Misconduct In Public Office In The Assange Case By Rod Driver, WISE Up Action. November 16, 2020 Misconduct In Public Office In The Assange Case2020-11-162020-11-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/img_9666-e1605543295395.jpg200px200px Above photo: 1/5/2016 Judge Deborah Taylor Sentences Julian Assange in 50 weeks imprisonment at HMP Belmarsh for skipping Bail. Crime Reports Filed by Rod Driver for Paul Close, Emma Arbuthnot, Deborah Taylor, and Michael Snow. Misconduct in Public Office Crime Reports […]
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Assange Legal Team Submits Closing Argument Against Extradition By Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. November 10, 2020 Assange Legal Team Submits Closing Argument Against Extradition2020-11-102020-11-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/assange.png200px200px In submission to magistrates’ court in London, attorneys detail the “politically motivated” case the Trump administration pursued against the WikiLeaks founder. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s legal team submitted their closing argument to a British magistrates’ court. They argue, “It is politically motivated, […]
…by Stuart Littlewood, Britain This morning I was catching up as usual on the ever-reliable Craig Murray’s day-to-day reports of what passes for a trial at the Old Bailey under the shabby standards now governing British justice. I’m talking of course about the trial to extradite Julian Assange which is nearing its nauseating climax. Craig has been extraordinarily dedicated in bringing out the truth from a […]
Persecuting Assange Is A Blow To Reporting And Human Rights Advocacy By Janine Jackson, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. October 17, 2020 Persecuting Assange Is A Blow To Reporting And Human Rights Advocacy2020-10-172020-10-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/chip-speaks-e1602896241320.jpg200px200px Above photo: Chip Gibbons. CounterSpin interview with Chip Gibbons on Assange extradition. Janine Jackson interviewed Defending Rights & Dissent’s Chip Gibbons about Julian Assange’s extradition hearing for the October 9, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is […]
Ten Reasons Why The Assange Trial Threatens Freedom Of Speech By Fidel Navaez and Ben Norton, The Grayzone. October 14, 2020 Ten Reasons Why The Assange Trial Threatens Freedom Of Speech2020-10-142020-10-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/assange1.jpg200px200px Above photo: Julian Assange (back) listened in the dock as James Lewis (front, centre) opened the hearing with the US position. The Ecuadorian diplomat who gave Julian Assange political asylum reports from the extradition hearing […]
FBI Seized Legally Privileged Materials From Julian Assange By Kevin Gosztola, Dissenter. October 4, 2020 FBI Seized Legally Privileged Materials From Julian Assange2020-10-042020-10-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/fbi-e1601824338690.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Photo by groovysoup on Flickr. After arrest in Ecuador Embassy. “One record of [Assange’s] entire archive” was effectively purloined, and without it, attorney Gareth Peirce mentioned it has made putting together a defense in his extradition case more difficult. The FBI […]
On Contact: Assange Extradition Hearing October 4, 2020 On Contact: Assange Extradition Hearing2020-10-042020-10-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/craigmurray-e1601825376724.jpg200px200px Chris Hedges discusses with former British ambassador Craig Murray the hearing that just adjourned in London to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. Murray’s exhaustive reporting, which can be found at craigmurray.org.uk, has become one of the few sources of reliable information about the hearing, which has become notoriously difficult to […]
John Pilger: Eyewitness To The Agony Of Julian Assange By John Pilger, Mintpress News. October 4, 2020 John Pilger: Eyewitness To The Agony Of Julian Assange2020-10-042020-10-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/julian-assange.jpg200px200px Above photo: John Pilger, a writer, journalist and supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks to people as he arrives at the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey, in London, Sept. 14, 2020. Matt Dunham | AP. John Pilger has […]
Assange exposed Western hypocrisy and discovered “too much truth,” so his trial became a form of “revenge,” journalist and filmmaker John Pilger told RT’s Going Underground. The main part of the extradition trial of Julian Assange came to a conclusion this week, and a decision is now expected to be announced in early January. Pilger, a long-time supporter of the WikiLeaks founder, closely monitored the proceedings, […]
Assange Trial: US And UK Militaries Back Key Prosecution Witness By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Daily Maverick. October 2, 2020 Assange Trial: US And UK Militaries Back Key Prosecution Witness2020-10-022020-10-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/panetta.png200px200px Above photo: US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta speaks at Kings College in London, England, 18 January 2013. DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo. Revealed: Key Assange prosecution witness is part of academic cluster which has received […]
UC Global Employee Thwarted Plan To Spy On Assange By Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproof. October 1, 2020 UC Global Employee Thwarted Plan To Spy On Assange2020-10-012020-10-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/spyingassange-e1601579821693.jpg200px200px Above photo: Footage secretly recorded by UC Global of Julian Assange meeting with Lowell Bergman. From The Grayzone. An IT expert who worked for UC Global, the Spanish security company which engaged in an espionage operation against Julian Assange while he […]
Reportback: Julian Assange Hearing On Tuesday September 29 September 30, 2020 Reportback: Julian Assange Hearing On Tuesday September 292020-09-302020-09-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/assangejul-e1601516077215.jpg200px200px Above photo: Dan Kitwood. Getty Images. Tuesday has been another day on which the testimony focused on the extreme inhumane conditions in which Julian Assange would be kept imprisoned in the USA if extradited. The prosecution’s continued tactic of extraordinary aggression towards witnesses who are patently well informed played […]
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was spied on via bugs planted at London’s Ecuadorian embassy at the request of the security firm’s US contacts – who even considered poisoning or kidnapping the journalist, a UK court has heard. Testimonies from the two anonymous witnesses were presented at the Old Bailey on Wednesday during Assange’s ongoing extradition hearing. Both witnesses have previously worked for UC Global, a Spain-based […]
Report: Bad Day For Julian Assange September 29, 2020 Report: Bad Day For Julian Assange2020-09-292020-09-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/assangej-e1601399953988.jpg200px200px Above photo: AP Photo/Frank Augstein. Today was the worst day for the defence since the start of the trial, as their expert witnesses failed to cope with the sheer aggression of cross-examination by the US Government and found themselves backing away from maintaining propositions they knew to be true. It was uncomfortable […]
Report: Julian Assange Hearing September 28, 2020 Report: Julian Assange Hearing2020-09-282020-09-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/aiw-e1601328359543.jpg200px200px Above photo: Chinese contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei stands with protestors outside Old Bailey. Kirsty Wigglesworth. It is hard to believe, but Judge Baraitser on Friday ruled that there will be no closing speeches in the Assange extradition hearing. She accepted the proposal initially put forward by counsel for the US government, that closing […]
Assange Hearing: Testimonies Undermine US Indictment, Provide Grounds For Dismissal By Tom Coburg, The Canary. September 27, 2020 Assange Hearing: Testimonies Undermine US Indictment, Provide Grounds For Dismissal2020-09-272020-09-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/chelsea-manning-and-julian-assange.jpg200px200px Above photo: Wikimedia – Tim Travers Hawkins / Flickr – Cancillería del Ecuador. Week three of the hearings at the Old Bailey for Julian Assange‘s extradition to the US heard testimony from a computer security expert that may prove to be critical. […]
Assange Hearing: Judge Grants Defense Four Weeks To Prepare Final Argument September 26, 2020 Assange Hearing: Judge Grants Defense Four Weeks To Prepare Final Argument2020-09-262020-09-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/the_old_bailey_4869205050-1536×1069-e1601093186187.jpg200px200px Above photo: Old Bailey. 5:49 am EDT: Judge Vanessa Baraitser has granted the defense four weeks to prepare it closing argument, saying that her decision would come after the Nov. 4 U.S. election one way or the other. She had been previously […]
Report, Thursday, September 24: Julian Assange September 25, 2020 Report, Thursday, September 24: Julian Assange2020-09-252020-09-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/wikileaks-w.jpg200px200px Above photo: Elizabeth Cook/AP. During the hearing of medical evidence the last three days, the British government has been caught twice directly telling important lies about events in Belmarsh prison, each lie proven by documentary evidence. The common factor has been the medical records kept by Dr Daly, head of the […]
The argument that Mr Assange conspired with Chelsea Manning in 2010 to hide her identity in order to secure classified US documents is not supported by the evidence a 20-year-long US Army investigator told the Old Bailey on Friday. The conspiracy to commit computer intrusion charge levied against Julian Assange by the US government is not based on a reliable set of presumptions, the Old Bailey […]
‘We Demand The Immediate Release Of Julian Assange’ By Progressive International. September 24, 2020 ‘We Demand The Immediate Release Of Julian Assange’2020-09-242020-09-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/assanfegraphic.png200px200px Above image: Max Gede. PI Council Members support the freedom of Julian Assange against the unlawful and dangerous extradition trial against him currently taking place in London. “Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive […]
Report, Wednesday, September 23: Julian Assange September 24, 2020 Report, Wednesday, September 23: Julian Assange2020-09-242020-09-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/assange1-1-e1600979457834.jpg200px200px On Wednesday the trap sprang shut, as Judge Baraitser insisted the witnesses must finish next week, and that no time would be permitted for preparation of closing arguments, which must be heard the immediate following Monday. This brought the closest the defence have come to a protest, with the defence pointing […]
What’s The Difference Between ‘Villain’ Assange And ‘Intrepid’ Woodward? By Lee Camp, Consortium News. September 24, 2020 What’s The Difference Between ‘Villain’ Assange And ‘Intrepid’ Woodward?2020-09-242020-09-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/screen-shot-e1600971057407.png200px200px Above photo: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer hosting Bod Woodward in 2012. Twitter. The next time you see a mainstream-media talking-head fawn over Woodward, just remember that if they had any backbone, any moral core, they would be fawning over Assange instead. The completely […]
The government has argued that the WikiLeaks publisher isn’t at high risk of suicide should he be extradited to the US where he would face a trial on espionage charges related to his role in publishing classified documents pertaining to diplomacy, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Dr Sondra Crosby, a medical doctor from the US who treated […]
The US Is Using The Guardian To Justify Jailing Assange For Life September 24, 2020 The US Is Using The Guardian To Justify Jailing Assange For Life2020-09-242020-09-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/julian-assange-of-wikilea-007.jpg200px200px Why is the paper so silent? Julian Assange is not on trial simply for his liberty and his life. He is fighting for the right of every journalist to do hard-hitting investigative journalism without fear of arrest and extradition […]
Report, Tuesday, September 22: Julian Assange Hearing September 23, 2020 Report, Tuesday, September 22: Julian Assange Hearing2020-09-232020-09-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/assange-2-e1600899062907.jpg200px200px Above photo: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images. When Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers, the US Government burgled the office of his psychiatrist to look for medical evidence to discredit him. Julian Assange has been obliged to submit himself, while in a mentally and physically weakened state and in conditions of the harshest incarceration, […]
A prosecutor representing the US at Julian Assange’s extradition hearings has argued that the WikiLeaks founder could be feigning depression after a psychiatrist said he might commit sucide if he is sent to the US to be tried. James Lewis, the lawyer representing Washington at Assange’s hearings in London, sought to poke holes in the testimony of renowned professor of neuropsychiatry, Michael Kopelman, who said on […]
Robert David Steele is the conceptualizer of integrated election reform (#UNRIG) and the integration of holistic analytics, true cost economics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) such that we can achieve a prosperous world at peace at 10-20% the cost of the failed Western economic model burdened by banks and lawyers. A former US spy and co-founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, he is today […]
Report, Monday, September 21: Julian Assange Hearing September 22, 2020 Report, Monday, September 21: Julian Assange Hearing2020-09-222020-09-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/assange-lawyer-e1600789832738.jpg200px200px Above photo: Julian Assange’s lawyer Jennifer Robinson arrives at the the Old Bailey courthouse in London on Monday. Frank Augstein / AP. Monday was a frustrating day as the Assange Hearing drifted deep into a fantasy land where nobody knows or is allowed to say that people were tortured in […]
Julian Assange Trial: Monday, September 21, 2020 By Joe Lauria, Consortium News. September 22, 2020 Julian Assange Trial: Monday, September 21, 20202020-09-222020-09-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/old_bailey_london-e1600789107495.jpg200px200px Above photo: Old Bailey. US Tries to Undermine Doctor’s Testimony About Assange’s ‘High Risk of Suicide’. Consortium News is virtually “inside” the courtroom at Old Bailey, viewing the proceedings by video-link and will file updates throughout Day Eleven of Julian Assange’s resumed extradition hearing. 8:41 […]
Greenwashing The US military, Julian Assange, RIP Kevin Zeese By Lee Camp, Redacted Tonight. September 21, 2020 Greenwashing The US military, Julian Assange, RIP Kevin Zeese2020-09-212020-09-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/lee-e1600701951246.png200px200px The weather is getting more extreme by the year and conversations about climate change are growing along with it. So when Michael Moore made the movie ‘Planet of the Humans’, criticizing the corporate co-optation of the green movement, he […]
Donald Trump was “aware of and had approved of” Congressman Dana Rohrabacher’s offer to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the court holding his extradition hearing was told Friday. The existence of the offer was confirmed by barrister Jennifer Robinson, who was present at the 2017 meeting in the Ecuadorian Embassy during Rohrabacher’s visit. Congressman Rohrabacher’s presidentially-approved offer to pardon Julian Assange in exchange for information on […]
Day 12: Julian Assange Hearing September 19, 2020 Day 12: Julian Assange Hearing2020-09-192020-09-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/assange-e1600561024993.jpg200px200px Above photo: Matt Dunham. A less dramatic day, but marked by a brazen and persistent display of this US Government’s insistence that it has the right to prosecute any journalist and publication, anywhere in the world, for publication of US classified information. This explicitly underlay the entire line of questioning in the afternoon […]
September 18: Julian Assange Hearing Report September 19, 2020 September 18: Julian Assange Hearing Report2020-09-192020-09-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/assangetrial17-9-20-7-e1600561597989.jpg200px200px Above photo: Nicky Hager: Assange’s Redactions Protected Informants New Zealand investigative journalist Nicky Hager took to stand to testify about using WikiLeaks documents in his work. Hager published Other People’s Wars, New Zealand in Afghanistan, Iraq and the war on terror, and said that WikiLeaks-released military and diplomatic files “greatly increased my understanding […]