Assange Saga: Real Journalism Is Criminally Insane
By Pepe Escobar
Synchronicity is definitely fond of mirror wonder-walls.
The Julian Assange saga seemed to have entered a new chapter as he was, in theory, on his way to – conditional – freedom this past Monday, only one day after the first anniversary of the event that started the Raging Twenties: the assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani.
The fate of the journalist the Empire seeks to terminate was thus juxtaposed to the fate of the warrior/diplomat the empire already terminated.
Two days later, Assange was de facto re-incarcerated exactly as the Empire was hit by an “insurrection” of the sort that, whenever instigated in that distant “Third World,” is celebrated in Exceptionalistan as “people power.”
Michael Lynch allegedly overstated the value of his company ahead of $11bn sale
Ex-ministers and business leaders fear Mr Lynch, 55, faces a decade in prison
A British tech tycoon at the centre of a £3.7bn fraud case should not be extradited to the US because the UK has surrendered sovereignty for too long, ex-Cabinet ministers have said.
Electrical engineering expert Michael Lynch is facing fraud charges in the US, as authorities claim he overstated the value of his software company before it was sold to Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011.
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HP purchased Mr Lynch s company, Autonomy, for $11bn (£8bn) in 2011, but the company is seeking damages of around £3.7bn in London s High Court.
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Assange denied bail after extradition blocked, will appeal to UK High Court, WSW Thomas Scripps, 6 January 2021 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been denied bail and continues to be held on remand in Belmarsh maximum-security prison. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser handed down the decision Wednesday in Westminster Magistrates Court, after ruling on Monday against Assange’s…