The U.S. ambassador to Australia told a Sydney newspaper that “there absolutely could be a resolution” of the case just weeks after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Australia that the prosecution would continue, reports Joe Lauria.
The MPs called the U.S. secretary of state’s remarks that Julian Assange threatened U.S. national security “nonsense” and said the U.S. is only bent on revenge, reports Joe Lauria.
Australia is not a real country – it’s a U.S. military base with marsupials, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
The U.S. secretary of state confirmed Australia has lobbied the U.S. to end the WikiLeaks publisher’s prosecution, but said unequivocally that it would continue, reports Joe Lauria.
The United States has a long history of wrongfully convicting and imprisoning people only to release them after years in prison after new evidence emerges. It has just happened in the U.K. too.
Chris Hedges, Stella Assange and Matt Kennard discuss the implications of the Julian Assange case and the demise of mainstream journalism.
Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream fame, was arrested on Thursday in front of the U.S. Department of Justice building in Washington protesting the DOJ’s prosecution of publisher Julian Assange.
The ‘Perfected Grounds of Appeal’ submitted by Julian Assange’s lawyers to the High Court of England and Wales reveals new evidence of deception by both Britain and the United States. (With transcript).
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The essential issues at the core of the Julian Assange case were laid out in exact detail by CN‘s late founder Robert Parry as early as December 2010.
