Daily Archives: January 5, 2022

2022-01-05: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-01-05). Julian Assange passes one thousand days in Belmarsh Prison, dubbed "Britain's Guantanamo Bay" wsws.org Assange is imprisoned without charge to facilitate an extradition request from the American government, which plotted his illegal kidnapping or assassination.

_____ (2022-01-04). NBC News Uses Ex-FBI Official Frank Figliuzzi To Urge Assange's Extradition. popularresistance.org Two of the television outlets on which American liberals rely most for their news — NBC News and CNN — have spent the last six years hiring a virtual army of former CIA operatives, FBI officials, NSA spies, Pentagon chiefs, and DOJ prosecutors to work in their newsrooms. The multiple ways in which journalism is fundamentally corrupted by this spectacle are all vividly illustrated by a new article from NBC News that urges the prosecution and extradition of Julian Assange, claiming that the WikiLeaks founder, once on U.S. soil, will finally provide the long-elusive proof that Donald Trump criminally con…

teleSUR (2022-01-04). Puebla Group Supports AMLO's Offer to Grant Asylum to Assange. telesurenglish.net Julian Assange is a victim of political persecution by U.S. authorities after revealing in 2010 crimes against humanity committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. | "Mexican President AMLO said he had sought a pardon for Julian Assange from former U.S. President Donald Trump before he left office last year and repeated his offer of asylum for the Wikileaks founder on Monday."

Staff (2022-01-04). Assange offered asylum just across US border. rt.com Mexico's leader extends asylum offer to WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange | Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he sought a pardon for Julian Assange under the Trump administration but was ignored, while reiterating an asylum proposal he first floated last year. | President Obrador described efforts he made to secure the anti-secrecy activist's freedom and repeated an offer for political asylum during a Monday press conference, following a December 10 decision by the UK High Court of Justice which ruled that Assange could be extradited to the United States on a series of espionage charges link…

teleSUR (2022-01-04). Assange's Lawyers Take into Account Mexico's Asylum Offer. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard assured that the lawyers of Julian Assange keep contact with the Mexican government and consider its political asylum offer to the Australian activist. | RELATED: | "Due to procedural reasons, Assange's lawyers have not been able to enforce asylum in Mexico or any other country. However, if there is any change, we will inform you immediately," Ebrard highlighted.

Editor (2022-01-04). The Insufferable Hypocrisy of Western Governments Hell-Bent on Destroying Julian Assange (Video). scheerpost.com By Eric Garris / In his New Year's message, South China Morning Post chief news editor Yonden Lhatoo demands Western governments free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange before preaching press freedom to everyone else.

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2022-01-04). Saudi coalition claims intercepted 5 drones launched by Yemen. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 04 (MNA) — The Saudi coalition claimed to have intercepted and shot down five drones belonging to the Yemeni army on Monday night.

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