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US Government & NewsGuard Sued by Consortium News The suit accuses #NewsGuard of defaming @Consortiumnews and the U.S. government of acting in concert with NewsGuard to violate the First Amendment. Read about it and watch the news conference.
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Jeffrey Sachs at UNSC on Nord Stream sabotage "Sweden has perhaps the most to tell the world about the [Nord Stream] crime scene, which its divers investigated. Yet instead of sharing this information globally, Sweden has kept the results of its investigation secret..."
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Video Message to President Biden @POTUS from Australian Parliamentarians "We’re calling on the government of the United States to drop the unprecedented Espionage Act charges against #JulianAssange ." #HomeRun4Julian please
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The most complete version of the Nuland-Pyatt leaked conversation with transcript that had appeared on YouTube for eight years was suddenly removed from YouTube today.
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CONGRATULATIONS JOHN PILGER @johnpilger 2023 WINNER Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award Presented by Consortium for Independent Journalism Publishers of @Consortiumnews
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Pentagon Drops Truth Bombs to Stave Off War With Russia
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Pentagon Drops Truth Bombs to Stave Off War With Russia

UPDATED: Leaked stories from the Pentagon have exposed how mainstream media reports Russia's conduct in the Ukraine war, in a bid to counter propaganda intended to get NATO into the conflict, writes...

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Rest in Peace Daniel Ellsberg
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One of America’s most courageous men, who took on the most powerful government in the world to expose its lies about the Vietnam war, has died at 92.  By Consortium News Daniel Ellsberg died at 92 on...

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BREAKING: Defeat for David McBride, military whistleblower on trial in Canberra for leaking to media Australian military murders of unarmed Afghans: Judge rules against instructing jury of public interest defense, saying duty is only to follow orders not to violate them in the
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Debut of new song in tribute to #JulianAssange , @xychelsea and Aaron Swartz.
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They Stole a Country in Full Bloom @mikopeled Pro-Palestinian Israeli activist Miko Peled explains to an audience in Melbourne, Australia how the Israelis stole Palestinian cities & farmland in 1948 & continued its ethnic cleansing until today's brutal operation in Gaza. Watch
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Julian #Assange Wins 2020 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award
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UPDATED: Imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has been awarded Consortium News' 2020 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award for courage in the face of an unprecedented attack on press freedom....

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"My husband Julian [ #Assange ] is in a very precarious position right now. The High Court, England, has made a completely inexplicable decision to not even allow him to appeal... He still has one final opportunity to go to 2 HC judges. The situation is critical." @Stella_Assange
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. @DrJillStein at Rage Against the War Machine in DC "The US has some 800 foreign bases... Our so-called War on Terror continues in a mind-boggling 85 countries... We've conducted over 250 military interventions in past 20 years... & killed a staggering 6 million people."
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. @jimmy_dore at Rage Against the War Machine in DC "[Einstein] once said if he could do it all over again he'd be a plumber... The military industrial complex used his science to kill people. They took Einstein's discovery & used it to melt the skin of Japanese civilians."
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"No Australian citizen should face over a century in jail for the crime of telling the truth" Senator @DavidShoebridge #FreeAssange
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. @ChrisLynnHedges at Rage Against the War Machine "These pimps of war do not see the corpses of their victims. I did, including children. Every lifeless body. I stood over as a reporter in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Palestine, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, Bosnia & Kosovo..."
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CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits
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CIA and FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits

People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program.

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The Australian Labor Party passes a motion unanimously to support #JulianAssange , saying his suffering has gone on long enough. Watch 'Lawmakers for Assange' on #CNLive ! Today at 5pm EDT / 10pm BST / 7am AEST
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"My parents were survivors of the holocaust, both of them. My mother & grandmother survived Auschwitz... Certainly the holocaust is not an excuse to justify what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, which they do." Prof. Peter Slezak Founder, Independent Australian Jewish Voices
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Former UK Labour leader @jeremycorbyn speaking at the London Night Carnival to free Julian #Assange . "Julian spoke out for the innocent victims all around the world of unaccountable military power" Jeremy Corbyn
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Spanish Police Probe Extortion Scheme Involving Surveillance on Assange
Spanish Police Probe Extortion Scheme Involving Surveillance on Assange

UPDATED: Suspects are being investigated in Spain for having tried to extort €3 million from WikiLeaks in exchange for a huge cache of documents and surveillance videos of Assange inside Ecuador's...

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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on how the U.N. Security Council can quickly end four wars. "The Security Council is in a position to take decisive actions to end the wars precisely because it is clear that the interests of all U.N. Security members, Security Council members, and notably
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BREAKING: No plea deal has been offered by U.S. to #Assange , @CraigMurrayOrg confirms: "There have been noises made by the U.S. ambassador to Australia saying that a plea deal is possible. And that's what the Australian Government have been pushing for as a way to solve it.
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Robert Parry, editor and publisher of , died peacefully Saturday evening. In this tribute, his son Nat Parry describes Robert’s unwavering commitment to independent journalism.
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Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews

Robert Parry, editor and publisher of Consortium News, died peacefully Saturday evening. In this tribute, his son Nat Parry describes Robert's unwavering commitment to independent journalism. By Nat...

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"Julian #Assange today should be a free man. He is a publisher. His organisation @Wikileaks obtains & publishes, freely, information it obtains: the literal definition of journalism. It happens every day in newsrooms..." Senator Jordan Steele-John #FreeAssangeNOW
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ASSANGE IS FREE, PENDING APPEALS
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In a short notice speech to the UNSC @RayMcGovern looks back at three decades of relations between the U.S. and Russia, from his time as a boy hiding under a desk in a duck and cover exercise, through his decades as a senior CIA analyst, to today, when the nuclear threat is back.
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PayPal Backs Down After Outpouring of Support for CN
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PayPal Backs Down After Outpouring of Support for CN

PayPal has retreated after a deluge of support for Consortium News by unfreezing its funds and now saying unspecified steps must be taken to restore the "permanently" shut down account, Joe Lauria...

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Nuland-Pyatt Tape Removed From YouTube After 8 Years
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Nuland-Pyatt Tape Removed From YouTube After 8 Years

A popular version, with subtitles, suddenly was made unavailable on Wednesday. The tape provides the smoking gun of U.S. involvement in 2014 Kiev coup. (Read the transcript). By Joe Lauria Special to...

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"This is the most important press freedom case in our life-time. If #JulianAssange goes, the First Amendment goes". @MaxBlumenthal Editor-in-chief @TheGrayzoneNews
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Row Breaks Out Over Assange in Australian Senate Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong was asked point blank whether the prime minister raised Julian Assange with Joe Biden in San Diego last month. Chaos ensued.
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ASSANGE BELMARSH TRIBUNAL - National Press Club, Washington DC
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Pulitzer prize-winning journalist @ChrisLynnHedges delivers powerful speech for #JulianAssange on his wedding day. (Part 1)
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McBride Pleads Guilty Finding himself barred from a public interest defence & unable to exhibit classified exculpatory evidence to a jury, David McBride, a former barrister and Major in the Australian army who blew the whistle on war crimes in Afghanistan, was advised by his
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PayPal Backs Down After Outpouring of Support for CN
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PayPal has retreated after a deluge of support for Consortium News by unfreezing its funds and now saying unspecified steps must be taken to restore the "permanently" shut down account, Joe Lauria...

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Chaos at Sydney's Port Botany tonight as protestors blockade ZIM Shipping boat bound for Israel.
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If you read only one article about the Assange hearing. Read this one. LETTER FROM LONDON: The Surreal US Case Against Assange
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LETTER FROM LONDON: The Surreal US Case Against Assange

The fox is guarding the henhouse and Washington is prosecuting a publisher for exposing its own war crimes. Alexander Mercouris diagnoses the incoherence of the U.S. case for extradition.  By Alexa...

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TODAY 1pm EST on #CNLive ! SY HERSH: AMERICAN SABOTAGE w/ Sy Hersh The most accomplished investigative reporter of the past 5 decades on the covert U.S. operation to blow up pipelines bringing gas from Russia to Germany; Ukraine & the state of journalism
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Editor-in-chief of @WikiLeaks @khrafnsson , after being denied access to #Assange courtroom, is placed in overflow room where proceedings are inaudible.
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Giuliani Says #Assange Should Not Be Prosecuted
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Giuliani Says Assange Should Not Be Prosecuted

Donald Trump's lawyer said on Monday that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange should not be prosecuted and he compared WikiLeaks publications to the Pentagon Papers. By Joe Lauria Special to Consort...

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We can confirm that @Consortiumnews has been granted access to the #JulianAssange hearing, August 11 at 10.30am BST & will be live-tweeting the proceedings.
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NATO Expands, Responding to War Caused by NATO Expansion
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At the same NATO summit, President Biden announced plans to ramp up U.S. military presence in Europe in response to the Ukraine war, writes Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone....

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Assange Judge Worked for MI6
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As with previous judges who have ruled on the WikiLeaks publisher's case, Justice Jeremy Johnson raises concerns about institutional conflicts of interest, write Mark Curtis and John McEvoy. By  Mark...

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Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson: The CIA, which plotted to assassinate Julian Assange, is the same CIA that will determine if he is imprisoned in conditions a British judge said could lead to his suicide. #BelmarshTribunal Sydney.
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The Dutch Independent Journalist Association (VVJ) has awarded @ConsortiumNews the first international Julian Assange Award at a conference of the Dutch Stichting 11 September (11 September Foundation) in Driebergen, Netherlands on Saturday. The awards committee informed CN:
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BREAKING: @jeremycorbyn in U.S. for #Assange . "I do hope @AlboMP does make those calls; does make that demand [for his release] and Australia stands up for Assange." He will speak today at the Belmarsh Tribunal in the Nat. Press Club, Washington DC. 👇
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Australian 'Jews Against the Occupation' rally in support of the oppressed people of Gaza, saying they "deserve the same national and human rights as anybody else". Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Galland recently advised of "a complete siege" on the civilian population of Gaza,
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Slovenian PEN Center Elects #Assange as Honorary Member The PEN Center in Slovenia has elected imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange as an honorary member, calling him the “bravest journalist and publicist of the last two decades.”
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. @WikLeaks editor @khrafnsson slams High Court refusal to hear #Assange appeal. Speaks to @Consortiumnews of fears that crucial evidence will not be heard & UK will circumvent ECHR. #AnythingToSay London
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Assange Put on Suicide Watch After Patel Decision, Father Says
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John Shipton said Julian Assange was stripped naked and put in an empty cell to prevent him from killing himself over the home secretary's decision to sign his extradition order, Joe Lauria reports....

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Stella Assange spoke out at the London Night Carnival, against the unjust incarceration of her husband, Julian #Assange . “Julian’s imprisonment is an attempt to punish the messenger for uncomfortable truths” @Stella_Assange
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Won't see this kind of reporting on US TV today.
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People don’t appreciate just how much money laundering is the stock & trade of the CIA. Look at the level of money laundering sophistication the CIA had already developed by 1967, thru its webs of front groups & foundations & shell corps, in this CBS explainer from 50 years ago.
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. @Stella_Assange , National Press Club in Canberra "For most people, Julian is a symbol, a symbol of staggering injustice because he is in prison on trumped up charges for exposing the crimes of others, a symbol because he faces a bewildering 175 year sentence for publishing the
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Arrival at Belmarsh prison for today's wedding ceremony: @StellaMoris1 and family.
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#AssangeWedding This family deserves a normal life. #FreeAssangeNOW
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Pentagon whistle-blower @DanielEllsberg testifies to the Belmarsh Tribunal for #Assange , again demanding to be indicted under the Espionage Act, this time for possession of the same classified documents as @wikileaks . His aim is to have the First Amendment defeat the Act for good
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John Shipton is asked how he reacted upon discovering the CIA plan to assassinate his son #JulianAssange .
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Ben and Jerry's owner @YoBenCohen has been arrested for protesting outside the Department of Justice in support of Julian #Assange .
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@YoBenCohen @codepink 4. Before he was arrested, I asked @YoBenCohen why he was willing to be arrested for Julian Assange. He says Assange has been in solitary for 4 years "because of his efforts to let me know what my government is doing in my name and with my money." "If Julian can be there for
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. @DenisKucinich at Rage Against the War Machine "In blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline, this government has deliberately circumvented Article 1 of the US Constitution: the authority of Congress to make war. It has violated international criminal law... committed an act of war"
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The World Has Lost John Pilger One of the greatest journalists and filmmakers of his generation has died at age 84, his family announced on Sunday.
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Key US Witness Against Assange Arrested in Iceland
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US Court Victory Against Online Censorship A judge in Louisiana has barred the F.B.I., and other government agencies from asking social media companies to suppress free speech.
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The Weird, Creepy Media Blackout on Recent Assange Revelations
The Weird, Creepy Media Blackout on Recent Assange Revelations

Mass media are owned and controlled by wealthy people in coordination with the secretive government agencies tasked with preserving the world order upon which the media-owning plutocrats have built...

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#BelmarshTribunal : @Stella_Assange #FreeAssangeNOW "I ask the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese @AlboMP , to take Julian's fate in his hands and bring him home to us, bring him home to our kids, bring him home to me and end his suffering."
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Disinformation Empire Says It’s ‘Fighting Disinformation’
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Disinformation Empire Says It's 'Fighting Disinformation'

If the propaganda engine of the U.S.-centralized empire ceased actively deceiving the public about the world, it would collapse immediately, writes Caitlin Johnstone.  By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJ...

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Assange: An Unholy Masquerade of Tyranny Disguised as Justice
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Julian Assange’s persecution has nothing to do with the law. It is a simple demonstration of the crushing power of the state, writes Craig Murray. By Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk There has never...

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. @CraigMurrayOrg on the #Assange High Court ruling and what lies ahead.
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Anything to Say? @johnpilger We knew it would take exceptional political if not moral courage for @AlboMP to say: “As prime minister, it is my government’s responsibility to bring home an Australian citizen [ #Assange ] who is clearly the victim of a great, vindictive injustice"
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. @jeremycorbyn defends #JulianAssange at the Belmarsh Tribunal in Washington DC. He appeals to politicians worldwide to recognise the threat that criminalising journalism poses, and stand up for their democracies and citizens' right to tell & know the truth.
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Chris Hedges: The Case for Genocide
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Chris Hedges: The Case for Genocide

The International Court of Justice may be all that stands between the Palestinians in Gaza and genocide. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The exhaustive 84-page brief submitted by South Africa to the...

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"We're living in a pretend democracy, with a pretend free press and a pretend system of justice... No one in this century has helped us understand the world as it is more than #JulianAssange and @Wikileaks ." Joe Lauria @unjoe Editor-in-chief, @Consortiumnews
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ICJ Rules Against Ukraine on Terrorism, MH17 In a blow to Ukraine, the World Court ruled Russia didn’t finance terrorism in Donbass and the court refused to blame Moscow for the downing of Flight MH17.
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In a blow to Ukraine, the World Court ruled Russia didn't finance terrorism in Donbass and the court refused to blame Moscow for the downing of Flight MH17. By Joe Lauria in The Hague, Netherlands...

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SCOTT RITTER: Twitter Wars—My Personal Experience in Twitter’s Ongoing Assault on Free Speech
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At some point, the U.S. people, and those they elect to higher office need to bring Twitter in line with the ideals and values Americans collectively espouse when it comes to free speech and online...

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Stella Assange in Australia: Bring Julian Assange Home The following is the speech delivered on Monday by Stella Assange to the National Press Club in Canberra, provided in a tweet by Gabriel Shipton, Assange’s brother.
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Consortium News hopes to be live tweeting from the #Assange court room on this thread, but we have NOT received our video links as yet - neither @unjoe nor @CathyVoganSPK (who had intended to connect via remote access). If the links do not arrive they will both be in the court
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PRESS CONFERENCE: ASSANGE LAWYERS v. CIA, WHAT's NEXT?
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300 doctors warn of dangerous deterioration following Assange’s reported stroke. Implore Australian Deputy Prime Minister to intervene for Mr #Assange ’s immediate release on urgent medical grounds. @Doctors4Assange @Barnaby_Joyce
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BREAKING: Lady Arbuthnot off #JulianAssange 's case, says @WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson @suigenerisjen . Watch full PEN Sydney conference TONIGHT on #CNLive ! 'Challenge What You Know: What's really happening to Julian Assange?' Hosted by @ABC Lateline's @QuentinDempster
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Evidence of US-Backed Coup in Kiev NewsGuard gave Consortium News a red mark for “publishing false content” on Ukraine, including that there was a U.S.-backed coup in Kiev in 2014. Here is CN‘s detailed proof.
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Outrage as Azov Nazi Addresses Greek Parliament
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky brought along an Azov Nazi of Greek heritage to his speech to the Greek Parliament on Thursday and all hell broke loose, reports Joe Lauria.  By Joe Lauria...

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Sy Hersh: American Sabotage @unjoe reminds Hersh it's not the 1st time a Russian pipeline has been destroyed by the US. Last time was in 1982. Hersh says no matter how much detail he offers on the Nord Stream operation, "this government's never going to admit it did it" Part 1
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#GeorgeGalloway 's campaign manager James Giles tells Consortium News Galloway has won the Rochdale by-election by a "comfortable" margin and will be returning to Parliament for a seventh time. #Galloway #RochdaleByElection
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Stella #Assange addresses a large crowd gathered outside the UK Home Office to call on @PritiPatel for the release of #JulianAssange . The home secretary will issue her decision in the coming days on whether or not to extradite him to the US, where he faces 175 years in prison.
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Nuland-Pyatt Tape Removed From YouTube After 8 Years

A popular version, with subtitles, suddenly was made unavailable on Wednesday. The tape provides the smoking gun of U.S. involvement in 2014 Kiev coup. (Read the transcript). By Joe Lauria Special to...

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Blinken Slams Door on Australian Bid for Assange The U.S. secretary of state confirmed Australia has lobbied the U.S. to end the WikiLeaks publisher's prosecution, but said unequivocally that it would continue, reports Joe Lauria.
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In late 2016, about 200 websites – including – were identified as “Russian propaganda outlets” by #PropOrNot , hiding behind a cloak of anonymity. Now, journalist George Eliason @gheliason peels back some of that anonymity.
Unpacking the Shadowy Outfit Behind 2017’s Biggest Fake News Story

In late 2016, about 200 websites – including Consortiumnews.com – were identified as “Russian propaganda outlets” by the dubious website PropOrNot, hiding behind a cloak of anonymity. Now, journalist...

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. @rogerwaters at Rage Against the War Machine "You [ @POTUS ], @SecBlinken , @UnderSecStateP , @jakejsullivan & the rest of the war-mongering neocons at the heart of government in Washington, along w/ the vassal states in NATO, are the principle provocateurs I mentioned [at UNSC]."
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"I take this opportunity again to say to @AlboMP , when you boil it all down this is about a Walkley award winning Australian journalist, who published hard evidence of U.S. war crimes, and in response the U.S. wants to get even." @WilkieMP #FreeAssangeNOW
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Australian politicians Andrew Wilkie @WilkieMP & George Christensen @GChristensenMP arrive in London to visit #JulianAssange in Belmarsh & discuss his condition with UN Special Rapporteur on Torture @NilsMelzer . They will speak to press outside the prison at 4pm, Tuesday Feb 18.
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In London and we met with UN Special Rapporteur on Torture @NilsMelzer to discuss Julian Assange. Nils left us in no doubt that Assange is showing the effects of psychological torture and feels betrayed by the justice system in the UK, the USA & Aus #auspol #politas #FreeAssange
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Aussie MPs Headed to Washington to Lobby For Assange
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The MPs will face obstinate views about Assange entrenched in the U.S. political establishment, with two days to educate Congressional, State and Justice officials about the threat to the Constitut...

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Huge turnout in Melbourne Australia to kick off the world wide Human Chain events for #JulianAssange . The crowd chants: "JULIAN HAS TOLD THE TRUTH. @wikileaks HAS GOT THE PROOF"
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PRESS CONFERENCE: #Assange US Attorneys Sue Pompeo & Spanish Security Firm AUG 15 11am EDT Margaret Ratner Kunstler, Plaintiff Deborah Hrbek, Plaintiff Richard Roth, Attorney Robert Boyle, Attorney Nathan Fuller, @DefenseAssange John Goetz, Journalist
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Twitter Restricts Account of Julian #Assange ’s Mother
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The social media giant has given no reason to Christine Assange who had turned to Twitter to campaign for the liberty of her son. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News The Twitter account of...

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Media Bury Story That US May Have Fired on Crowd at Kabul Airport
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Western media appear to be downplaying a possible major development in the Kabul airport attack, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News It appears in the 29th paragraph of a...

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Canberra: Andrew Wilkie MP says indefinite detention of #JulianAssange is in violation of the Rome Statute and "wrong on so many levels". Pressures PM Morrison to call @POTUS & arrange his immediate release.
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. @consortiumnews will live tweet from the #JulianAssange extradition courtroom on Jan 4th from: 10am BST / 9pm AEST / 5am EST #CNLive ! w/ @MaryKostakidis , @AndrewJFowler & @AMercouris will begin about 30 minutes after the hearing. Join us here👇
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Chris Hedges: The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange & the Death of Journalism
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Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted, reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime. By Chris Hedges...

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THE HAGUE: South Africa v. Israel - DAY 1 - S.A. Oral Arguments - International Court of Justice
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Chris Hedges: The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time
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Chris Hedges: The Most Vital Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time

If Assange is extradited and found guilty of publishing classified material it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting. By Chris Hedges in Washington, D.C....

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Craig Murray Is a Free Man
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Craig Murray Is a Free Man

The activist, blogger and former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, who was imprisoned for his journalism, walked free from Saughton Prison in Edinburgh, Scotland on Tuesday. https://twitter.com/wik...

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