Joe Lauria discusses the dangerous legal precedent set by the case against Julian Assange, whose actions in leaking government documents are not categorically different from those of a journalist. As Glenn Greenwald points out, there's no "license" that makes someone...
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Swedish Court Rules Not to Extradite Assange for Rape Probe
AP: 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...
18 ways Julian Assange changed the world (by Lee Camp)
Comedian Lee Camp reminds us that for all the evil Wikileaks exposed the only one in jail is the person that exposed it - Julian Assange. Nearly every government on our third rock from the sun despises the man for bringing transparency to the process of ruling the...
Patrick Cockburn: America’s persecution of Julian Assange has everything to do with Yemen
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...
What Julian Assange and Howlin Wolf have in common
They were both tortured by the state Howlin’ Wolf was locked up for two months in the Army psych ward. He was lashed to his bed, his body parts examined and measured: his head, his hands, his feet, his teeth, his penis. The shrinks wanted to know if he liked to have...
Assange Too Sick For Court
How well is he being treated? What's wrong with him? No one seems to know. Sure hope the U.S. or UK government don't just murder him. No point in going ahead with the recent superseding indictment if that was the plan.
Year Zero: Assange Facing 170 Year Sentence with the Latest Indictment
This Thursday Tommy takes a look at the 18 counts of espionage charges revealed in the recent indictment of Julian Assange. As extradition hangs in the balance the US revealed another indictment that intends to put Assange away for the rest of his life for...
Assange Faces 170 Years in Prison as US Adds Charges Under Espionage Act
As the US prepares to try to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange through extradition, the Justice Department has revealed a new series of charges against him. Assange would face 170 years in US prison if convicted. The new allegations include 17 separate...
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