While Julian Assange languishes in south London’s maximum security Belmarsh Prison, a British court is weighing his fate. The 48-year-old Australian founder of Wikileaks is serving time for the minor crime of jumping bail by taking asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden. His fear at the time was that the […]
If you are short of time, scroll down to the coloured text. Since the death of Alexandre Grothendieck in November 2014, there have been a number of books and articles about this enigmatic man who earned a reputation as “the greatest pure mathematician of the twentieth century”. Grothendieck invented ways of thinking that were highly […]
The Courage Foundation nominates Julian Assange for the 2019 Galizia Prize for Journalists, Whistleblowers & Defenders of the Right to Information. Julian Assange merits this award on the following grounds: Based on need Julian Assange is the only publisher and journalist in the EU formally found to be arbitrarily detained by the UN Human Rights […]
Revision — From the April 2019 issue More Than a Data Dump Why Julian Assange deserves First Amendment protection Last fall, a court filing in the Eastern District of Virginia inadvertently suggested that the Justice Department had indicted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other outlets reported […]
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/11/glenn_greenwald_chelsea_mannings_refusal_to?autostart=true Two very good interviews: Glenn Greenwald and Daniel Ellsberg on Democracy Now. RECOMMEND: Go to the link – – the video is at top. TEXT FOR BACK-UP: Chelsea Manning has been sent back to jail after refusing to answer questions before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. Manning, a U.S. […]
The debt we owe to Chelsea Manning is staggering. Before the news reporting that she is back in jail (scroll down), an abbreviated reminder of what she has done, without mention of what happened to her in prison, and in spite of which she is standing her ground today, in the face of a Court […]
By:John Pilger Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Assange demonstrate in front of presidential palace regarding his Ecuadorian citizenship in Quito | Photo: REUTERS file phot John Pilger says of Assange that the room he’s held in resembles “Room 101” from the famous novel “1984” by George Orwell. Whenever I visit Julian Assange, we meet in a room he knows too well. There is a bare table […]
Julian Assange (Wikileaks) published the American plans for Canada in 2011: An embassy cable written by US Ambassador David Wilkins the day the Conservatives were first elected in 2006 suggests Harper would be useful in advancing the US agenda for Canada and that giving him ” a success story” like the softwood lumber deal would […]
Two articles pasted together: – – – – – – – – God! This is good! Well stated, Terry Hicks. Thank-you. Terry Hicks, the father of former Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks, has endorsed the SEP rallies on March 3 in Sydney, at the Martin Place Amphitheatre at 2pm, and on March 10 in Melbourne, at the Victorian […]
From “Unsolved Mysteries”, a sub-group on Reddit: Where did Arjen Kamphuis go? Arjen Kamphuis is (was?) a dutch cyber-security expert who visited Bodø in Norway, where he was last seen August 20th this year. He told friends he was going to travel south to Trondheim and travel back to Amsterdam the 22nd of August. He […]