To mark the occasion of the coronation of King Charles the III, Julian Assange wrote a scathing public letter to the new monarch from his cell at Belmarsh prison, where he’s been held for over four years. The coronation cost £100 million of tax-payer funds, and many across the country have been outraged that public funds are being spent on such pomp and circumstance during a cost of living crisis...
Selected days for commemoration serve one fundamental purpose. Centrally, they acknowledge the forgotten or neglected, while proposing to do nothing about it. It’s the priest’s confession, the chance for absolution before the next round of soiling. These occasions are often money-making exercises for canny businesses: the days put aside to remember mothers and fathers, for […]
Consortium News, May 3, 2023 If Biden Is Waging a War on Secrecy Then Free Assange The WikiLeaks publisher is only guilty of one thing, writes James Bovard — violating the U.S. government’s divine right to blindfold the American people. By James Bovard The Future of Freedom Foundation “A confident government that is unafraid of the […]
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May 3 marks the 30th anniversary of Press Freedom Day, inaugurated in 1993 by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) with support from the United Nations (UNESCO). RSF’s original 1991 report provided a “round-up of journalists killed throughout the world” and laid the groundwork for what eventually became the Press Freedom Index, which now ranks freedom of […]
Derrière ses beaux discours de candidat sur a liberté de la presse, Joe Biden a omis de préciser que l’éditeur de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, croupit à l’isolement dans une prison de haute sécurité à Londres parce que le gouvernement américain veut en faire un exemple. Source : Salon, Ben CohenTraduit par les lecteurs du site […]
When Stefania Maurizi first received a call from WikiLeaks in 2009, she had little clue how drastically her life was about to change. 14 years later, the revelations from WikiLeaks about the extent of US surveillance, espionage, extrajudicial killing, and corruption have rippled across the world. Within the US, however, they are often downplayed or […]
Most people have heard capitalism described unerringly as the “law of the jungle” and a “dog-eat-dog world.” The pathos of capitalism is currently playing out in Vancouver, where grown-up millionaires are playing a kids’s game called hockey. Professional sports serve as a microcosm of rampant capitalism — a, perhaps necessary, distraction for the masses. Many […]
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If we were to choose a hill to die on, it would probably not be in defence of a British prince. In truth, we don’t need to like or support – and may even abhor – the targets of media bias highlighted in our analyses. Our goal is simply to provide examples that most […]
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Daniel Ellsberg demande aux États-Unis de l’inculper dans la mesure où tout comme Julian Assange il est, de façon non autorisée, en possession de matériel classifié. Ellsberg emboîte ainsi le pas au fondateur de Cryptome.org qui a lui aussi demandé à être poursuivi, rapporte Joe Lauria. Source : Consortium News, Joe LauriaTraduit par les lecteurs […]
This is what happens to anyone who happens to report the types of things that America’s billionaires want to be hidden from the public. To understand how it happened to me (and has happened to lots of others), an introduction is needed, first, about the American Government: America’s First Amendment to its Constitution is this […]
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