The National Security police state now regards the Democratic Party as a more useful tool to criminalize opposition to US wars and maintain their control over the US government. We see this in the attack on the Uhuru Movement as being in the pay of Russia, in the imprisonment and torture of Julian Assange, in […]
Biden’s Atrocious Assange Prosecution by James Bovard April 17, 2023 “A confident government that is unafraid of the truth embraces a free press,” proclaimed Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. But he was referring only to the Chinese government crackdown on Hong Kong journalists early last year. Unfortunately, the Biden administration continues rushing to destroy one […]
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Mises Institute, October 7, 2022 Julian Assange and Our Impunity Democracy by James Bovard On Saturday, protests supporting Julian Assange will occur around the world. In London, Assange supporters will link arms around the parliament building. Protests will also occur outside the Justice Department headquarters in Washington (I’ll be one of the speakers), D.C., and […]
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal joined Waters and other speakers in front of the Department of Justice in Washington DC to demand the US drop its charges against the Wikileaks founder. Video and photos by Ford Fischer of News2Share and Consortium News. Max Blumenthal followed Waters by excoriating the mainstream press for betraying Assange and thereby abandoning the cause of press freedom. Blumenthal also highlighted recent FBI misdeeds past and present, framing them as part of the national security state’s undemocratic […]
After news broke of the investigation into Trump under the Espionage Act, we reached out to speak with Espionage Act expert, John Kiriakou to tell us what the act is about and who is really punished under it. John is a member of the Editorial Board of CovertAction Magazine and was himself charged and sent to prison under the Espionage Act for exposing the CIA’s torture program.
L’ancien analyste des renseignements de l’armée de l’Air américaine est la première personne à être condamnée pour une infraction selon l’Espionage Act de l’administration du président Joe Biden. Source : Consortium News, Brett Wilkins Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Le 27 juillet 2021, Daniel a été condamné à 45 mois de prison pour […]
Quatrième partie d’une série de six articles sur Julian Assange et l’Espionage Act. Source : Consortium News, Joe Lauria Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises À quelques exceptions près, les journaux américains se sont volontairement autocensurés pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale avant que le gouvernement ne le leur dicte. Pendant la guerre de Corée, […]
“The truest truism that I’ve come to understand about the nature of war is that war is trauma,” Daniel Hale wrote. This article was originally published at The Dissenter. Subscribe here. As the President Joe Biden winds down United States military involvement in Afghanistan, a conflict spanning nearly 20 years, the U.S. Justice Department seeks the harshest sentence ever for the unauthorized disclosure of information in a case against an Afghanistan War veteran. Daniel Hale, who “accepted responsibility” for violating […]
"I came to believe that the policy of drone assassination was being used to mislead the public that it keeps us safe... I began to speak out, believing my participation in the drone program to have been deeply wrong."
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