Julian Assange

Nobel Laureate Calls for Justice for Julian Assange Free Julian Assange by MAIREAD MAGUIRE As concerned citizens of the World know, the Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is currently inside the Ecuadorian Embassy, in London, having gone there to ask for political asylum. I would add my voices to that of many people of conscience, around the world, in urging President Correa to grant political asylum to Julian Assange. The British courts shamefully refused Mr. Assanges’ appeal against extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning [...]

By John Johnson|2012-08-02T18:30:57-05:00August 2nd, 2012|Free Speech, Human Rights, Independent Media, Peace and War, People, Wall Street|0 Comments

Our Men Of The Year – Julian Assange and Bradford Manning’

Julian Assange Editorial— Some may say that Julian is flawed. The sex charges are for having a torn condom. They were dropped until the US pressured Sweden to reinstate them. No one in similar circumstances has ever had an Interpol warrant issued. This occurred when he threaten to release information on Bank of America. He is only doing what any decent investigative reported would have done. He didn’t steal these files, he was given them from unknown sources. He went over them with major newspapers to take [...]

By John Johnson|2011-01-09T02:26:14-05:00January 2nd, 2011|Editorial, Featured, Free Speech, Independent Media, John Pilger, News, Politics|1 Comment

Julian Assange WikiLeaks

The Truth Will Always Win by Julian Assange In 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win." His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch's expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut him up but Keith Murdoch would not be silenced and his efforts led to the termination of the disastrous [...]

By John Johnson|2011-01-03T00:50:06-05:00January 2nd, 2011|Commentary, Democracy, Editorial, Human Rights, Independent Media, Peace and War|0 Comments