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Julian Assange Free – but it’s not over just yet

Alison Banville — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 23:09:27 +0000

BSNEWS editor Alison Banville: In 2019 I attended a talk in London by UN special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, who, after visiting Julian in Belmarsh prison, was so shocked by his deteriorated condition that he immediately spoke out declaring that Julian’s life was at risk: “In my view, this case has never been about Mr. Assange’s guilt or innocence, […]

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October 7th. Must Watch Al Jazeera Investigation Exposes Western Mainstream Media.

Peter Oborne — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 10:59:49 +0000

New documentary reveals how false and inflammatory allegations made their way into the journalistic mainstream Forensic. Sober. Clear-sighted. Scrupulous. Al Jazeera’s investigative unit has produced a film that tells the story of what really happened on 7 October. This authoritative documentary does not flinch from detailing the atrocities and war crimes carried out by Hamas. But it shows beyond reasonable doubt that many […]

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In waging war on the UN refugee agency, the West is openly siding with Israeli genocide

Jonathan Cook — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 19:12:16 +0000

Israel has long plotted the downfall of UNRWA, aware that it is one of the biggest obstacles to eradicating the Palestinians as a people. There is an important background to the decision by the United States and other leading western states, the UK among them, to freeze funding to the United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main channel by which […]

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Russia’s judo kick to the western financial gut

Pepe Escobar — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 03:45:50 +0000

Washington's sanctions on Moscow will destroy Europe, not Russia

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The role of the BBC in the state-sponsored persecution of Julian Assange. Part 1

Nina Cross — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 11:47:27 +0000

This is the first of two articles analysing the role of the BBC in the state-sponsored persecution of Julian Assange. It analyses how the British government used the BBC to present Assange as a criminal following his arrest on 11th April 2019. It then examines how the BBC helped to control the narratives around the stripping of Assange’s asylum, a violation […]

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Bristol University Sack Professor David Miller for Criticising Israeli Zionism

Dorset Eye — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 11:29:29 +0000

Bristol University bows to pro-Israel campaign against Professor David Miller The University of Bristol has today succumbed to a longstanding pro-Israel pressure campaign targeted at Professor David Miller, based on his important scholarship on Islamophobia. In 2019, Professor Miller gave a lecture on the ‘Five Pillars of Islamophobia’ as part of a module called ‘Harms of the Powerful’. Among those […]

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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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UN Security Council extends aid runs for Al Qaeda in Idlib

Vanessa Beeley — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:02:25 +0000

“Al-Qaeda terrorists operating in the north of Syria and oppressing millions of Syrians can now breathe comfortably after the United Nations Security Council extended their supply routes from their regional sponsor NATO member state Turkey for an additional Six months within its Resolution 2504.” ~ Syria News In October 2014, Serena Shim, a US citizen and a Press TV reporter was killed […]

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Response to Open Letter of 1 July 2019

Nils Melzer — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 20:05:39 +0000

In conclusion, I fully agree with your interpretation of the law, and that any victim courageous enough to report sexual abuse must be protected, supported and taken seriously. As far as the case of Assange is concerned, however, I stand by my conclusion that the available evidence does not warrant the prosecution’s finding of “rape”.

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