May 022019
 
2019-05-01  Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson; brief video clip, good.  Plus teleSUR coverage.

The Globe&Mail posted the video clip by itself (it is  1 minute, 37 seconds). Nice!  you are spared the biased reporting in Canadian mainstream media that makes me gag – –  the Vancouver Sun, just one example. The video starts with the Editor of Wikileaks, then goes to lawyer Jennifter Robinson. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/video-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-sentenced-to-50-weeks-in-british-jail/ Please let me […]

Apr 282019
 
2019-04-16  Julian Assange Wins 2019 EU Journalism Award,  teleSUR

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was seen on the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. | Photo: Reuters   Jimmy Carter: US Is Most Warlike Nation in History of the… by Brett Wilkins Estafanía Bravo The award is given to individuals “uncovering the truth and exposing it to the public” and to honor those “intimidated […]

Apr 282019
 
2019-04-27  Ecuador Embassy Staff Contradicts Allegations Against Assange, teleSUR

Assange with Ecuador’s former foreign minister. “You have to attack and defame the personality if you don’t want the public opinion to support the brave one who challenged the most powerful nation on the planet.” Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno made a number of allegations against Julian Assange, including accusing the whistleblower of being disrespectful towards […]

Apr 142019
 
2019-04-14  The 7 Years Of Lies About Assange Won't Stop Now,  Zero Hedge

by Tyler Durden Sun, 04/14/2019 – 07:00 542 SHARES Twitter Facebook Reddit Email Print Authored by Jonathan Cook, For seven years, from the moment Julian Assange first sought refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, they have been telling us we were wrong, that we were paranoid conspiracy theorists. We were told there was no […]

Apr 142019
 
2019-04-14  Julian Assange Languishes in Prison as His Journalistic Collaborators Brandish Their Prizes,  The Intercept, Charles Glass

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 […]

Mar 252019
 

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 […]

Mar 252019
 

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 […]

Mar 112019
 

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. […]

Mar 102019
 
2019-03-08  Chelsea Manning:  Wikileaks source jailed for refusing to testify, BBC.  With a reminder of Chelsea Manning's incredible gift to us and to democracy.

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 […]

Mar 042019
 
2019-03-03  John Pilger: 'Defy the Thought Police', Stand With Assange,  teleSur

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 […]