Julian Assange Faces 17 counts of violation of the Espionage Act for publishing in Wikileaks, which he founded, government documents that were given to him by Chelsea Manning that exposed U.S. war crimes and other material the military wanted to keep secret from the public about Washington’s (...)
As an American lawyer, I don’t want to see Julian Assange extradited to my country
The UK should step in and save the US from its worst excesses.
Many fear that Assange could face life imprisonment or even execution if extradited to the US ( EPA )
Julian Assange was indicted last week for 17 (...)
A TRUE DEMOCRACY does not allow its government to decide who is a journalist. A nation in which a leader gets to make that decision is on the road to dictatorship.
That is why the new U.S. indictment of Julian Assange is so dangerous to liberty in America.
The Trump administration has charged (...)
BY CHARGING Julian Assange with 17 violations of America’s World War I-era Espionage Act on Thursday, federal prosecutors in Virginia might have undermined their own chances of securing the extradition of the WikiLeaks founder from the United Kingdom.
That’s because the new charges relate not to (...)
Chelsea Manning, a transgender U.S. soldier who blew the whistle on U.S. war crimes, and spent 2013 to 2017 in an army stockade as a result, is back in prison again.
This time because she refuses to join a bipartisan campaign against Wikileaks that seeks to bring Julian Assange from his refuge (...)
Move believed linked to support for Palestinian BDS movement. Activist decries attack on ‘spirit of the indivisibility of justice’
The veteran civil rights activist Angela Davis said she was “stunned” by the decision of Alabama’s Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to revoke an award she was set to receive.
The institute announced in October that Davis, a Birmingham native, would receive the Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights award, calling her “one of the most globally recognized champions of human (...)
Ernest Mandel’s biographer describes the Supreme Court decision that kept Mandel out of the United States — and set a precedent for the Muslim travel ban.
Still from A Man Called Mandel (dir. Frans Buyens, 1972).
In late June, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Trump v. Hawaii (...)
President Trump has displayed enthusiasm for brutality over the past year. He has told the police to treat suspects roughly , praised President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines for murdering people suspected of drug ties and called for the execution of drug dealers .
But one of his most (...)
Thousands from New York City to Seattle went on January 28 to the nation’s major airports to protest President Donald’s Trump’s order banning for 120 days Muslim immigrants and refugees from seven nations, an order issued that same day. The protests, initiated by immigrant rights groups through (...)
RASMEA ODEH, THE Palestinian community activist in Chicago who was convicted in 2015 for “fraudulent procurement of naturalization” when she obtained her U.S. citizenship in 2004, has won a new trial.
This is an important victory for Odeh and her defense team, who successfully argued on appeal (...)
As a close ally and early supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions has emerged as an early favorite to secure a spot in Trump’s cabinet, with recent speculation being that he will be nominated as attorney general.
Sessions defended Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims (...)
A British woman who was set on fire while wearing Islamic clothing in New York was not targeted in a hate attack, police have said.
American authorities confirmed they are no longer probing the case as a hate crime after linking the case to similar assaults on non-Muslims, Sky News reported. (...)
We, black America, are a nation of nearly 40 million souls inside a nation of more than 320 million people. And I fear now that it is clearer than ever that you, white America, will always struggle to understand us.
Like you, we don’t all think the same, feel the same, love, learn, live or even (...)
Three young African American women started a blog in 2013 entitled “Black Lives Matter” in the wake of the acquittal of George Zimmerman, a racist vigilante backed by the police, in the murder of Travon Martin. Martin, an unarmed Black youth, was walking home from a store when Zimmerman shot him (...)
FIVE YEARS INTO her 35-year military prison sentence, Chelsea Manning was threatened with indefinite solitary confinement — a form of torture as identified by international human rights organizations. However the August 18th closed disciplinary hearing, after convicting her on four counts, did (...)
RASMEA ODEH, A Palestinian activist and Chicago community leader who turns 68 in May and has lived in the United States for the past 20 years, faces 18 months in federal prison and deportation, following her March 12 sentencing in Detroit for “unlawful procurement of naturalization.”
Odeh was (...)
JAMES KILGORE IS is a longtime activist, writer and researcher. He currently lives in Urbana, Illinois, where has been involved in local movements to pass a Ban the Box initiative (taking questions about criminal background off employment applications) and opposing the building of a new county (...)
A month after her conviction and imprisonment for “unlawful procurement of naturalization,” Rasmea Odeh’s release on $50,000 cash bond was secured on December 11, 2014.
Observers and supporters of the 67-year-old Palestinian community leader were stunned immediately after a federal jury in (...)
Two current high-profile stories—police killings of Black people and the secret torture prisons run by the U.S. military and CIA in the “war on terror”— might seem separate and distinct. In truth, the path between them is short. A system that tortures prisoners abroad will murder people at home, (...)
People across New York City and around the country erupted in shock and anger December 3 when another grand jury decided not to indict another killer cop for yet another murder of an unarmed African American man.
In August, officer Daniel Pantaleo strangled Eric Garner to death, using a banned (...)
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