WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s US extradition hearing opens Monday. Finally, his legal team can argue in a court over the offences listed in the indictment against the journalist who published government documents exposing US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The prosecution of Assange threatens press freedom. This is the first time that the US Espionage Act has been used against a publisher. Ahead of the proceedings in a UK court, professionals, activists and human rights defenders around the world are coming together to intervene in this highly politicized case.
On Tuesday, a group of doctors representing 117 physicians and psychologists from 18 nations penned an open letter in the Lancet medical journal, appealing to governments to end the torture of Mr Assange, and provide the best available healthcare before it is too late.
Assange’s US Extradition Hearing Opens Monday: Fight for the Free Press Is Now On
Betrayed in Ecuador
Julian Assange's conversations, including legally privileged meetings with Australian lawyers Geoffrey Robertson, Jennifer Robinson and Melinda Taylor were secretly recorded inside his London embassy home.
In Germany, corporations, workers and environmentalists can all agree coal must go. Here's why
Getting all parties with a stake in the
coal industry to agree on shutting it down might seem impossible in the
Australian context. Here are the reasons why it could be done in Germany.
The fact that we can't agree on coal and CO2 emissions pivots about the fact that we aren't German enough when it comes to Industrial Relations and the structure of our decision making Corporate boards. We are still stuck in the 20th Century. People like Bolt preach it needs to be kept that way despite wanting to retire and live in the Socialist Netherlands. How can he be trusted... he can't.
Karen
Middleton: ' The federal government is allocating billions of dollars
in grants and making significant policy changes in a way that is likely
unlawful, legal experts warn, using a mechanism that bypasses parliament
and obscures decisions from public view.
Some of the Coalition’s own senators are starting to push back forcefully against the growing use of such regulations – also known as “delegated legislation” – to authorise a stream of government grants and other polic...
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Some of the Coalition’s own senators are starting to push back forcefully against the growing use of such regulations – also known as “delegated legislation” – to authorise a stream of government grants and other polic...
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Over the past year, the government has allocated nearly $5 billion…
Over
the past year, the government has allocated nearly $5 billion through
measures hidden from public view, bypassing the senate. Experts now warn
this may be illegal.
FAKE NEWS
Andrew Bolt is selling bullshit and trivia today it hoping the REAL NEWS of his apology and the betrayal of his friends Gerrard and Bettina will go unnoticed.The fact that we can't agree on coal and CO2 emissions pivots about the fact that we aren't German enough when it comes to Industrial Relations and the structure of our decision making Corporate boards. We are still stuck in the 20th Century. People like Bolt preach it needs to be kept that way despite wanting to retire and live in the Socialist Netherlands. How can he be trusted... he can't.
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