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Craig Murray mulls the depressing series of events over the past few weeks involving Iran, Venezuela, Ecuador and the U.S. By Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk There is no conceivable interest of the ordinary people of the Western world being served by…Read more →

It is a legal circus worthy of any banana republic or tin pot dictatorship. 
After only being released from jail last week for refusing help incriminate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, renowned whistleblower Chelsea Manning, 31, was remanded in custody on Thursday for contempt of court after refusing to give evidence to a secret grand jury.

Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning was ordered back to jail Thursday for refusing to testify to a grand jury, even after telling a judge she’d rather “starve to death” than cooperate with prosecutors.
U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga ordered her to remain incarcerated at the Alexandria jail either until she agrees to testify or until the grand jury’s term expires in 18 months. He also imposed fines that will kick in at $500 a day after 30 days and $1,000 a day after 60 days.

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The “Iraq War Logs” disgorged an unprecedented profusion of documents, military reports and videos, reports Patrick Lawrence.  By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News For WikiLeaks, 2010 was an exceptionally eventful year. In April the transparency organization released “Collateral Murder,”…Read more →

Before and after images of the van that came to pick up the bodies of eleven men shot to death by circling American helicopters in Iraq in 2007. Both children in the van were wounded.

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MintCast co-hosts Alan MacLeod and Whitney Webb were recently joined by Matt Kennard, a journalist at the Latin American Bureau in London who was previously a reporter for the Financial Times and has written for the Guardian, the New York Times and Mother Jones.

Nina Cross
21st Century Wire

Photo by Patrick Henningsen @21WIRE
LONDON – Earlier today, 21WIRE’s Patrick Henningsen reported ‘hundreds of Assange supporters blocking traffic’ in front of the Westminster Magistrates Court in London where Julian Assange’s first U.S. extradition hearing was held.