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, Chris Hedges, Mohamed Elmaazi and Consortium News‘ Cathy Vogan and Joe Lauria discussed the first day’s hearing on the Truth Defence channel.
Follow all of the activities in the street outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday, the first day of Julian Assange’s hearing before the High Court of England and Wales.
Consortium News will be inside the Royal Courts of Justice this week for what could be Julian Assange’s last hearing in Britain. Journalists overseas have been barred from remote coverage.
Days before his son’s hearing in London, John Shipton, Julian Assange’s father. addressed a gathering at the National Assembly in Paris this week after a screening of the film Ithaka.
The supply of military aid and intelligence to Israel continues despite the World Court’s ruling on a plausible case of genocide by Israel of the Palestinian people. Today 5pm EST.
Julian Assange will soon find out whether he will be granted a final appeal in the U.K. in his fight against extradition, or will soon face the cruel vengeance of the U.S., says Mary Kostakidis.
An Australian senator and an MP discuss a letter to the U.K. home secretary requesting “an urgent, thorough and independent assessment” of Julian Assange’s health risks, should he be sent to the U.S.
The Assange case is a centerpiece of an emerging, global challenge to U.S. dominance that did not exist in 2010 when the U.S. began its legal pursuit of the publisher, says Joe Lauria.