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...
WikiLeaks
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...
News Roundup 6/3/19
US News A new app allows users to record interactions with police by voice command. [Link] An Indiana judge orders a police force to repay $80,000 that was confiscated from a driver. The money was taken without charging the man with a crime. [Link] Andrew Bacevich...
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...
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...
Foreign Correspondent: The Secret Behind Chinese Trepangs
Reese Erlich is on assignment in Moscow. He offers this humorous memory about a long ago visit to that famed city. I was nineteen when I first visited the country, then known as the USSR, with my parents and sister in 1966. It was quite exotic for Americans to visit...
Assange Now Charged With Espionage
He faces 170 years. The indictment is garbage. It begins by citing public requests by Wikileaks for classified documents from a number of governments. As though this is different in kind from what any investigative reporter might do. (Please assume the term...
News Roundup 5/21/19
US News New Orleans courts are violating the constitution by holding bail hearing without the defense. [Link] A key House panel rejects the Trump Administration proposal to create the space force. [Link] An armed F-16 crashes into a California building. [Link] A...
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