The prosecution lawyers in the High Court seeking to ensure Julian’s extradition to the U.S. rely almost exclusively on the judicial opinions of Gordon Kromberg, a highly controversial U.S. attorney.
Chris Hedges: Julian Assange’s Grand Inquisitor
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WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Assange’s Last Stand?’
Chris Hedges and Alexander Mercouris joined CN Live! from London to discuss Julian Assange’s two-day hearing at the High Court.
DAY TWO: US Reinforces Grand Assange Deception
A delusory tale that turns journalism into a unique evil because it exposes secret U.S. crimes was heard in a London courtroom on Wednesday with Julian Assange’s fate yet to be determined, reports Joe Lauria.
WATCH: New York Rally for Assange
Susan Sarandon joined Margaret Kimberley, Margaret Ratner Kunstler, Katie Halper and other speakers at the British Consulate in New York on Wednesday in support of Julian Assange.
Craig Murray: Your Man on Assange’s Final Appeal
The WikiLeaks publisher’s legal trial has been a travesty and charade marked by undisguised institutional hostility. Now we are in the last-chance-saloon at the Royal Courts of Justice.
Chris Hedges: Julian Assange’s Day in Court
Lawyers for the WikiLeaks publisher — in a final bid on Tuesday to stop his extradition — fought valiantly to poke holes in the case of the prosecution to obtain an appeal.
Ending the War in Ukraine, Off the Battlefield
In this discussion of the key issues for negotiation, Vijay Prashad says continuing to use military force will only cause further intense suffering.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Grand Delusions
This year’s Munich Security Conference was predictably all about the imaginary danger that Russians intend to proceed westward into Europe as soon as they finish in Ukraine.
The Assange ‘Death Plots’
Now that the WikiLeaks publisher faces imminent extradition to the United States, another death risk arises, Kellie Tranter reports.
US Deceptions at the Heart of Assange Case
Lawyers for the WikiLeaks publisher charge that while British courts looked the other way, the U. S. has been distorting and withholding evidence to engineer his extradition, Cathy Vogan reports.