Category: Articles
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‘All lies’: how the US military covered up gunning down two journalists in Iraq
For all the countless words from the United States military about its killing of the Iraqi Reuters journalists Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh, their colleague Dean Yates has two of his own: “All lies.” The former Reuters Baghdad bureau chief has also inked some on his arm – a permanent declaration of how those lies…
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Julian Assange indictment fails to mention WikiLeaks video that exposed US ‘war crimes’ in Iraq
US prosecutors have failed to include one of WikiLeaks’ most shocking video revelations in the indictment against Julian Assange, a move that has brought accusations the US doesn’t want its “war crimes” exposed in public. Assange, an Australian citizen, is remanded and in ill health in London’s Belmarsh prison while the US tries to extradite him to…
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Politicians Call on UK to Release Assange
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Politicians Call on UK to Release Assange—June 12, 2020 A group of members of the European Parliaments, and former members of Congress and local legislatures have written to Britain’s secretary of state for justice urging that Julian Assange be released from Belmarsh prison on compassionate grounds. The text of the letter signed by former…
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Julian Assange in Limbo by Patrick Cockburn
JUNE 18, 2020 Julian Assange was running WikiLeaks in 2010 when it released a vast hoard of US government documents revealing details of American political, military and diplomatic operations. With extracts published by the New York Times, the Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and El País, the archive provided deeper insight into the international workings…
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Max Blumenthal reveals apparent CIA spying operation targeting Julian Assange
As the co-founder of a small security consulting firm called UC Global, David Morales spent years slogging through the minor leagues of the private mercenary world. A former Spanish special forces officer, Morales yearned to be the next Erik Prince, the Blackwater founder who leveraged his army-for-hire into high-level political connections across the globe. But…
