Patrick Henningsen

The US government’s latest on 18-count indictment against Julian Assange, charges him under the 1917 Espionage Act, where prosecutors are accusing him of having “repeatedly sought, obtained, and disseminated information that the United States classified due to serious risk that unauthorized disclosure could harm the national security of the United States.” This federal move threatens to redefine the whole concept of the free press in the 21st century.

Far from promoting geopolitical stability, the current Administration in Washington has instead chosen to agitate against Iran, after it discarded the 2015 landmark JCPOA nuclear agreement.   This despite the fact Tehran was in full compliance of the agreement. Since then, the US has only intensified its brutal economic sanctions regime with the aim of choking Iranian society and eventually overthrowing their current government.

Yesterday, the US government declared war on the First Amendment after it filed an 17 count indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The superseding indictment brought by DOJ carries grave implications in terms of the US Constitution and the concept of a Free Press as could affect the ability every single media outlet to cover or expose government wrongdoing.

Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire

Western governments are so deeply invested in the official ‘chemical weapons attack’ narrative that any new information which contradicts this could be viewed as a threat established policy. Such information has emerged recently, but incredibly, only one mainstream media outlet has reported on this crucial revelation.  

On Monday it was announced that Swedish prosecutors may once again request that Assange be extradited to Sweden to face questioning and perhaps even new charges, after prosecutors revived the old investigation following the British government’s rendering of Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

Do U.S. economic sanctions really work as a coercive diplomatic instrument, or are they merely for the purposes of collective punishment and to trigger regime change? 
The 7th episode of the second season of The Fact is focused on the US sanctions against Iran and its results. Guests include Michael Opperskalski Political Analyst from Germany, and Patrick Henningsen political analyst and editor of 21st Century Wire. Watch:

On the morning of April 11, 2019, WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, was arrested by the London Metropolitan Police inside the Ecuadorean Embassy. Subsequently it was revealed by the US Department of Justice that they would seek his extradition to the United States to face federal charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion.

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.

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.