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UK High Court Predictably Approves Extradition of Julian Assange to US – Read the Ruling
Today, December 10 2021, the UK High Court issued its ruling in the Julian Assange extradition case, deciding to accept as credible the US Government’s “assurances” that they will not torture Assange – who the CIA and other elements of the US capitalist class and its Deep State had considered kidnapping and/or assassinating outright. The … Continue reading
Read the full text of CIA Kidnapping and Torture Victim Khaled el-Masri’s statement to Julian Assange Extradition Hearing 18 Sep 2020
We are very pleased to present the excellent statement of CIA kidnapping and torture victim Khaled el-Masri’s statement to the court in Julian Assange’s extradition hearing on18 September 2020. The US Government representatives at the hearing had originally sought to prevent this statement from being read out to the court. It had been agreed that … Continue reading
Lauri Love case: Text of 16 September 2016 Ruling by Judge Tempia in USA v. Love
We present for our readers the actual ruling in the Lauri Love case handed down by Judge Tempia on 16 September 2016. We obtained it via the Courage Foundation’s “Free Lauri” website. The Courage Foundation is hosting the international campaign to free Lauri Love and is raising money for the very expensive legal defense case … Continue reading
Free Lauri Love! Workers Should Face Trial In Their Home Countries and Only for Violations of their Own Countries’ Laws
We republish here our response to an op-ed published by Janis Sharp, (mother of Gary McKinnon who successfully fought extradition to the US on similar charges) in “The Guardian” (UK) regarding the decision of a UK judge to uphold the US’ request to extradite Love for alleged “hacker crimes”. The original article can be found … Continue reading
Tor Project Executive Director Andrew Lewman’s Response to Our 2nd “Open Letter” to Tor
We have just received an email response to our 2nd “Open Letter” to Tor from Andrew Lewman, Executive Director of the Tor Project. His letter, which we reprint in its entirety, speaks for itself; however, we will publish our response to it later today or tomorrow. Lewman’s letter grossly misrepresents many of the points we … Continue reading
Tor Project’s Support for US Espionage Activities in Syria, Iran and China Questioned in New Open Letter to Andrew Lewman
The following is the text of a new email we’ve just sent to Mr. Andrew Lewman, Executive Director of the Tor Project. We will publish his response when we receive it. In his email to us we received yesterday, Mr. Lewman admitted that the two major funders of the Tor Project in 2011 were the … Continue reading
Happy 25th Birthday Bradley Manning! May Your Next Birthday be Celebrated in Freedom!
Today is Bradley Manning’s 25th birthday being “celebrated” in the custody of the US Military and the US Government, unfortunately. We’d like to take this opportunity to send him our best wishes and to say that we hope we’ll all be celebrating his birthday next year at this time with him and his friends and … Continue reading
WikiLeaks Releases Latest Cache on US Military’s Guantanamo Bay Torture Camp: The Detainee Files
[We reprint below the press release published by WikiLeaks.org announcing their latest cache of previously secret files on the crimes of US imperialism. Enjoy! – FoWL Chicago] Press Release: The Detainee Policies 05:00am New York Time (EDT), (10:00am London time (BST)) Thursday, 25th October 2012 Starting today, Thursday, 25th October 2012, WikiLeaks begins releasing the … Continue reading
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