Chris Hedges: The War on Assange is a War on Press Freedom
The silence of the press, whose own fate is inextricably intertwined, regarding the ongoing persecution of Julian Assange is deafening.
The silence of the press, whose own fate is inextricably intertwined, regarding the ongoing persecution of Julian Assange is deafening.
Published almost 2 years ago, in the aftermath of Hillary Clinton’s shattering defeat by the least popular, dangerously unqualified presidential candidate in U.S. history — a loss that Hillary and the DNC refused to own, immediately diverting all the blame to Russia and James Comey while relentlessly cultivating the narrative of Trump/Putin collusion and “Russian meddling” to suppress and discredit the damning revelations within the WikiLeaks emails of the DNC rigging the primary against Bernie Sanders — Craig Murray gives his firsthand account debunking anonymous CIA claims pushing the Russiagate collusion narrative.
Imran Awan, the former IT aide to congressional Democrats including Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), avoided jail time Tuesday.
After 19 months of a “frustrating as hell’ probe, the Senate Intelligence Committee has found “no factual evidence” of the Trump campaign colluding with Moscow, the chairman, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), says.
The official narrative rests entirely on the premise that the DNC’s server was hacked by “Guccifer 2.0” — a persona whose very plausibility as a Russian intelligence officer completely falls apart upon consideration of the enormous mass of evidence in absolute contradiction of this notion.
From the latest joke-indictment by Robert Mueller to the hysterical press-coverage of the Trump-Putin summit, the way establishment media has been acting over the past week has been apoplectic.
Live-streaming app LiveMe has deleted 600,000 accounts of children under age 13 in the last 60 days amid media reports that pedophiles were using the service to exploit underage users.
In part one, Craig Murray sets out the official UK government account of the events in the Skripal case. In part two, he examines the credibility of this story. Next week, he will look at alternative explanations.
A limited immunity deal, which might have temporarily freed the WikiLeaks founder from exile in a London embassy, fell apart with distrust on both sides.
The transparency organization WikiLeaks has published a database of ICE employee information compiled from publicly available data submitted by the employees themselves to professional networking site LinkedIn, after it was previously taken down by several other sites.
Tales of mass abuse offer a window into a world of rampant sexual torture and impunity in UAE-controlled prisons in Yemen. The AP has identified at least five secret prisons run by the UAE, a key U.S. ally, where security forces use sexual torture to brutalize and break inmates.
Palestinian kite fliers are using fishing nets to disrupt Israeli drones deployed over Gaza to target, intimidate, and rain down tear gas from above upon protesters during the weeks of demonstrations known as the Great March of Return.
How Israel and the West distort the narrative to manipulate their citizens against Gaza and the Palestinian struggle.
Former FBI boss James Comey is officially under criminal investigation by the DOJ, Inspector General Michael Horowitz revealed on Monday.
The European Union wants to tax citizens who criticize mainstream media outlets and politicians online, according to a draconian new law being proposed.
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