UKC News | Co-hosts Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen with the week’s news round-up.
UKC News: New Coronavirus Measures, Chelsea Manning Released, MH17 Trial
Ann Wright: ‘Instead of Attacking WikiLeaks, Fix What It Exposed’
Ann Wright | Instead of punishing and silencing alleged whistleblowers and publishers like Manning and Assange for revealing uncomfortable truths, we should be addressing our own war crimes and institutional corruption.
UN Rapporteur: US Using Coercion By Torture Against Manning
21WIRE | The former US Army intelligence analyst has been jailed almost indefinitely to try and make her testify against Assange.
Pilger: The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now
John Pilger | A coordinated campaign of disinformation has been waged against the WikiLeaks founder, obscuring a direct assault on human rights and freedom of the press.
The Persecution of Jeremy Hammond: Patrick Henningsen & Eugene Puryear on latest WikiLeaks-related development
BAMN | This week, the federal government continued its authoritarian march over the US Constitution.
Official Secrets: Priti Patel’s Early War on Whistleblowers
Nina Cross | Is the Darroch leak being used as a platform to make a more authoritarian OSA seem more acceptable? Is this Patel’s opening salvo to future whistleblowers?
Abuses Show Assange Case Was Never About Law
21WIRE | Jonathan Cook examines how law has been weaponized to persecute Julian Assange
Assange Indictment: US Department of Justice Declares ‘War on Journalism’
21WIRE | Finally, media watchdog and rights groups are beginning to push back against the DOJ’s new authoritarian power grab.
Chelsea Manning Defiant, Sent to Jail Again for Refusing to Incriminate Assange
21WIRE | US authorities continue their policy of coercion and punishment in order to compel Manning to help fabricate a new ‘conspiracy’ case against Assange.
Julian Assange: The UK, Sweden and the ‘Illusion of Justice’
Nina Cross | The trapping of Assange has relied upon the immoral use of the prosecuting services by the UK government, and the illusion that ‘Assange had a choice.’
Assange Supporters, Yellow Vests Block Traffic at U.S. Extradition Hearing in London
21WIRE | “Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning are on trial on behalf of us.”
US Elites Vilifying Assange Are The Same Elites Wikileaks Exposed
21WIRE | Do you see the connection?
Stranahan on Assange: ‘This is a Fight We Can’t Lose’
Lee Stranahan | Why we all need to step-up now and be Julian’s voice.
THE ASSANGE ARREST IS A WARNING FROM HISTORY – John Pilger
John Pilger | “People have a right to know and a right to question and challenge power. That’s true democracy.”
‘A Total Stitch-Up’: Julian Assange Arrested After Ecuador Revokes Asylum
21WIRE | Are we watching the ‘criminalization of journalism’ unfold in front of our eyes?
Explained: Why Julian Assange & Chelsea Manning hold key to Free Press
21WIRE | Why they represent three fundamental pillars of democracy – the right to publish, the rights of whistleblowers and a free press.
Assange and Wikileaks Should Be Thanked – Not Smeared, Threatened or Censored
21WIRE + Mark Curtis | Once lauded, now vilified.
Ellsberg: ‘Assange can’t be tried fairly under Espionage Act because he is a journalist’
21WIRE + #Unity4J | An important conversation as another assault on freedom of the press encroaches.