Let’s help push this AVAAZ petition over the top. http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_frankenfish_r/?bpPHlab&v=21885 1,000,000 signatures is the goal 974,941 right now. It’s entirely within reach. UPDATE, Feb 18: 985,374 have signed. UPDATE, Mar 03: 992,276 have signed. The New York Times reported in December 2012 that the licensing of GM salmon is likely to go ahead (FDA). The two-month […]
1. I recommend listening to Julian Assange’s December address to crowds in London from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy 2. There is a decent synopsis of the 2012 Assange story below. It includes a link to The World Tomorrow, the talk show hosted by Assange during the months he has been confined to the Ecuadorian Embassy. […]
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Supporters of Bradley Manning protest during his scheduled motion hearing, outside the gates of Fort Meade, Maryland. Photograph: Jose Luis Magana/Reuters http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/13/bradley-manning-wikileaks-whistleblower History will judge harshly the US military’s mistreatment of the alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower, who turns 25 this week Pfc Bradley Manning was finally allowed to speak publicly, in his own defense, in a […]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/11/bradley-manning-military-suicide-watch After two weeks of revelatory testimony, prosecution concedes some treatment soldier faced at Quantico was overly rigorous Ed Pilkington in New York Manning has been accused of ‘aiding the enemy’ by passing hundreds of thousands of confidential US documents to WikiLeaks. The epic courtroom battle between the WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning and the US […]
NOTE: The article is about the trial of Bradley Manning, not about Julian Assange and Wikileaks. The article does not mention the name “Bradley Manning”. He is referred to only as “an Army private”. The Associated Press Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 | 3:04 a.m. The U.S. military’s highest court is hearing arguments on whether the public […]
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. […]