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10/2/20 Patrick Cockburn on his Testimony in the Assange Extradition Hearing

by Scott Horton | Oct 3, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews the great Patrick Cockburn about his written testimony in Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Cockburn argued, as have many other witnesses for the defense, that Assange's activities with WikiLeaks amount to the very best kind of journalism: the exposure of government misdeeds to the people. Far more journalists, in fact, should be doing what Assange does. Cockburn also reminds us that the information Chelsea Manning leaked and Assange published was not even all that secret. It was on a server that millions of soldiers and government employees had access to, a far cry from...

10/2/20 Kevin Gosztola: Day 17 of the Assange Extradition Hearing

by Scott Horton | Oct 2, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Kevin Gosztola discusses two major points from the recent round of testimony in the Assange hearing. First, the defense has been trying to emphasize the deplorable conditions Assange would be likely to face in an American supermax prison. This is something a judge must consider under British extradition law. Gosztola also brings up the bizarre story of UC Global, a security firm employed by American billionaire and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson. Two former UC Global employees testified that American intelligence had tasked them with surveilling Assange in the Ecuadorean embassy—this...

10/1/20 Trevor Timm on His Assange Extradition Hearing Testimony

by Scott Horton | Oct 2, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Trevor Timm is back with an update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Timm was a witness for the defense, where he argued against the idea that what Assange and WikiLeaks do is categorically different than the activity of other journalists. The prosecution has argued that Assange's solicitation of classified documents amounts to collaboration in an illegal activity—Timm explained that this is no different whatsoever from what any mainstream journalistic outlet does. Just because some people don't consider Assange to be a journalist, that has nothing to do with his legal status when it...

USA, 2020: Helpless, Bound, Suffocating Black Woman to Cop: ‘I Beg You Master,’ ‘Don’t Let Me Die’

by Scott Horton | Oct 2, 2020 | Blog

Okay, well it was 2019. I sure don't mean to shame the victim for that. It's easy to say you would rather die than submit to some pig in such an undignified manner, but she very well could have died, and surely has other people that she's responsible for. 100% of the responsibility is on the criminal, Officer Levi Huffine, who of course, is not being charged with any crime at all. Matt Agorist at the FTP: Aurora, CO — A video released this week was so disturbing that even Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson is speaking out about it, referring to what happened to a woman in it as “torture.”...

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Who Tripled and Still Lost the Afghan War, Endorses Biden, Says He Listens to His Military Betters Better

by Scott Horton | Oct 1, 2020 | Blog

The president is a terrible person and a terrible president. But boy does he have the right enemies.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is Guilty Accessory to Murder of Breonna Taylor

by Scott Horton | Oct 1, 2020 | Blog

He should be imprisoned for the rest of his life along with his co-conspirators, the trigger-men, Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove. New York magazine: It’s getting harder to deny the likelihood that Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron lied, and lied multiple times, when he explained why a grand jury decided not to charge any police officer with a crime for killing Breonna Taylor. Cameron’s office presented evidence to the jury, but the only criminal charges he announced last week were against Brett Hankison, the Louisville officer who fired blindly into Taylor’s apartment on March...

The ‘Black Bloc’ Anarchists Who Might As Well Be Working For the Republicans

by Scott Horton | Oct 1, 2020 | Blog

I feel sorry for the black people from the neighborhood who just want the cops to stop murdering them but who -- at least in many major cities -- cannot have a peaceful protest without white anarcho-communists coming and turning the place into a live-action Trump commercial. I used to know some of the left-anarchists who went to Seattle in 1999 for the WTO protest and such. They were good kids mostly, but they don't know what they're talking about or what role they're really playing. But they never started major riots or set fires the way these people are now. And of course the worse the...

9/28/20 Kevin Gosztola: Week Four of the Assange Extradition Hearing

by Scott Horton | Sep 28, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Kevin Gosztola is back for another update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing, where most recently the defense has been debunking the prosecution's claim that Assange engaged in a hacking scheme with Chelsea Manning. Gosztola says the defense was able to establish the baselessness of this claim, based in part on the fact that WikiLeaks had already published just about everything Manning leaked to them before the supposed hacking would have taken place. Gosztola fears that despite this small victory, the prosecution will simply move on to something else, given that their entire case seems...