Top U.S. officials are speaking at cross purposes when it comes to Julian Assange. What is really going on? asks Joe Lauria.
What’s Behind Talk of a Possible Plea Deal for Assange?
Category: U.S. Justice Dept.
Australian MPs Blast Blinken Over Assange
The MPs called the U.S. secretary of state’s remarks that Julian Assange threatened U.S. national security “nonsense” and said the U.S. is only bent on revenge, reports Joe Lauria.
Caitlin Johnstone: Australia Agrees To Build US Missiles; US Dismisses Australian Concerns About Assange
Australia is not a real country – it’s a U.S. military base with marsupials, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
US ‘Disinformation Industry’ Lands in Court
It took years too long, writes Patrick Lawrence. But the law has at last been invoked against the creeping despotism of mainstream liberals as they attempt to control what we read, see, hear, and by way of all this, think.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Murder of ‘Whitey’ Bulger
The Bureau of Prison’s treatment of the former Mob boss, who was 89 at the time of his death, was at least incompetent and perhaps criminal.
WATCH: Cohen Arrested in Defense of Assange at DOJ
Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream fame, was arrested on Thursday in front of the U.S. Department of Justice building in Washington protesting the DOJ’s prosecution of publisher Julian Assange.
WATCH: ASSANGE APPEAL — The US-UK Deception
The ‘Perfected Grounds of Appeal’ submitted by Julian Assange’s lawyers to the High Court of England and Wales reveals new evidence of deception by both Britain and the United States. (With transcript).
Records Destroyed of Starmer Trips to DC During Assange Case
U.K. public prosecutor destroyed records showing Keir Starmer met with U.S. attorney general and other U.S. and U.K. national security officials in D.C. in 2011, when Starmer led Assange’s proposed extradition to Sweden, Matt Kennard reports.
Racism & US Empire
In political and media realms, the people of color who’ve suffered from U.S. warfare abroad have been relegated to a kind of psychological apartheid — separate, unequal and implicitly not of much importance, writes Norman Solomon.
Biden Would Need His Pound of Flesh From Assange
The U.S. president would not likely move on the case without some face-saving measure to ward off pressure from the C.I.A. and his own party, writes Joe Lauria.