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Navalny, Assange, and Corporate Media Hypocrisy

Kim Peterson — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:10:27 +0000

The following article was published in 2022 but is highly relevant to recent events: The New York Times continues to selectively promote news that fits the Establishment narrative. The NYT portrays the nine-year sentence of the Russian “opposition leader” Aleksei Navalny to a high-security prison as a travesty of justice. Was it unjust? If so, justice must be demanded. What I can comment on is […]

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Craig Murray: Assange Final Appeal

Craig Murray — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:13:45 +0000

Craig Murray was in the public gallery at the Royal Courts of Justice Reporting on Julian Assange’s extradition hearings has become a vocation that has now stretched over five years. From the very first hearing, when Justice Snow called Assange “a narcissist” before Julian had said anything whatsoever other than to confirm his name, to the last, when Judge Swift […]

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Didn’t those enraged at Boris Johnson’s ‘smears’ of Starmer defame Corbyn at every turn?

Jonathan Cook — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 23:13:03 +0000

The media outrage at Johnson linking the Labour leader to Jimmy Savile is because his comments inadvertently exposed the dark underbelly of the British establishment

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BURNED AT THE STAKE: UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON TORTURE DEMOLISHES FAKE CLAIMS TARGETING JULIAN ASSANGE

Media Lens — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 10:51:16 +0000

On the face of it, the task seems almost hopeless. As Tolstoy wrote: ‘The power of the government is maintained by public opinion, and with this power the government, by means of its organs – its officials, law courts, schools, churches, even the press – can always maintain the public opinion which they need.’ (Leo Tolstoy, Writings on Non-Violence and Civil […]

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Damage to the Soul: Julian Assange And a Travesty of Justice

Craig Murray — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 19:06:49 +0000

The imprisonment of Julian Assange has been a catalogue of gross injustice heaped upon gross injustice, while a complicit media and indoctrinated population looks the other way. In a truly extraordinary twist, Assange is now being extradited on the basis of an indictment served in the UK, which is substantially different to the actual indictment he now faces in Virginia […]

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Limits Of Dissent – Glenn Greenwald And The Guardian

Media Lens — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 15:35:44 +0000

The key point, for us, which has nothing to do with lefter-than-thou sniping, is that this indicates the extraordinary extent to which the best, supposedly 'centre-left' media are protected from rational criticism.

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Persecuting Assange: The Mainstreaming of Neoliberal Pathology

Simon Wood — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 10:37:05 +0000

“Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long” – Hunter S. Thompson The non-profit journalistic and publishing organization WikiLeaks released on 22nd July 19,252 emails and 8,034 attachments sent from or received by Democratic National Committee (DNC) personnel. The emails exposed numerous instances of unprofessional, unethical and possibly illegal behaviour, including concerted attempts to […]

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The siege of Julian Assange is a farce – a special investigation

Alison Banville — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:24:01 +0000

The siege of Knightsbridge is a farce. For two years, an exaggerated, costly police presence around the Ecuadorean embassy in London has served no purpose other than to flaunt the power of the state

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Extraditing Assange

Alison Banville — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:20:50 +0000

This document provides the facts about Julian Assange's situation. Mainstream reportage on Assange's case is of a poor quality, with the result that many members of the public are misinformed on the most basic facts about his legal and factual situation. This document aims to remedy this situation.

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