After a history of U.S. bullying and humiliation — from a broken promise not to expand NATO to deceit over Minsk — it can’t be assumed Moscow is bluffing when it warns of nuclear war.
JOE LAURIA: A History of Humiliation
Category: WikiLeaks
McBride Speaks From Prison at Australia’s Top Press Award Event
Imprisoned whistleblower David McBride spoke to the Walkley Awards ceremony, Australia’s Pulitzers, in a nationally-televised address that was a challenge to the authorities who jailed him. Consortium News was there.
UK Snubs Council of Europe Over Assange Inquiry
Politicians across Europe want Britain to investigate why the WikiLeaks founder spent five years in jail, writes Mark Curtis.
WATCH: October Unsurprised
Journalist Craig Unger has used Robert Parry’s vast archive to help nail down the 1980 October Surprise story, but he diverged greatly from Parry when it came to also criticizing the Democrats.
Craig Murray: A Very Peculiar Triumph
PACE’s designation of Julian Assange as a political prisoner was the only part of the European Council’s resolution on which the Atlanticists even attempted to mount a rearguard action.
Assange’s Measure of Justice From the Council of Europe
Marjorie Cohn reports on the Parliamentary Assembly’s “political prisoner” resolution, including its alarm that the C.I.A. “was allegedly planning to poison or even assassinate” the WikiLeaks publisher.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Assange Appears as Mideast Burns’
Craig Murray and Richard Medhurst join CN Live! to discuss Julian Assange’s appearance in Strasbourg and to lend their expert analysis to the blow up in the Middle East.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘What Assange Said’
CN Live! speaks to Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis and attorney Marjorie Cohn about Julian Assange’s appearance before the Council of Europe today. Watch the replay.
Assange: ‘My Naivete Was Believing in the Law’
UPDATED: Read all of Julian Assange’s remarks, including Q&A, in Strasbourg Tuesday morning, on the plea deal, WikiLeaks work, the Espionage Act, the C.I.A.’s retribution and more.
WATCH: Assange’s Testimony in Strasbourg
The liberated WikiLeaks publisher testified on Tuesday in his first public appearance since his plea deal hearing in June. Watch it on replay here.