journalism – Arena

9 Sep 2022

Or do we live in a Media Society where brainwashing is insidious and relentless, and perception is filtered according to the needs and lies of state and corporate power?

Controlling the Ukraine Narrative

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Simon Cooper

21 Apr 2022

This means it is almost impossible within mainstream opinion to simultaneously acknowledge Putin’s insupportable actions and forge a path out of the war that does not involve escalation, and the further destruction of Ukraine.

Hot Air? John Garnaut’s Novel Approach to Accuracy

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Brian Toohey

24 Jun 2021

The judge said, ‘I have serious doubts about the honesty and reliability of at least one aspect of Mr Garnaut’s evidence…’

Kafka Sunday Morning, Coming Down: Why Julian Assange is still caged

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Felicity Ruby

22 Jan 2021

Extradition would be denied because Julian was weak, not because he was right. We should have been happier, given we have worked and waited for Julian’s freedom for ten years, but having worked on this campaign for ten years, we couldn’t quite believe it was over. And it’s not.

Kafka on Steroids: Summarising the Extradition Hearing of Julian Assange

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Felicity Ruby

8 Oct 2020

Embarrassing the powerful is the harm for which the publisher is on trial, while those who have committed the crimes revealed are free to strike again, to profit again and to continue killing in cold blood.

Eyewitness to the Agony of Julian Assange

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John Pilger

2 Oct 2020

I have sat in many courts and seldom known such a perversion of due process. This is due revenge.

Kafka on Acid: The Trial of Julian Assange

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Felicity Ruby

17 Sep 2020

After waiting handcuffed in the holding cells, he is placed in a glass box at the back of the courtroom. Then he is forced back into the Serco van to be strip-searched back at Belmarsh to face another night alone in his cell.

"A visit to Belmarsh maximum-security prison