On September 7 a court sitting in the Old Bailey in London resumed the task of extraditing Julian Assange to the US. Reports of earlier proceedings by Craig Murray, Your man in the public gallery, have been vital in exposing the judiciary’s capricious and partisan conduct of the process and its utter disregard for Assange’s right to a fair trial. Continue reading
Julian Assange
The communist virus
A pep talk by the Queen has rallied the troops. With the same courage that young lads in the Great War went ‘over the top’, into a hail of machine-gun fire and certain death, Brits are on their doorsteps engaging in hand to hand combat with the ruthless Communist virus. The situation is hopeful. Continue reading
Blind faith
Boris Johnson, the latest British prime minister, kissed the Queen’s hand and rushed out to fly the flag outside his new lodgings in Downing Street. “Everyone knows the values that flag represents. It stands for freedom and free speech and habeas corpus and the rule of law and above all it stands for democracy.” If, somewhere in the bowels of Belmarsh, Julian Assange muttered jack shit he would have been entirely correct. Continue reading
Exit Notes – bile from the bench
There is a smug claim that camouflages a political economy of exploitation, deception, criminality, plunder and war. It goes like this. Democracy and the rule of law are fundamental to the freedom and sovereignty of the people of the US and the UK. These ideals are zealously guarded by a vigilant press which exposes skulduggery, holds power to account and enables the public to see that justice has been done. Continue reading
Exit Notes – the case of the broken condom
For almost three years neoliberals on both sides of the Atlantic have waged a surreal campaign to dislodge Donald Trump, reverse the Brexit decision and buy time to manage the collapse of capitalism. Resistance is strangled by the politics of identity even as the fiction of democracy and the rule of law dissolves in a reconfigured class and cold war. Continue reading
Drowning Witches 