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‘This was an indictment of the US prison system’: Glenn Greenwald praises UK decision NOT to extradite Julian Assange to America and Edward Snowdon calls on DC not to appeal the decision – with the Wikileaks founder ‘set to be freed this week’ Journalist Greenwald, who worked with Snowden, hailed it ‘great news’ Monday But…

The real measure of how free is a society is not how its mainstream, well-behaved ruling class servants are treated, but the fate of its actual dissidents. Persecution is not typically doled out to those who recite mainstream pieties, or refrain from posing meaningful threats to those who wield institutional power, or obediently stay within…

For years, America’s oligarch class has grown fat by betraying the country they rule over. They’ve outsourced the country’s wealth and well-being to China. They’ve embroiled the country in one disastrous war after another — wars that did nothing to make America safer but did a great deal to enrich the defense contractors who supplied…

GENEVA (22 December 2020) – A UN human rights expert today issued an open letter to U.S. President Donald Trump, asking him to pardon Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been held in Belmarsh high security prison since his arrest by British authorities inside the Embassy of Ecuador in London in April 2019. A British…

By Tristan Kirk The fiancée of Julian Assange has renewed her pleas for a pardon from President Donald Trump to stop the Wikileaks founder “falling into the hands of the Deep State”. Stella Moris used an appearance on the right-wing Fox News channel last night to ask President Trump “show mercy” and drop the case…

From the Concord Monitor “History has shown us that it is vital to the health of our democracy that journalists are able to publish information that discloses government wrongdoing or mistakes of policy. The discomfort and embarrassment of exposed government officials does not outweigh the importance of bringing to light matters that are of profound…

By Pam Stavropoulos | 10/12/2020 What kind of law allows pursuit of charges under the 1917 United States Espionage Act — for which there is no public interest defence — against a journalist who is a foreign national? The closing argument of the defence in the extradition hearing of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange has been filed. For…

The WikiLeaks founder’s “prolonged solitary confinement in a high security prison is neither necessary nor proportionate,” said United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer. by Brett Wilkins, staff writer The United Nations’ top official on torture Tuesday called for British authorities to release or place under house arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, citing the…

If the UK sends him back to America, nobody should feel safe calling authority to account or scrutinizing those who hide behind the veil of power. By Nancy Carolina Graterol Julian Assange’s extradition trial in London this fall revealed the lengths to which the US government was willing to go to secure the return of…

As the world remains fixated on the COVID pandemic and a divisive presidential election in the United States, it’s crucial that we all remain mindful about the fact that freedom of expression is under attack.  What happened to the fourth estate? Where is the honest reporting that we all so desperately need, and upon which the very…