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The recent violation of Assange’s rights as both political asylee and citizen of Ecuador sends a chilling message to Ecuadorians who are being increasingly targeted for their political views both within Ecuador and abroad. by Whitney Webb Part 1 Last week, Ecuador’s government gravely undermined not only its own national sovereignty but international refugee and asylum laws by allowing U.K. police into its London embassy to arrest then-Ecuadorian citizen, Ecuadorian asylee, and journalist Julian Assange. As has been observed by many analysts, the shocking yet somewhat anticipated decision has shown that Ecuador’s government — led by Lenín Moreno — is willing to play fast and loose with its domestic laws, as well as international law, if it stands to benefit Moreno and his increasingly unpopular administration, whose approval rating now hovers at around 30 percent. In the hours that followed Assange’s disturbing arrest, which saw him dragged from the embassy by Br

European values are fairly clear: they want oil to travel northward, not people. Haftar, at the cost of the Libyans themselves, will make that happen. by Vijay Prashad You can well imagine the tension when Libya’s beleaguered Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj met with the UN envoy Ghassan Salamé in his office in Tripoli on Monday morning. Not far away, in the south of Libya’s capital, the troops of the Libyan National Army led by General Khalifa Haftar had made rapid advances. They had taken the shell of Tripoli International Airport and had made a dash toward the road that links Libya to Tunisia. Haftar’s troops, well-armed and well-disciplined, had moved northward toward the Ain-Zara neighborhood. On Monday, Haftar’s air force bombed the only working airport in Tripoli—at Mitiga. The United Nations wanted to let al-Serraj know that it would not abandon him. Part 2 - UN Government NATO destroyed Libya, but the UN was forced to pick up the pieces. This has become such a

The smears against Corbyn and the left are part of a concerted effort to undermine a potential left government and must be opposed by Alex Snowdon Part 3 - The 'New Antisemitism' Why has the defining of antisemitism become so contentious? It is no accident. There has been a concerted push by Israel, and by its political supporters elsewhere, to tarnish opposition to Israeli policies with the smear of antisemitism. The concept of the ‘new antisemitism’ developed in response to growing resistance by Palestinians in the Second Intifada (2000-05), followed by the growth of international solidarity with Palestinians in the wake of 2005’s international BDS call. This was the appeal by Palestinian civil society for international efforts at boycott, divestment and sanctions. It has since grown into a diverse, multi-faceted and truly international movement of solidarity that has damaged Israel’s reputation and global standing, challenging governme

While Venezuela’s government and the Chavista movement proclaimed victory over the worst blackouts to plague the country, Washington’s coup masters have promised more darkness until their goals are complete. by Misión Verdad Part 7 - Solidarity and communal strength: the people pool together The magnitude of the electric attack would have resulted in a total collapse of Venezuela and its society, realizing the “failed state” label that Washington evokes constantly to justify direct military aggression. But throughout Venezuela, the population rejected impulses to surrender to anguish, relying on family and community structures to address their needs. Resistance and community are constant themes in the culture of Chavismo, however, it is notable that despite calls to turn to violent protest, most opposition supporters stayed home – a tactic rejection of Guaidó’s divisive appeals. In the barrios and countryside across the country, firewood was used to cook food, whi

Away from the public eye, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) think tank hosted a top-level, off-the-record meeting to explore US military options against Venezuela. by Max Blumenthal Part 1 The Washington, DC-based think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted a private roundtable on April 10 called “Assessing the Use of Military Force in Venezuela.” A list of attendees was provided to The Grayzone and two participants confirmed the meeting took place. They refused to offer any further detail, however. Among the roughly 40 figures invited to the off-the-record event to discuss potential US military action against Caracas were some of the most influential advisors on President Donald Trump’s Venezuela policy. They included current and former State Department, National Intelligence Council, and National Security Council officials, along with Admiral Kurt Tidd, who was until recently the commander of US SOUTHCOM.

Here is another proof that she, or Jill Stein, should be the next US president if we want to escape from the fascist neocon/neoliberal regime - sorry Bernie, but your silence is very disturbing globinfo freexchange Many progressives feel extremely disappointed for the fact that the only 2020 Democrat progressive candidate who clearly defended one of the few remaining real journalists against the neocon/neoliberal fascist regime, is Tulsi Gabbard. We still hope that Bernie Sanders will eventually take a clear position in favor of Julian Assange. Nevertheless, in dark times like the one we are experiencing, things become more clear. We can see who is the one that will defend bravely the interests of the people against the totalitarian complex of Wall Street, corporate cabal and US deep state. Tulsi Gabbard, and of course Jill Stein, are the best options right now for the 2020 US presidency, if we really want to see a radical change for the be

The Trump administration will seek to try Assange on charges that he conspired with Manning in 2010 to steal the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs obtained by WikiLeaks. The half a million internal documents leaked by Manning from the Pentagon and the State Department, along with the 2007 video of U.S. helicopter pilots nonchalantly gunning down Iraqi civilians, including children, and two Reuters journalists, provided copious evidence of the hypocrisy, indiscriminate violence, and routine use of torture, lies, bribery and crude tactics of intimidation by the U.S. government in its foreign relations and wars in the Middle East. Assange and WikiLeaks allowed us to see the inner workings of empire—the most important role of a press—and for this they became empire’s prey. U.S. government lawyers will attempt to separate WikiLeaks and Assange from The New York Times and the British newspaper The Guardian , both of which also published the leaked material from Manning, by

by Don DeBar The arrest of Wikileak’s Julian Assange will, in the long term, do more to expose the real nature of the so-called democratic West than 100 document dumps could ever do. It has exposed the following: Freedom of the press is non-existent in the US and EU. Should one publish materials exposing criminal activity by the powerful, that publisher – not the powerful criminal who has been exposed – will be criminally prosecuted. The idea of an independent judiciary is farcical – the on-again/off-again nature of the charges in the Swedish courts, as well as the Torqmada-esque secret proceedings in the US which are certainly driving them, show that prosecutions can target and be controlled across borders to exact political vengeance. Elections in the west are a farce, and the US meddles in these in the same way Kasparov ‘meddles’ with a chess board. Lenin Moreno was elected to continue the program of his predecessor – and primary

Independent UN rights experts on Thursday said the arrest of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange by police in the United Kingdom after the Ecuadorian Government decided to stop granting him asylum in their London embassy, exposed him to “ the risk of serious human rights violations ” if extradited to the United States. These views are consistent with a series of actions and statements by the UN which has sided with Assange throughout this threat of prosecution and his nearly seven years as a refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy. Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial executions, Agnes Callamard, said “ expelling Assange from the Embassy ” and allowing his arrest, it had taken Mr. Assange “ one step closer to extradition. ” She added that the UK had now arbitrarily-detained the controversial anti-secrecy journalist and campaigner, “ possibly endangering his life. ” The UN independent expert on the right to privacy, Joe Cannataci, issued a statement following

Λίγες εικόνες θα μπορούσαν να συνοψίσουν το επίπεδο των δημοκρατικών θεσμών και της ελευθερίας του Τύπου στις κοινωνίες της Δύσης, όσο τα πρώτα πλάνα από τη σύλληψη του συν-δημιουργού του Wikileaks, Τζούλιαν Ασάνζ. Άρης Χατζηστεφάνου Εμφανώς καταβεβλημένος από τα προβλήματα υγείας που αντιμετωπίζει (για τα οποία η πρεσβεία του Ισημερινού του αρνούνταν θεραπεία σε μια νέα μορφή βασανιστηρίων) και κάτωχρος από τη σχεδόν ολοκληρωτική έλλειψη επαφής με τον ήλιο, ο Ασάνζ κρατούσε στα χέρια του ένα βιβλίο που αποκαλύπτει τις πραγματικές ισορροπίες δυνάμεων στο εσωτερικό του αμερικανικού κράτους: Το περίφημο History of the National Security State , στο οποίο ο Αμερικανός διανοούμενος, Γκορ Βιντάλ, εξέταζε τη διαπλοκή του στρατιωτικο-βιομηχανικού συμπλέγματος, για το οποίο μιλούσε ο πρόεδρος Αϊζενχάουερ, με το βαθύ κράτος των μυστικών υπηρεσιών. Λίγα λεπτά αργότερα, η Σκότλαντ Γιάρντ ανακοίνωνε και επισήμως πως η σύλληψη έγινε για λογαριασμό των Ηνωμένων Πολιτε