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Judge Delays Decision Whether to Unseal Assange Criminal Complaint

The assistant US attorney argued that it is merely speculation that there are already charges against Assange based on anonymous press sources, even though a mistakenly published paragraph clearly speaks of the “fact that Assange has been charged.”

Joe Lauria
Par Joe Lauria
WikiLeaks | Katie Townsend

A decision whether to unseal U.S. government charges against Julian Assange was delayed for a week by Judge Leonie Brinkema in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Tuesday. In her comments to the court, Judge Brinkema appeared to be siding with the government’s argument that there is no legal precedent for a

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Sick Of Facebook? Read This.

Now is the time to defend the remnants of the Information Revolution. In the streets and online, we need to hear and uplift voices for radical and progressive change. Take off the corporate gag, close the social media surveillance blinds, and shift.

Eleanor Goldfield
Par Eleanor Goldfield
Faebook Mural

I didn’t realize you were still doing your show!” “Why can’t I see your posts anymore?” “I’ve had to re-follow you several times on Facebook.” These are but a few of the various comments and complaints about my Facebook page that I’ve fielded the past two years. With growing regularity and intensity, the cheery blue “F” has fucked over radical

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IDF’s Apparent War Crime of “Perfidy” Breeds Suspicion of Aid Workers in Gaza

The IDF’s decision to disguise itself as members of humanitarian organizations has now placed all such workers within Gaza under suspicion.

Whitney Webb
Par Whitney Webb
Israel Palestine

GAZA CITY -- Soldiers involved in a botched Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) raid on Hamas military leadership in Gaza earlier this month impersonated humanitarian aid workers in the Palestinian enclave, according to recent Israeli media reports. Impersonating humanitarian aid workers for the purposes of conducting a military operation is a violation

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WikiLeaks: Guardian Report Claiming Assange Met with Manafort Untrue

The Guardian’s report was written by Luke Harding and Dan Collyns and was based exclusively on unnamed sources. 

ZeroHedge.com
Par ZeroHedge.com
Paul Manafort, right, and Stephen Miller, senior policy adviser for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appear on stage ahead of Trump's speech, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, in New York.

Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign manager, held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, right around the time he joined Trump's campaign, according to The Guardian, which as is now the norm in reports of this kind refers to unnamed "sources." Sources have said Manafort went to see Assange in 2013, 2015

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How the US Uses the “Leftist” MEK for Soft Aggression Against Iran

While the US doesn’t have all that much faith in the MEK as a credible and reliable proxy alternative, the group seems to be their best bet in helping open up Iran’s free markets, allying with NATO powers, and neutralizing Iran’s support for resistance movements in Gaza, Lebanon, and Yemen against US-backed allies Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Julia Kassem
Par Julia Kassem
Supporters of Iran's National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) hold a rally opposite the entrance of 10 Downing Street in London, Jan. 4, 2018, the woman pictured is former MEK leader Maryam Rajavi. (AP/Frank Augstein)

Washington’s pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal and subsequently renewed sanctions come as US National Security Advisor appointee John Bolton’s existential objective to destroy Iran by any means necessary even if it means leveraging the soft power of a cultish death squad. US President Donald Trump ramped up the threat with a Game of Thrones

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US Complicity in Saudi Arabia’s Genocide in Yemen Spans Obama and Trump

« As a genocide scholar, I believe that under international law, the U.S. shares responsibility with the coalition for genocide in Yemen. »

Jeff Bachman
Par Jeff Bachman
Yemen Famine

A Saudi-led coalition of states has been aggressively bombing Yemen and imposing an air and naval blockade of its ports for more than three years, leading U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to describe Yemen as “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” Guterres put the crisis in stark perspective, emphasizing the near complete lack of

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