Watch the show on the High Court’s ruling this week on WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Guests: Chris Hedges, Craig Murray, Marjorie Cohn and Bruce Afran. (With timeline.)
The U.S. empire hunts not like a tiger, killing its prey with a fatal bite to the jugular; but more like a python: slowly suffocating the life out of it until it perishes, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
British courts for five years have denied due process to Julian Assange as his physical and mental health deteriorates. That is the point of his show trial.
The U.S. has had years to clarify its intention to give Assange a fair trial but refuses to do so, writes Jonathan Cook. The real goal is to keep him endlessly locked up.
The High Court on Tuesday rejected six Assange grounds for a new appeal, agreeing he had only three legitimate arguments but that the U.S. could nullify them with new “assurances,” reports Joe Lauria.
UPDATED: The report in The Wall Street Journal makes public what Consortium News had learned off the record, namely that the U.S. is engaging Julian Assange’s lawyers about a deal that could set the imprisoned publisher free.
At the U.N. Human Rights Committee’s periodic review of the U.K., the author raised the U.S. war crimes exposed by WikiLeaks and British violations of the publisher’s political and civil rights.
Australian Sen. David Shoebridge spoke of the danger of the death penalty for Julian Assange in this discussion after a Sydney screening of the new film, The Trust Fall. (w/transcript)
The WikiLeaks publisher may soon be on his way to the U.S. to face trial for revealing war crimes, Matt Kennard reports. What he would face there is terrifying beyond words.
Speaking from his own experience as an imprisoned whistleblower, Kiriakou reflects on the grim medical outlook for the WikiLeaks publisher if he gets extradited.