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Jul 1, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Farooque Chowdhury |Binoy Kampmark |Robert Koehler |Oscar Grenfell
Truth defies power and denies dying. Truth survives surmounting odds and obstacles. Despite this trajectory of truth, sometimes, truth appears dying – a short phenomenon in life. Julian Assange’s journey to freedom presents this fact: A simultaneous act of surviving and apparent dying of truth. The Spanish define truth in a proverb: “Truth is God’s daughter”. The daughter lives.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Robert Koehler |Oscar Grenfell |Chris Hedges
Julian Assange of WikiLeaks fame is now back in the country of his birth, having endured conditions of captivity ranging from cramped digs in London’s Ecuadorian embassy to the maximum-security facilities of Belmarsh Prison. His return to Australia after striking a plea deal with the US Department of Justice sees him in a state with some of the most onerous secrecy provisions of any in the Western world.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Koehler |Binoy Kampmark |Oscar Grenfell |Chris Hedges
After twelve years — including five years of solitary confinement at Belmarsh Prison in London — Julian Assange is free. God bless America! He wasn’t extradited to the U.S. to stand trial, where he faced a sentence of 170 years in prison for violating the so-called Espionage Act. Instead, he took a plea deal with the U.S. government, pleading guilty to one count of violating that act — you know, threatening America’s freedom — for which he had paid by his time already served.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Oscar Grenfell |Chris Hedges |Ramzy Baroud
LJUBLJANA – I fought for years with and for Julian Assange. But upon hearing that he has regained his freedom, my first thought was that he is returning to a world that looks – and is – much worse than the one he left behind. Pandemics, wars, and widespread ecological breakdown force us to ask the big question: In what sense are we who breathe the fresh air outside prisons still free? Even our fictional accounts are getting worse.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Oscar Grenfell |Chris Hedges |Vidya Bhushan Rawat
The WikiLeaks project was always going to put various noses out of joint in the journalistic profession. Soaked and blighted by sloth, easily bought, perennially envious, a good number of the Fourth Estate have always preferred to remain uncritical of power and sympathetic to its brutal exercise.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Oscar Grenfell |Chris Hedges |Binoy Kampmark |Arun Mitra
In remarkable scenes last night, Julian Assange arrived in Australia a free man. Stepping out of the airplane in the national capital, Canberra, the WikiLeaks founder raised his fist before embracing his wife Stella Assange and father John Shipton. At a press conference shortly after, Stella hailed a global support movement for having played a decisive role in securing Assange’s release.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Faisal C K |Hiren Gohain |Nilofar Suhrawardy |Oscar Grenfell
To Shri Arjun Meghwal, Hon’ble Minister for Law and Justice, Government of India,4th Floor, ‘A’ Wing, Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi. Email: Dr. Rajiv Mani,Union Law Secretary,Department of Legal Affairs,Government of India, New Delhi. Sub.: Request Postponement of implementation of 3 Criminal Laws beyond 01st July, 2024 and request that the Union Ministry Initiate a National Discussion on the Nature, Need, Scope and Content of the 3 new laws.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |P Sekar |Cedric Prakash |Oscar Grenfell
We, the Community Network Against Protected Areas (CNAPA), strongly condemn and resist the recent atrocity, where two youths lost their lives to firing by armed forest guards inside Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam. As per ground reports, Jaliluddin and Sameeruddin of Dhingbari Chapari village of Nagaon District, along with a few other villagers, went to Rowmari Beel wetland to catch fish as part of their traditional livelihood.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Oscar Grenfell |Binoy Kampmark |Chris Hedges |Bharat Dogra
Julian Assange walked free from Belmarsh Prison yesterday, where he has been incarcerated for more than five years. Footage posted by WikiLeaks showed the journalist at liberty as he boarded an international flight leaving Britain. Assange has reportedly agreed to plead guilty to a single count under the US Espionage Act. He will appear tomorrow morning in a US court in Saipan, capital of the American territory of the Northern Mariana Islands in the western Pacific.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Marwan Asmar |Arun Mitra |Oscar Grenfell
If one were to argue that a top Spanish government official would someday declare that “from the river to the sea, Palestine would be free”, the suggestion itself would have seemed ludicrous. But this is precisely how Yolanda Diaz, Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister, concluded a statement on May 23, a few days before Spain officially recognized Palestine as a state. The Spanish recognition of Palestine, along with the Norwegian and Irish recognition, is most important.
