The WikiLeaks founder filed a criminal complaint arguing the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to pro-war Maria Corina Machado of Venezuela violates Swedish law, reports Joe Lauria.
Assange Files Complaint to Block Machado From Nobel
Category: Julian Assange
Support CN For Coverage of the Crisis of Free Speech
Consortium News’ reporting has stood out since the 2012 arbitrary detention and later imprisonment of Julian Assange; the U.S. using social media firms to curb speech after 2016; and the vast crackdown against criticism of Israel in Gaza.
Jonathan Cook: UK Hunger Strike Is Not Being Televised
Even Palestinian hunger strikers held illegally in Israeli jails receive more coverage from the Israeli press than Palestine Action’s political prisoners are getting in Britain.
Craig Murray: 36-Minute Trials & No Jury
Watching 2,000 upstanding citizens, most of them elderly and many infirm, hustled through this mass-injustice process will be a defining moment in the U.K.’s headlong slide into fascism.
The Chris Hedges Report: This Is Not a Drill
“Any opportunity that I get, I will speak out” — Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters on the imperatives of love and resistance in the face of repression.
The Chris Hedges Report: ‘Journalists & Their Shadows’
“Loyal to the orthodoxies imposed by employers” — Patrick Lawrence discusses the deterioration of journalism, the concern of his latest book.
WATCH: Day 365 for Exposing Australian War Crimes
Blocking his ability to tell a jury his motive, a judge sentenced David McBride to 5 years & 8 months in prison, of which he spent his 365th day Wednesday, for leaking evidence of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan.
Assange Praises Albanese on Eve of Election
AU ELECTION: Ahead of the Australian election, Julian Assange thanked incumbent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for helping him gain his freedom. It was only Assange’s second public statement since being freed 10 months ago, writes Joe Lauria.
WATCH: A Time of Growing Repression
CN Editor Joe Lauria addressed a meeting held on the eve of an appeal hearing for Australian whistleblower David McBride, highlighting the growing repression in contrast to 50 years ago.
Craig Murray: Genocidal Western ‘Democracy’
Israel’s U.S.-supported massacres of Palestinians, Trump’s seizure of Mahmoud Khalil and the C.I.A. spying on Julian Assange all tie together.