(Caitlin Johnstone) Following seven years of imprisonment at the Ecuadorian embassy fighting US extradition, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks behind bars for an entirely bogus bail charge.
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Will Assange ‘Team-Up’ With Trump To Bury The Deep State Once And For All?
(Robert Bridge) Don’t believe that Russiagate has concluded. Indeed, it may have only just begun, Robert Bridge writes.
Assange Expected to confirm Wikileaks Source of DNC Emails was Seth Rich not Russians
(Dr. Michael Salla) The April 11 arrest of Julian Assange has resurrected the narrative that emails stored on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were not hacked by Russia, but leaked by a disenchanted employee, Seth Rich, who wanted to expose how Bernie Sanders was systematically undermined during the 2016 primaries by the DNC. According to this narrative, Rich communicated with Assange and handed over the DNC emails through Wikileaks’ secure online drop box.
Wikileaks Document Exposes a “Secret US Base on the Moon”
(Arjun Walia) The Assange arrest is scandalous in several respects, and one of them is the effort of governments, and it’s not just the US government… The efforts to silence a journalist who was producing materials that people in power didn’t want the rascal multitude to know about… That’s basically what happened. Wikileaks was producing things that people ought to know about those in power, people in power don’t like that. So therefore we have to silence it. – Noam Chomsky (source)
Debunking the “Assange is a Russian Agent” Smear
(Caitlin Johnstone) Not even the US government alleges that WikiLeaks knowingly coordinated with the Kremlin in the 2016 publication of Democratic Party emails; the Robert Mueller Special Counsel alleged only that Guccifer 2.0 was the source of those emails and that Guccifer 2.0 was a persona covertly operated by Russian conspirators. The narrative that Assange worked for or knowingly conspired with the Russian government is a hallucination of the demented Russia hysteria which has infected all corners of mainstream political discourse. There is no evidence for it whatsoever, and anyone making this claim should be corrected and dismissed.
Here’s Why the Book Julian Assange Was Holding When He Was Arrested is Vitally Important
(Matt Agorist) As he was dragged from the embassy in handcuffs, Julian Assange managed to grab a very important book.
“I Am An Assassination Risk”: Julian Assange And Ecuador’s Attorney General Face Off In Leaked Transcript
(Zero Hedge) Julian Assange accused a “weak” Ecuador of starting to “lean on the United States and the UK for various kinds of support” last October – which he linked to the deteriorating conditions at the country’s London embassy where he has been living for nearly seven years.
WikiLeaks Says Assange Will Be Arrested in “Hours to Days”
(Joe Lauria) WikiLeaks has quoted a “high-level” Ecuadorian government source as saying that Julian Assange could be imminently expelled from Ecuador’s London embassy and that Quito has an agreement with the UK to arrest him.
Never Forget the Guardian/Politico Psyop Against WikiLeaks
(Caitlin Johnstone) For the first few hours after any new “bombshell” Russiagate story comes out, my social media notifications always light up with poorly written posts by liberal establishment loyalists saying things like “HAHAHA @caitoz this proves you wrong now will you FINALLY stop denying Russian collusion???”
The Guardian Caught Publishing Completely Fake News That Falsely Claimed Julian Assange Met with Paul Manafort
(JD Heyes) A “bombshell” story published by The Guardian on Tuesday claimed that one time 2016 Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort “secretly met” with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks before he took on his new role, but within hours of publication, the story began to disintegrate like so much fake news.
Someone Tried to Break Into Assange’s Home at the Ecuadorian Embassy
(Joe Lauria) An attempted break-in at Julian Assange’s residence inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Oct. 29, and the absence of a security detail, have increased fears about the safety of the WikiLeak’s publisher.
Ecuador Restores Julian Assange’s Internet, Phone And Visitation Privileges
(Zero Hedge) Ecuador has partially restored Julian Assange’s communications in their London Embassy after UN officials met with Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno on Friday, reports the Belfast Telegraph.
This Is The “Last Free Generation” Says Julian Assange In Last Pre-Blackout Interview
(Zero Hedge) Prior to being cut off from the internet, phone and most visitors, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gave an interview on the future of surveillance and how technological advances are changing humankind.
BREAKING: US Senate Intelligence Committee Calls Julian Assange to Testify Over Russian Hacking
(RT News) The US Senate Intelligence Committee has requested that persecuted WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange testify before committee staff. The committee is investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Ecuador Prepares to Hand Julian Assange Over to British Authorities
(Jake Johnson) Amid new reports that Ecuador is preparing to withdraw asylum protections from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and hand him over to British authorities within the next few weeks, journalists are raising alarm at the serious threats to press freedom such a move could spawn, given that the U.K. may decide to extradite Assange to the United States—where he could face “prosecution for the act of publishing documents.”