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Salami tactics – the end of Democracy
Last year, on a newspaper comment thread, someone called me a ‘nitwit’ because I said that civil liberties in the UK and USA are starting to resemble those found in places like China and North Korea. I’m not going to … Continue reading
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Tagged civil liberties in the UK, civil liberties in the USA, Edward Snowden, Five Eyes countries, Glenn Greenwaldl, Julian Assange, Laura Poitras, London O2 Arena, Monty Python, Naomi Wolf, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, New Hampshire Liberty Forum, NSA, police state America, police state Britain, Python final performance, ten steps to a police state, The End of America, The Terrorism Act, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP
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Rule, Britannia
Yesterday, David Miranda, a Brazilian citizen, was detained for nine hours at Heathrow Airport while transiting from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro. Miranda is the partner of Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who’s breaking the Edward Snowden stories. It seems certain … Continue reading
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Tagged 38degrees.org, Anti-Social Crime and Policing Bill, civil liberties in the UK, civil liberties in the USA, D-Notice, David Miranda, Edward Snowden, GCHQ, Glenn Greenwald, HR 347 anti protest bill, Julian Assange, Laura Poitras, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, NSA, police state America, police state Britain, PSPO, Public Spaces Protection Order, The Terrorism Act
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Smears, censorship and bananas
This week a smear campaign started against Glenn Greenwald (Greenwald, of course, is the reporter who’s breaking the Edward Snowden story). The New York Daily News, the New York Times and the Washington Post all published stories on Wednesday claiming … Continue reading
Dr Goebbels would be proud
On Sunday the Hong Kong authorities announced that Edward Snowden had left their territory. Shortly after, it was discovered that Snowden was on an Aeroflot flight bound for Moscow. The world’s media (and no doubt lots of spooks) all descended … Continue reading
The latest on Mr Assange
Julian Assange is still holed-up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Last month, Assange announced that later this year he will be running for a seat in the Australian Senate. Apparently he has a lot of support in Australia (here). … Continue reading
Mr Assange slags off the BBC
Julian Assange has been busy over Christmas. He gave another speech from the balcony of the Ecudorian embassy in London (which follows at the end of this post), and he also gave an interview to the BBC, which turned into … Continue reading
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Tagged Bradley Manning, Chris Hedges, Julian Assange, Naomi Wolf, Wikileaks, Zeinab Badawi
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Winston Churchill will be turning in his grave
Last month Julian Assange gave a speech to a gathering of diplomats at the UN general assembly, via a satellite videolink from the Ecuadorean embassy in London. It was quite a powerful speech. Assange looked nervous and ill during his … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, America police state, AUMF, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Citizens United, green party in America, Jill Stein, Julian Assange, Julian Assange speech to the UN, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA 2007, NDAA 2012, Patriot Act, Posse Comitatus overturned, US green party, US Presidential election 2012
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The Julian Assange Show: Noam Chomsky & Tariq Ali
I know a lot of people dislike Julian Assange, and much of the press, in particular, are having a field day with the sexual assault allegations. When it comes to the stuff in Sweden, both parties agree that it was … Continue reading
Assange and those jolly chaps from the CIA
Last night, Julian Assange gave his first interview since seeking political asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London on Tuesday (the interview was with ABC Radio in Australia and it follows at the end of this post). Assange said a … Continue reading
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Tagged Assange asylum, CIA plot against Assange, Ecuador, Julian Assange, Wikileaks
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The Fourth Estate
“Don’t get assassinated!” were Julian Assange’s parting words to President Rafael Correa of Ecuador, as they wrapped up an interview last month on Assange’s show, The World Tomorrow (see here). Assange is now in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, seeking … Continue reading
The strange case of Julian Assange
Last night it was announced that Julian Assange was in Ecuador’s London embassy seeking asylum. Assange knows more about what goes on behind the scenes than many other people, and it may have been some information he’s received that led … Continue reading
Shoot the son of a bitch..!
… is what one American commentator said about Julian Assange’s new show on RT, The World Tomorrow. The second programme aired this week and was much better than the first one. But before we get on to that here’s a … Continue reading
Julian Assange: The World Tomorrow, Russia Today
Yesterday, Julian Assange’s new programme, The World Tomorrow, showed an interview with Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hizbollah. It’s the first time in six years that Nasrallah has been interviewed on a major western news network. Whilst Assange did ask … Continue reading
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Tagged Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbollah, Julian Assange, Russia Today, The World Tomorrow
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