It is more than 6 years since the UN working group on arbitrary detention found Julian Assange to be arbitrarily detained. At that time he was still in the Embassy of Equador having at least a little protection under diplomatic immunity. A change in government in Equador soon changed that, with the US pulling Lenin... Continue Reading →
Support Willem Engel – in prison for all of us
Tulips from Rotterdam. Well-wishers place flowers against a wall in support of Willem Engel, imprisoned for speaking the truth about what is happening all around. Good doctors are being sacked, good nurses are being sacked, good academics are losing their posts, good people are going to prison. What has happened to the world? Some of... Continue Reading →
Hardly anyone spoke out
The fallacy that 6 million Jews were the only victims of Nazi Germany might have something to do with who owns the media, and who our elected representatives really serve. As well as the 6 million Jews there were nearly as many non-Jews murdered and experimented upon in concentration camps. Ina R Friedman has spent... Continue Reading →
The ongoing torture of Julian Assange
People had better wake up fast. We never tolerated the imprisonment of innocent people or political prisoners for having a different point of view. Indeed we fought against such evil. But that was in the days of Nelson Mandela - when freedom for having different political opinions was valued and encouraged. What is creeping into... Continue Reading →
The vaccine war of 2021
Two days ago the personal testimonies of deaths from various vaccines were posted on this blog gleaned from a site now taken down by Facebook. This censorship is everywhere. Four days ago I handed this blog over to Doctors for Covid Ethics (D4CE) for an article which blew out of the water any ideas that... Continue Reading →
The UK is now a Stalinist state
One of my areas of interest is Russian literature of the early twentieth century and its demise following the Russian revolution of 1917. Most of the great literature was written before the revolution or afterwards in emigration by people like Georgy Ivanov (1894-1958). Ivanov was critical, possibly unfairly, of those who stayed behind, and there... Continue Reading →
Vanessa Baraitser – no extradition for Julian
In the extradition proceedings of Julian Assange, Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled he will not be extradited to the United States, that is, providing a higher court does not overturn the ruling of the magistrates court. That is good news. Granting him bail, after such a protracted period of imprisonment, would be even better news.... Continue Reading →
Court Reporter – Craig Murray, Day 4
For the fourth time this week I hand over my blog to Craig Murray who has doggedly, tirelessly queued for a seat in the public gallery to bring us stark accounts of proceedings in Woolwich Magistrates Court - an appendage to the notorious Belmarsh Prison. Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day... Continue Reading →
Craig Murray – Court reporter day 2
Again today I hand my blog over to Craig Murray, probably the only journalist who can see what is happening, or at least the only journalist who is reporting what is happening in the Assange extradition case. Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day 2 26 Feb, 2020 by Craig Murray This... Continue Reading →
Subtle strategy to suppress the truth
Back in 2012 when I was writing for News Junkie Post I co-authored an article with the late Rafik Saley and Okoth Osewe (who lived in Sweden and researched the Swedish angle for me). It had a big impact because it showed that the then Swedish ambassador to Australia, Olaf Petersson, had been involved in... Continue Reading →