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The US government has won its appeal against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, with the UK’s High Court overturning an earlier decision to block Assange’s extradition to the US. The case will now be sent back to the Magistrates Court with instructions to allow the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to (...)
WikiLeaks co-founder’s lawyers say they will seek to appeal, as Amnesty International says decision is a ‘travesty of justice’
Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, according to the high court, as it overturned a judgment earlier this year and sparked condemnation from press freedom (...)
Karl Posner examines the motivations behind the ongoing attempted extradition of Julian Assange to the U.S. and clarifies what’s at stake for everyone, and particularly for those who want to see a socialist world.
Thursday 28 October saw the second and final day of the U.S. appeal hearing for (...)
By penetrating the realities of war and pulling it out of its carefully orchestrated public context, by publicizing its raw horrors, he became a danger to the country’s political status quo.
The Pentagon’s offer of “condolence money” to the relatives of the ten people (seven of them children) who (...)
The bottom-line is that cops are outlaws. They have the power to legally kill Black people.
Derek Chauvin’s conviction for the murder of George Floyd does not change that fact. The Chauvin verdict does not change the reality of racial profiling, racism and national oppression.
Chauvin was (...)
On the brink of the Kill the Bill day of action in Britain this Saturday, Alan Cooper reports on the growing attacks on democracy across the US. Is this the direction of travel here too?
US states Oklahoma and Iowa have passed laws that grant immunity to drivers who cause injuries by driving (...)
In a decision that led to celebration in Minneapolis and throughout America, a jury of twelve black and white men and women on April 20 convicted white police officer Derek Chauvin of two counts of murder in the case of George Floyd, a black man. Seldom are police officers charged and tried and (...)
Former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty by a jury on all charges on April 20.
“I called the police on the police,” one eyewitness told the jury.
The prosecution opened the trial of George Floyd’s killer Derek Chauvin with a 9 minute and 29 second (“929”) video showing the police (...)
Judge says it would be ‘oppressive’ to extradite WikiLeaks founder to US, citing concerns for his mental health.
Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the US to face charges of espionage and of hacking government computers, a British judge has decided.
Lawyers for US authorities are to appeal (...)
BELOW ARE THE comments Clifford D. Conner made at a September 8th press conference in front of the British consulate in New York City. Conner is an historian and author of Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution and The Tragedy of American Science: From Truman to Trump. The court in (...)
THE DEMAND THAT no one be caged is an old one. Decades before the U.S. prison population hit two million and the concept of “mass incarceration” entered the public lexicon, anti-racist feminist organizers called for the end of criminalization and confinement.
In the new book All Our Trials: (...)
Use teargas, batons, pepper spray, fists, feet and vehicles against protesters sparks lawsuits and international condemnation .
The nationwide anti-police brutality protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd in the US have been marked by widespread incidents of police violence, including (...)
California—Mass protests in cities and towns across the United States exploded after four cops murdered an unarmed Black man, George Floyd, 46, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25.
The white cop, Derek Chauvin, 44, for nearly 9 minutes, put his knee on Floyd’s neck. He cried out, “I can’t (...)
When my son, who’s 19, called from Minneapolis on Saturday night, I was watching the livestream of protesters defying curfew there for the second night in a row, and listening to young people dry heave, like my students in Colombia, from the tear gas. Because he has first-aid training for (...)
The uprisings and demonstrations in Minneapolis and other cities including in front of the White House that followed the brutal May 25th killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man by white Minneapolis police officers and the hesitation of local and federal prosecutors to immediately arrest (...)
The video recording of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, a black man strangled to death by a white police officer who kneeled on his throat for nine minutes until he was dead, sparked anger and outrage and has led to a full-scale national rebellion against police racism and (...)
After the African American teenager Michael Brown was shot dead by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, the epidemic of police violence against people of color in the US captured national and global attention, for a time.
When Brown was killed, the words of Eric Garner, (...)
“That we, as doctors, feel ethically compelled to hold governments to account on medical grounds speaks volumes about the gravity of the medical, ethical, and human rights travesties that are taking place.”
A group of over 100 doctors on Monday urged the Australian government to end its “refusal (...)
The Democratic impeachment inquiry began when a “whistle blower” revealed that President Trump had pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open an investigation of former vice-president Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Trump suspended military aid to Ukraine, and made a White House (...)
Five years since its inception, a look at what the Black Lives Matter movement accomplished and the important work it left unfinished.
The autopsy report confirmed what her neighbors said happened in an apartment complex outside of Houston, Texas. Pamela Turner, a forty-four-year-old (...)
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