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Authored by Andre Vltchek via Off-Guardian.org:

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris present interview and video footage courtesy of Dr. Catherine Brown, who attended a protest outside the prison where Julian Assange is currently being held in London.

Authored by Nozomi Hayase
On Thursday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by the UK police inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he was granted political asylum in 2012. This termination of asylum by Ecuador in violation of international law came a week after WikiLeaks warned the public it had received information from two high level Ecuadorian government sources about a US-backed plan for the Ecuadorian government to expel Assange from its embassy.

One of the few towering figures of our time was reduced to nothing more than a sex pest and scruffy bail-skipper, writes Jonathan Cook. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net For seven years, from the moment Julian Assange sought refuge in the Ecuadorean…Read more →

#julianassange #arrest #leak In this video I give my assessment of the Assange case and why his arrest signals more than just the death of journalism and the fourth estate in the post-post-modern era. I note how Wikileaks itself was somewhat dubious, while Assange was sincere in his approach to journalism. The screen glitch is a YT wide error, it’s not my issue.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was quickly taken to the Westminster Magistrates Court after his arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
Photos of the Assange giving the thumbs up and bravely smiling to the swarm of photographers outside his arrest van provides a glimmer fo hope, for what can only be described as the darkest day in press freedom.
The U.S. DOJ was quick to charge Assange with helping Chelsea Manning hack and subsequently leak classified US documents.

Via RT…

Earlier today, Ruptly aired live Wikileaks Editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson’s press conference addressing the media on a “new, unexpected, criminal case involving Julian Assange”, also joined by the former Consul of Ecuador to London, Fidel Narvaez, and human rights lawyer ​and barrister Jennifer Robinson.

Via Zerohedge…

With only weeks to go to Brexit’s target date, there is deadlock in the British parliament, recriminations on both sides, and, writes Russell Merryman, a growing realisation that what was promised might be impossible to deliver.
Anti-Brexit sentiment is growing as the deadline for Article 50 approaches [MERRYMAN]
We’ve all heard of the thought experiment involving a cat and a piece of radioactive material locked together in a box, the decaying material could, at any moment, give off an atomic particle which would kill the cat.

Rudy Giuliani broke with White House administration policy last week, stating that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange should not be prosecuted.
A well respect layer and legal mind, Donald Trump’s attorney compared Assange’s WikiLeaks publications to the Pentagon Papers, making the case that Assange had not done “anything wrong” and should not go to jail for disseminating stolen information just as major, mainstream media media does.