Former Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon is chief of Julian Assange’s defence team, as of July, 2012. Current media mentions Garzon’s actions vis-a-vis Pinochet. It might say that Baltasar Garzon came under heavy fire for proceedings related to Franco-era “disappearance” of people in Spain. It usually omits Garzon’s actions in relation to Bush and torture at Guantanamo. He lost his […]
http://m.news24.com/news24/World/News/Ecuadorian-president-defends-Assange-20120826 Aug 26, 2012 (I have not seen this reported in Western media before: The OAS stands behind Ecuador.) EXCERPT from the full article: Angry British Prime Minister David Cameron “must be really angry with his foreign minister”, Correa said. “Because, besides the rudeness and the discourtesy, the intolerable threat this was, it was a […]
Click on: Julian Assange addresses UN (Full Version with Q&A) Video Published on Sep 27, 2012 by RussiaToday. Julian Assange addressed permanent representatives to the UN General Assembly at a high-level talk on the legal and ethical legitimacy of diplomatic asylum – READ MORE http://on.rt.com/f3jgtl ‘It is time for the US to cease its persecution […]
NOTE: The Globe & Mail posting of the Julian Assange video, for which this is the transcript, eliminated the first part and changed the message delivered by Assange. I marked the point where they start their “reporting” of what he said. Scroll down to ***. The words reported in the doctored video appear in red. […]
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/us-calls-assange-enemy-of-state-20120927-26m7s.html THE US military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States – the same legal category as the al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban insurgency. Declassified US Air Force counter-intelligence documents, released under US freedom-of-information laws, reveal that military personnel who contact WikiLeaks or WikiLeaks supporters may be at risk […]
Also the Yes Men, see: http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=6218 CONTENTS (1) THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD (2) A HUFFY CANADA SHUTS DOWN ‘YES MEN’ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = (1) THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD In my estimation Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano are low-key brilliant and this […]
Is there a bigger “David versus Goliath” story than Julian Assange (Wikileaks) versus the American Military Empire? What a cliff-hanger! Will he be extradited to Sweden, or will Ecuador come through? For Assange, it is the difference between death and life (the Swedes will turn him over to the Americans. Ecuador, into whose custody he […]
Julian Assange’s Wikileaks published leaked diplomatic cables Related Stories: Q&A: Julian Assange and asylum Assange’s ties with Ecuador Is it legal to hide in an embassy? Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been served with an extradition notice by the Metropolitan Police. Officers from the extradition unit delivered a note to Mr Assange at Ecuador’s London embassy. […]
(I would like to publish the URL but doing so changes the formatting.) Julian Assange’s appeal for asylum in Ecuador may spare him a prison stay in Sweden or the United States. Barring a CIA drone strike on the Ecuadorian embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s sudden appeal for asylum there may spare him […]
I offer PROBLEM and REMEDY in this posting. When NATO does this in Tampa / WE do this in our community. I am sorry you may find it lengthy. I feel I have to make a water-tight case. ON “THE REMEDY” SIDE: Do not fall for the propaganda that what is happening in Quebec is […]