2021-10-28: News Headlines

sputniknews (2021-10-28). Second Day of Appeal Hearing on Julian Assange's Extradition. sputniknews.com In January, Judge Vanessa Baraister decided that the WikiLeaks founder should not be extradited to the US, where he faces up to 175 years of imprisonment, due to the high risk of him committing suicide.

WSWS (2021-10-28). The horrific persecution of Julian Assange continues. wsws.org The attempted US extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange resumed yesterday with the opening of a hearing into a US government appeal. It is a legal abomination in pursuit of a heinous crime.

Staff (2021-10-28). Tariq Ali: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Must Not Be Extradited for Exposing War Crimes in Afghanistan. democracynow.org As an appeals court in London is deciding whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States for publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes, we go to London to speak with British writer and activist Tariq Ali. Assange faces up to 175 years in prison in the U.S. under the Espionage Act for publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ali calls the case "a political trial" and a "punitive attempt by the British government … to try and punish Julian on behalf of the United States." We also discuss the significance of Wiki…

WSWS (2021-10-28). Assange's brother Gabriel Shipton speaks to the WSWS: "The CIA plan to kidnap Julian is continuing under a veil of legality" wsws.org "I like the David and Goliath metaphor. There's this blind giant that's fighting against a tiny man locked inside a prison cell. Eventually the giant is going to destroy itself. It's showing that all of these institutions are corrupt."

Binoy Kampmark (2021-10-27). Congress, Skulduggery and the Assange Case. dissidentvoice.org Is the imperium showing suspicions about its intended quarry? It is hard to believe it, but the US House Intelligence Committee is on a mission of discovery. Its subject: a Yahoo News report disclosing much material that was already in the public domain on the plot to kidnap or, failing that, poison Julian Assange. Given …

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-27). Inicia en Reino Unido el juicio sobre la extradición de Julian Assange. telesurtv.net El proceso de este miércoles es uno de los últimos recursos de Washington para lograr la extradición del fundador de WikiLeaks.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2021-10-27). Was the 1949 "Suicide" of Defense Secretary James Forrestal the First Major Domestic Political Assassination of the Emerging U.S. Deep State After WWII? covertactionmagazine.com Will reopening what now appears to be the deliberately covered-up murder of Secretary James Forrestal implicate the CIA? [This article …

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