The last decade has been about discrediting, disgracing and demonising Assange. This ruling should very much be seen as a continuation of that process.
The last decade has been about discrediting, disgracing and demonising Assange. This ruling should very much be seen as a continuation of that process.
The perverse secular priorities of European culture now place the sanctity of a militarised state, Israel, above the sanctity of a religion with a billion followers.
Now Robert Fisk cannot answer back, his corporate colleagues are feasting on his corpse like the vultures they are – until there is nothing left to remind them that they sold out while he told uncomfortable truths to the very end.
After four years of Trump, the West’s war machine once again desperately needs a makeover. A strong dose of identity politics – with a woman or black man heading the Pentagon – may prove just the solution
As long as we can medicalise Greta Thunberg as someone suffering from Asperger’s syndrome, we do not need to think about whether we are really the insane ones.
Joe Biden is the last burp thrown up by a neoliberal system on its death bed. Growth is at an end and the technocrat’s toolbox is bare. The battle-lines are drawn: between a populism of small-minded nationalists and a populism of solidarity
The EHRC antisemitism report showed that everyone from the Board of Deputies to Jonathan Freedland had not only maligned Labour but had irresponsibly inflamed the concerns of Britain’s wider Jewish community.
Liberals were enraged by the symptom of their corrupt political system – Donald Trump – rather than by the corrupt system itself
Here is a word that risks deterring you from reading on much further, even though it may hold the key to understanding why we are in such a terrible political, economic and social mess. That word is “externalities”. It sounds like a piece of economic jargon. It is a piece of economic jargon. But it [...]
WISE Up, a solidarity group for Julian Assange and whistleblower Chelsea Manning, is due to stage a demonstration outside the Guardian offices on October 22 to protest the paper’s failure to support Assange as the US seeks his extradition in an unprecedented assault on press freedom. The date chosen for the protest marks the tenth anniversary of the [...]
The other day I wrote a piece criticising Guardian columnist George Monbiot for his failure to speak out loudly in support of Julian Assange during last month’s hearings in which the United States has been seeking to extradite the Wikileaks founder so that he can be locked away for the rest of his life on [...]
Faced with a barrage of criticism from some of his followers, George Monbiot, the Guardian’s supposedly fearless, leftwing columnist, offered up two extraordinarily feeble excuses this week for failing to provide more than cursory support for Julian Assange over the past month, as the Wikileaks founder has endured extradition hearings in a London courtroom. The [...]
What I think of as the cynical left are once again berating the progressive critical left, myself included, for failing to write what they want written about Covid-19. I take this as a kind of unintended compliment: that they think we can write about their concerns better than they can themselves. https://twitter.com/OffGuardian0/status/1311228761925398528 But even if [...]
In my recent post on the current hearings at the Old Bailey over Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States, where he would almost certainly be locked away for the rest of his life for the crime of doing journalism, I made two main criticisms of the Guardian. A decade ago, remember, the newspaper worked [...]
If you find yourself wondering what the hell is going on right now – the “Why is the world turning to shit?” thought – you may find Netflix’s new documentary The Social Dilemma a good starting point for clarifying your thinking. I say “starting point” because, as we shall see, the film suffers from two [...]
Julian Assange is not on trial simply for his liberty and his life. He is fighting for the right of every journalist to do hard-hitting investigative journalism without fear of arrest and extradition to the United States. Assange faces 175 years in a US super-max prison on the basis of claims by Donald Trump’s administration [...]
Court hearings in Britain over the US administration’s extradition case against Julian Assange begin in earnest next week. The decade-long saga that brought us to this point should appall anyone who cares about our increasingly fragile freedoms. A journalist and publisher has been deprived of his liberty for 10 years. According to UN experts, he [...]
