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Day 1271: Julian Assange still in prison and under slow-motion execution by the Anglo-American imperialist criminals

failed evolution   On 11 April 2019, the Ecuadorian government of traitor Lenin Moreno, invited the Metropolitan Police into the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and they arrested Julian Assange . Since then, Assange is kept in Belmarsh high security prison in London, without actual charges.   The real reason world's number one political prisoner is still kept in this high security prison, is because he exposed horrendous war crimes carried out by the US imperialists and their allies.   The ruthless Western imperialist regime wants to punish the No1 real journalist in the world and make him an example for any Whistleblower or real journalist who will attempt to expose its big crimes in the future.   And the Anglo-American axis has now become officially a fascist coalition , framed by the rest of its Western pets. UK's Home Secretary Priti Patel, one of the most ruthless ever, decided to extradite Julian Assange to US. No surprise of course. The only question we had in mind is

The trickle down perfect parody

Rosie Holt   Not far from the paranoia inside a neoliberal brain. 

The Queen and her legacy: 21st century Britain has never looked so medieval

by Jonathan Cook   Part 3 - Continuity of rule   Undoubtedly, the Queen carried out her duties supremely well during her 70 years on the throne. As BBC pundits keep telling us, she helped maintain social “stability” and ensured “continuity” of rule. The start of her reign in 1952 coincided with her government ordering the suppression of the Mau Mau independence uprising in Kenya. Much of the population were put in concentration camps and used as slave labour – if they weren’t murdered by British soldiers. At the height of her rule, 20 years later, British troops were given a green light to massacre 14 civilians in Northern Ireland on a protest march against Britain’s policy of jailing Catholics without trial. Those shot and killed were fleeing or tending the wounded. The British establishment oversaw cover-up inquiries into what became known as “Bloody Sunday”. And in the twilight years of her rule, her government rode roughshod over international law, invading Iraq on the pretext of d

Greek ‘Watergate’: Mitsotakis’ authoritarianism cannot be tolerated anymore

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is a “destabilising factor” for the country and citizens cannot stand his “authoritarian” attitude, senior socialist lawmaker Michalis Katrinis told EURACTIV after it was unveiled that the secret services bugged the phone of Greek socialist opposition leader and MEP Nikos Androulakis.   by Sarantis Michalopoulos   Part 4 - Recovery funds for Mitsotakis’ friends   Pasok and Syriza recently proposed setting up a parliamentary committee to monitor the distribution of EU money from the Recovery Fund and the 2021-2027 NSRF funds; a call rejected by the ruling New Democracy party. Katrinis said the ruling party came up with the national recovery plan without consulting other political parties, the public or other relevant stakeholders. “ Since the beginning, we had expressed our disagreement with the way the funds are being distributed, excluding the vast majority of small and medium-sized enterprises and not contributing to the domestic added value,

Yanis Varoufakis on Liz Truss crashing the UK economy

DiEM25   Yanis Varoufakis on how Liz Truss is upping the ante in Britain's class war, going for broke on behalf of the ultra-rich.   

Enemies of the Free Press

Democracy does not stand a chance without press freedom. Maybe that’s the reason why autocrats and conservatives in Warsaw, Budapest, Athens or Sofia are so keen on repressing independent media. Their tactics are well-honed: censorship, public funding cuts, abusive lawsuits, spying, smear campaigns and threats against journalists.    https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci7NQP1KPDB/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=bde46fe3-c5c9-4ad7-98e8-71e7d23c356e  

The Chris Hedges Report: Julian Assange's father, John Shipton, speaks out

The Real News Network   Julian Assange has spent over a decade fighting imprisonment, extradition, and CIA espionage. On Oct. 8, Chris Hedges and others will gather in Washington, DC, to demand Assange's release at the same time that protestors surround the British Parliament. For this special episode of The Chris Hedges Report , John Shipton, Assange's father, shares updates on the international campaign to free his son.

The Forde report and the lessons of the Corbyn movement

The long-delayed Forde report was finally released earlier this week. Commissioned by the Labour Party as an independent inquiry into the findings of the 2020 leaked report (aka ‘LabourLeaks’), Forde confirms what many on the left have known all along.   by Socialist Appeal  Part 6 - Weakness invites aggression   Unfortunately, in general, the left consistently buckled in the face of such attacks, responding not politically, but with profuse apologies and self-flagellation. Such defensiveness and acquiescence never satisfied the right wing, however. Indeed, displaying weakness only invited further aggression. Given an inch, the right sought to take a mile. This weakness of the left stems from their whole reformist outlook. They believe that capitalism can be patched-up and made ‘nicer’ and ‘kinder’; and, in turn, that the capitalists themselves can be convinced to cooperate and come to an agreement with the working class. From this flows the left reformists’ soft approach to the right

Tweet of the day

I wrote this for the Guardian in 2014 when the coup junta in Kiev declared war on its Russian-speaking population in the Donbass. https://t.co/0i6LzgCD1v — John Pilger (@johnpilger) September 24, 2022

NATO sabotages Ukraine-Russia talks as Europe suffers

The Grayzone   Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector and ex-Marines intelligence officer, addresses reports that now-former UK PM Boris Johnson pushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to reject peace talks with Russia this April, and explains how the war will devastate European economies as it drags on.