Tagged with Wikileaks

Innocent until proven guilty: Assange deserves our (conditional) support

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 for which he should be held to account. He will now have to answer the serious accusations that have been made by two Swedish women, AA and SW (whose names are widely used on the internet). In this matter he should be treated as innocent until proven guilty, and even if it turns out that he is guilty, Wikileaks is not. In the meantime, he deserves our support. Continue reading →

British paranoia over “special relationship”

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” – how US diplomats in London were amused by what they call Britain’s “paranoid” fears about the so-called special relationship. Continue reading →

All who believe in truth and justice need to defend Assange

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 revenge on Julian Assange and silence his truth machine by any means available.   If they can use David Blunkett’s one-sided pro-US 2003 Extradition Act to get him sent to the US by a pliant UK Government (one of WikiLeaks’ revelations is that the Tories promised that if the US lent them help to win the election, a Tory Government would be more likely to buy US arms), so much the better.   It is vital that all those who believe in truth and justice defend Assange, not only for his courage and commitment, but to preserve the momentous change in international governance he has brought about.