Secularism is a Women’s IssueThe crucial developments in the case outside the court room over the past year are important to highlight, as they have exposed the highly political nature of the Assange persecution by the US government.
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Julian Assange case: 4 things that the media doesn’t tell you
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Africa: What comes after national liberation movements?
18 January, by siawi3History shows us that the decline of national liberation movements is inevitable. It also shows us that without undertaking the political work to build progressive alternatives, moving from one political epoch to another can be a movement from the frying pan into the fire.
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Pakistan-Afghanistan: TTP confirms senior leader Khurasani’s death
18 January, by siawi3The current TTP spokesman confirmed his death in a statement but shared no details of how he had died. A Pakistani security official said Balti, aged around 50, was involved in several attacks on the people and security forces of Pakistan. He was also the person who had called the media in Pakistan and Afghanistan to claim the 2014 terrorist attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar. The TTP numbers anywhere from 4,000 to 10,000 fighters, according to a UN report. The TTP is regrouping and reorganising, with its leadership headquartered in neighbouring Afghanistan.
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131 years ago today, the U.S. Army massacred native Sioux at Wounded Knee
18 January, by siawi3To this day, each successive Administration has only given hypocritical lip service in acknowledging the atrocities meted out to the Native people. Their rights and treaties are still trampled on and ignored and they are effectively written out of the mainstream narrative.
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Julian Assange, le long chemin vers la vérité
18 janvier, par siawi3« Dire la vérité ». Un travail aussi volatile qu’intense. Et dangereux aussi. Une profession sans laquelle le concept moderne de liberté d’expression n’existerait pas. Un métier indispensable pour comprendre dans toute son ampleur la notion de démocratie. Ce qui importe le plus au pouvoir dans le cas de Julian Assange, c’est le maintien de représailles prolongées. Une sorte de punition sans échéance précise - la sentence finale - qui peut transformer Assange en un Sisyphe moderne. Afin qu’aucun journaliste ne tente à nouveau ce que Julian a tenté avec WikiLeaks.
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Pays-Bas.Une enquête révèle qui a dénoncé Anne Frank et sa famille
18 janvier, par siawi3“Arnold van den Bergh, membre du Conseil juif d’Amsterdam, […] a sans doute transmis une liste d’adresses de cachettes au Sicherheitsdienst (service de renseignement et de maintien de l’ordre de la SS) en échange de la protection de sa [propre] famille”
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USA: Group Seeks Clemency for 110 Black Soldiers Convicted in 1917 Houston Riot
17 January, by siawi3The South Texas College of Law Houston and the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) have signed an agreement to continue fighting for clemency for the soldiers of the all-Black Third Battalion of the US Army’s 24th Infantry Regiment, the Houston Chronicle reported.
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USA: Democratic Socialists of America-DSA Report Back: Chile Delegation, 2021
17 January, by siawi3Boric’s government will be a test for how new left formations can handle state power.
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USA: Ralph Nader: Time to Create Corporate Crime Database
17 January, by siawi3There is still no comprehensive official federal database of corporate crime in America. Non-governmental unofficial databases on corporate crime have been created to partially fill the void. The failure to measure can lead to sloppy thinking, bad decisions, and entrenched neglect.
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USA: États-Unis: Trump lance sa campagne de reconquête du pouvoir en Arizona
17 January, by siawi3Trump avait retrouvé l’accent de ses campagnes électorales. Il a attaqué les médias, faisant huer par la foule les équipes de télévision, il a critiqué Biden, l’accusant de transformer l’Amérique «en un nouveau Venezuela». Trump a dénoncé «les frontières ouvertes» et l’entrée «de millions d’immigrants illégaux», l’inflation galopante, l’augmentation du prix du carburant, les pénuries dans les magasins, et les taux de criminalités élevés «dans les villes démocrates».
