Gladwyn d’SouzaScott Ritter was pulled off a NY-to-Istanbul flight yesterday by US officials and his passport confiscated in a startling new development in the government’s open drive to censor and silence critics of the Administration’s foreign policies at a time when the United States is supplying billions of dollars in arms to foment wider war in Russia, accelerate the attacks on Gazans and set the stage for war with China over Taiwan.
#PublishingIsNotACrime: In a world where the US has parasitical military ubiquity, Assange´s work was a threat to the warmongering regular practices of its elites. Feels like we are in the hands of a minority in power that has lost its sanity. These thoughts push me to imagine ways of altering the cogs of a system that feels upside down in so many aspects.
This ruling is based on the grounds that the U.S. government did not offer sufficient assurances that Julian would be granted the same First Amendment protections afforded to a U.S. citizen, should he stand trial. The appeal process is one more legal hurdle in the persecution of a journalist who should not only be free, but feted and honored as the most courageous of our generation.
Yes. He can file an appeal. But this means another year, perhaps longer, in harsh prison conditions as his physical and psychological health deteriorates… Julian committed the empire’s greatest sin — he exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, routine violation of human rights, wanton killing of innocent civilians, rampant corruption and war crimes. Republican or Democrat, Conservative or Labour, Trump or Biden — it does not matter. Those who manage the empire use the same dirty playbook.
The genocidal destopia at the heart of free inquiry in the west.
NADERA SHALHOUB-KEVORKIAN: The question remains whether what is teachable, what is what should be written, what is publishable, what is what we can speak as scholars that are studying state criminality, as opposing to what is going on, as opposing to what the state is doing, is not accepted, so they throw us out of the university.
“No Palestinian Is Safe”: Renowned Feminist Scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Arrested in Jerusalem
Israeli police arrested the internationally renowned feminist Palestinian academic Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian at her home in Jerusalem on Thursday on charges of incitement to violence. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who holds both Israeli and U.S. citizenship, was suspended by Hebrew University last month after saying in an interview Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, though the university later reinstated her. We speak with anthropologist Sarah Ihmoud, who describes Shalhoub-Kevorkian as a mentor and inspiration to her and many others. “We hold the Hebrew University of Jerusalem responsible for the arrest and detention because of its persistent and public repression of her academic freedom, which led directly to yesterday’s arrest,” says Ihmoud, who teaches at College of the Holy Cross and is co-founder of the Palestinian Feminist Collective. “We see this as yet another example of Israel attacking Palestinians wherever they are, whoever they are. It underscores that no Palestinian is safe under Israel’s racist apartheid rule.”
The interminable and abhorrent saga of Julian Assange’s incarceration for the crime of journalism continues… there is nothing normal – or legal – about the proceedings against Assange. The case has always been about buying time. To disappear Assange from public view. To vilify him. To smash the revolutionary publishing platform he founded to help whistleblowers expose state crimes. To send a message to other journalists that the US can reach them wherever they live should they try to hold Washington to account for its criminality.
#ShireenAbuAklehMomentsFromTonkenToWMD
#TargetingCivilianViolateGeneva
https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathancook/p/assanges-reprieve-is-another-lie?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios
Biden goes after constitution with #Gaza and #JulianAssange: Horvat similarly said in December that "more than one man's life is at stake, but the First Amendment and freedom of the press itself. As long as the Espionage Act is deployed to imprison those who expose war crimes, no publisher and no journalist will be safe."
The prosecution for the U.S., which is seeking to deny Julian Assange’s appeal of an extradition order, begun by the Trump administration and embraced by the Biden administration, grounded its arguments on Wednesday in the dubious affidavits filed by a U.S. federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, Gordon Kromberg.
The charges articulated by Kromberg — often false — to make the case for extradition did not fly with the two High Court judges, Jeremy Johnson and Dame Victoria Sharp, who are overseeing Julian’s final appeal in the British courts.
#FreeJulianAssangeNOW #PublishingIsNotACrime #GenocideJoeIsAIPACsManchurianCandidate
A man could be about to be extradited to America due to disturbing allegations that he attempted to tell the truth while doing journalism. A shiver just went down my spine as I typed those words. Some of us attended journalist school for years, just so we could ignore everything we were taught and repeat the propaganda of our leaders to enrich ourselves, and then some do-gooder made a website that attempted to upend all that by revealing the undeniable truth about things we wanted to keep secret.
Thankfully, the most principled factions in US politics (Hillary Clinton supporters and the people with Confederate flags who get aroused by AR-15s) are disgusted with the man who told the truth and want him to be locked up for 170 years in a supermax prison.
#FreeJulianAssangeNOW #PublishingIsNotACrime #CheneyBushRumsfeldWereWMDs
https://normalislandnews.substack.com/p/man-could-be-extradited-to-the-us
#KhashoggiMoment: During the Obama years, the US had decided not to pursue Julian because he hadn’t broken any US laws and his imprisonment would threaten press freedom. However, during the Trump years, it was decided that Julian had broken an archaic law called the Espionage Act 1917.
Among the crimes Julian revealed were torture, assassinations, brutal detainment procedures, mass surveillance, and war crimes. Nobody has ever been prosecuted for these crimes, but the man who made us aware of these crimes is going to be prosecuted. Does that make you proud?
The nearly 15-year-long persecution of Julian, which has taken a heavy toll on his physical and psychological health, is done in the name of extradition to the U.S. where he would stand trial for allegedly violating 17 counts of the 1917 Espionage Act, with a potential sentence of 170 years.
Julian’s “crime” is that he published classified documents, internal messages, reports and videos from the U.S. government and U.S. military in 2010, which were provided by U.S. army whistleblower Chelsea Manning. This vast trove of material revealed massacres of civilians, torture, assassinations, the list of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and the conditions they were subjected to, as well as the Rules of Engagement in Iraq. Those who perpetrated these crimes — including the U.S. helicopter pilots who gunned down two Reuters journalists and 10 other civilians and severely injured two children, all captured in the Collateral Murder video — have never been prosecuted.
Julian Assange’s Final Appeal - Read by Eunice Wong
Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to the British courts to avoid extradition. If he is extradited it is the death of investigations into the inner workings of power by the press.