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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Julian Assange Freed by the Prospect of Justice
03 Jul 2024
After seven years of asylum in Ecuador’s embassy in London and another five years imprisoned by the United Kingdom, Julian Assange is finally a free man. The prospect of justice, of Assange…
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Free All Political Prisoners –- Including Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
26 Jun 2024
Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning paid a high price for revealing U.S. vicious criminality in Iraq. Their experiences are indicative of how far the state will go to silence anyone who reveals its…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Support for Julian Assange As He Fights Extradition to the U.S.
21 Feb 2024
BAR Executive Editor Margaret Kimberley recorded this statement of support for Julian Assange as he began his fight against extradition to the U.S.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Why We Must Defend Julian Assange
14 Dec 2021
Julian Assange is one of the political prisoners that the US claims not to have.
Richard Medhurst and Roberto Sirvent
U.S. Corporate Media Watch: An Interview with Richard Medhurst
14 Dec 2021
Richard and Roberto would like to dedicate this feature to Glen Ford, one of the fiercest critics of U.S. corporate media the country has ever known.
Branko Marcetic
The Julian Assange Media Blackout Must End
15 Jul 2021
Embarrassed by revelations, the Biden administration has now offered several “assurances” they would allow Assange to apply for transfer to a prison in his home country of Australia to serve out hi
Marjorie Cohn
Assange Faces Extradition For Exposing US War Crimes
14 Oct 2020
The prosecution of Assange would set a disturbing example for journalists and media outlets that publish information critical of the government.
Timothy Erik Strom and John Pilger
Eyewitness to the Agony of Julian Assange
07 Oct 2020
The defendant was caged behind thick glass, and had to crawl on his knees to a slit in the glass to make contact with his lawyers.
Patrick D. Anderson
WikiLeaks, Still Revealing Truths About Power, Officially Launches Bibliography
02 Sep 2020
The interpretations of and commentaries in the bibliography vary widely, from unquestionable support for WikiLeaks to outright hatred of Assange.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Free All Political Prisoners –- Including Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
13 Feb 2020
Julian Assange and his protégés have made common cause with Black revolutionaries in their zeal to lay bare the dictatorial nature of the omni-pervasive national security state and the sheer, racis