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WIKILEAKS/ASSANGE NEWSLETTER #13,
US PERSECUTION OF ASSANGE AN ATTACK ON INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
2-20-2020
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace
(#9 July 21, 2011; #10, Jan. 30, 2012, #11, May 25, 2018; #12, April 14, 2019).
Special connection to the University of Arkansas is its motto “Veritate Duce Progredi.” To advance with truth as our leader.
See separate OMNI Manning Newsletters, OMNI Investigative Journalism Newsletters, OMNI Whistleblower Newsletters, and more.
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WHY CAN’T THE TWO PARTIES JUST GET ALONG? ALAS THEY DO—the WAR PARTY, WITH CALAMITOUS CONSEQUENCES
DEFENDING ASSANGE: REVEALING THE TRUTH
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Miriam Schneir, 1917 Espionage Act vs. Truth
Bipartisan Attacks: Democratic Party Conspiracy
Psychological Torture of Assange
Oscar Grenfell. Conference at European Parliament Defends Julian Assange.
Google Searches 2019 and 2020
OMNI Wikileaks/Assange Newsletter #12
TEXTS
Exposing the truth, denouncing his persecutors
1917 Espionage Act, Punishment for Free Speech
“first time in the history of the United States”
Miriam Schneir. “The Statute Aimed at Julian Assange.” The Nation (July 1/8, 2019).
Since 1917, the US government has used the Espionage Act to restrict freedom of speech, to imprison activists and whistle-blowers, and to dismantle progressive organizations.
MAY 30, 2019
Photo montage:, clockwise from top left: Daniel Ellsberg, Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. (Clockwise from top left: AP; Wolfgang Kumm / DPA via AP; Library of Congress; AP / Jacob Harris; CC BY-NC 2.0)
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Last week the US Justice Department announced the indictment of Julian Assange on 18 counts of violating the 1917 Espionage Act. Although the government had previously charged Assange with helping Chelsea Manning, then a private in the US Army, to hack military computers, the new indictment greatly ups the ante, for Assange is now accused of publishing the Manning documents on his WikiLeaks website. This is a far more serious matter—the first time in the history of the United States that the publication of truthful information has been defined as a crime. The New York Times immediately raised an alarm. The prosecution of Assange under the Espionage Act, warned a May 23 editorial, “could have a chilling effect on American journalism. It is aimed straight at the heart of the First Amendment.”
Few would dispute that governments may need to keep certain data secret in the interest of national security. At the same time, the decision not to divulge information must be scrupulously weighed in a democracy against the public’s right to know.
The 1917 Espionage Act does not concern itself with such quibbles, however; it comes down wholeheartedly on the side of secrecy and national security. MORE
PUNISHING ASSANGE BIPARTISAN:
ACCUSATIONS BY DEMOCRATIC PARTY
US federal court exposes Democratic Party conspiracy against Assange and WikiLeaks
By Eric London
31 July 2019
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/31/assa-j31.html?fbclid=IwAR0rb1VL94zkPEId2B4UWuQ-yNToyg-MQaWk9WGLOdkEDGFeC2mKRKbhdLc
In a ruling published late Tuesday, Judge John Koeltl of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York delivered a devastating blow to the US-led conspiracy against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
In his ruling, Judge Koeltl, a Bill Clinton nominee and former assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, dismissed “with prejudice” a civil lawsuit filed in April 2018 by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) alleging WikiLeaks was civilly liable for conspiring with the Russian government to steal DNC emails and data and leak them to the public.
Jennifer Robinson, a leading lawyer for Assange, and other WikiLeaks attorneys welcomed the ruling as “an important win for free speech.”
The decision exposes the Democratic Party in a conspiracy of its own to attack free speech and cover up the crimes of US imperialism and the corrupt activities of the two parties of Wall Street. MORE
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/31/assa-j31.html?fbclid=IwAR0rb1VL94zkPEId2B4UWuQ-yNToyg-MQaWk9WGLOdkEDGFeC2mKRKbhdLc
TORTURE
UN rights expert asserts Assange has been psychologically tortured Reuters (5/31). UN Wire (5-31-19).
EUROPEANS DEFEND ASSANGE
Speakers warned that the persecution of Assange was creating a precedent for the suppression of press freedom and for the application of repressive US laws all over the world.
By our reporter, 21 November 2019
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WIKILEAKS/ASSANGE NEWSLETTER #12, 4-14-19
CONTENTS
3 NADG ArrestReports
Andy Greenberg. US Hacking Case v. Assange
Tariq Ali. US
OMNI
WIKILEAKS/ASSANGE NEWSLETTER #13,
US PERSECUTION OF ASSANGE AN ATTACK ON INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
2-20-2020
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace
(#9 July 21, 2011; #10, Jan. 30, 2012, #11, May 25, 2018; #12, April 14, 2019).
Special connection to the University of Arkansas is its motto “Veritate Duce Progredi.” To advance with truth as our leader.
See separate OMNI Manning Newsletters, OMNI Investigative Journalism Newsletters, OMNI Whistleblower Newsletters, and more.
http://omnicenter.org/donate/
WHY CAN’T THE TWO PARTIES JUST GET ALONG? ALAS THEY DO—the WAR PARTY, WITH CALAMITOUS CONSEQUENCES
DEFENDING ASSANGE: REVEALING THE TRUTH
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Miriam Schneir, 1917 Espionage Act vs. Truth
Bipartisan Attacks: Democratic Party Conspiracy
Psychological Torture of Assange
Oscar Grenfell. Conference at European Parliament Defends Julian Assange.
Google Searches 2019 and 2020
OMNI Wikileaks/Assange Newsletter #12
TEXTS
Exposing the truth, denouncing his persecutors
1917 Espionage Act, Punishment for Free Speech
“first time in the history of the United States”
Miriam Schneir. “The Statute Aimed at Julian Assange.” The Nation (July 1/8, 2019).
Since 1917, the US government has used the Espionage Act to restrict freedom of speech, to imprison activists and whistle-blowers, and to dismantle progressive organizations.
MAY 30, 2019
Photo montage:, clockwise from top left: Daniel Ellsberg, Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. (Clockwise from top left: AP; Wolfgang Kumm / DPA via AP; Library of Congress; AP / Jacob Harris; CC BY-NC 2.0)
Support Progressive Journalism
The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter.
Last week the US Justice Department announced the indictment of Julian Assange on 18 counts of violating the 1917 Espionage Act. Although the government had previously charged Assange with helping Chelsea Manning, then a private in the US Army, to hack military computers, the new indictment greatly ups the ante, for Assange is now accused of publishing the Manning documents on his WikiLeaks website. This is a far more serious matter—the first time in the history of the United States that the publication of truthful information has been defined as a crime. The New York Times immediately raised an alarm. The prosecution of Assange under the Espionage Act, warned a May 23 editorial, “could have a chilling effect on American journalism. It is aimed straight at the heart of the First Amendment.”
Few would dispute that governments may need to keep certain data secret in the interest of national security. At the same time, the decision not to divulge information must be scrupulously weighed in a democracy against the public’s right to know.
The 1917 Espionage Act does not concern itself with such quibbles, however; it comes down wholeheartedly on the side of secrecy and national security. MORE
PUNISHING ASSANGE BIPARTISAN:
ACCUSATIONS BY DEMOCRATIC PARTY
US federal court exposes Democratic Party conspiracy against Assange and WikiLeaks
By Eric London
31 July 2019
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/31/assa-j31.html?fbclid=IwAR0rb1VL94zkPEId2B4UWuQ-yNToyg-MQaWk9WGLOdkEDGFeC2mKRKbhdLc
In a ruling published late Tuesday, Judge John Koeltl of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York delivered a devastating blow to the US-led conspiracy against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
In his ruling, Judge Koeltl, a Bill Clinton nominee and former assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, dismissed “with prejudice” a civil lawsuit filed in April 2018 by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) alleging WikiLeaks was civilly liable for conspiring with the Russian government to steal DNC emails and data and leak them to the public.
Jennifer Robinson, a leading lawyer for Assange, and other WikiLeaks attorneys welcomed the ruling as “an important win for free speech.”
The decision exposes the Democratic Party in a conspiracy of its own to attack free speech and cover up the crimes of US imperialism and the corrupt activities of the two parties of Wall Street. MORE
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/31/assa-j31.html?fbclid=IwAR0rb1VL94zkPEId2B4UWuQ-yNToyg-MQaWk9WGLOdkEDGFeC2mKRKbhdLc
TORTURE
UN rights expert asserts Assange has been psychologically tortured Reuters (5/31). UN Wire (5-31-19).
EUROPEANS DEFEND ASSANGE
Speakers warned that the persecution of Assange was creating a precedent for the suppression of press freedom and for the application of repressive US laws all over the world.
By our reporter, 21 November 2019
Google Search Assange 2019, 2-20-20
Top stories
www.nytimes.com › world › europe › julian-assange-sentence-ukMay 1, 2019 - A London court sentenced Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, to prison for jumping bail in 2012, but his legal troubles are ... May 1, 2019.
Julian Assange - AP News
Julian Assange - AP News
November 19, 2019. LONDON (AP) — The investigation into an alleged rape by Julian Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, was dropped ...
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange at hearing struggles to recall name ...
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange at hearing struggles to recall name ...
Oct 21, 2019 - Demonstrators protest outside Westminster Magistrates Court in London on October 21, 2019, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has ...
Julian Assange movies
Related search
Julian Assange books
Searches related to julian assange 2019
ASSANGE 2020 GOOGLE SEARCH , SELECTION
Julian Assange claims he was offered pardon to deny ...
Julian Assange claims he was offered pardon to deny ...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to call a witness at his extradition trial who will allege that Assange was offered a presidential pardon if he denied ...
Feb 7, 2020 - Prominent German figures are calling for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be released from prison in the UK. Many more should support ...
Feb 10, 2020 - Imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has been awarded Consortium News' 2020 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award for ...
Jan. 23, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. PST. LONDON — The complex extradition case designed to determine whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be sent to the ...
Jan 31, 2020 - Fifty weeks in prison for violating his bail: Julian Assange in January 2020 in a police van on the way to London's maximum security Belmarsh ...
WIKILEAKS/ASSANGE NEWSLETTER #12, 4-14-19
CONTENTS
3 NADG ArrestReports
Andy Greenberg. US Hacking Case v. Assange
Tariq Ali. US Motives to Punish Assange
US vs. Investigative Journalism.
Greenwald and Lee.
Pilger.
Tulsi. Political Action to Defend Assange
SEE Newsletter #11 for the 11 newsletters with links. If you will study just one of them I believe you will read more and eventually speak up for this persecuted journalist—enemy of secrecy loved by dictators, lover of transparency for a democracy. .
END WIKILEAKS/ASSANGE NEWSLETTER #13
Motives to Punish Assange
US vs. Investigative Journalism.
Greenwald and Lee.
Pilger.
Tulsi. Political Action to Defend Assange
SEE Newsletter #11 for the 11 newsletters with links. If you will study just one of them I believe you will read more and eventually speak up for this persecuted journalist—enemy of secrecy loved by dictators, lover of transparency for a democracy.
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