Moore, Glover, Stone, Greenwald, Wolf Urge Correa to Grant Asylum to Assange
SUBMITTED BY MEGAN IORIO
Just Foreign Policy
June 22, 2012

Dear President Correa,

We are writing to urge you to grant political asylum to Julian Assange.

As you know, British courts recently struck down Mr. Assange’s appeal against extradition to Sweden, where he is not wanted on criminal charges, but merely for questioning. Mr. Assange has repeatedly made clear he is willing to answer questions relating to accusations against him, but in the United Kingdom. But the Swedish government insists that he be brought to Sweden for questioning. This by itself, as Swedish legal expert and former Chief District Prosecutor for Stockholm Sven-Erik Alhem testified, is “unreasonable and unprofessional, as well as unfair and disproportionate.”
We believe Mr. Assange has good reason to fear extradition to Sweden, as there is a strong likelihood that once in Sweden, he would be imprisoned, and then likely extradited to the United States...

Michael Moore on Facebook...
 

BREAKING: The Ecuadorian embassy in London has just given sanctuary to WikiLeaks' Jullian Assange. He is asking them for political assylum (which they had offered him in the past). Well, thank you Ecuador! IMHO, there is no doubt that if the UK sends him to Sweden, Sweden will send him to the USA. Sweden says they "just want to talk to him" about the accusations leveled at him (he has still not been charged with any crime). If Swedish police want to question him, there is an SAS flight that leaves Stockholm at 7:55 tomorrow morning (flight #525) to London. I'm sure the British authorities would have no problem with the Swedish police questioning Mr. Assange. Then Sweden can decide if it wants to charge him with a crime. Any and all allegations of sexual abuse by anyone and to anyone MUST be treated very seriously, and Mr. Assange should cooperate with the inquiry. But it appears that Sweden has little interest in these charges — what they really want is the ability to extradite Assange to America. And that, simply, must not happen.

 

Professors blogg

 Romulus wrote: 

That's a dang good quote...


In War Is A Racket, Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists whose operations were subsidised by public funding were able to generate substantial profits essentially from mass human suffering.
The work is divided into five chapters:
1. War is a racket
2. Who makes the profits?
3. Who pays the bills?
4. How to smash this racket!
5. To hell with war!

 

 romeotuma wrote: 
That is such bullshit used to start a war. 10 years later it still rages.

War is a racket.

The WikiLeaks GiFiles: Stratfor Predicts Huge Oil Profits from Attack on Iran
by Anissa Haddadi
International Business Times
February 27, 2012

According to the email, sent on November 13, 2011, supporters of an Israeli-led attack are Russia, India and Saudi Arabia, while the EU and China stand against such plans, mainly for economic reasons.

"Not many people know that Russia is one of Israel's largest military partners and India is Israel's largest client. If a direct conflict between Iran and Israel erupts, Russia and Saudi Arabia will gain the advantages on oil increasing prices. On the other hand, China and Europe are expected to lose from an oil crisis as a result of a conflict," the email says.

Farnham said that an attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities would last only 48 hours and be so devastating it would lead to regime change.

"Based on Israeli plans, the attack on Iran will last only 48 hours but will be so destructive that Iran will be unable to retaliate or recover and the government will fall. It is hard to believe that Hamas or Hezbollah will try to get involved in this conflict," Farham wrote...

WikiLeaks: Pakistan knew of Osama bin Laden hideout — RT

 RichardPrins wrote: 
They need to remove the indent from their lists. I know, it's my OCD acting up.

Today, Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods (...)

John Pilger: In the Assange case we are all suspects now
Washington's enemy is not "terrorism" but the principle of free speech and voices of conscience within its militarist state

From a few weeks ago:
Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview

Julian Assange to Host Own TV Show
by Josh Halliday
The Guardian
January 24, 2012

The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has announced that he is to host his own TV series, interviewing "key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries" from around the world.

In a media release published on the WikiLeaks website on Monday, Assange said the 10-part series would be based on "the world tomorrow" and would feature interviews with "iconoclasts, visionaries and power insiders".

"Through this series I will explore the possibilities for our future in conversations with those who are shaping it," Assange said.

"Are we heading towards utopia, or dystopia and how we can set our paths? This is an exciting opportunity to discuss the vision of my guests in a new style of show that examines their philosophies and struggles in a deeper and clearer way than has been done before."...

Julian Assange

but not Bank of America/Visa

 ankhara99 wrote: 
                                                                               

 ankhara99 wrote: 

 Proclivities wrote: 

Definitely more about marketing.  Nothing clandestine about it, really.  They gave Assange an advance on a book.  He was interviewed a first draft was written, and then Assange backed out and decided he didn't want to finish, but also refused to (rather could not) return the advance.  So the publisher is trying to get what money they can from it.  It is just so damned ironic though.