Philosopher l co-founder of
@DIEM_25
l Progressive International
@ProgIntl
l After the Apocalypse (Polity, 2021) l Poetry from the Future (Penguin, 2019)
After 2 years of preparations & hard physical work, I finally understood what Camus might have meant by saying that "one must imagine Sisyphus happy".
We're launching a School on the Adriatic island of Vis.
Take a look, join & support:
Message to Biden - and all who are complicit - by Norwegian doctor, specialist in anesthesiology, Mads Gilbert
@DrMadsGilbert
who has been working at the Al-Shifa hospital on and off for 16 years
No it doesn't. Former socialist Yugoslavia inscribed it into its constitution already back in 1974. Fifty years later, it's the West that is catching up with the East.
Greta becoming "persona non Greta" because of her support for Palestine (not Hamas) is the latest instance of "Denkverbot" in Germany but also another confirmation of the old saying: ecology without class struggle is just gardening.
The European Commission just published this map for children and it's the best illustration how they perceive the so called Western Balkans - only a bear on a vast territory waiting to be "civilized". With friends (EU) like these who needs enemies?
Old enough to remember that's precisely how Radovan Karadžić was selling his genocide to so called "international community": they always talk about "relocation" for the safety of those they want to erase from the face of the earth
Thinking about my friend Julian
#Assange
who is spending yet another Christmas in British Guantánamo, tortured by the UK "legal" system following the orders of US executioners. He should be free and spending this time with his family & friends.
#FreeAssangeTODAY
When Israel's Defense Minister calls 2 million people (almost half of them children) "human animals", after electricty, food, fuel and exit cut from the biggest open air cage on Earth, there are no ifs, ands or buts.
Free Palestine.
10 years ago today
@wikileaks
published the Collateral Murder video showing the indiscriminate murder of innocent civilians by US soldiers during the illegal war on Iraq. This is why Julian Assange is in prison, while the real criminals are still free.
#FreeAssange
#COVID2019
Today is the best day of 2021, but please don't forget the
#Assange
extradition is denied on mental health grounds, not because he is a publisher wanted by war criminals. The fight continues!
Today is
#WPFD2022
Julian
#Assange
has been in prison for 1118 days.
Never forget this image.
This is how democracy looks like in the so called "free West".
Whatever happens on Monday, one thing is certain: the struggle to free
#Assange
is the struggle of our century, it's a struggle not only for his life but for our own freedom. Whatever happens on Monday, this struggle must - and will - continue.
Western "humanitarianism" at work: first you enable and arm those who are provoking a horrific humanitarian crisis, then you throw packages of aid with a French flag and call it "la solidarité à l’œuvre"
This courageous voice is currently confined at the back of a shameful court in
#UK
behind a bulletproof glass screen as if he was a war criminal, while the real war criminals are free. But they will be accused - and this is what they fear most. Listen to
#Assange
!
Dear American friends: even if he is impeached again, you know it won't be enough. Even if he is removed. It's growing. When fascism is mainstreamed & televised in the United States, you need to build the strongest anti-fascist movement ever. Not just in the United States. SFSN!
Remember this image? Exactly 2 years ago, the most courageous publisher in the world was brutally dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy. 2 years later
#Assange
is still in prison facing a 175-year sentence in US, while the war criminals are still free. Remember. Organize. Resist.
Today a political show trial starts in London that will define the future of democracy and journalism, the future of all of us.
Stop the extradition of Julian Assange.
#DayX
"Europe is a garden. The rest of the world is a jungle. And the jungle could invade the garden."
"Europeans have to be much more engaged with the rest of the world. Otherwise, the rest of the world will invade us."
– Shocking comments from EU foreign policy head
@JosepBorrellF
A light in the current darkness: after almost 3 years in prison cause he revealed brutal war crimes, Julian
#Assange
finally allowed to marry
@StellaMoris1
with whom he has two kids. He shouldn't be in prison in the first place, but love will always find its way. Congratulations!
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
– Primo Levi, born on this day in 1919
It's not the judge who saved
#Assange
from extradition, it is each and everyone of you! Throughout all these difficult years it is your support that meant the most to him, his family and that finally brought us to this historic day. Celebrate, but keep fighting!
Not even the worst war criminals from Yugoslavia - who massacred thousands of people - were treated like this. They were not sitting behind a bulletproof glass, they talked to their lawyers, had medical care, watched movies.
#Assange
didn't kill anyone. This is unacceptable.
Exactly 14 years ago Julian Assange published Collateral Murder revealing killings of civilians and journalists in Iraq. Today the killing of civilians, aid workers and journalists has been normalized. That's why we need courageous journalism more than ever. Free Assange
Today is not just the first day of fall. It is also 2 years since
@wikileaks
publisher Julian
#Assange
has been held on remand at Belmarsh high security prison. We indeed live in very important times - and we miss your courageous voice. La lotta continua.
What's next for the so called West - after the prohibition of protests and Palestinian flags, you will prohibit the words "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide"?
It should be a moral duty of all who still believe in humanity to fight both antisemitism and islamophobia. If you are disgusted by one but not by the other, you are part of the problem.
It's not a resurrection of fascism - because fascism never died. And don't think Italy is an exception - we already have 50 shades of fascism all over Europe. And unless there is a strong antifascist movement that is both anticapitalist and internationalist, we're doomed.
Noam Chomsky: "The coup is promoted by the Bolivian oligarchy (...) and has the full support of the United States Government, which has long been eager to expel Evo Morales and his movement"
#Bolivia
#EvoMorales
What's worth more these days: the lives of hundreds of refugees who paid around $4,000-5,000 to save their lives on this boat - or the lives of a few super-rich who paid $250,000 for a seat on the Titanic submarine to watch another graveyard under the sea
Show trial in Stalin's USSR or Johnson's UK?
- no contact with lawyers for 6 months
- journalists can't hear proceedings
- locked behind a glass box
- in solitary confinement at Belmarsh
- facing sentence of 175 years in US
What did he do?
Reveal war crimes.
#Assange
Finally some good news from London. The most beautiful lesson of this victory is that even his fellow prisoners at
#Belmarsh
high-security prison campaigned to get him out of 9 long (too long) months of solitary confinement. We can win this.
#Assange
It is sad to see my friend in a cage, instead of walking free and being treated as a hero. If this is what we call democracy in UK/EU, we should rather stop using the very term "democracy". The torture of
#Assange
must stop.
#FreeAssange
Saddest image from
#Zagreb
earthquake. Mothers with newborns evacuated from hospital. Started to snow. Virus. This is a moment for all of us to come together and support each other, this is a moment to radically transform the world into something else than the current dystopia.
I reiterate the call of the
#EU
to release Alexey
#Navalny
immediately.
We do not accept his sentence - justice must not be politicised.
Protesters have the right to demonstrate peacefully and voice their political views.
If the extradition hearing of the century is postponed (possibly until November), UK should immediately grant
#Assange
bail so he can recover, get decent medical treatment, see his family, prepare his legal defence and stay out of the risk of
#COVID19
Tomorrow we gather in front of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to support
@JulianAssange
and request the UK government to guarantee he will not be extradited to the United States.
#Assange
@wikileaks
What happened in
#Hanau
is not just a tragedy. It is a consequence of the normalization of right-wing extremism. Had a Muslim killed 11 people, the EU establishment - including you - would already have called it
#terrorism
. But when it's white terrorism it's just a tragedy?
I am deeply shocked by the tragedy that took place last night in Hanau. My thoughts are with the families and friends of the victims, to whom I want to extend my sincerest condolences. We mourn with you today.
Assassinate a publisher in the midst of London? That's precisely what they were advocating all along, from Hillary Clinton to Joe Biden, until former CIA Director Mike Pompeo led to concrete murderous plans against
#Assange
. Will the UK remain accomplice in this ongoing crime?
I visited
#Assange
yesterday at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, he is in good spirits and ready to fight. But now he needs our support more than ever, extradition to US is not some kind of conspiracy - it's a real threat.
@wikileaks
@AssangeDefence
Germany did what they always wanted to do, at least since the OXI referendum. They banned
@yanisvaroufakis
from any - including virtual (!) - political activity in Germany. His crime? Palestine.
Germany's Interior Ministry has issued a “Betätigungsverbot” against me, a ban on any political activity. Not just a ban on visiting Germany but also from participation via Zoom. Here is the speech whose publication caused this ban. Judge for yourselves!
“Courage is not the absence of fear. Only fools have no fear. Rather, courage is the intellectual mastery of fear by understanding the true risks and opportunities of the situation and keeping those things in balance”
― Julian Assange
"I strongly urge that Julian
#Assange
is released because he is in great danger of a death penalty in that prison."
― Daniel Ellsberg at
@DiEM_25
TV right now
On this day, the Yugoslav partisan Stjepan Filipović was executed in 1942. A photo of him taken shortly before the execution became a symbol of resistance against fascism. His last words as the rope was put around his neck: "Death to fascism, freedom to the people!"
This is not a spy movie. This is reality. CIA considered killing
#Assange
, even killing
@wikileaks
associates. Although it's no surprise for those of us who have been on CIA's spy list, this is huge and
@POTUS
should drop
#Assange
charges immediately.
BREAKING: UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution on “protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations” on the ongoing Gaza crisis
FOR: 120
AGAINST: 14
ABSTAIN: 45
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All I want for Christmas is not this, although it would show some decency left in mainstream journalism. All I want is
#FreeAssange
- the true hero of the early 21st century, not the rich Silicon Valley billionaires
Thanks to
@VersoBooks
I've read an early copy of the new book by
@NilsMelzer
about the most important trial of our century and can't overstate the importance of it. It's both well-researched and an urgent call to release
#Assange
before it's too late. Everyone should read it!
Pardon my French - but fuck the circulation of capital and turning animals into products for human consumption. This is an immense tragedy, which is now becoming utterly visible, yet it is happening each and every day in different forms all over the world.
I'm old enough to remember versions of
#Putin
's speeches in
#Yugoslavia
about „independence“ and „real decommunisation“. And we know very well what followed: a bloody war, refugees and genocide. Having NATO on the other side is also not helpful. NO to another war in our lifetime.
I visited
#Assange
two weeks ago and unfortunately every single word
@smaurizi
who just visited him with
@repubblica
is true. The real shock is not only his heavy isolation and inhuman conditions, but the silence of the journalists and "outer world".
A letter from Assange with an invitation for King Charles III to visit His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh: “One can truly know the measure of a society by how it treats its prisoners"
Stjepan Filipović, hanged on this day in Valjevo, 22 May 1942, aged 26. As the rope was put around his neck, he defiantly shouted "Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu!" ("Death to fascism, freedom to the people!")
As Barthes said in "Mythologies", Toys "literally prefigure the world of adult functions" & "prepare the child to accept them all, by constituting for him, even before he can think about it, the alibi of a Nature which has at all times created soldiers, postmen..." & home office!
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men... ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
― Primo Levi
Tito & Che Guevara in 1959 - the
@ProgIntl
will soon publish the first English translation of the recently rediscovered transcript of this historic conversation that took place at the island of Brijuni when the Cuban delegation visited socialist Yugoslavia for the first time
If you think self-isolation is hard, remember
#Assange
. He was 7 long years in solitary confinement and is now in prison facing another cruel punishment, namely
#coronavirus
even DEATH - he should be released immediately!
#FreeAssange
#COVID19
@wikileaks
It has been 8 months since Julian Assange is isolated and without visitors (except lawyers). This changed only recently, with a new security protocol for visitors. Feels like entering prison, but thrilled to be visiting him today, with some presents from Croatia!
@AssangeDefence
Arundhati Roy: "For the sake of Palestine and Israel, for the sake of the living and in the name of the dead – for the sake of all of humanity – cease fire now"
Listen to
@johncusack
who is not afraid to call the reality by its name: “The first time he tore a child away from their mother’s arms and put them in a cage, this wasn’t a reality TV show anymore. This was real fascism.”
One of his long-standing friends and MP
@yanisvaroufakis
just visited
#Assange
in prison. What this article doesn't say is that Julian's father said that his son was harassed by prison cell search ahead of the extradition hearing that is starting tomorrow.
Much looking forward to this essential volume edited by
@Paulstubbsa
that comes at a moment when the reimagination of the Non-Aligned Movement seems more necessary than ever
The most important trial of this century is starting in London, if you are there - join the protest outside of the Royal Courts of Justice today and tomorrow!
#FreeAssange
After more than a decade of vicious lies and character assassination, this should finally be the final nail in the coffin of the case against Julian Assange. Yet, he is still in prison and persecuted for publishing.
@POTUS
do the right thing
#FreeAssange
Dear
@matteosalvinimi
, instead of discussing politics, maybe we should just publish your photo in a Baywatch swimsuit? Or rather not. Misogyny you just proved, what about rising
#fascism
?
@pamfoundation