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Ron Ridenour: Setback for Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Craig Murray and Free Press
British high court grants U.S. right to appeal Julian Assange case, in which a lower court determined against extradition to the U.S.
This is a major setback for him and for the fundamental democratic right and need for a free press.
At the same time, a key supporter of Assange, former England ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray, is imprisoned for free-press "violations" as well.
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 Domp Filanowski: Home Run for Julian, Philadelphia: Bases Loaded John and Gabriel Shipton, father and brother of Wikileaks' Julian Assange, are touring the US, the Home Run for Julian tour. Assange has been denied bail and continues to sit in a maximum-security prison, on remand, six months after a UK judge blocked his extradition, and the US DOJ appealed the ruling. Video and a transcript of the Philadelphia tour stop are provided along with my opinion as to the nature of the status quo. |
Rainer Shea: The capitalist state is deathly afraid of losing the information war
Assessing the ways the state aims to use information warfare. 1 |
 John Rachel: FREE PRESS = FREE ASSANGE Webinar: Daniel Ellsberg, Marjorie Cohn, and Joe Lauria on the persecution of Julian Assange DANIEL ELLSBERG, MARJORIE COHN, and JOE LAURIA will discuss the UK extradition trial of Julian Assange, the 18 criminal offenses conjured by the U.S., and how the case impacts the 99%, in an important and thought-provoking webinar this Saturday, November 21st 20:00 EST. 10 |
John Hawkins: Democracy: It's Not Dark Yet, But It's Getting There A consideration of the role of journalism, noting its current failures and finding succor in the Wikileaks model. There's some humor and dastardly facts to support a Network-like rant about not taking it any more. 1 |
 John Hawkins: Australia's Cryptic Democracy Julian Assange hails from a society that has no real guaranteed privacy rights; no Bill of Rights is inscribed in the constitution. Assange is, after all is said and done, a champion of privacy and soldier for more governmental transparency. He argues here that cryptography is the best protection for privacy, but now that's been taken away here. Read between the lines. 1 |
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John Hawkins: Giving Thanks to the Whistleblowers A thank you piece to some of the whistleblowers of recent years who have risked everything to help us Keep the Bastards Honest. Also, a reminder of the humans being detained at Guantanamo, most of them, after many years, without charges. Links to their poetry and artwork are included. 2 |
 John Hawkins: Assange: "Send Him Back" to Australia Julian Assange and his activist roots in Australia -- against all odds. 1 | |
 Ted Millar: My Volte-Face On Julian Assange We must not be so shortsighted as to accept Assange's fate as an aberration. If Trump can get away with coming for him, any leader can get away with prosecuting anyone who speaks out against his or her government's abuses. Once that happens, it's all over. 4 |
 Jim Kavanagh: Avoiding Assange Assange will be prosecuted by US for one reason: to punish him for publishing true, embarrassing information about US crimes and intimidate every journalist in the world from doing so again. This piece deconstructs the twin pillars of diversion for liberals--"the indictment is for hacking not publishing" (favorite of NYT & WaPo) and "the important thing is to extradite him to Sweden for sex charges" (current favorite in UK). |
 Stephen Fox: Another Take on Assange's Expulsion from Ecuador's Embassy (Statement by the President of Ecuador Lenin Moreno) Have we passed over into the next difficult paradigm in an untenable situation which couldn't go on forever; whether his prosecution is right or wrong will be determined by courts Could he ever be vindicated judicially? I hope he can get a fair trial and that he can prevail. This statement by the President of Ecuador which is quite illuminating. I've never been good at puzzles, and this is a very difficult very large puzzle. 6 |
 Thomas Knapp: Chelsea Manning: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Again One of the 21st century's greatest heroines is behind bars again, held in contempt by federal judge Claude M. Hilton for refusing to help prosecutors trump up charges against the journalists who published information she paid dearly for giving them. 1 |
 John Rachel: Julian Assange: Could 50,000 People Provide a Human Corridor? Julian Assange should be getting a Nobel Prize, not being persecuted. What can we do to save this courageous, heroic man? Can we get 50,000 people to show up at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to provide him a "human corridor" to escape to another embassy? They can't arrest or kill 50,000 people. 44 |
Gordon Parnell: Concerts For Julian Assange -- The End Game
So this thread began with Concerts for Julian Assange, but we are delighted to report that we are not the first to have explored this idea. View fantastic video of the event and an interview by Australian TV of Alex Taylor who took the initiative to perform what I think is the first concert For Julian Assange. 1 |
 Thomas Knapp: Just When You Thought "Russiagate" Couldn't Get Any Sillier ... April 20 is cannabis culture's high holiday, and the Democratic National Committee celebrated it with fervor this year: Blaze up, get silly, file a bizarre lawsuit accusing the Russian government, Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and transparency activist group WikiLeaks of conspiring to steal an election. 26 |
 Thomas Knapp: No Huawei! US Spy Chiefs Reverse Course on Phone Spying In early 2017, James Comey took Apple to court, demanding that the company help the FBI hack into the iPhone used by San Bernardino terrorist/murderer Syed Farook. Other officials have kept up a steady whine against strong encryption ever since. But now, CNN reports, the FBI and other US intelligence agencies are suddenly and ever so deeply concerned with preserving your smart phone privacy. |
 Thomas Knapp: Hillary Clinton: Cold Creepiness with a Side of Corruption Was Hillary Clinton's latest lunge at Julian Assange and WikiLeaks a preemptive strike? An attempt, perhaps, to get ahead of extreme ugliness in the coming news cycle? 19 |
 Thomas Knapp: WikiLeaks: Hostile is as Hostile Does Simply put the US government's problem with WikiLeaks -- the basis for its claim of hostility -- is that WikiLeaks tells the truth about the US government. 4 |
 Keith Brooks: Raise Your Hand If You Think We Should Go To War With Russia The American people are being subject to the most intense full-spectrum anti-Russia propaganda campaign since the promotion of lies about WMD's in Iraq. Mainstream media like the NY Times and Washington Post are again playing major roles in manufacturing consent, prepping the public to accept and support military conflict with Russia. The 6/11 front page Sunday Times article marks a new escalation in this effort. 27 |
Dale Ruff: The Ghost of Nixon: the Rise and Fall of Trump...it's not the crime but the cover-up I compare the rise and fall of Trump to the rise and fall of Richard Nixon, Trump's role model, focusing on the flaws used to gain power (paranoia, dishonesty, and revenge) and which caused their downfall. I show how their firing of investigators became the crime that backfired to force them out. 16 |
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Dale Ruff: Bombshell Russian Hacking Confirmed: Reality Check on the Smoking Gun An NSA contractor has been arrested by the FBI for leaking top secret documents detailing Ruffian hacking. I suggest this issue will separate the progressive wheat from the chaff. 32 |
Dale Ruff: Who Murdered Seth Rich? Cutting to the chase: separating fact from fiction I employ Occam's Razor to cut to the away unnecessary assumptions to justify explanations as to who may have murdered Seth Rich by examining,in the absence of evidence, the claims on which the competing theories are based. I also present a new conspiracy theory which makes more sense and involves fewer assumptions the other conspiracy allegations. 25 |
 Thomas Knapp: Seth Rich, the DNC, and WikiLeaks: The Plot Thickens Who killed Seth Rich, and why? We may never know for sure. On the other hand, a significant piece of the puzzle may have just fallen into place. 68 |
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Dale Ruff: FBI's Comey: lies and more lies.... I examine James Comey's assertion that he HAD to disclose the investigation into Clinton a week before the election (while concealing the Trump investigation). 32 |
Dale Ruff: Trump's fired National Security Adviser lied: the Tip of the Iceberg I discuss the lies of the Trump organization regarding ties to Russia and financial dealings as the tip of the iceberg of the links between the Trump campaign and Russian and pro-Russian interests. 4 |
Dale Ruff: Department of Justice goes after Assange: from traitor to hero to traitor I examine the twisted fate of Julian Assange, who has gone from a hero of the left to a hero of he right to target for arrest by those most recently who embraced him. 45 |
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Dale Ruff: IF Everyone agrees our elections are rigged, why does anyone bother to vote? I ask why, if all agree our elections are rigged anyone bothers to vote. 21 |
 Thomas Knapp: Pompeo vs. WikiLeaks: It's No Contest CIA director Mike Pompeo calls WikiLeaks "a nonstate hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia." WikiLeaks says that no, it is not in fact abetted by Vladimir Putin's regime. If I have to choose between believing WikiLeaks or believing Mike Pompeo, I'll believe WikiLeaks six days a week and twice on Sunday. 4 |
 John Rachel: No Negotiating With Terrorists, Especially American Terrorists U.S. terrorism expresses itself internationally as wars, regime changes, special operations missions, economic manipulation and interference, cyber and propaganda warfare, and is implemented with the forward-basing of troops and often outright military occupation of 140 countries. Much of this is the work of the CIA. We now have little choice. The CIA and all traces of it must be eradicated. "No negotiating with terrorists!" 42 |
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