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We do not know what will happen to Julian Assange. If his captors send him to the US, and if he is executed there for the crime of publishing leaked documents (a crime that he shares with the New York Times), he will not be the first martyr to the truth.
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Julian Assange, a martyr to the truth
by John Scales Avery
We do not know what will happen to Julian Assange. If his captors send him to the US, and if he is executed there for the crime of publishing leaked documents (a crime that he shares with the New York Times), he will not be the frst martyr to the truth.
“Keep Assange out of U.S.” – Prof. Francis Boyle
by Professor Francis A Boyle
International law professor Francis A Boyle speaks on Assange's rights
Shredding Asylum: The Arrest of Julian Assange
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
The man seemed like a bearded emissary, a holy figure nabbed in his sleep. He looked similarly pale as to how he did in 2013, but he cut a more shocking figure. Most prisoners would have had room to move in a compound. The Ecuadorean embassy in London only offered modest space and access to sun light. Hospitality of late was in short supply.
Assange BULLETIN – 1
by Countercurrents Staff
No fair trial awaits Assange, says CIA whistleblower
Ecuador failed to notify Assange’s defense of asylum withdrawal, says lawyer
Violation of principles of human rights protection
Impartial trial? UK judge brands Assange ‘narcissist’
In defense of Assange
by Countercurrents Staff
Putin wants Assange’s rights to be observed
Atrocious decision, says Maduro
Bolivian president condemns persecution of Assange
Moreno, the greatest traitor in Ecuadorian history, says Correa
After 7 years of deceptions about Assange, the US readies for its first media rendition
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 real threat of Assange’s extradition to the United States, that it was all in our fevered imaginations.
Illiberals and autocrats unite to craft a new world media order
by Dr James M Dorsey
The Assange case forces both the media and government, particularly in democratic societies, to determine the boundaries between journalism and whistleblowing.
Climate crisis poses a major political challenge to imperialism: John Smith on imperialism
by Farooque Chowdhury
John Smith, former oil rig worker, bus driver, telecommunications engineer, longtime activist in the anti-war and Latin American solidarity movements, and author of Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis (Monthly Review Press, January 2016), discusses the question of imperialism in the following interview taken by Farooque Chowdhury during July 2018-February 2019.
More than seven years after Gaddafi’s brutal murder, Libya remains in turmoil
by Abdus Sattar Ghazali
More than seven years after the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s overthrow and brutal murder (on October 20, 2011) the situation remains in flux as former CIA-asset General Khalifa Haftar’s forces launched an offensive against the forces loyal to the western-installed Libyan government of Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj.
New Species of Deep-Sea Corals Discovered in US Atlantic Marine Monument
by Dr Marianne de Nazareth
There is good news from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists and their collaborators at OceanX, the University of Connecticut (UConn), and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). They have discovered two new species of deep-sea corals during a September 2018 expedition in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument, located about 100 miles from the Northeast U.S. coast. This finding adds to the diversity of the only U.S. marine monument in Atlantic.
Institutionalise Extortion by Centre Government – Greatest threat to India’s federal structure
by Dr Anwar Khursheed
The manner in which central agencies namely CBI, ED/IT, Election Commission etc. are using coercive methods against opposition ruled state governments. The days are not far that the basis federal structure of the nation would crumbled down & that would be a very fatal blow.
Apex court opposes amendment to RTI
by Dr Madabhushi Sridhar
RTI Act is the best enactment, but it is not giving best results in securing the access to public records. Why? The problem is that neither the Central government in respect of CIC nor the State government in respect of SICs, are filling the vacancies for the appointment of Commissioners in a timely manner, leading to stifling of the functioning of RTI Act and huge backlogs of appeals and complaints in many Commissions across the country. Ignoring or neglecting vacancies reflects disinterest of the governments in implementing the RTI of the people.
Reject The Politics of Hate
Press Release
Elections to Lok Sabha and some Vidhan Sabhas are taking place at a time when the country is passing through a period of grave crisis. Besides leading to the formation of a new government, outcomes of the current elections will have a deep impact on the future shape of the Indian society, nature of our democratic system as well as the lives and livelihoods of the masses of our country.
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