Jonathan Cook writes: It is astonishing how often one still hears well-informed, otherwise reasonable people say about Julian Assange: “But he ran away from Swedish rape charges by hiding in Ecuador’s embassy in London.” That short […]
Stuart Littlewood writes: Sure, your rights are protected. But you’ll just have to wait another four months before we listen to concerns that you might die from mistreatment in captivity… I’ve received a reply from my […]
Jonathan Cook writes: In my recent post on the current hearings at the Old Bailey over Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States, where he would almost certainly be locked away for the rest of his life for […]
Posted by: Sammi Ibrahjem,Sr www.lalkar.org On the 5 February it emerged in the British press that Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks and celebrity virtual prisoner living inside the Ecuadorian embassy which is surrounded by […]
Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Srwww.lalkar.org The renegade President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, has ordered the eviction of Julian Assange from his country’s embassy in London and a team of police was invited into the embassy to […]
Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Julian Assange’s trial has brought to life Franz Kafka’s famous dystopian novel The Trial. To quote the opening sentence: “Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K, for without having done […]
Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr www.lalkar.org After a year of leaks, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, in particular an April video taken from a US helicopter in Iraq in 2007 showing GIs shooting at least […]
Robert Fisk, the Independent’s Middle East correspondent, died on 30 October aged 74. In reviewing his life and career, the newspaper for which he worked for more than two decades wrote of their star reporter: ‘Much of […]
BY RUSSELL MOKHIBER John Lansing, CEO, NPR. Ever wonder why you rarely hear serious discussion on National Public Radio (NPR) about corporate crime and violence? For a hint as to why, pick up the most recent NPR […]
BY WILL SOLOMON The simplest answer may be inertia, and time—essentially, nothing—but for better or worse I have a particular fixation on this question, and there is no denying Greenwald has become, shall we say, more […]