Investigative reporter Bob Parry, who founded this site in 1995, clearly understood what was at stake in the Assange case back in 2010, when the Obama administration was still actively considering indicting him.
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Much of the furor now surrounding Assange in the courtroom stems from a Guardian staffer’s obscured role in sabotaging WikiLeaks’ efforts to conceal names in leaked documents, writes Jonathan Cook.
The next time you see a mainstream-media talking-head fawn over Woodward, just remember that if they had any backbone, any moral core, they would be fawning over Assange instead.
Pentagon Papers whistleblower Dan Ellsberg, who testified at Julian Assange’s hearing, and legendary journalist and filmmaker John Pilger, who was in the courtroom, join us LIVE at 9 am Pacific, 12 pm Eastern and 5 pm BST on Saturday.
If it reports on it at all, MSM has mostly limited coverage to trivialities as a precedent is set to allow journalists globally to be extradited & jailed for exposing embarrassing truths about the U.S. govt., writes Caity Johnstone.
Court is adjourned for Wednesday in the extradition hearing of Julian Assange. Consortium News watched the proceedings and filed this report on the testimony of Daniel Ellsberg and John Goetz.