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CN Live! webcast an event in Sydney featuring doctors who’ve petitioned the UK & Australia to provide urgent medical care for Julian Assange.
More than 100 medical doctors urge the Australian government to protect the life of its citizen “before it is too late.”
WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson addressed the National Press Club in Australia on Tuesday. Here is CN’s video production of the event.
If Julian Assange were to succumb to the cruelties heaped upon him, week after week, month after month, year upon year, as doctors warn, newspapers like The Guardian will share the responsibility, writes John Pilger.
In a special comment written for Consortium News, John Pilger, legendary filmmaker, journalist and friend of Assange, describes the troubling scene inside a London courtroom this week where the WikiLeaks publisher appeared in his U.S. extradition case.
A month before Hillary Clinton spread the widely-believed myth that WikiLeaks had never revealed anything on Russia, the publication had already released more than a million files on the country.
A retired Australian diplomat who served in Moscow dissects the emergence of the new Cold War and its dire consequences.
Less than two months after the arrest of journalist Julian Assange, and two weeks after his indictment under the Espionage Act, emboldened governments have sent the police after journalists who’ve challenged the state. Joe Lauria reports.