Blog

Swedish Court Rules Not to Extradite Assange for Rape Probe

by | Jun 3, 2019 |

https://i2.wp.com/www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Assange-1.jpg?ssl=1AP:

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to Sweden for a revived rape investigation, but should still be questioned in the case while he is imprisoned in Britain, a Swedish court ruled Monday.

The ruling by the Uppsala District Court doesn’t mean the preliminary investigation must be abandoned, only that Assange doesn’t face extradition to Sweden any time soon.

Eva-Marie Persson, Sweden’s deputy director of public prosecutions, said she has not decided whether to appeal.

More.

Pompeo, Trump Throw Jared Peace Plan Under the Bus

by | Jun 3, 2019 |

Pompeo trashed it in a maybe-secretly recorded meeting with a Jewish group.

Trump then also cast doubt.

This goes with what Phil Weiss said the other day. It’s dead, not because it was horrible, but because of Netanyahu’s failure to form a government, which means it can’t be debuted before Israel can hold new elections in September, but then after that will be the U.S. campaign season so they can’t do it then either.

The whole point was just a PR stunt anyway. It was another Camp David II: give the Palestinians an offer they cannot possibly accept and then pretend they’re the unreasonable ones when they don’t.

As Pompeo admitted:

“I get why people think this is going to be a deal that only the Israelis could love. I understand the perception of that.”

Year Zero: Policing the World to Safety

Year Zero: Policing the World to Safety

by | Jun 3, 2019 | ,

  1. In Episode 44 Tommy addresses a common position in modern America. Should Team America police the world? And if they do what is the result?

“I believe in police the world… i do.” ~ Dana Perino

For decades the US has adhered to this policy of policing the world. In doing so they have convinced their citizens that they reign with benevolent authority over other sovereign nations, and that the sins of these nations are greater than the casualties that will occur due to intervention.

10 of the 15 most dangerous countries in the world have fallen victim to the policy of American benevolence. More chilling still is that every nation listed in the top 7 have undoubtedly been directly related to the policies of policing the world since 9/11/2001.

I’m not suggesting that Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, South Sudan, Iraq, and Yemen are peaceful utopian tourist destinations if not for the US. I am simply pointing out that organizing coups, bombing nations, inflicting crippling blockades, and destabilizing regions do not ever make a nation safer. In fact, as the military has grown – perpetually intervening in other countries – life in America has also become less safe, climbing to the 43rd most dangerous nation in the world.

Listen to Year Zero Here

Israel Will Stay Forever in Areas They Stole in 1967 War

by | Jun 2, 2019 |

Not that you were so foolish as to believe the Israeli government would ever allow Palestinian independence.

But for the record, again: Israel has already de facto annexed the last of Palestine 52 years ago. It is an apartheid state, not a democracy, and is certainly no ally of the USA:

Israel liberated Jerusalem, Hebron, Judea and Samaria and the Golan Heights 52 years ago and will stay there forever, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday night at the traditional Jerusalem Day Celebration at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in the capital.

Netanyahu, who began his speech to the cheering students at the yeshiva by saying he felt among “family,” said that politics and life demands compromises, but that “there are times when it is forbidden to compromise, not to bow our head.“

Leaders, Netanyahu said, need to know when to compromise, and when to be stubborn and stand upright against the whole world when needed.

Patrick Cockburn: America’s persecution of Julian Assange has everything to do with Yemen

by | Jun 1, 2019 |

Patrick Cockburn:  We have had two good examples of the lengths to which a government – in this case that of the US – will go to protect its own tainted version of events. 

The charging of Julian Assange for leaking government and military secrets and the denial of Yemeni reporter Maad al-Zikry a visa so he could attend the Pulitzer prize ceremony.

Maad al-Zikry, Maggie Michael and Nariman El-Mofty from AP reported on US drone strikes in Yemen, how the US is aiding al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula and about abuses in prisons maintained by the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

It was US government documents released by Wikileaks that showed the US government was well aware of how the Houthis were obtaining weapons, and it wasn’t from Iran.

“The US embassy in Sanaa may be closed today, but it was open on 9 December 2009 when Stephen Seche, the US ambassador, sent a detailed report to the State Department titled: “Who are the Houthis? How are they fighting?” Citing numerous sources, it says that the Houthis “obtain their weapons from the Yemeni black market” and by corrupt deals with government military commanders. A senior Yemeni intelligence officer is quoted as saying: “The Iranians are not arming the Houthis. The weapons they use are Yemeni.” Another senior official says that the anti-Houthi military “covers up its failures by saying that the weapons [of the Houthis] come from Iran.”

The US feels enraged by any revelation of what it really knows, by any alternative source of information. Such threats to its control of the news agenda must be suppressed where possible

Podcasts

scotthortonshow logosq

coi banner sq2@0.5x

liberty weekly thumbnail

Don't Tread on Anyone Logo

313x0w (1)

313x0w (1)

313x0w (1)

Pin It on Pinterest