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 […]
Kafka On Acid: The Trial Of Julian Assange By Felicity Ruby, Arena Online. September 19, 2020 Kafka On Acid: The Trial Of Julian Assange2020-09-192020-09-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/julian.png200px200px Julian Assange needs to wake before dawn to get from Belmarsh Prison to the Old Bailey courthouse, where his extradition hearing resumed on 7 September, for four weeks. He gets dressed for court only to be strip-searched before being placed in a […]
News Media Who Ignore The Assange Trial Are Admitting They Don’t Care About Journalism September 18, 2020 News Media Who Ignore The Assange Trial Are Admitting They Don’t Care About Journalism2020-09-182020-09-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/medium-5.jpg200px200px Above photo: Garry Knight. The Sydney Morning Herald just published an article titled “Julian Assange interrupts extradition hearing again” about the WikiLeaks founder’s correct interjection that he never put anyone’s lives in danger with the publication of the […]
Wikileaks was invented to support Roy Cohn’s ‘gayboy’ lovers that the Kosher Nostra put into the White House. This is the simple truth of it and Cohn is still somewhere laughing his ass off as the US is torn apart by a second acolyte of Cohn’s, another bumbling moron in a dress… Roy Cohn and Donald Trump at a cross dressing gala in New York (the […]
The United States has indicted Assange on a total of 18 counts, related mostly to violations under the Espionage Act for disclosing classified information that revealed US war crimes and included the 2016 hacked e-mails of Hillary Clinton. On his latest podcast, former UFC commentator Joe Rogan has shared his thoughts on the Julian Assange case, saying that it was wrong to prosecute him for the […]
Good Ellsberg, Bad Assange By Kevin Gosztola, Dissenter. September 17, 2020 Good Ellsberg, Bad Assange2020-09-172020-09-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/danellsberg-e1600346688631.png200px200px Above photo: Daniel Ellsberg. By Christopher Michel. At Extradition Trial, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Dismantles False Narrative. Ellsberg also said “Julian Assange could not get a remotely fair trial” in the United States. *To support Kevin Gosztola’s reporting on Julian Assange’s extradition hearing, become a paid subscriber of The Dissenter or go to shadowproof.com/donate. […]
Assange Court Report September 16: Afternoon By Bridges for Media Freedom, Assange Court Report. September 17, 2020 Assange Court Report September 16: Afternoon2020-09-172020-09-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/assangetrial8-9-20g-1-e1600356754396.jpg200px200px Celebrated whistleblower defends Assange in court. A famous Vietnam era whistleblower, 89-year-old Daniel Ellsberg, has told a court that he feels “a great identification,” with both Julian Assange and his source Chelsea Manning, who, he said, “were willing to suffer the risk of imprisonment […]
Day Nine: Julian Assange Extradition Hearing September 16, 2020 Day Nine: Julian Assange Extradition Hearing2020-09-162020-09-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/merlin-e1600263950544.jpg200px200px Above photo: Daniel Leal-Olivas/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Things became not merely dramatic in the Assange courtroom today, but spiteful and nasty. There were two real issues, the evidence and the procedure. On the evidence, there were stark details of the dreadful regime Assange will face in US jails if extradited. On […]
Assange Would Not Have Fair US Trial, Witness Tells Old Bailey September 16, 2020 Assange Would Not Have Fair US Trial, Witness Tells Old Bailey2020-09-162020-09-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/skynews-julian-assange-e1600264529541.jpg200px200px Above photo: Julian Assange (back) listened in the dock as James Lewis (front, centre) opened the hearing with the US position. Julian Assange’s extradition hearing resumed yesterday morning after a coronavirus test for a member of the prosecution’s legal team came back […]
LONDON—Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who exposed the underbelly of U.S. policy in the Vietnam War, has told a British court that the extradition of Julian Assange is part of an American effort to “crush” future whistleblowers. Ellsberg said the U.S. wanted revenge against the WikiLeaks founder just like the Nixon administration and the CIA plotted vengeance against him for his part in the publication of the […]
Day Five: Julian Assange Case September 15, 2020 Day Five: Julian Assange Case2020-09-152020-09-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/ja-sept-14-e1600175626987.jpeg200px200px See previous daily reports here and a video recap of last week’s proceedings here See an overview of USA v. Julian Assange here See a thread of live-tweets of today’s hearing here Eric Lewis: Julian Assange shouldn’t be extradited, would face solitary confinement in the United States. Paused last week due to a COVID19 scare, Julian Assange’s extradition […]
Hot on the heels of a coronavirus scare, Julian Assange’s extradition hearing was postponed on Monday following a farcical videolink failure which meant the court could not hear the testimony of a prominent witness. The court was hearing from witness Eric Lewis, an experienced US lawyer, when out of the blue it was interrupted by a Fox News video about WikiLeaks. The source of the unexpected […]
US Demands Hinder Spanish Probe Into Security Firm That Spied On Assange By Jose Maria Irujo, El Pais. September 13, 2020 US Demands Hinder Spanish Probe Into Security Firm That Spied On Assange2020-09-132020-09-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/assange2-1-e1600008213763.jpg200px200px Above photo: A pro-Assange demonstrator protests outside the Old Bailey court in central London on September 8. Tolga Akmen / AFP. American prosecutors want to know the judge’s sources before cooperating in an investigation into […]
US prosecutors are reportedly refusing to cooperate with a Spanish investigation into the company accused of spying on Julian Assange while he sought asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy, unless the judge accedes to a list of demands. Judge Jose de la Mata of Spain’s High Court is conducting an ongoing investigation into UC Global. The firm was previously in charge of security at the Ecuadorian embassy […]
Expert Tells Court, Charges Against Assange Are Unconstitutional By Mohamed Elmaazi, Sputnik News. September 10, 2020 Expert Tells Court, Charges Against Assange Are Unconstitutional2020-09-102020-09-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/assange1-e1599736622154.jpg200px200px Above photo: Mohamed Elmaazi. It is immaterial whether one considers Julian Assange to be a reporter because he was engaged in “journalistic activity” when obtaining and publishing classified US documents, the director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation told the court […]
Assange Extradition And The War On Journalism By Chris Hedges, ScheerPost.com. September 10, 2020 Assange Extradition And The War On Journalism2020-09-102020-09-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/shipton-e1599743398832.jpg200px200px Above photo: John Shipton, the father of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, stands in front of a “Don’t Extradite Assange” poster as he arrives at the Old Bailey, London, ahead of a hearing in Assange’s battle against extradition to the US, Tuesday, September 8, 2020. Assange is […]
The Ongoing And Unjustifiable Persecution Of Julian Assange September 10, 2020 The Ongoing And Unjustifiable Persecution Of Julian Assange2020-09-102020-09-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/assange2.jpg200px200px Above photo: Twitter. A hugely important struggle for press freedom is currently taking place in the Old Bailey in London, where, on Monday, three weeks of hearings began regarding the proposed extradition to the US of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. In 2010 and 2011, WikiLeaks […]
Julian Assange Hearing: Day Three September 9, 2020 Julian Assange Hearing: Day Three2020-09-092020-09-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/assangetrial1-e1599683414679.jpg200px200px Above photo: NYT. NOTE: The last event that Kevin Zeese was organizing was a webinar on Julian Assange and the War on Journalism. Kevin recognized the critical importance of protecting journalists and our right to know. He likens this case to the John Peter Zenger case in the 18th century that established freedom […]
John Pilger: The Stalinist Trial Of Julian Assange By John Pilger, Mintpress News. September 9, 2020 John Pilger: The Stalinist Trial Of Julian Assange2020-09-092020-09-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/ap_20251602845386_edited-e1599678232199.jpg200px200px Above photo: A woman holds up a photograph of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during a protest demanding the freedom of Assange in front of the UK embassy in Brussels, Sept. 7, 2020. Francisco Seco | AP. Having reported the long, epic ordeal of […]
Roger Waters: If Julian Assange Is Guilty, So Am I By Roger Waters, News Clickin. September 9, 2020 Roger Waters: If Julian Assange Is Guilty, So Am I2020-09-092020-09-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/rogerwaters-e1599661157413.jpg200px200px Musician Roger Waters told NewsClick that , “In 2010 Julian Assange along with Chelsea Manning played a pivotal role in releasing classified documents on US military activity in Iraq and Iran. I displayed the video for three […]
Assange Hearing: Dramatic Opening Day September 8, 2020 Assange Hearing: Dramatic Opening Day2020-09-082020-09-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/assangetrial-e1599605141952.jpg200px200px First Witness Testifies After Judge Denies Adjournment to January. The dramatic opening day of Assange’s extradition hearing saw U.S. shift from espionage to its superseding indictment as Vanessa Baraitser rejected a defense bid to excise the evidence and adjourn the case to January. 11:30 am EDT: The dramatic first day of the resumption of […]
After shouting “nonsense” at a lawyer representing the US government, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was ordered by a UK judge to remain silent or be removed from his own trial. Assange is currently facing extradition to the US over accusations he conspired to hack government computers and broke an espionage law over the release of confidential cables in 2010 and 2011. On the second day of […]
LONDON (Sputnik) – Clive Stafford-Smith, the first witness called to testify by Julian Assange’s legal team on the second day of the extradition hearing, highlighted on Tuesday the usefulness of Wikileaks’s releases, claiming that the leaked information has allowed him to win legal cases in court. Stafford-Smith, a British-American lawyer running an organization called Reprieve, which deals with cases involving rendition, secret detention, torture and the […]
Heavyweights Weigh In On Assange “Show Trial” By Popular Resistance. September 7, 2020 | Educate!, Featured Campaign Heavyweights Weigh In On Assange “Show Trial”2020-09-072020-09-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/supremes-head-gray-620.jpg200px200px And its threat to journalists. Former NYT Vice Chairman and General Counsel, James C Goodale, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist, Chris Hedges, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower, Dan Ellsberg to Speak. Zoom Online Event Wednesday, September 9, 1:00 EST. Register here. Washington, DC – An […]
By Nauman Sadiq for VT Speculations about a presidential pardon for the whistleblower Edward Snowden, who leaked National Security Agency’s classified information to the press in 2013, have grown since last month after Donald Trump commented on the case in an interview [1] with The New York Post on August 13. “There are a lot of people that think that he is not being treated fairly,” Trump said […]
If a UK court consents to Julian Assange’s extradition to the US in a trial due to resume on Monday, the WikiLeaks co-founder could be sentenced to 175 years behind bars in an American prison. He faces 18 criminal charges related to endangering US national security by conspiring to obtain and disclose classified information. Stella Morris, Julian Assange’s partner and the mother of his two children, […]
US Determined To Make Assange Pay For Exposing The Cruelty Of Its War By Vijay Prashad, Globetrotter. September 3, 2020 US Determined To Make Assange Pay For Exposing The Cruelty Of Its War2020-09-032020-09-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/assange-e1595101693166.jpeg200px200px September 7, 2020, Julian Assange will leave his cell in Belmarsh Prison in London and attend a hearing that will determine his fate. After a long period of isolation, he was finally able to meet […]
Documentary – The War On Journalism: The Case Of Julian Assange September 2, 2020 Documentary – The War On Journalism: The Case Of Julian Assange2020-09-022020-09-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/juan-film-e1599083079481.jpg200px200px A new documentary by Juan Passarelli can be seen here on Consortium News, followed by a panel discussion with Passarelli, director Ken Loach and filmmaker Suzie Gilbert. Journalists are under attack globally for doing their jobs. Julian Assange is facing a 175 […]
Assange ‘In A Lot Of Pain’ Says Partner After Prison Visit By Alan Jones, The Irish Examiner. August 29, 2020 Assange ‘In A Lot Of Pain’ Says Partner After Prison Visit2020-08-292020-08-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/assange-partner-and-children.jpg200px200px Above photo: Julian Assange’s partner and children, Stella Moris (centre) and sons, Gabriel (right) and Max (left) leave Belmarsh Prison after visiting her partner and their father, Julian Assange. Aaron Chown/PA. Julian Assange’s partner has […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106867/96/1068679676_0:291:4000:2541_1200x675_80_0_0_914971b714b4a4d67944bbc0d7a1f39d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202008291080316094-kim-dotcom-calls-on-trump-to-pardon-truth-teller-julian-assange-says-it-will-help-his-re-election/ Convicted of wire fraud, copyright infringement and money laundering, the entrepreneur awaits extradition to the US. In the meantime, he has thrown his weight over to the fight for Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder and publisher who is fighting Washington’s attempts to extradite him from the UK to the US for trial. Kim Schmitz, primarily known by […]
Torturing Assange: An Interview With Andrew Fowler By John Kendall Hawkins, Counterpunch. August 21, 2020 Torturing Assange: An Interview With Andrew Fowler2020-08-212020-08-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/julian-assange-court-sketch-e1598032163479.jpg200px200px Above photo: Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in the dock reading his papers as he appears at Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court in London for his extradition hearing. “I love Wikileaks.”– DJ Trump “Can’t we drone him?”– Hillary Clinton Andrew […]
‘What Happens If Julian Assange Dies In A British Prison?’ August 18, 2020 ‘What Happens If Julian Assange Dies In A British Prison?’2020-08-182020-08-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/prison-belmarsh-with-assange-image-e1597681085846.jpg200px200px Julian Assange appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court via video-link on Friday, August 14, 2020. Seen to those in attendance through two flat-screen monitors placed at either side of the west London courtroom, the WikiLeaks founder and former editor patiently sat through the proceedings […]
Filmaker and journalist Pablo Navarrete followed John Shipton, the father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, over a number of months as he campaigns to prevent his son from being extradited to the United States and secure his release from Britain’s Belmarsh maximum-security prison. Pablo Navarrete is a British-Chilean journalist and documentary filmmaker. He is the founder and co-editor of www.alborada.net which focuses on Latin American politics, media […]
Assange Wins Award, Appears In Court Facing New Charges August 4, 2020 Assange Wins Award, Appears In Court Facing New Charges2020-08-042020-08-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/02/free-assange-graffitti-outside-westminister-magistrates-court-in-london.-by-kristy-wigglesworthy-ap..jpg200px200px Note: Julian Assange is being recogized for his work to promote unconditional press freedom. “Julian Assange Is Awarded the 2020 Stuttgart Peace Prize,” reports: “Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks imprisoned in London for a year, received the Stuttgart Peace Prize 2020. It is awarded […]
Above photo: The only known photograph of district judge Vanessa Baraitser — who will rule on Julian Assange’s extradition to the US — in the public domain. Anonymisation by Declassified. From Instagram. The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Justice is blocking the release of basic information about the judge who is to rule on Julian Assange’s extradition to the US in what appears to be an irregular application […]
It’s Not Assange Who Should Be Facing Prosecution By Tom Coburg, The Canary. July 31, 2020 It’s Not Assange Who Should Be Facing Prosecution2020-07-312020-07-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/julian-assange-1-720×377.jpg200px200px Above photo: YouTube – Channel 4 News. On 27 July two court hearings took place – one in the UK, the other in Spain. Both concerned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. From their proceedings, it became clear that it’s not Assange who should be […]
Transparency International Silent On Jailed Transparency Journalist Assange By Patrick Maynard, The Grayzone. July 26, 2020 Transparency International Silent On Jailed Transparency Journalist Assange2020-07-262020-07-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/transparency-international.png200px200px For over a year, the West’s top anti-corruption NGO, Transparency International, has not said a word about the world’s most prominent jailed transparency activist, Julian Assange. Is US and UK government funding a factor in the organization’s silence? Berlin, Germany – On […]
Julian Assange’s substantive extradition hearings are expected to recommence at the Central Criminal Court of England on 7 September, where witnesses for both the prosecution and the defence are due to testify at this hotly contested legal challenge. British artist and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood denounced the treatment of imprisoned journalist and publisher Julian Assange, whilst dressed in a yellow suite and inside a large metal […]
Trade Unionists Back Campaign To Free Assange By Don’t Extradite Assange. July 18, 2020 Trade Unionists Back Campaign To Free Assange2020-07-182020-07-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/assange-e1595101693166.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Demonstrators march to protest against the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Saturday in London. Alberto Pezzali/AP. In Birmingham, Plymouth, and Newcastle trades councils have voted to join the campaign to halt the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States […]
Two hundred and sixteen medical professionals signed an article published in The Lancet medical journal demanding an end to the “ongoing torture and medical neglect” of award-wining WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who remains incarcerated in Britain’s Belmarsh maximum-security prison. Clinical psychologist Dr Lissa Johnson, who co-authored the letter, explained to Sputnik why she and her colleagues felt it necessary to draft this latest version despite having […]
Update On Assange: The Most Important Press Freedom Case Of This Era By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. June 29, 2020 Update On Assange: The Most Important Press Freedom Case Of This Era2020-06-292020-06-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/julian-assange-e1593459366731.jpg200px200px This past week, just as public sentiment and corporate media attention were shifting in favor of Julian Assange, the United States issued another superseding indictment in his extradition case. The […]
Chris Hedges On Contact: Julian Assange Extradition Hearing June 29, 2020 Chris Hedges On Contact: Julian Assange Extradition Hearing2020-06-292020-06-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/marjarie-cohn-on-rt-on-contact-e1593395530951.png200px200px Above photo: Screenshot of Marjorie Cohn on RTs On Contact On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the extradition hearing of Julian Assange with lawyer, author and professor, Marjorie Cohn. Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught from […]
Mr Assange faces 18 charges under the indictment, all of which relate to his role in publishing classified documents revealing, among other things, war crimes committed by US forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay in 2010 – 2011. Julian Assange’s case took an unexpected turn at the latest hearing at Westminster Magistrate’s Court on Monday, with the defence telling the judge that it was “surprised” […]
US Government Expands Assange Indictment To Criminalize Assistance By Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproof. June 27, 2020 US Government Expands Assange Indictment To Criminalize Assistance2020-06-272020-06-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/screen-shot-e1593279369639.png200px200px The United States government expanded their indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to criminalize the assistance WikiLeaks provided to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden when staff helped him leave Hong Kong.Sarah Harrison, who was a section editor for WikiLeaks, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a former spokesperson, […]
A superseding US indictment of Julian Assange broadens the charges against WikiLeaks co-founder by accusing him of conspiring with a hacker affiliated with the groups Anonymous and LulzSec. The US Department of Justice revealed the new indictment on Wednesday, intended to “broaden the scope of the conspiracy” Assange was accused of in May 2019. The Trump DOJ’s attempt to imprison Julian Assange for working with his […]
Assange Extradition: ’60 Minutes’ Gives Assange Fair Shake June 23, 2020 Assange Extradition: ’60 Minutes’ Gives Assange Fair Shake2020-06-232020-06-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/assange-1.jpg200px200px The Australian version of the CBS News program ’60 Minutes’ presented a segment on Julian Assange Sunday night that was missing the usual mainstream media smears and distortions about his case. Australia’s 60 Minutes newsmagazine Sunday night aired an extensive interview with Stella Morris, Julian Assange’s […]
A former British ambassador has called US and UK claims that Anne Sacoolas – the wife of a US intelligence officer – had immunity, as “a palpable absurdity.” Sacoolas is accused of killing Harry Dunn last year in a car crash. The 19-year-old was fatally injured after he was allegedly struck by Sacoolas in her car outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in August 2019. Sir Ivor […]
Assange Must Be Released To His Family By the Australian Assange Campaign. May 25, 2020 Assange Must Be Released To His Family2020-05-252020-05-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/assange-extradition-protested-at-westminster-magistrates-court-june-2019.-photo-by-gareth-corfield-e1590422809557.jpg200px200px Above photo: Assange extradition protested at Westminster Magistrates Court June 2019. Photo by Gareth Corfield. In The Time Of COVID, This Is A Matter Of Life And Death. On the twelve-month anniversary of the release of the US superseding indictment, we call on the Australian government […]
Max Blumenthal is an award-winning investigative journalist, author and founder of The Grayzone, an independent news outlet. He has obtained High Court documents regarding the ongoing Spanish criminal investigation into David Morales, the Ecuadorian ex-special forces member and CEO of the Spanish security firm UC Global, which was revealed to have been spying on Julian Assange, despite originally being hired to provide protection for the Ecuadorian […]
New Court Files Expose Sheldon Adelson’s Security Team In US Spy Operation Against Julian Assange By Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone. May 16, 2020 New Court Files Expose Sheldon Adelson’s Security Team In US Spy Operation Against Julian Assange2020-05-162020-05-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/assange-pompeo-adelson-1.jpg200px200px ‘The American friends.’ An exclusive investigation by The Grayzone reveals new details on the critical role Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands played in an apparent CIA spying operation […]
World 22:33 GMT 09.05.2020Get short URL WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is currently being held in the Belmarsh high-security prison in London, UK, where he awaits trial and a possible extradition to the United States, where he could face up to 170 years in prison on charges under the Espionage Act. United Nations Special Rapporteur Nils Melzer stated that working on Julian Assange’s case has made him scared […]
Discovering that the cruelty visited on Julian Assange by Western democracies had been premeditated has heightened the fear of learning more about how those democracies operate, the UN’s rapporteur on torture has admitted. For years Nils Melzer has been researching on behalf of the UN just how vile and degrading the mistreatment of prisoners can become. But learning that states that are supposed to be champions […]