Chris Hedges and CN Editor Joe Lauria discuss Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s decisions to both block WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States and to deny him bail.
As many as 198,000 voters in the state of Georgia were kicked off the voting list before last week’s Senate run-off elections, falsely listed by the secretary of state’s office as having moved.
Trump has been impeached again and this time the Republican-controlled Senate may convict to keep him from running in 2024, as Democrat-aligned big tech moves to shut him up, reports Joe Lauria.
We look back at the origins of the U.S.-backed Saudi war on Yemen and at a UN peace deal, sabotaged by Riyadh, that was close to preventing the war, as Joe Lauria reported in May 2015.
Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser on Wednesday did not grant bail to WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange after she blocked a U.S. extradition request on Monday.
Watch the replay: WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange was denied bail on Wednesday and sent back to Belmarsh prison on remand pending U.S. appeals, two days after his extradition to the U,S, was blocked on health grounds.
Watch the replay of CN Live! webcast after Judge Vanessa Baraitser “discharged” Assange and blocked his extradition on humanitarian grounds, while agreeing with the U.S. on nearly every point, criminalizing journalism.
Sept.’s extradition hearing heard testimony of US spying on Julian Assange at the Ecuador Embassy, normally grounds to toss the case. The judge will have to consider the U.S. misconduct. Here’s our report from that dramatic day of testimony.