Al Burke Around the globe, well-informed and dedicated souls have for years been explicating the persecution of Julian Assange and its much broader implications. They include the likes of...
It may well be a finding of some implication should Julian Assange find his way into the beastly glory that is the US justice system. In its efforts...
Eric Zuesse It’s not just that the United States has a higher percentage of its people in prison than does any other nation on the planet. (El Salvador —...
Binoy Kampmark History’s scope for the absurd and tragic is infinite. Like Sisyphus engaged in permanent labours pushing a boulder up a slope, the effort of making sense of...
Freeland and Hunt stand at the podium and pontificate about media freedom. How important it is to democracy, and how journalists need to be protected. The pliable audience of...
David Lindsay The next General Election will certainly result in another hung Parliament. That is now inevitable when a General Election is held across the three polities of England...
Thomas Scripps Minutes of Ministry of Defence (MoD) meetings have confirmed the role of Britain’s Guardian newspaper as a mouthpiece for the intelligence agencies. Last week, independent journalist Matt...
CJ Hopkins Every time you think the corporatocracy’s manufactured anti-Semitism hysteria cannot possibly get more absurd, they somehow manage to outdo themselves. OK, stay with me now, because this...
Denis Churilov A Russian investigative journalist, Ivan Golunov, who has been writing primarily about corruption within the government, got arrested earlier this month on drug charges in Moscow. The...
Every empire is a dictatorship. No nation can be a democracy that’s either heading an empire, or a vassal-state of one. Obviously, in order to be a vassal-state within...
Caitlin Johnstone Julian Assange’s Swedish lawyer Per Samuelson has told the press that “Assange’s health situation on Friday was such that it was not possible to conduct a normal...
Just a brief follow-up on a story we ran a few days ago, ALLEGED Chemical Torture of Julian Assange. This article generated a lot of discussion below the line,...
Eddison Flame Trouble I look around at the world and I see wars and violence occurring everywhere. I see my government making wars, bulling smaller poorer nations. I see...
Karen Kwiatkowski via LewRockwell.com Since one of our editors published this piece we have been inundated with caveats that the claims made of ‘chemical torture’ are unsupported and speculative....
David Macilwain It has just been announced that Facebook is banning some “dangerous people” from its platforms, particularly those promoting and allowing “hate speech” of various colours, but also...
David Macilwain “Investigative journalism” is all the rage nowadays, in the age of “fake news. And anyone can do it, from institutions like the Guardian – “support our independent...
Max Parry Recently, a certain political concept has been resurrected that warrants interrogation. The notion of a ‘red-brown’ alliance has been thrown around so ubiquitously as a form of...
I owe the corporate media an apology. For the last few years, I’ve been writing all these essays explaining how they were perpetrating an enormous psyop on the American...
Throughout history, dark and reactionary forces have always attempted to control the world; by violence, by deceit, by kidnapping and perverting the mainstream narrative, or by spreading fear among...
Hugh O’Neill There is nothing new under the sun” Ecclesiastes I was sent a humourous Birthday card, depicting Jesus holding his mobile phone; his thought bubble reads: “Twelve followers...