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This fear, and the persistent cowardice of yielding to it, is the theme of Assange’s story. I’ve written about Assange several times. I visited him in Ecuadors embassy. Yet each time, I’ve found myself reluctant. Seven years ago, when I met him, Assange was ebullient and hopeful, even funny. Now, as Baraitser says, he is “a depressed and sometimes despairing man who is genuinely fearful about his future”. Assange, she said, was at “high risk of serious depression leading to suicide ...

Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images Peter Greste writes that he believes anyone who claims “press freedom” as a right also has responsibilities, he also believes the media must push back against anything that threatens its oversight role. When UK District Judge Vanessa Baraitser declared she was rejecting the US request to extradite Julian Assange, his partner Stella Moris wept with relief. In an emotional speech outside the court, Moris described the ruling as “the first step towar...

Julian Assange on Wednesday lost his bid to be released from prison in London on bail as a UK judge ruled that it was only fair to first allow the US authorities to appeal against an order blocking his extradition on espionage charges | NewsBytes

Antiwar.com Original On January 4, 2021 the London Court will release the hearing verdict of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange’s US extradition case. The indictment against Assange is politically motivated. Judge Vanessa Baraitser, who is presiding over hearings, has even acknowledged the political nature of this case when she decided not to rule until at least after the US Presidential election on November 3, 2020. The verdict will not only determine the life of Assange, b...

UN Experts: Trump Violated International Law in Pardoning Blackwater Mercenaries The choice to pardon the military contractors convicted of murder and manslaughter may violate the Geneva Conventions. Jared Rodriguez / Truthout The pardoning of four Blackwater mercenaries by President Donald Trump earlier this month was an action that violated international law, a group of experts at the United Nations (UN) said on Wednesday. Trump pardoned the four contractors — Nicholas Slatten, who was conv...

However, Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert, 33, will be celebrating at home with her family following her release from an Iranian prison on spying charges. Ms Moore-Gilbert was one of Tehrans highest profile prisoners from the time she was apprehended at Tehran airport in 2018 as she was about to return home from an academic conference. Her release was part of an international prisoner swap where three Iranian men were freed from jail in Thailand, where they were held over their part ...

Leon Neal/Getty Images A man wears a Donald Trump mask as supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange gather outside the Old Bailey on September 14. OPINION: The year is 2010 and appearing in front of a live TED audience, Julian Assange is asked if it can be possibly true that WikiLeaks has, in the previous few years, released more classified documents than the rest of the world’s media combined. He responds: “Its a worry, isnt it, that the rest of the worlds media is doing such a bad j...

On the Important Work of Project Censored December 16, 2020 The American news landscape is changing, rapidly. Forty years ago Americans watched the same three network news programs and read the same handful of daily newspapers. Today the industry is divided along partisan lines, and media companies avoid challenging audiences with depressing or politically uncomfortable news, for fear of losing market share. The news is now like sports or pro wrestling: a fan engagement business, heavily influe...

Law and Disorder: The case of Julian Assange In the case of Julian Assange, what is on trial is nothing less than our right to know what is done by governments in our name, and our capacity to hold power to account. Law and Disorder: The case of Julian Assange, DiEM25, 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? T...

Gone tunnel files leaks laid bare the inner workings of the american prison camp and the torture that was carried out there. the collateral murder footage revealed the killing of iraqi civilians in 2 journalists shot down like targets in a video game. the war logs leak of classified military documents about the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan exposed to looting torture and kidnapping other files shed light on 50 years of u.s. diplomatic policy and helped expose bashar al assad and his corrupt ...