Julian Assange’s lengthy detention has finally ended, but the danger that his prosecution poses to the rights of journalists remains. As is widely known, the U.S. government’s pursuit of Assange under the Espionage Act threatens to criminalize common journalistic practices. Sadly, Assange’s guilty plea and release from custody have done nothing to ease that threat.... More
Jet-lagged and a long way from home, US lawyer Barry Pollack found himself inside a packed courtroom for a three-hour hearing on a small island in the Western Pacific last Wednesday.... More
After a 14-year struggle, including five years spent in Belmarsh, a maximum-security prison in London, WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is finally free. Under the terms of a plea deal with the U.S. Department of Justice, Assange pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to obtain documents, writings and notes connected with the national defense under the Espionage Act. Assange was facing 175 years in prison for 18 charges in the indictment filed by the Trump administration and pursued by the Biden administration.... More
Brussels, June 22 (RHC)-- The European Union has admitted to what it called a "difficult situation" after a journalism consortium said Tunisia, Morocco and Mauritania were dumping migrants in the desert, using the EU's funds.... More
Speaking about statesmen whose lives were filled with sincere and pure endeavors in God-pleasing service to their nation is a difficult task, as one cannot do justice to it.... More
Legal experts are voicing hope and caution after London’s High Court ruling this week allowed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to appeal his extradition to the United States.... More
In just seven days, a British court will decide whether to extradite WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange to the U.S. where he will face trial on espionage charges.... More
The extradition case against Julian Assange has been close to coming to some sort of resolution for at least four years now.... More
The wave of pro-Palestinian protests sweeping American campuses was triggered by Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s order to forcibly clear a peaceful encampment on April 18. Her decision came as a direct result of her grilling the previous day before a House committee in Washington investigating alleged antisemitism on U.S. campuses: At the hearing, she pledged to take action against protesters.... More
Speech by UIises Guilarte de Nacimiento, on the occasion of the celebration of May Day, Anti-Imperialist Tribunal "José Martí", Havana 2024.... More
Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire has urged U.S. President Joe Biden to release Julian Assange from custody as the WikiLeaks founder faces being extradited to America.... More
As Israeli forces have been carrying out their genocide of Gaza over the past six months, Israeli officials have been expanding construction of illegal settlements in East Jerusalem at a speed not previously seen in modern times, new reporting finds.... More
We urge anyone who reads this to publicly oppose sending weapons to Israel as long as this onslaught continues.... More
In the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the sentient computer HAL becomes unreliable and eventually homicidal. The cause of this is a contradiction in HAL’s programming. While programmed to act on and dispense information in a straightforward and accurate fashion, HAL is simultaneously programmed to lie about the true nature of his mission. As his human supervisor puts it in the movie’s sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, HAL “was told to lie by people who find it very easy to lie.” Those people were the one’s running the U.S. government. ... More
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