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This Morning on Antiwar Radio: Roger Waters
by Scott Horton | Sep 25, 2022 | Blog
on Palestine, Assange and Ukraine. 8:30 Pacific, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles kpfk.org
UK Supreme Court Rejects Assange Extradition Appeal
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 15, 2022 | News Roundup
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost an appeal to block his extradition to the United States, with the UK’s Supreme Court outright refusing to hear the petition. Some legal options remain open to him, however.
Is Virtue Signaling Vicious?
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network...
Important Thread on Today’s Assange Hearing
by Scott Horton | Aug 11, 2021 | Blog
Leftist antiwar activist Richard Medhurst was there: https://twitter.com/richimedhurst/status/1425383427122077698
Excellent Greenwald Interview on Fox News!
by Scott Horton | Jul 8, 2021 | Blog
He kills it on the lawless national security state, namely NSA blackmail of Congress and the DoJ's merciless persecution of Julian Assange, along with Assange's father and brother. https://youtu.be/yH1qfFMu2eE
Julian Assange’s Family Begins US Tour To Demand His Freedom
by Steven Woskow | Jun 7, 2021 | Blog
more here at Zerohedge
Kevin Gosztola’s Great Coverage of Assange Hearings
by Scott Horton | Sep 8, 2020 | Blog
His Day 1 thread here: https://twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1303251577344413696 Day 2 here: https://twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1303251577344413696
DoJ Issues Superceding Indictment Against Julian Assange
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2020 | Blog
The Hill's got a good write up on it. They're accusing him of conspiring with Lulzsec and Anonymous to liberate these and those materials on top of their bogus charges against him for the Manning case.
This Morning on Antiwar Radio: Ray McGovern on Julian Assange
by Scott Horton | Apr 12, 2020 | Blog
That's 8:30 Pacific, 90.7 FM KPFK in L.A., kpfk.org
Roger Waters Defends Julian Assange on Tucker Carlson
by Scott Horton | Mar 6, 2020 | Blog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8lRg-DVNdc&feature=youtu.be
Assange Isn’t Getting a Fair Trial Because He Exposed the Empire
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 28, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #458, I discuss Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Assange is being forced to sit in a bulletproof glass box. Julian is barely able to hear what is going on in the trial, and he is unable to confer or speak with his lawyers to get clarification. He...
US ‘Plotted to Kill Julian Assange and Make It Look Like an Accident’
by Scott Horton | Feb 25, 2020 | Blog
Spies discussed kidnapping or poisoning WikiLeaks founder in Ecuadorean embassy, extradition trial hears
Glenn Greenwald Charged With Cybercrimes in Brazil
by Scott Horton | Jan 21, 2020 | Blog
Breaking in the New York Times. Note that this is the same as Trump's case against Julian Assange: The recipient and publisher of a leak is a co-conspirator with whoever did the leaking. It's a war against honesty in language first and foremost, and it's a threat to...
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The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
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