WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves after greeting supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, May 19, 2017 (AP/Frank Augstein)
The Spin War

In The Western World Truth Is An Endangered Species

The US government’s persecution of Julian Assange represents the departure from truth of the government as well as the media that enables it.

by Paul Craig Roberts

Senate Bill Targets WikiLeaks, Russia, Independent Press and the First Amendment

With the Russian meddling narrative serving as pretext, the U.S. Senate, embracing the “Pompeo Doctrine,” is moving to stifle and criminalize WikiLeaks and, by extension, any such “dangerous,” transparency-providing entities that threaten to cast doubt upon Washington’s “official stories.”

Senate Bill Targets WikiLeaks, Russia, Independent Press and the First Amendment

The Senate Intelligence Committee is pushing Congress to label WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service,” having adopted that very position in the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) it approved last month. The terminology used in the bill originates from

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Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is a writer and researcher for The Last American Vagabond and a MintPress News contributor and former staff writer. She has contributed to several independent media outlets and her work has been featured by The Real News Network, The Ron Paul Institute, The Zero Hour, and The Jimmy Dore Show, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.

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Assange: WikiLeaks Will Publish Enough Emails To Indict Clinton

The WikiLeaks founder is no fan of Hillary Clinton, telling a reporter that ‘she’s pushed for prosecution of WikiLeaks’ and ‘has a long history of being a lethal war hawk.’

Assange: WikiLeaks Will Publish Enough Emails To Indict Clinton

MINNEAPOLIS --- As WikiLeaks prepares to publish more of Hillary Clinton’s emails, the organization’s founder, Julian Assange, suggested they show Clinton violated the law. “We have upcoming leaks in relation to Hillary Clinton,” Assange

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Assange: Google Heavily Integrated With The US Establishment

US tech giant Google is heavily integrated with the US establishment and is allying with the US exceptionalism campaign, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said.

Assange: Google Heavily Integrated With The US Establishment

As much as 80 percent of the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) budget is privatized, demonstrating the merger between Washington and corporate organizations, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said

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New WikiLeaks Release Exposes ‘Most Highly Classified’ NSA Spy Ops

Among the NSA’s targets was UN Secretary General Ban-ki Moon. “If the Secretary General can be targeted without consequence then everyone from world leader to street sweeper is at risk,” says Julian Assange

New WikiLeaks Release Exposes ‘Most Highly Classified’ NSA Spy Ops

New documents published by WikiLeaks on Tuesday reveal more of the U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) spying operations on foreign leaders, including its interception of climate talks between UN Secretary General Ban-ki Moon and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The cables, some of which are

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Julian Assange Claims Total Vindication With UN Panel Ruling

The 44-year-old computer hacker’s lawyers said he must be allowed to walk free immediately and given protection from possible extradition to the United States.

Julian Assange Claims Total Vindication With UN Panel Ruling

LONDON  — A United Nations human rights panel has sided with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his long-running battle with Swedish and British authorities, saying he should be allowed to walk free immediately and compensated for the years he has lost. The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which falls under the

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Julian Assange: US & Israel Planned To Overthrow Assad In 2006

Cables reveal that before the beginning of the Syrian revolt and civil war, the United States hoped to overthrow Assad and create strife between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.

Julian Assange: US & Israel Planned To Overthrow Assad In 2006

LONDON --- Speaking from Ecuador’s embassy in London, Julian Assange revealed that the United States planned to overthrow the Syrian government as far back as 2006, several years before the start of the current crisis. The founder of WikiLeaks took refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador in 2012. The premises remain

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Kit O'Connell

Kit O'Connell

A gonzo journalist from Austin, Texas and Staff Writer for MintPress News, Kit O'Connell's writing has also appeared at Truthout, the Texas Observer, and The Establishment.

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