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Julian Assange

Google Drops Pledge over Use of AI for Weapons, Surveillance
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, revealed last year that AI had been used “to create mass assassinations” in Gaza. Google has dropped a commitment not to use artificial intelligence for weapons […]

‘Artificial Intelligence Used for Mass Assassinations’ in Gaza – Julian Assange
By Palestine Chronicle Staff “Where before there was a difference between assassination and warfare, now the two are conjoined, where many, perhaps the majority, of targets in Gaza are bombed as a result of […]

‘Murder in Broad Daylight’ – Roger Waters Speaks Out against Western Silence on Gaza Genocide
By Nurah Tape – The Palestine Chronicle “It’s murder in broad daylight, and it’s being perpetrated by our governments, the Americans, the Brits, the French, the Dutch… in plain sight, and we will not […]

‘Revealer of Inconvenient Truths’ – Julian Assange’s Impact on Palestine
By Robert Inlakesh Known internationally as a revealer of inconvenient truths and a political prisoner of the West, Assange had profound impacts on almost all corners of the globe. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is finally […]

‘Julian’s Freedom is Our Freedom’ – WikiLeaks Says Assange Paid for People’s ‘Right to Know’
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been released from prison and is due to appear in a US court on Wednesday where he is reportedly expected to plead guilty to violating […]

Julian Assange – A Poem
By Timothy McCord (After reading “The Trial of Julian Assange” by Nils Melzer and after W.B. Yeats) I Say that Julian Assange Has paid a heavy toll. He lies in Belmarsh Prison; His liberty they […]

CIA Plan to Poison Assange wasn’t Needed, US Found ‘Lawful’ Way to Disappear Him
By Jonathan Cook A Yahoo News’ investigation reveals that, through much of 2017, the CIA weighed up whether to use wholly extrajudicial means to deal with the supposed threat posed by Julian Assange and his […]

Craig Murray’s Jailing is the Latest Move to Snuff out Independent Journalism
By Jonathan Cook Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, will have to hand himself over […]

How the Left is Being Manipulated into Colluding in Its Own Character Assassination
By Jonathan Cook There was a fascinating online panel discussion on Wednesday night on the Julian Assange case that I recommend everyone watch. The video is at the bottom of the page. But from all […]

The US and UK May Not Will Assange’s Death, but Everything They are Doing Makes it More Likely
By Jonathan Cook There was a hope in some quarters after Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled on Monday against an application to extradite Julian Assange to the US, where he faced being locked away for the […]

Assange Wins. The Cost: The Crushing of Press Freedom, and the Labeling of Dissent as Mental Illness
By Jonathan Cook The unexpected decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser to deny a US demand to extradite Julian Assange, foiling efforts to send him to a US super-max jail for the rest of his life, […]

George Monbiot’s Excuses for Not Speaking out Loudly in Defense of Assange Simply Won’t Wash
By Jonathan Cook Faced with a barrage of criticism from some of his followers, George Monbiot, the Guardian’s supposedly fearless, leftwing columnist, offered up two extraordinarily feeble excuses this week for failing to provide more […]

The Guardian’s Deceit-riddled New Statement Betrays Both Julian Assange and Journalism
By Jonathan Cook In my recent post on the current hearings at the Old Bailey over Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States, where he would almost certainly be locked away for the rest of his life […]

The US is Using the Guardian to Justify Jailing Assange for Life: Why is the Paper so Silent?
By Jonathan Cook Julian Assange is not on trial simply for his liberty and his life. He is fighting for the right of every journalist to do hard-hitting investigative journalism without fear of arrest and […]

For Years, Journalists Cheered Assange’s Abuse, Now They’ve Paved his Path to US Gulag
By Jonathan Cook Court hearings in Britain over the US administration’s extradition case against Julian Assange begin in earnest next week. The decade-long saga that brought us to this point should appall anyone who cares […]

Endless Procedural Abuses Show Julian Assange Case Was never about Law
By Jonathan Cook It is astonishing how often one still hears well-informed, otherwise reasonable people say about Julian Assange: “But he ran away from Swedish rape charges by hiding in Ecuador’s embassy in London.” That […]

After 7 Years of Deceptions about Assange, the US Readies for Its First Media Rendition
By Jonathan Cook For seven years, from the moment Julian Assange first sought refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, they have been telling us we were wrong, that we were paranoid conspiracy theorists. We […]