Julian Assange's latest US extradition hearing was a brief affair which saw the WikiLeaks founder's next hearing scheduled for sometime after the end of February, nearly at the end of his 50-week sentence for a bail conditions violation. According to Reuters Assange was lucid and spirited
The Australian Federal Police have conducted two raids on journalists and seized documents in purportedly unrelated incidents in the span of just two days.Yesterday the AFP raided the home of News Corp Australia journalist Annika Smethurst, seeking information related to her investigative report last year which exposed
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has just given a speech extolling the virtues of a free media, praising the journalists who've been brave enough to expose the truth about wicked governments in the face of tyrannical oppression. While he was preparing to give this speech,
Rachel Maddow has aired a segment condemning the new indictment against Julian Assange for 17 alleged violations of the Espionage Act.Yes, that Rachel Maddow.MSNBC's top host began the segment after it was introduced by Chris Hayes, agreeing with her colleague that it's surprising that more
Sometimes really really famous people share my stuff and a deluge of haters rush in to admonish them for doing so because I am evil. I am still not used to either of these things.I took a couple of days off for my wedding anniversary
Consortium News has launched a new series titled "The Revelations of WikiLeaks", geared toward helping readers come to a full appreciation of just how much useful information the outlet has made available to the world with its publications. Which is good, because there's a whole
Julian Assange's mother reported yesterday that the WikiLeaks founder has not been permitted any visitors during his detention in Belmarsh Prison, including from doctors and his lawyers. Doctors who visited Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy have attested that he urgently needs medical care. Belmarsh is
Since I published my last article about about the idiotic "Assange isn't a journalist" smear, this talking point has become more and more commonplace in online discourse. It's very important to defenders of the political status quo for us all to believe that Assange is
I was planning on writing a poem this evening, but all I've got coming up right now is sheer gratitude for the kind of life I get to live because of the generous support of my patrons and the circulation of my work by my
As we discussed yesterday, whenever Assange is in the news and people are defending him you always see a bunch of hyper-emotional empire loyalists running around online trying to manage the narrative about him. One of the most common talking points which comes up is