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I’ve been in the vanguard of those calling on the UK government to extradite Julian Assange. This, after the Ecuadorian embassy infamously kicked him to the curb in 2019 for continually violating the conditions of his asylum in its London embassy. That’s where British police, who had been lying in wait for nearly seven years,… Read more.
I was exceedingly happy when Mexicans elected López Obrador as president in 2018. Here in part is how I commented in “Mexicans Voted for López Obrador to Confront Donald Trump,” July 2, 2018: _________ Obrador has been running for president as a socialist godsend for 18 years, to no avail. … But the (orange) elephant in the… Read more.
Julian Assange is more of an outlaw than even Donald J. Trump when it comes to gaming the law. The manifest absurdity is that Assange has been able to avoid extradition – from a prison in the United Kingdom – based on the claim that he might be treated unfairly in a prison in the… Read more.
A little background on this international farce seems warranted. Accordingly, here is what I wrote nearly eight years ago in “Ecuador Grants Wikileaker Julian Assange Asylum … in London,” August 20, 2012: ____________________ Such is the nature of groupthink among Western commentators that you’d be hard-pressed to find any who oppose, as I do, Ecuador’s… Read more.
I’ve been decrying WikiLeaks for years as little more than a reckless peddler of tabloid fodder. Unfortunately, the chorus of fellow progressives singing its praises made me feel like the proverbial John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness. Here, for example, is what I wrote in “Ecuador Grants Wikileaker Julian Assange Asylum … in London?”… Read more.
Julian Assange must feel like he’s in Heaven. Which, of course, is ironic considering he’s actually in the first circle of Hell (aka Dante’s Limbo). You’d never know it from his TV interviews, but he has been hiding out in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 2012. That’s when he fled there to avoid… Read more.
Five years ago, Julian Assange commanded such media attention, you’d have thought he posed the greatest threat to the United States since Osama bin Laden. Yet media mentions of him soon became as noteworthy as those of Ted Kaczynski or Eric Rudolph. Exactly. As it happens, I’m on record not only decrying the cause celebre… Read more.
Given media reports on his arrest three years ago, you’d think Army Pfc. Bradley Manning (25) posed a far greater threat to U.S. national security than Osama bin Laden. Recall that the government charged Manning with all manner of crimes, including the treasonous “aiding the enemy” for handing over hundreds of thousands of classified documents… Read more.
Such is the nature of groupthink among Western commentators that you’d be hard-pressed to find any who support, as I do, Russia’s decision on Friday to incarcerate three Pussy Rioters. The nature of their political hooliganism warrants prosecution. Likewise, you’d be hard-pressed to find any who oppose, as I do, Ecuador’s decision that same day to… Read more.
Nine days ago, Assange surrendered to British authorities. He reportedly did so out of fear that CIA operatives would snatch him off the streets to bring him under the vortex of American justice – just as they have done with countless suspected-terrorist collaborators around the world. It came as little surprise, however, when his lawyers… Read more.
