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  • The Press Freedom Case of the Century

    The Press Freedom Case of the Century

    In March 2023, when my book on the case against Julian Assange was published, the detained WikiLeaks founder was waiting to find out if an appeals court in London would allow him to appeal extradition to the United States. Now, Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange [review] has been available on bookshelves for […]

  • The Campaign to Free Assange: Reflections on Night Falls

    The town hall meeting is the last throbbing reminder of the authentic demos.  People gather; debates held.  Views converge; others diverge.  Speakers are invited to stir the invitees, provoke the grey cells.  Till artificial intelligence banishes such gatherings, and the digital cosmos swallows us whole, cherish these events. And there was much to cherish about […]

  • Questions for the PSC (Palestine Solidarity Campaign)

    Mass marches, chanting and banner waving are essential to the campaign but it’s also important to challenge UK Government policy and actions through ALL democratic channels, especially now that Lord Walney recommends that political leaders ban their MPs from engaging with PSC and suchlike. Lord Walney, aka John Woodcock, is a former chairman of Labour […]

  • State of the Union: War and Genocide Are Still the American Way

    President Biden’s State of the Union address made one thing clear: war, genocide, and militarism remains the Amercian way. From Gaza to Ukraine, from the Middle East to the borders of our own nation, the toll of violence from militarism is immeasurable. Will we ever see an end to the cycle of destruction fueled by […]

  • Aiding Those We Kill: US Humanitarianism in Gaza

    The spectacle, if it did not say it all, said much of it.  Planes dropping humanitarian aid to a starving, famine-threatened populace of Gaza (the United Nations warns that 576,000 are “one step from famine”), with parachuted packages veering off course, some falling into the sea.  Cargo also coming into Israel, with bullets, weaponry and […]

  • The Great Election Fraud: Manufactured Choices Make a Mockery of Our Republic

    The Great Election Fraud: Manufactured Choices Make a Mockery of Our Republic

    The U.S. Supreme Court was right to keep President Trump’s name on the ballot. The high court’s decree that the power to remove a federal candidate from the ballot under the Constitution’s “insurrectionist ban” rests with Congress, not the states, underscores the fact that in a representative democracy, the citizenry—not the courts, not the corporations, […]

  • Wary of Sinophobia: Anwar Ibrahim at the ASEAN Summit

    It can take much bruising, much ridicule, and much castigation to eventually reach the plateau of wisdom.  Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who took office in November 2022, is one such character.  Like a hero anointed by the gods for grand deeds and fine achievements, he was duly attacked and maligned, accused of virtually every […]

  • Triumphant Down Under: Elbit Systems and the Australian Military

    Deeds of substance, rather than words of forced concern, will always take precedence in the chronicles of history.  Superficially, the Australian government has been edging more closely towards expressing concern with aspects of Israel’s relentless war in the Gaza Strip.  While claiming to be targeted, specific and directed against Hamas and other Islamic militants, the […]

  • A Progressive Democrat’s Dilemma

    National elections are a dilemma for progressive democrats. This election is more disturbing. Joe Biden’s support for Israel in its genocide of the Palestinian people has enraged progressives more than they are usually enraged. Awareness that a Joe Biden loss means a Donald Trump chooses between having the blood freeze or having the blood boil. […]

  • Imperialism and Anti-imperialism Collide in Ukraine (Part 5)

    If a direct war would erupt between the United States and Russia, it is not going to be conventional and would surely involve NATO via article 5, and maybe China, Japan, Australia, North Korea, South Korea, Iran, and Israel. Arguments attributing to Russia the responsibility for the evolving mess because it intervened in Ukraine do […]

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