| Black Agenda Report

Leonard C. Goodman
Assange and Manning are Being Persecuted for Speaking Truth to Power
08 Jan 2020
Had WikiLeaks existed in 2002, a patriotic officer like Chelsea Manning might have leaked the official intelligence reports and stopped a war.
review by Michael Steven Smith
The Trials of Julian Assange
04 Dec 2019
A new book offers a sweeping defense of the imprisoned Wikileaks publisher.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
WikiLeaks, the Global Fourth Estate: History Is Happening
03 Jul 2019
WikiLeaks made it possible for whistleblowers to expose government and corporate criminals anonymously.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
UN Rapporteur on Torture Says Assange Could Die in Prison
12 Jun 2019
Julian Assange has been moved to Belmarsh Prison hospital and the UN Rapporteur on Torture has warned that he could die there.
Riva Enteen
National Lawyers Guild Echoes Smear Campaign Against Julian Assange
29 May 2019
The Trump-era brought in a new McCarthyism to which the Guild, shockingly, has fallen prey.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Pentagon Manhunt for Julian Assange Preceded Swedish Rape Allegations
01 May 2019
The US government has disregarded due process and elemental honesty in pursuing its vendetta against Julian Assange.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The War on WikiLeaks: Which Side Are You On?
24 Apr 2019
Assange’s arrest shows that "free speech" and "assembly" is defined as whatever the U.S. rulers are willing to tolerate.
T.P. Wilkinson
Phoenix in Knightsbridge: the Daylight Seizure of Assange
17 Apr 2019
Unlike Edward Snowden, and more like Philip Agee, Assange rejected the premise that the State has any right to secrecy at all.
Rob Smith
Julian Assange Threatened With Expulsion from Embassy
10 Apr 2019
Ecuador’s president appears to be using Assange as a bargaining chip for debt relief.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Chelsea Manning Defies Secret Grand Jury, Julian Assange Scoops Michael Cohen
13 Mar 2019
Whistleblower Chelsea Manning is jailed for refusing to testify against Julian Assange, whose confinement in Ecuador's London embassy puts the lie to much of the Russiagate fantasy.