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The most dangerous, and under-discussed, development in corporate media is the spate of ex-security state agents now employed to deliver the “news.” Twitter profile of former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi, now of NBC News Two of the television outlets on which American liberals rely most for their news — NBC News and CNN — have…

Careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks successfully leverage corporate money and backing to seize and deform historic rights organizations into appendages of the ruling class. CHRIS HEDGESDecember 27, 2021 by 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 Assange. Melzer’s integrity and courage, for which…

December 23, 2021 — This morning at 11:05 Julian Assange filed an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court the High Court’s ruling that he can be extradited to the US on three grounds. The High Court’s ruling in USA v Assange raises three points of law of general public importance that have an…

The High Court allowed the U.S. appeal to reverse an order not to extradite Julian Assange and to send the case back to magistrate’s court. By Joe LauriaSpecial to Consortium News The High Court in London on Friday ruled in the U.S. appeal against a lower court decision not to extradite imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange by sending…

Oscar Grenfell Over the past 24 hours, WikiLeaks has reported that a British High Court ruling on a US appeal aimed at securing Julian Assange’s extradition is “imminent.” Several other legal sources have also stated that the decision is to be brought down in early December. The US appeal was directed against a January District…

Independent Australia Regardless of the court battle to prevent his extradition to the U.S., there appears to be little hope for Julian Assange — the Americans are relentless. The report by Ian Curr below includes a transcript of interviews with Assange’s father John Shipton, former Senator Scott Ludlam, British writer and political activist Tariq Ali…

The two-day U.S. appeal against the denial of extradition of Julian Assange has ended in London with the U.S. promising humane prison conditions and Assange’s lawyers saying the CIA tried to kill him. Consortium News had remote video access to the courtroom for the two-day hearing. The United States vowed that only a “moderately depressed”…

If he is extradited and found guilty of publishing classified material it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting. By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost WASHINGTON, D.C – For the past two days, I have been watching the extradition hearing for Julian Assange via video link from London. The…

The Dissenter The Central Intelligence Agency’s record of retaliation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, including reported plans to kidnap or assassinate him, was focused on during the second day of the United States government’s appeal hearing. It was part of the Assange legal team’s effort to convince the High Court of Justice in the United…