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 […]
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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]