The Assange case is a centerpiece of an emerging, global challenge to U.S. dominance that did not exist in 2010 when the U.S. began its legal pursuit of the publisher, says Joe Lauria.
A Radically Different World Since Assange’s Indictment
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JOHN PILGER: Justice for Assange Is Justice for All
John Pilger, whose funeral was in London on Tuesday, wrote this account of the extradition trial of his friend Julian Assange in November 2021.
John Pilger: Assange Arrest a Warning From History
Consortium News this month pays tribute to the life and work of John Pilger, an all-time great journalist who died Dec. 30. Today we republish his essay from April 2019 just after Julian Assange’s arrest.
John Pilger: The Coming War — It’s Time to Speak Up
Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost everything we read, see and hear, warned the late John Pilger last May. War by media is now a key task of so-called mainstream journalism.
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John Pilger: Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works
Leni Riefenstahl said her epic films glorifying the Nazis depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. This is how propaganda is done.
JOHN PILGER: Visiting Britain’s Political Prisoner
“I think I’m going out of my mind,” Julian Assange told John Pilger at Belmarsh Prison. “No you’re not,” Pilger responded. “Look how you frighten them, how powerful you are.”
WATCH: Pilger on His Convict Ancestors & on Assange
Cathy Vogan interviewed John Pilger on Julian Assange in 2011, and filmed this 2016 talk about the Pilger family’s origins in Australia.
WATCH: John Pilger & Roger Waters on CN Live!
The late John Pilger joined Roger Waters on Consortium News‘ CN Live! the day after a British judge denied Julian Assange bail even though two days earlier she had “discharged” him.
