Consortium News plans wall-to-wall coverage of Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s decision on the U.S. request to extradite Julian Assange, before, during and after Monday’s court date.
CN Coverage of Assange Judgement Day on Monday
Category: WikiLeaks
The Time Julian Assange Packed the Sydney Opera House and Conquered a 7-Second Delay
Julian Assange will be back in a glass cage Monday to learn his fate, pending appeal. Nine years ago he packed numerous venues, including the Sydney Opera House on Sept. 30, 2011. CN Live! producer Cathy Vogan was there.
WATCH: Assange & Pilger in Debate on ‘Propaganda, Facts and Fake News,’ Dec. 2, 2017
With Judgement Day in Julian Assange’s extradition case coming Monday, we look back at the 2017 Holberg Debate with Assange, John Pilger and Jonathan Heawood, discussing the presence of propaganda in news and social media.
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Maurizi Tells Chaos Computer Club Assange Must Be Saved
The following is a speech delivered by Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi to the Chaos Computer Club Congress on Tuesday.
Consortium News in the Post-Bob Parry Era
CN has new editors, new writers, a new layout and a new webcast—but the same principles of its founding editor.
Joe Lauria on the Alleged Russian Hack
The editor-in-chief was interviewed on the radio program By Any Means Necessary about the alleged Russian hacking of U.S. government computers. Listen to it here. (16 minutes)
Melzer Asks Trump to Pardon Assange
The UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment has written to the U.S. president asking him to grant a pardon to the imprisoned publisher.
VIPS MEMO: To Biden: Don’t Be Suckered on Russia
VIPS hopes President-elect Joe Biden will avoid the mousetrap being laid for him to make it more difficult for his administration to deal in a sensible way with Russia.
Judgement Day for Julian Assange is January 4. Here’s How You Can Help Us Cover It.
Consortium News and CN Live! have big plans to continue covering the Media Trial of the Century.
WATCH: CN Live!—A Pardon For Assange
Australian member of Parliament George Christensen talks about his appeal to President Donald Trump and discusses the possibilities of a presidential pardon for the WikiLeaks publisher. Watch the replay.