Demonstration to Free Julian Assange and Defend Wikileaks – Sydney Town Hall, Tuesday 14th December, 5.30pm On Tuesday, the Westminster Magistrates’ Court will decide the outcome of Julian Assange’s bail application. Alongside global demonstrations on this day, a rally will be held in Sydney. Spokesperson Antony Loewenstein, an independent journalist and author of My Israel…
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Australia doesn’t seem to know what morality is re Wikileaks
Who is running the Australian government these days? Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday mounted a strong defence of Julian Assange’s legal rights. The WikiLeaks founder is preparing to face court in London early Wednesday morning (AEDT). Mr Rudd said he was prepared to intervene to have a laptop computer provided for Mr Assange in London’s…
Why should Palin actually speak to real Haitian people?
Tragedy as a media back-drop (assisted by the kind folk at Fox News): Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin began a tightly stage-managed visit to Haiti on Saturday in which she visited cholera clinics while avoiding crowds and the press. The 2008 vice presidential candidate was a guest of Rev. Franklin Graham, whose aid group works…
Telling Fox News that Assange’s Australian rights must be protected
Fox News broadcasts yet another person who says Julian Assange should be murdered. Nice work, Murdoch. Get Up!’s Brett Solomon injects some sanity:
US looks for ways to silence Wikileaks (but failure is likely outcome)
The US doesn’t have any laws to seriously prosecute Wikileaks? Why not make a few new ones up? Anger at Julian Assange continues to consume much of Washington this weekend, and a first formal hearing on Capitol Hill over options for prosecuting him could come as early as next week. Yet a claim made by…
Friedman fears a nation with equal rights for all
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is a little worried that a one-state solution may be coming to the Middle East because both Israel and Palestine supposedly aren’t serious about building a two-state solution. Now whose fault would that be? Perhaps a US government (and Zionist lobby) who have indulged Zionist violence and settlements for…
Hands up if you helped the US invade Iraq?
I often write about the embedded mindset of many in the mainstream media. It’s a curse but a way for many journalists to stay close to power. Both parties are well served. John Pilger, whose new film is The War You Don’t See, writes that establishment networks such as the BBC are often no better…