Coleen Rowley spotlights the ever-growing list of domestic blowback incidents.
Month: July 2021
The Drugging of American Politics
Alfred McCoy rounds up 50 years of racist U.S. policymaking on drug abuse, first by Republicans Nixon and Reagan and then by Democrat Bill Clinton.
The Espionage Act & Julian Assange — 3: Passing the Espionage Act
Desperate to Get Assange, US Promises No SAMS & Prison Time in Australia
To fight its appeal, the U.S. is now promising not to put Julian Assange in Special Administrative Measures isolation and to allow him to be imprisoned in Australia if convicted.
Sweeping It Under the Carpet
Because western media are designed to protect the powerful, most people are more aware of smears about Assange being a Russian agent or a rapist than of his victimization by a tyrannical assault on world press freedoms, writes Caity Johnstone.
The Espionage Act & Julian Assange — 2: The Espionage Act’s UK Origins
UK High Court Allows US to Appeal Ban on Assange Extradition
The High Court in London on Wednesday accepted the U.S. application to appeal the Jan. 4 Magistrate Court’s judgement that Julian Assange should not be extradited because of his health and the condition of U.S. prisons.
Doctors Tell Biden: Let Assange Go
More than 250 doctors around the world have written to Joe Biden to tell him to drop the Espionage Act charges against Julian Assange in retaliation for publishing critical information about the United States.
The Silence of ‘Global Music’ About Vaccine Apartheid
It’s shameful that the music industry has not uttered a collective word of protest about rich, primarily Western countries hoarding doses, writes Vik Sohonie.
UN Report Calls for Reparations for Victims of Systemic Racist Police Violence
The UN high commissioner for human rights grounded her analysis in the long-overdue need to confront the legacies of enslavement, Marjorie Cohn reports.