Daily Archives: February 27, 2022

2022-02-27: News Headlines

_____ (2022-02-26). The Belmarsh Tribunal Is Demanding Justice For Victims Of War On Terror. popularresistance.org It has been ten years since WikiLeaks began publishing the "Guantanamo Files," documenting the detention and torture of prisoners by the United States government at its prison on Cuba's occupied east coast. But the architects and administrators of the Guantanamo Bay torture camp today walk free. Instead, the journalists, whistleblowers, and publishers have been sent to prison. Assange has now spent over a thousand days in solitary confinement at Belmarsh as the UK courts debate his extradition to face a 175-year prison sentence in the United States. | The Belmarsh Tribunal — which sits today for its third s…

Editor (2022-02-26). Hedges: Assange Affirms the Existence of Another Kind of Human Nature. scheerpost.com Original illustration by Mr. Fish | By Chris Hedges / A Statement made at the We know what Julian did. We know the great public service he provided. We know that he and WikiLeaks, aided by courageous figures such as Chelsea Manning, gave us the most important journalist coup of our generation, ripping back the veil erected by the ruling political, military, and financial elites to expose their mendacity, their corruption, and their crimes. We know that populations around the world, from Haiti to Tunisia, w…

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