Stella Assange’s Plea to Australia (Visits of Justice)
It certainly got the tongues wagging, the keyboards pressed, and the intellectually dead aroused – at least for a time. ...
Julian Assange
Foiled Escape: UC Global, the CIA and Julian Assange
However described, the shabby treatment of Julian Assange never ceases to startle. While he continues to suffer in Belmarsh prison...
The US Congress and Julian Assange
“Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” I.F. Stone The US Congress and Julian...
A Political Solution for Assange: Jennifer Robinson at the National Press Club
It was telling. Of the mainstream Australian press gallery, only David Crowe of the Sydney Morning Herald turned up to...
Facing the Warmongers: An Assange Update
On the latest slimed path Julian Assange has been made to trod, a few things have presented themselves. The rusty...
Rotten Rulings: Julian Assange and the UK Supreme Court
Julian Assange, even as he is being judicially and procedurally tormented, has braved every legal hoop in his effort to...
Julian Assange: A Thousand Days in Belmarsh
Julian Assange has now been in the maximum-security facilities of Belmarsh prison for over 1,000 days. On the occasion of...
Voices of Concern: Aussies for Assange’s Return
With Julian Assange now fighting the next stage of efforts to extradite him to the United States to face 18...
Journalism, Assange and Reversal in the High Court
British justice is advertised by its proponents as upright, historically different to the savages upon which it sought to civilise,...
The CIA, Empty Assurances and Assange’s Defence
The second day of appellate proceedings by the United States against Julian Assange saw the defence make their case against...
Crystal Ball Jurisprudence: The US Appeal Against Assange Opens
It’s time to ready yourself for ghoulishly bad behaviour. Shred your bill of rights or whatever charter of liberties you...
Congress, Skulduggery and the Assange Case
Is the imperium showing suspicions about its intended quarry? It is hard to believe it, but the US House Intelligence...
Thordarson’s Fabrications: Another Hole in the Julian Assange Prosecution
The tyrannical, brutal cynicism of keeping Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison remains one of the more inglorious marks of the...
Not Adding Up: Australia, Iran and the Release of Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Australia’s ambassadorial offices and political leaders have a consistent record of ignoring their citizens in tight situations. David Hicks, Mamdouh...
Begging Outrage: British Journalists for Assange
Even that title strikes an odd note. It should not. The Fourth Estate, historically reputed as the chamber of journalists...
Assange’s Eighteenth Day at the Old Bailey: Abuse of Power, Breaching Attorney-Client Privilege and Adjournment
October 1, 2020. Central Criminal Court, London. The Old Bailey has been the venue for a trial that should never...
Assange’s Seventeenth Day at the Old Bailey: Embassy Espionage, Contemplated Poisoning and Proposed Kidnapping
September 30. Central Criminal Court, London. Today will be remembered as a grand expose. It was a direct, pointed accusation...
Assange’s Sixteenth Day at the Old Bailey: Special Administrative Measures, Unreliable Assurances and Espionage
September 29. Central Criminal Court, London. Julian Assange’s defence team spent the day going over, reemphasising and sharpening the focus...
Assange’s Thirteenth Day at the Old Bailey: Mental Health, Managed Risk and Publication Chronologies
September 24. Central Criminal Court, London. The lion’s share of today’s Old Bailey proceedings in Julian Assange’s extradition trial was...
Assange’s Eleventh Day at the Old Bailey: Suicide, Hallucinations and Psychological Torture
September 22. Central Criminal Court, London. Today, the prosecutors in the Julian Assange case did their show trial predecessors from...
Assange’s Tenth Day at the Old Bailey: Bolting Horses, Death Penalties and Plots of Eviction
September 21. Central Criminal Court, London. Today was one of reiteration and expansion. Computer scientist Christian Grothoff of the Bern...
Assange’s Seventh Day at the Old Bailey: Diligent Redactions and Avoiding Harm
September 16. Central Criminal Court, London. Proceedings today at the Old Bailey regarding Julian Assange’s extradition returned to journalistic practice,...
Assange’s Sixth Day at the Old Bailey: US Prison Conditions and Politicised Prosecutions
September 15. Central Criminal Court, London. Today, witnesses appearing in the extradition trial of Julian Assange fleshed out some points...
Assange’s Fifth Day at the Old Bailey: Supermax Prisons and Special Administrative Measures
Having had a coronavirus scare towards the end of last week, necessitating a brief suspension of proceedings for September 11,...
Assange’s Fourth Day at the Old Bailey: COVID in the Courtroom
As James Lewis QC for the prosecution, representing the US government, revealed, “I’m just saying about my charger. It’s in...
Assange’s Third Day at the Old Bailey: Bias, Politics and Wars on Journalism
The third day of extradition proceedings against Julian Assange at the Old Bailey resumed on the point of politics. Assange...
Assange’s Second Day at the Old Bailey: Torture, Drone Strikes and Journalism
The highlights of the second day of Julian Assange’s extradition proceedings at the Central Criminal Court in London yielded an...
Sinking Transparency at the Old Bailey: The Assange Extradition Hearing Resumes
The fine circus that is British justice resumed at London’s Central Criminal Court on September 7, with the continued extradition...
Waiting for the Old Bailey: Julian Assange and Britain’s Judicial Establishment
On September 7, Julian Assange will be facing another round of gruelling extradition proceedings, in the Old Bailey, part of...
Julian Assange’s Political Indictment: Old Wine in Older Bottles
The book of hours on Julian Assange is now being written. But the scribes are far from the original. Repeated...
