UK High Court sides with US against Assange, WSW,Thomas Scripps11 August 2021, The UK’s High Court has allowed the United States to appeal on two additional grounds the refusal of Julian Assange’s extradition by a lower court.Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks still held in Belmarsh maximum security prison, is threatened with extradition on charges under the Espionage Act with a potential life sentence for revealing state war crimes, torture, surveillance, corruption and coup plots.
On January 4, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser blocked extradition, ruling that it would be oppressive by virtue of his mental health and put him at substantial risk of suicide.Lawyers for the US government sought to appeal the decision on the five grounds:
That Baraitser made errors of law in her application of the test under section 91 of the 2003 Extradition Act, which bars extradition if the person’s mental or physical condition would…
Îlham Ehmed, was born in Afrin and is a Syrian-Kurdish politician from
the Democratic Union Party, who is currently the co-president of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)…… wikipedia
Ilham warned of the Justice and Development Party’s phobia towards the Kurdish people, explaining that the Justice and Development Party(AKP) is weaponizing and forming cells aimed at carrying out assassinations, and said that it is a “dangerous policy that has serious repercussions on Turkish society.”
The warnings of Head of the Executive Body of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), Ilham Ahmed, came in an exclusive interview with Hawar news agency, in which she discussed in detail the Konya massacre, the possibility of a Syrian solution in light of the government’s intransigence and insistence on moving forward with its old approach, and the Russian role in deepening the crisis that erupted in the country in 2011.
Rebels hold a defiant commemoration in the Spanish capital to say they are ‘still here resisting’.
A paper boat is displayed during a cultural event by artists and activists, as well-wishes for the delegation of the National Liberation Zapatista Army travelling on a boat called ‘La Montana’ to Europe, in Mexico City, Mexico, May 2, 2021 [File: Carlos Jasso/Reuters]
A delegation of seven Zapatistas set out by boat from Mexico’s most eastern point, Isla Mujeres, weeks ago in May, following the inverse route Spanish invaders took half a century earlier.
A direct result of this is that only a tiny number of our 800 or so followers can see what we’re saying, and nobody follows us anymore…!
Also, when you respond to others’ tweets – no matter who they are – they don’t see it because the money-grubbing, advertisement-driven Silicon Valley suits either divert it to an online bin or file it away in a kind of “naughty” box.
Anyway, to hell with them, we thought we’d try publishing some of our tweets as very short blog posts. At least then there’s the consolation of knowing that we’re not being silenced and more people will be reading them.
This is the perennial problem with a New Media service that is free to both join and participate in.
Those who would have you censored on the quiet have absolutely no incentive to protect you as a customer. They owe you…
The skies above many places across Yakutia are now red and everything is covered in thick smoke, he reported from the scene, adding that the conditions are “taking a toll on our eyes; on our breath [and] lungs. Very rough out there.”
RT’s Dmitry Pauk, who has been doing a series of reports from the area, visited a local village that is threatened by fire from two sides, and observed the enormous efforts of the rescuers.
Our passion for freedom is stronger than the prison!
Last week people gathered outside HMP Eastwood park women’s prison to show solidarity with prisoners who have recently experienced increased levels of violence from prison guards. They chanted “you are not alone” and made noise so that the people inside could know that they are supported, and that the violence that they experience behind the prison walls will not go on unnoticed.
People also gathered and made noise at HMP Bristol to show solidarity with the prisoners and also let the recently convicted KTB prisoners know that they have support from the wider community, and that people are outraged at the harsh sentencing for those who went to protest against more police powers and tougher sentences.
Ways to support the Kill The Bill Protesters include sending letters, donating to the croudfunders and helping to change the narrative that this was mindless…
An earlier version of this text appeared in Portuguese here.
Ahead of the 2022 elections, Brazil is now reprising the same dramatic showdown that the United States faced in 2020. As the pandemic intensifies alongside corruption scandals and the unrestrained plundering of Indigenous lands, Jair Bolsonaro’s government faces pressure from the streets and the left wing of the state.
But what will it take to unseat him and break out of the patterns that brought him to power?
The parallels between Brazil and the United States run deep. Both are settler colonial states founded on slavery. The United States has largely completed its frontier phase, while Brazil continues to expand extraction efforts into Indigenous territories.
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