Tag: Wikileaks

The betrayers of Julian Assange

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John Pilger

10 Mar 2023

Will Albanese back Australia or Washington on Julian Assange? If he is 'sincere', as the more do-eyed Labor Party supporters say, what is he waiting for? If he fails to secure Julian's release, Australia will cease to be sovereign. We will be little Americans. Official.

Three Recommendations for Your Summer Reading Pile

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Felicity Ruby

16 Dec 2022

Three extraordinary books—an activist’s memoir, a journalist’s eyewitness account and an academic’s lockdown project—are deeply interlinked.

The Judicial Kidnapping of Julian Assange

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John Pilger

11 Dec 2021

What was truly shocking last Friday was that the High Court  judges ... who read out their words – showed no hesitation in sending Julian to his death, living or otherwise. They offered no mitigation, no suggestion that they had agonised over legalities or even basic morality.

A day in the death of British justice

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John Pilger

13 Aug 2021

In the upper reaches of the masonry that is the British judiciary there are, I understand, still those who believe in real law and real justice from which the term "British justice" takes its sanctified reputation in the land of the Magna Carta. It now rests on their ermined shoulders whether that history lives on or dies.

Julian Assange could finally walk free—if we seize the moment

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Scott Ludlam

27 Mar 2021

For the first time in more than a decade, there’s cause for hope.

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.
"The UK petitioners—neoliberal feminism and its unequal outrage

Julian Assange and the Femocracy, by Gavin Lewis

Arena Magazine no. 160

Gavin Lewis

Jun 2019

The UK petitioners—neoliberal feminism and its unequal outrage
"On the courage of Julian Assange

May Curious Eyes Never Run Dry, by Felicity Ruby and Scott Ludlam

Arena Magazine no. 160

Felicity Ruby, Scott Ludlam

Jun 2019

On the courage of Julian Assange
"November 2012 was yet another decisive month for digital revelations. The new CIA Director David…

Microserfs, by Justin Clemens

Arena Magazine 122

Justin Clemens

Feb 2013

November 2012 was yet another decisive month for digital revelations. The new CIA Director David Petraeus, a self-professed ‘scholar-monk’ and Obama’s Iraq hero, was caught out in an adultery scandal with—surprise!—his ‘embedded’ biographer Paula Broadwell. Alex Hern was right onto it in The New Statesman with the raunchy header ‘Two Generals, Agent Shirtless and 30,000 […]