Julian Assange’s lawyer Mark Stephens is interviewed by Sir David Frost on Al Jazeera.
Posts Tagged ‘Wikileaks’
Innocent until proven guilty: Assange deserves our (conditional) support
Dec 8th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.A number of feminist and left bloggers have urged caution about the charges of sexual assault — the description is itself contentious — against Julian Assange, arguing rightly that, though he may be a hero for what he has done as founder of Wikileaks, there may be other actions and other aspects of his character […]
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British paranoia over “special relationship”
Dec 6th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.According to the latest Wikileaks, Conservative party politicians lined up before the general election last May to promise that they would run a “pro-American regime” and buy more arms from the US if they came to power this year. The leaked Embassy dispatches also reveal – in what the Guardian says is “in humiliating detail” […]
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All who believe in truth and justice need to defend Assange
Dec 5th, 2010 by Michael Meacher.No wonder the diplomats, the politicians, the controllers hate him so much. By trumping up sex charges against him, by claiming he may have broken US law by revealing data that puts (CIA) lives at risk – even though that’s exactly what Karl Rove did for Bush – the US is determined to get their […]
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Don’t Take Wikileaks At Face Value
Dec 3rd, 2010 by Mark Seddon.There is a very real danger that some analysts, diplomats, commentators and politicians are taking all that is revealed by Wikileaks at face value, without questioning the veracity of some of the information gleaned from third sources and some of the information transmitted back by US diplomats, believing as they did that they were doing […]
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Inquiry essential into ‘Britain’s Abu Ghraib’
Nov 8th, 2010 by Michael Meacher.The evidence now emerging about systemic abuse by British soldiers against Iraqi prisoners is exceptionally serious. We have preened ourselves hitherto that, by contrast to the Americans who routinely used torture in their Bagram detention centre in Afghanistan and Abu Ghraib in Iraq (as well as in their global secret network of ‘black prisons’ where […]
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Julian Assange on the Corporation
Aug 3rd, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Julian Assange has been the subject of much media attention since last week’s Wikileaks scoop. Big Think drew my attention to his writings of another sort, in that case creative, bad and pretentious. However, the same site yields some really good stuff too. Take this for example, and in the spirit of Wikileaks I quote […]
