of Concern: Aussies for Assange’s Return
With Julian Assange now fighting the next stage of efforts to extradite him to the United States to face 18 charges, 17 of which are based on the brutal, archaic Espionage Act, some Australian politicians have found their voice. It might be said that a few have even found their conscience. Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister […]
300 Doctors Implore Australia To Bring Assange Home
Over 300 doctors from around the world have today written to the Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, imploring him to seek Julian Assange’s immediate release from prison in the U.K. on medical grounds. The letter begins by commending Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce for his recent statements calling for the U.S. extradition request against Julian Assange to […]
Why We Must Defend Julian Assange
Above Photo: Julian Assange supporters outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, UK, December 10, 2021. (Henry Nicholls / Reuters) Julian Assange is one of the political prisoners that the US claims not to have. The UK is again the good vassal, keeping him locked up until the Biden administration finds an opportune time […]
Manufacturing Contempt for Assange: How the Media Made WikiLeaks Founder into a Scapegoat
[embedded content] The High Court in London has upheld the U.S. government’s appeal to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a key step towards his rendition to the United States. The Australian publisher faces up to 175 years in prison once he sets foot on American soil. Whether he ever makes it to the United States […]
USA: Roger Waters, Susan Sarandon rally in support of Assange in NYC
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Julian Assange is being slowly killed – #35
Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange is dying in prison. That’s the depressing reality which has faced us since the High Court ruling on Friday. The decision brought Assange a step closer to being extradited to the Unites States. Share Assange is being charged with doing true and accurate journalism which exposed the war crimes, torture and […]
The execution of Julian Assange
He exposed empire as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, its callous disregard for human life, its rampant corruption, and its innumerable war crimes. But, as history shows, empires kill those who inflict deep wounds. Let us name Julian Assange’s executioners. Joe Biden. Boris Johnson. Scott Morrison. Theresa May. Lenin Moreno. Donald Trump. Barack […]