_____ (2022-02-16). Belmarsh Tribunal On US War Crimes And Julian Assange In New York. popularresistance.org The Progressive International (PI), in collaboration with several like minded organizations, will organize the second Belmarsh Tribunal in New York on February 25. It announced the decision in a press release on February 14. The Tribunal seeks to hold the US government accountable for its war crimes in the two decades of the so-called war on terror and also push for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's release. | The first Belmarsh Tribunal was organized in London during Assange's extradition hearings in October last year. It is named after the infamous prison in London where Assange has been kept for almost three…

VINS (2022-02-16). Trump Administration Discussed Plans to Kidnap or Assassinate Julian Assange. projectcensored.org In late 2017, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), then under the direction of Mike Pompeo, seriously considered plans to kidnap or assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a Yahoo…

Editor (2022-02-16). How Cryptocurrencies Allow Fundraisers to Sidestep Censorship. scheerpost.com [ By Maximilian Brichta / Original to ScheerPost | Cryptocurrencies are being used to bypass legacy payment rails to crowdfund causes that would otherwise be censored. Two unique cases utilizing two separate cryptocurrencies, Ether and Bitcoin, have been carried out in the early weeks of February. Each demonstrates a distinct use-case and illuminates some of the blockchain's blessings and curses that deserve more nuanced attention. | WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is currently seeking to appeal his extradition t…

_____ (2022-02-16). Time For UK Government To Come Clean On Ties To US Torture Program. popularresistance.org We Americans have had a painful and difficult national debate over the past 20 years relative to torture. Torture was official U.S. government policy from 2002 until at least 2005, and that iteration was not formally outlawed until passage of the McCain-Feinstein Amendment in 2015. (The torture program was a highly-classified secret from 2002 until I revealed it in a nationally-televised interview in December 2007.) | In truth, torture has been illegal in the U.S. since at least the end of World War II. In 1946, the U.S. Government executed Japanese soldiers who had waterboarded American prisoners of war. In Janu…