John Pilger, whose funeral was in London on Tuesday, wrote this account of the extradition trial of his friend Julian Assange in November 2021.
JOHN PILGER: Justice for Assange Is Justice for All
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Biden Exceeds Worst Fears About Trump
None of Trump’s misdeeds rise to the level of single-handedly facilitating a genocide in Gaza or taking the world closer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
JOHN PILGER: Visiting Britain’s Political Prisoner
“I think I’m going out of my mind,” Julian Assange told John Pilger at Belmarsh Prison. “No you’re not,” Pilger responded. “Look how you frighten them, how powerful you are.”
WATCH: John Pilger & Roger Waters on CN Live!
The late John Pilger joined Roger Waters on Consortium News‘ CN Live! the day after a British judge denied Julian Assange bail even though two days earlier she had “discharged” him.
With Hearing Set, Time For Biden to Drop Assange Charges
Ann Wright says Attorney General Garland must either drop the Trump-era case against the WikiLeaks publisher or move to indict The New York Times publisher on same charges.
Assange Appeal Hearing Set for February
Julian Assange’s wife Stella Assange confirmed that the hearing will take place at the Royal Courts of Justice in the middle of February.
WATCH: DC Belmarsh Tribunal for Assange
From the National Press Club in Washington D.C. watch the replay of CN‘s Live presentation on Saturday of the Belmarsh Tribunal for imprisoned journalist Julian Assange.
UK’s Rwanda Deportation Ruling Offers Assange Hope
The recent Appeal Court finding in the U.K.’s Rwanda deportation case that the court ultimately determines the worth of diplomatic assurances on good treatment could be greatly significant in the Julian Assange case, writes Craig Murray.
JOHN PILGER: We Are Spartacus
There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Meanwhile, once welcomed mavericks are heretics now in an underground of journalism amid a landscape of mendacious conformity.
Craig Murray: The Chances of a Regional War
As countries with influence over Israel actively encourage the slaughter, Murray considers what will happen internationally and what is happening in Western societies.