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Dropped Prosecutions: The Afghan Files, Public Interest Journalism and Dan Oakes

October 21, 2020

In July 2017, two journalists working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Dan Oakes and Sam Clark, wrote of a stash of incriminating documents, running into hundreds of pages. They were “secr…

Eyewitness to the Agony of Julian Assange

October 5, 2020

Opinion

Journalist and filmmaker John Pilger has watched Julian Assange’s extradition trial from the public gallery at London’s Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia. Q: Ha…

Julian Assange, Prometheus Bound

September 10, 2020

Opinion

He is being punished not for stealing fire – but for exposing power under the light of truth and provoking the god of Exceptionalism. Amid thundering silence and nearly universal indifference, c…

Assange Extradition: Can a French Touch Pierce a Neo-Orwellian Farce?

February 29, 2020

Opinion

It’s quite fitting that the – imperially pre-determined – judicial fate of Julian Assange is being played out in Britain, the home of George Orwell. As chronicled by the painful, searing reports of Am…

Wikileaks Reveals OPCW Falsified Reports to Blame Syrian Government Instead of Western Backed-Jihadis!

November 1, 2019

Opinion

The revelations – studiously ignored by the mainstream media – shed a light on the tangled web weaved by the complicit media and the West’s shameless hypocrisy, involving the OPCW, Wikileaks and Julia…

Did This Happen in the Home of the Magna Carta?

October 29, 2019

Opinion

The worst moment was one of a number of ‘worst’ moments. I have sat in many courtrooms and seen judges abuse their positions, This judge, Vanessa Baraitser—actually she isn’t a judge at all; she’s a m…

Assange in Court

October 23, 2019

Opinion

I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday’s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange’s legal team…

Assange: Destroyed for Truth-Telling

September 28, 2019

Opinion

Julian Assange, the founding editor of Wikileaks, is being detained in a British top-security prison indefinitely. But in the view of his distraught father, the incarceration of Assange has a delibera…