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The Shaving Kit – Manufacturing The Julian Assange Witch-Hunt

20th June 2019

Last week, UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid signed the US extradition request to hand over Julian Assange, who is charged with 18 counts of violating the US Espionage Act. Assange’s immediate fate now lies in →

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Buried In Broad Daylight – The ‘Free Press’ And The Leaked OPCW Report On Douma

14th June 2019

A defining feature of the propaganda system is that facts supporting the agenda of Western power are pushed to the forefront of the ‘mainstream’ media, while inconvenient facts are buried. A prime example is the →

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‘Mirthless Laugh’ – The Persecution And Torture Of Julian Assange

11th June 2019

For anyone persuaded by the state-corporate campaign of sneers and smears depicting Julian Assange as a shit-smearing narcissist and rapist, the comments made by Nils Melzer, the UN’s special rapporteur on torture, must be deeply →

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Life Or Death – Corporate Media Or Honest Media?

23rd May 2019

Relying on the corporate media, including BBC News, to provide a reliable account of the world is literally a matter of life or death, on many levels. Imagine, for example, a Russian dissident living in →

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The London Climate Protests – Raising The Alarm

9th May 2019

The feeling is often there at night, of course, in the wee small hours. But it can arise at almost any time – looking at someone we care about, listening to birdsong on an unusually →

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40,000 Dead Venezuelans Under US Sanctions: Corporate Media Turn A Blind Eye

30th April 2019

A new report on April 25 by a respected think tank has estimated that US sanctions imposed on Venezuela in August 2017 have caused around 40,000 deaths. This atrocity has been almost entirely blanked by →

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Assange Arrest – Part 2: ‘A Definite Creep, A Probable Rapist’

18th April 2019

In December 2010, Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore commented on Julian Assange in the Mail on Sunday: ‘Indeed it’s difficult to get a clear picture of the complaints by two women he had sex with in →

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Assange Arrest – Part 1: ‘So Now He’s Our Property’

16th April 2019

If ‘journalism’ meant what it is supposed to mean– acting as the proverbial ‘fourth estate’ to challenge power and to keep the public informed – then Julian Assange and WikiLeaks would be universally lauded as →

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Fake News Tsunami – Trump’s ‘Collusion’ And Corbyn As ‘Dangerous Hero’

5th April 2019

According to corporate journalism, a tidal wave of ‘fake news’ has long been threatening to swamp their wonderful work reporting real news. The ProQuest media database finds fully 805,669 hits for newspaper articles mentioning the →

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The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange And The Corporate Media

19th March 2019

In 2013, US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning was given a 35-year prison sentence after she had leaked more than 700,000 confidential US State Department and Pentagon documents, videos and diplomatic cables about the US wars →

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