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Corporate media & some politicos who opposed Assange after the 2016 election have radically changed their tune, favorably influencing public opinion after the Espionage Act indictment of the WikiLeak‘s founder, reports Joe Lauria. by Joe Lauria The indictment of Julian Assange under the Espionage Act has profoundly affected press coverage of the WikiLeaks founder, with much of the media turning suddenly and decisively in his favor after  years of vilifying him. The sharp change has also come from some politicians, and significantly, from two Justice Department prosecutors who went public to express their dissent about using the Espionage Act to indict Assange. To the extent that public opinion matters, the sea-change in coverage could have an effect on the British or Swedish governments’ decision to extradite Assange to the United States to face the charges.  Part 5 - Personal Attacks Continue The liberal news outlets who are now finally defending A

A curious thing happened in the Italian parliament last week. The chamber of deputies voted unanimously in favour of a motion to introduce a parallel currency in Italy — the so-called mini-BOTs. It was a non-binding motion.  [...] Mini-BOTs would look like real money. Their denominations would be the same as euro notes. Depending on how they are designed, Italians could even pay their taxes with them. For this reason they would stand a good chance of becoming an accepted means of payment. Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank president, gave his view last week: “ Mini-BOTs are either money and then they are illegal, or they are debt and then the stock of debt goes up. I don’t think there is a third possibility. ”  [...] In Brussels, meanwhile, the European Commission has triggered the early stages of what is known as an excessive deficit procedure against Italy. It is the first of a number of steps that could eventually end up in a financial penalty. The commission’s

The Grayzone Thomas Hedges looks at the forces behind the Venezuelan regime change lobby in Washington and the campaign of disinformation they and their US backers have waged to gin up public support for sanctions and even a military intervention.

When Facebook hired a new public policy manager for Ukraine, the mega-corporation chose one of the most biased candidates possible: a hawkish jingoist who has worked extensively with the Ukrainian government and the European Union. Kateryna Kruk, who has served as Facebook’s first public policy manager for Ukraine since late May, was an active participant in Ukraine’s 2014 US-backed coup, in which far-right ultra-nationalists violently ousted a democratically elected government accused by the West of getting too close to Russia and replaced it with a pro-NATO one. During the coup, Kruk volunteered with the fascistic Svoboda party, and defended the extreme-right group from criticism. She is a nationalist hardliner who compares Russian President Vladimir Putin to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, reduces all pro-Russian forces in Ukraine to “terrorists,” and opposes any kind of negotiations with Moscow. Facebook’s new public policy manager for Ukraine publicly cheered when Turkey shot down

"Χοντραίνει" η σύγκρουση Ιταλίας - ΕΕ, με τον αντιπρόεδρο της ιταλικής κυβέρνησης και αρχηγό της ακροδεξιάς Λέγκα, Ματέο Σαλβίνι, να εξετάζει την έκδοση μίνι ομολόγου «εσωτερικής χρήσης», με το οποίο το δημόσιο να αποπληρώνει μέρος των χρεών του προς τις ιταλικές επιχειρήσεις. Γεγονός το οποίο έχει φέρει την Ευρωπαϊκή Κεντρική Τράπεζα σε κατάσταση «κόκκινου συναγερμού», αφού ουσιαστικά αυτό θα σημάνει ένα «παράλληλο» νόμισμα. Αν και δεν είναι η πρώτη φορά που Ρώμη και Βρυξέλλες ανταλλάσσουν πυρά πάνω από τον ιταλικό προϋπολογισµό, µε την Κομισιόν να επισείει την απειλή κυρώσεων και την Ιταλία να καταγγέλλει ευρωπαϊκές «εµµονές», ωστόσο, αυτή τη φορά τα πράγματα φαίνεται να κλιμακώνονται σε σχέση με τα τέλη του 2018, οπότε οι δύο πλευρές κατέληξαν σε έναν συµβιβασµό που τοποθετούσε το όριο του ιταλικού ελλείµµατος στο 2,04% του ΑΕΠ. Πλέον, αυτός ο συμβιβασμός κλυδωνίζεται. Ετσι, την περασµένη Τετάρτη, η Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή εξέδωσε έκθεση στην οποία εξετάζει εάν και κατά

globinfo freexchange The latest European election in Greece was a real shock for the government. Alexis Tsipras and his party SYRIZA took the second place and suffered a heavy defeat with almost 10 points behind the right-wing New Democracy. Tsipras was forced to declare national elections on July 7th and it seems that blog's predictions are about to become true. As we wrote already in 2016, right after the internal elections for the new leadership in New Democracy: The result for the leadership of the main opposition party, New Democracy, in Greece after Sunday's elections, must had brought waves of relief to the Brussels-Berlin axis. Brussels bureaufascists and Berlin directorate have now the best "backup" alternative in case that Tsipras administration attempt to diverge from the catastrophic policies imposed by the European Financial Dictatorship (EFD). The new leader of New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is probably the ideal alternative solution

One of the most common questions received during the weekly Unity4J vigils goes something like: "how can I help? I feel powerless" or "what can I do?" While it is impossible to provide a comprehensive list of all possible actions, Elizabeth Lea Vos created the following basic inventory of examples and ideas to provide some kind of answer for those who ask similar questions now and in the future.  Read it here: https://steemit.com/wikileaks/@elizbethleavos/actions-for-assange-ideas-and-examples-of-how-to-help

The Intercept The Trump Department of Justice has openly declared war on the First Amendment. And the case they have chosen to pave the way for criminally prosecuting journalists and publishers is that of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act. It is the first time since the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was enshrined in law, that the government is criminally charging a publisher for publishing truthful information. This indictment centers around the exposure of war crimes committed by the forces of the most powerful nation on Earth. It is about publishing documents that laid bare the blackmail, the backroom deals, the threats, the lies of the U.S. government in nations across the world. It is retaliation against an organization that presented to the world video evidence of a U.S. helicopter gunship massacre on Iraqi civilians and two Reuters news journalists.  This prosecution is revenge for publishing documents on the U.S. kill campaign in I

When, eight years late, the European Arrest Warrant request for Julian Assange was finally put before a Swedish court, the court refused to issue it. ... the original European Arrest Warrant for Julian Assange from Sweden was not issued by any court but by a prosecutor; that this was upheld in the U.K. Supreme Court despite the court’s open acknowledgement that this was not what the U.K. Parliament had intended by the phrase that the warrant must come from a “judicial authority;” and that the law had been changed immediately thereafter so it could not be done again. Consequently, in seeking a new European Arrest Warrant against Assange, Swedish prosecutors had finally, eight years on, to ask a court for the warrant. And the court looked at the case and declined, saying that the move would be disproportionate. It therefore remains the case that there is no Swedish extradition warrant for Assange.  This is a desperate disappointment to the false left in the U.K., the Blairit

“The fact that we are handing over the keys of American democracy to the military-industrial complex — it’s like giving the keys to the henhouse to a fox and saying, ‘here come in and take whatever you want.’ It’s obviously dangerous.” — Investigative journalist Yasha Levine by Whitney Webb  Part 3 - The “private” company whose only investor is the Pentagon Founded in 1999 by John Launchbury, Galois quickly became close to numerous government agencies that now – according to the Galois website – form the vast majority of its clientele. In fact, Galois currently only lists the following U.S. government agencies in its “clients” section: DARPA, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, “Intelligence Community” (i.e., CIA, NSA, etc.) and NASA.  However, other clients of Galois include top U.S. weapons manufacturer General Dynamics. Galois ’ stated focus as a company is research and development in advanced computer science