UK Government Deployed 15 Staff on Secret Operation To Seize Julian Assange
New information raises further concerns about the politicisation of the WikiLeaks founder’s legal case.
Thuggish Ways: Mike Pompeo, Punishing Leakers and Getting Assange
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch Poor, silly, protuberant Mike Pompeo. The stocky, irritated former CIA director and former Secretary of State is rather upset that those who worked under him…
A Father Fights for His Son & What’s Left of Democracy
The film Ithaka, about the quest of Julian Assange’s father to save his son, made its U.S. premiere on Sunday in New York City. It is reviewed by Joe Lauria.
‘UK Executive Is Wining and Dining With People Plotting the Assassination of My Husband’
Declassified sits down with Stella Assange, the wife of the WikiLeaks founder, to talk about how he’s holding up in his fourth year inside Belmarsh prison—and how his case threatens…
Secret Power: The War on WikiLeaks
Owen Bowcott on Italian investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi’s new book documenting attempts to demonise and destroy Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and her seven-year battle to access government information.
WATCH: Art Exhibit Delves Into WikiLeaks’ World
The “NoisyLeaks!” show at the Projektraum 145 gallery in Berlin “aims to collectively expose and celebrate the historical and cultural heritage of WikiLeaks,” say the organizers. CN Live! reports.
‘Political Fix’ Needed for WikiLeaks’ Assange—Lawyer
By Reuters SYDNEY (Reuters) – A lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said an “urgent political fix” is needed in his case because legal appeals against his extradition to the…
Chris Hedges: The Puppets and the Puppet Masters
The judicial proceedings against Julian Assange give a faux legality to the state persecution of the most important and courageous journalist of our generation.
Mark Fiore: Extradition Threatens Julian Assange (and Press Freedom)
By Mark Fiore / Original to ScheerPost With Julian Assange facing extradition to the United States, we’ll likely be hearing more about his case and see more protests around the…
Rafael Correa: ‘They Have Already Destroyed Assange’
Declassified sits down with the former president of Ecuador who granted Julian Assange asylum in London. He talks about dealing with the British, how the US seeks to control his…
The Chris Hedges Report: Julian Assange’s Father on Looming Extradition and Imperative of Mass Resistance
The persecution of Julian Assange is a window into the collapse of the rule of law, the rise of what the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls our system of inverted…
John Pilger: Silencing the Lambs. How Propaganda Works
Having soaked for 82 years in a deep bath of righteousness that is the official version of the last world war, isn’t it time those who are meant to keep…
CIA, Pompeo Sued for Allegedly Spying on US Attorneys and Journalists Who Met With Assange
By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter A group of journalists and lawyers, who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was living under political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy, sued…
CIA Vault 7 Leaker Found Guilty. What Did He Actually Reveal?
CIA veteran John Kiriakou breaks down some of the most important elements of Vault 7—the biggest leak in CIA history—allegedly divulged to WikiLeaks by another former CIA officer.