Well, bloody bravo: Kevin Rudd confirmed Australia was giving consular support to Julian Assange, the Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks who was arrested in Britain on Tuesday over alleged sexual assaults committed in Sweden. ”I’m the foreign minister of Australia, responsible for the consular well-being of all Australians and therefore I just want to make it…
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Let’s not get overly focused on Assange legal wranglings (and do US job for her)
Just what the US wants; anything to not talk about its bankrupt foreign policy: The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been arrested by London police on behalf of Swedish authorities on suspicion of rape. The Metropolitan Police Extradition Unit confirmed at 10.30am London time (2030 AEDT) that the 39-year-old Australian had been arrested “by…
New Assange op-ed in Aussie Murdoch paper
Julian Assange, before being arrested in London, wrote the following article for Rupert Murdoch’s Australian newspaper. A curious choice of outlet considering the paper’s love of wars against, well, most Arab people, but there you go: In 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide’s The News, wrote: “In the race between…
More allegations that Wikileaks is helping terrorists
More challenges to the heart of the US empire: Wikileaks raised the stakes in its battle with America last night by releasing a secret list of all the global industries and assets that the US most wishes to protect. Security experts said that the cable, published by the whistleblower website as part of an unauthorised…
Ending the occupation by telling Israel there will be a price
About bloody time and this needs to be enforced. If Britain and the EU are serious about Zionist occupation (and that’s doubtful) they need to do something about it. No more excuses: Britain’s new shadow foreign minister has called for her government to pressure the European Union to introduce labelling on West Bank products to…
Rajapaksa learns something about how he’s seen in civilised society
So close and yet: Tamil campaigners were stopped from serving a war crimes arrest warrant on a Sri Lankan general by his premature departure from Britain. An application was lodged at Horseferry Road magistrates court, central London, but inquiries by Scotland Yard established that he had left on Thursday night. Tamil groups blame the president,…
Australia is in Afghanistan to support this?
Oh what a glorious war: Britain’s four-year military stewardship of the troubled Helmand province has been scorned by President Hamid Karzai, top Afghan officials and the US commander of Nato troops, according to secret US diplomatic cables. The dispatches expose a devastating contempt for the British failure to impose security and connect with ordinary Afghans.…
What’s a few cluster bombs between mates?
Another revelation to confirm our belief in the robust democratic beliefs of the US and Britain: British and American officials colluded in a plan to hoodwink parliament over a proposed ban on cluster bombs, the Guardian can disclose. According to leaked US embassy dispatches, David Miliband, who was Britain’s foreign secretary under Labour, approved the…
Sarkozy, like Gillard, Cameron et al, long to look into the eyes of US President
Just what the world needs; another Western leader desperate to be loved by America: President Nicolas Sarkozy is an unusually solid French friend of America. He is also a “mercurial” man operating in “a zone of monarch-like impunity” surrounded by advisers often too fearful to give honest counsel, according to leaked cables from the United…
Rajapaksa needs to answer some questions…in the Hague
Make the man feel hunted until he faces justice: Lawyers working for Tamil activists are attempting to obtain a war crimes arrest warrant against Sri Lanka’s president and senior member of his entourage who have arrived in Britain. Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose government defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers last year amid humanitarian protests about the treatment…