Barry Pollack, one of Assange’s lawyers, said his client had been the victim of an injustice. “The prosecution of Julian Assange is unprecedented,” he told reporters outside the court. In the 100 years of the Espionage Act, it has never been used by the United States to pursue a publisher, a journalist, like Mr Assange. Mr Assange revealed truthful, important and newsworthy information including revealing that the United States had committed war crimes, and he has suffered tremendously.”

WikiLeaks’s Assange arrives in Australia following release on US plea deal

CHRIS HEDGES: Julian Assange exposed the crimes of empire; and that can’t be tolerated

We are Spartacus

Alexandre Koyré: The Political Function of the Modern Lie (1943)

In video from Gaza, former CEO of Pegasus spyware announces millions for new venture

Daniel Nemenyi: Submarine state – On secrets and leaks

The Pegasus Project: Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon / Shoshana Zuboff: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Samizdat: Russia’s Underground Press (1970)

Nobel Peace Laureate: ‘We journalists are the defence line between dictatorship and war’ (2021)

UK court approves Assange extradition appeal / Why Julian Assange’s fate matters

Chris Hedges: Craig Murray on the ‘Slow Motion Execution’ of Assange

Edward Snowden – Everything Going Great: Bad Faith, Worse News and Julian Assange

Alex Ross: How American Racism Influenced Hitler / The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

Biden Is the Latest President To Tout the Vietnam War as Proud History

Henry Kissinger was the definition of elite impunity

Roaming Charges: Kissinger – the Dr. Caligari of American Empire

Revisiting Foucault and the Iranian Revolution

‘No innocent civilians’: the Violent Legacies of the U.S. War in Vietnam

‘Napalm Girl’ at 50: The story of the Vietnam War’s defining photo / “Because Our Fathers Lied”: Craig McNamara Reveals the Lies of His Father, Robert McNamara

How the trauma of the Vietnam War led to the age of “alternative facts”

Seymour Hersh on Witnessing American War Crimes in Vietnam

Vietnam: Epitaph of a soldier

‘I sent them a good boy and they made him a murderer’

The Last Child of My Lai

Tom Engelhardt: The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire Or What It Means to Fall on a Failing Planet

A New History of the Second World War

‘Christian nationalism’ in American politics: the Republican hotline to Jesus

Joe Lauria: The Three Types of U.S. ‘Regime Change’ / Andrew Bacevich: Why Washington Has Learned Nothing From Vietnam to Afghanistan

The CIA and the New Dialect of Power. By River Page

Tom Engelhardt: Biden’s indirect admission highlights the steady decline of American empire

Trump is no outlaw, just a grubby, sad criminal

‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech