SERIES: The Julian Assange Archives (Parts 1-10)
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INDEX
The series
Why summarise the series here?
The individual parts in this series (with index for each)
- PART 1: Essay: “Julian Speaks: Two Voices from behind The Wall”
- PART 2: Compendium: “Nils Melzer on the torture of Julian Assange: A compendium”
- PART 3: Compendium: “The Persecution of WikiLeaks: Counting the Cost”
- PART 4: Compendium: “Craig Murray on the Julian Assange Show Trial ”
- PART 5: Compendium: “The Assange Wedding”
- PART 6: Compendium: “A Chorus of Courage: Speaking Up for Assange”
- PART 7: Compendium: “Prizes for Assange: Praise where Praise is Due”
- PART 8: Compendium: “Torrent of Truth: A Timeline of Assange Speech”
- PART 9: Podcast Review: “View from the Other Side: Proponents of Prosecution”
- PART 10: Essay: “All roads converge ... on Julian Assange”
- VIDEO SERIES: An illustrated reading of PART 10 (in 8 episodes)
- PART 11: Transcript: “Julian Speaks: a free man among friends, at last”
Author’s Final Word
Author
♦ The series
As a long time supporter of Julian Assange, I have become aware that many of those new to the story of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange find it hard to get a picture of the enormity and multidimensionality of the abuse that has gone on here, and what that says about the current state of the world we live in.
Many of the reports in this series, while interesting to read for those new to this topic, are mainly intended as ongoing resources: documents to bookmark, dip into, refer back to, and share with those needing sources and perspective, rather than pieces to read at one sitting. The compendia are updated regularly as new events arise, so you might want to check back from time to time.
♦ Why summarise the series here?
While this series opens and closes with essays, in between are mostly resources useful to journalists, bloggers and commentators - arranged within themes.
The index to each PART is provided below so that those seeking detailed information find it easier to locate the desired resources.
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♦ PART by PART
♦ PART 1:
This was an essay “Julian Speaks: Two Voices from behind The Wall” looking at Julian Assange’s life inside the embassy, putting it in a particular historic context.
Read it here.
INDEX
Introduction
- Making connections
- Julian of Norwich (1343-1416+, possibly 1430)
Conditions of seclusion
- Julian of Norwich
- Julian Assange
Shifts in the “rule” of seclusion
- Julian of Norwich
- Julian Assange
Working in seclusion
- Julian of Norwich
- Julian Assange
End of seclusion
- Julian of Norwich
- Julian Assange
Central messages
- Julian of Norwich
- Julian Assange
How will they be remembered?
- Julian of Norwich
- Julian Assange
In closing
NB: This essay is also available as a PDF.
♦ PART 2:
This is a chronological record of the attempts of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, to educate states and the wider world about the ongoing abuse of Julian Assange, and the wider significance of that abuse: “Nils Melzer on the torture of Julian Assange: A compendium”.
Read it here.
INDEX
Introduction
- The book: “The Trial of Julian Assange”
- Finding Julian
- Julian’s prior health care (or lack thereof)
- Nils Melzer takes action
- An Update on Censorship
Nils Melzer in speech and text
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
- 2022 (After leaving office 31 March 2022)
♦ PART 3:
This is another compendium “The Persecution of WikiLeaks: Counting the Cost” covering a wide range of costs incurred by those associated, in almost any way, with WikiLeaks. In particular, it looks at the rollcall of the dead, and lists some of the many whistleblowers and truthtellers who have suffered under this regime of persecution. Read it here.
INDEX
Intro - A non-state intelligence service
- UPDATE on Censorship
The costs
- The death toll (with sub-index)
— 8 Mar 2009: Oscar Kamau Kingara and John Paul Oulo
— 1 Apr 2012: Brett Assange (Julian’s stepfather)
— 11 Jan 2013: Aaron Swartz
— 18 Jun 2013: Michael Hastings
— 18 Apr 2016: John Jones QC
— 11 May 2016: Michael Ratner
— 10 July 2016: Seth Rich
— 22 Oct 2016: Gavin MacFadyen
— 16 Oct 2017: Daphne Caruana Galizia
— 26 Dec 2017: James Dolan
— 27 Jan 2018: Robert Parry
— 14 Mar 2018: Adrian Lamo
— 04 Sept 2018: Arjen Kamphuis
— 16 Dec 2018: Tim May
— 06 Sept 2020: Kevin Zeese
— 26 June 2021: Mike Gravel
— 29 Dec 2022: Vivienne Westwood
— 20 Mar 2023: Greg Sharkey
— 16 June 2023: Daniel Ellsberg
— 29 Oct 2023: James Doleman
— 30 Dec 2023: John Pilger
— 8 June 2024: Christophe Deloire (RSF)
- Death threats and implications for security
- Impact on the health and well-being of Julian Assange
- Lawfare, including multiple episodes of abuse of process
- Financial and property costs
- Whistleblowers and Truthtellers
- Introduction (with sub-index)
— The most famous Whistleblowers:
— - Daniel Ellsberg (@DanielEllsberg)
— - Chelsea Manning (@xychelsea)
— - Edward Snowden (@Snowden)
— More Whistleblowers & Truthtellers (in alphabetic order)
— - Bill Binney (@Bill_Binney)
— - Barret Brown (@BarrettB)
— - Thomas Drake (@Thomas_Drake1)
— - Rudolf Elmer (@SwissWB)
— - Stephanie Gibaud (@Steph_and_me)
— - Daniel Hale (@TeamDanielHale)
— - Jeremy Hammond (@FreeJeremyNet)
— - John Kiriakou (@JohnKiriakou)
— - Lauri Love
— - Ethan McCord
— - Gary McKinnon (@Freegary)
— - Craig Murray (@CraigMurrayOrg)
— - Joshua Schulte
— - Jeffrey Sterling (@Sterling_Je)
— - Cian Westmoreland (@CianMW)
The author
♦ PART 4:
This is also a compendium “Craig Murray on the Julian Assange Show Trial - Our Man in the Public Gallery”. Within it, readers can choose to go direct to the Craig Murray blog entry of interest via the index link, or to meander through the previews (and further links) which then follow. Read it here.
INDEX
NB In this index most lines have TWO links:
The “preview” link (where there is one) takes you to that part of the compendium where there are also further links (such as to live tweets and affidavits for each day), plus some additional information.
The second link (eg COMMENT or DAY 1) leads to the original entry in Craig Murray’s blog.
LEVEL 1 - Magistrates Court
APPLICATION to Cancel an Arrest Warrant 6 & 13 Feb 2018
Preview - COMMENT - 14 Feb 2018 “All Pretence is Over in Persecution of Assange“
PRELIMINARY Hearings and other events
Preview - COMMENT - 13 Aug 2019 “Assange Must Not Also Die In Jail” (alluding to the ‘suicide’ of Jeffrey Epstein)
Preview - HEARING - re 21 Oct 2019 “Assange in Court“ [Information Note] [WikiLeaks Press Release]
Preview - PROTEST - re 22 Feb 2020 “Roger Waters on Julian Assange”
PHASE 1 - 24-27 Feb 2020
Preview - DAY 01 - 24 Feb 2020
Preview - DAY 02 - 25 Feb 2020
Preview - DAY 03 - 26 Feb 2020
Preview - DAY 04 - 27 Feb 2020
Preview - Phase 1 ADDENDUM 1: 2 Mar 2020 - “The Glass Box”
Preview - Phase 1 ADDENDUM 2: 25 Mar 2020 - “The Bail Hearing”
Preview - Phase 1 ADDENDUM 3: 15 Apr 2020 - “CIA Spying on Assange’s Privileged Legal Conversations”
Preview - Phase 1 ADDENDUM 4: 14 July 2020 - “Damage to the Soul“
PHASE 2 - 7 Sept - 1 Oct 2020
Preview - DAY 05 - AN ASIDE re Media Freedom - published 7 Sept 2020
Preview - DAY 06 - re 07 Sept 2020 with WITNESS #1 Mark Feldstein
Preview - DAY 07 - re 08 Sept 2020 with WITNESS #1 Mark Feldstein (cont); WITNESS #2: Clive Stafford Smith
Preview - DAY 08 - re 09 Sept 2020 with WITNESS #3: Paul Rogers; WITNESS #4: Trevor Timm
Preview - DAY 09 - re 14 Sept 2020 with WITNESS #5: Eric Lewis
Preview - DAY 10 - re 15 Sept 2020 with WITNESS #5: Eric Lewis (cont); WITNESS #6: Thomas Durkin
Preview - DAY 11 - re 16 Sept 2020 with WITNESS #7: John Goetz; WITNESS #8: Daniel Ellsberg
Preview - DAY 12 - re 17 Sept 2020 with WITNESS #9: John Sloboda; WITNESS #10: Carey Shenkman
Preview - DAY 13 - re 18 Sept 2020 with WITNESS #10: Carey Shenkman (cont); WITNESS #11: Nicky Hagar
— ** RIR: WITNESS #12 Jen Robinson; WITNESS #13 Khaled El-Masri; WITNESS #14 Dean Yates
Preview - DAY 14 - re 21 Sept 2020 with WITNESS #15: Christian Grothoff; WITNESS #16: Cassandra Fairbanks (RIR)
Preview - DAY 15 - re 22 Sep 2020 Medical Testimony with WITNESS #17: Michael Kopelman
Preview - DAY 16 - re 23 Sept 2020 Medical Testimony with WITNESS #18: Quinton Deeley
— ** Read unto the record: WITNESS #19 Catherine Humphrey; Prosecution WITNESS #P1 Seena Fazel
Preview - DAY 17 - re 24 Sept 2020 Medical Testimony WITNESS #P-2* Nigel Blackwood; WITNESS #20 Sondra Crosby
— ** Read unto the record: WITNESS #21 Christopher Butler; WITNESS #22 John Young
Preview - DAY 18 - re 25 Sept 2021 with WITNESS #23 Jakob Augstein (RIR); WITNESS #24 Patrick Eller (video link)
Preview - DAY 19 - re 28 Sep 2020 with WITNESS #25 Yancey Ellis; WITNESS #26 Joel Sickler
Preview - DAY 20 - re 29 Sept 2020 with WITNESS #27 Maureen Baird; WITNESS #28 Lyndsay Lewis
Preview - DAY 21- re 30 Sept 2020 Read into the record:
—** WITNESS #29 Patrick Cockburn; WITNESS #30 Iain Cobain; WITNESS #31 Stefania Maurizi;
—** WITNESS #32 Guy Goodwin-Gill; WITNESS #33 Robert Boyle; WITNESS #34 Bridget Prince;
—** WITNESS #35 Witness 1 (Spain); WITNESS #36 Witness 2 (Spain); WITNESS #37 Aitor Martinez
—** WITNESS #38 Noam Chomsky; WITNESS #39 Andy Worthington; WITNESS #40 Jameel Jaffer
Preview - DAY 22 - re 1 Oct 2020 WITNESS #41 RIR: Michael Tigar; WITNESS #42 Gareth Peirce (x6)
Preview - ADDENDUM - 9 Oct 2021 “Where Is My Final Assange Report?”
DECISION DAY - 4 Jan 2021
Preview - Blog entry 1: “Julian Assange: Imminent Freedom”
Preview - Blog entry 2: “The Assange Verdict: What Happens Now”
Interregnum
Preview - COMMENT - 21 June 2021”Assange is Still in Jail”
Preview - COMMENT - 29 June 2021 “FBI Fabrication Against Assange Falls Apart”
Preview - EVENTS - Craig Murray - Political prisoner - 1 Aug - 30 Nov 2021
LEVEL 2 - High Court
Preview - 11 Aug 2021 - High Court Appeal re grounds of appeal
Preview - 27-28 Oct 2021 - High Court Appeal by the US
Preview - 10 Dec 2021 - High Court Appeal ruling
Preview - 23 Dec 2021 - Request to HC for permission to appeal to SC lodged
Preview - 24 Jan 2022 - “Day Oh God It Never Ends” (HC responds to permission to appeal to SC)
LEVEL 3 - Supreme Court
Preview - 15 Mar 2022 - “On To The Next Hurdle” (SC refuses permission to appeal)
JOYFUL INTERVAL - The Assange Wedding
Preview - WORD PICTURE - 25 Mar 2022 - “Free, Enduring Love“
HOME SECRETARY
Signs extradition order (17 June 2022) [gov.uk]
LEVEL 2 - High Court
DEFENCE files Appeals to High Court:
- Re decision of Home Secretary (4 grounds) (23 June 2022) [TH]
- Re decision in the lower court (12 grounds) (30 June 2022) [TH]
- ‘Perfected Grounds of Appeal’ filed (26 August 2022) [CM pdf]
HIGH COURT Denial of applications to appeal (6 June 2023)
- in the case of Secretary of State vs. Julian Assange [TH] [TC pdf]
- in the case of the United States of America vs. Julian Assange [TH] [TC pdf]
Preview - COMMENT - 15 June 2023 ”Assange: An Unholy Masquerade of Tyranny Disguised as Justice”
Preparing for the worst - Craig Murray in the US
Preview - COMMENT - 11 Sept 2023 “Defend Assange US Tour”
See also - VIDEO “Luncheon in Support of Julian Assange with Craig Murray [from 8:06], by Randy Credico” (9 Sept 2023).
— AUDIO - 13 Sept 2023 “The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with former British Ambassador Craig Murray on what appears to be the imminent extradition to the U.S. of Julian Assange.” See also the VIDEO version 15 Sept 2023, and Craig's BLOG entry “The Slow Motion Execution of Julian Assange“ 16 Sept 2023 in relation to the same event.
— VIDEO - 15 Sept 2023 “Ex-UK amb. Craig Murray: "The US has completely ceased to be a democracy" The Grayzone. See also CM BLOG entry “Grayzone Interview with Max Blumenthal“ (19 Sept 2023).
Back in the UK - High Court interval (cont)
Preview - COMMENT - 20 Nov 2023 “The Supreme Court, Rwanda and Assange”
More in the High Court (2 judges) again seeking permission to appeal
Preview - DAY 1 - 20 Feb 2024 - “Assange Final Appeal – Your Man in the Public Gallery”
Preview - DAY 2 - 21 Feb 2024 - “Assange Final Appeal Day 2 – Your Man in the Public Gallery”
In Geneva - Another interval
Preview - COMMENT - 13 March 2004 - “A Tour d’Horizon on Swiss Box” Also see [YouTube]
Preview - COMMENT - 16 March 2024 - “Assange Truth and UN Shenanigans”
The High Court (2 judges) allows a limited appeal (possibly)
Preview - COMMENT - 26 March 2024 - “The Assange Hearing Permission Appeal Judgment: Mad and Bad.”
Preview - COMMENT - 20 May 2024 - “The Turning of the Tide“ Also see [YouTube]
FREE AT LAST
Preview - COMMENT - 25 June 2024 - “The Happiest of Days“
Preview - COMMENT - 5 Oct 2024 - “A Very Peculiar Triumph“
OTHER COMMENTARY
Preview - COMMENT - 26 May 2022 - “The Power of Lies”
Preview - VIDEO - 15 July 2022 - “The prisoner | COLLATERAL”
Preview - COMMENT - 1 Oct 2020 - On Bearing Witness
♦ PART 5:
This documents what was mostly a happy hiatus in this litany of abuse: “The Assange Wedding”. But even on that special day, the apparatus of the state managed to intrude with its petty (and not so petty) cruelties. Read it here.
INDEX
Stella’s own story
Livestreams from the outside
Accounts from the inside
- Chris Hedges
- Craig Murray
- Randy Credico Assange Countdown Special podcast
- The 60 Minutes documentary
- The Evening Standard post-wedding interview
The wedding cakes
Other commentaries
Cruelties of officialdom on the day
A song for the wedding
Closing words
This series and its author
♦ PART 6:
This compendium “A Chorus of Courage: Speaking Up for Assange”, provides a roll call of many of those who have spoken up for Julian Assange - using their professional &/or personal voices - and provides a little information about their role, together with links to some key statements. This list represents only the tip of the enormous mass of support for Julian that exists - especially at the grass roots level.
Read it here.
INDEX
— Introduction
— This series
— Note re censorship
Ecuador in the Correa era
— Rafael Correa - President of Ecuador (Jan 2007 - May 2017)
— Ricardo Patiño - Minister of Foreign Affairs (Jan 2010 - Mar 2016)
— Guillaume Long - Minister of Foreign Affairs (Mar 2016 - May 2017)
— Ana Alban - Ecuador's Ambassador to the UK (2010-2013)
— Fidel Narváez - Consul at Ecuador’s London embassy (2010 - July 2018)
— Gina Benavides - Defensora del Pueblo Ecuador [Ombudsman]
The United Nations Human Rights Council
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
— Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein - (Sept 2014 - Aug 2018)
— Michelle Bachelet - (Sept 2018 - current)
Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council
— UNWGAD - The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
— Mads Andenas (former chair of UNWGAD)
The UN Special Rapporteurs (UN-SR)
— Nils Melzer - UN-SR on Torture … (Nov 2016 - 31 Mar 2022).
— Frank La Rue - UN-SR on Freedom of Expression (Aug 2008 - Aug 2014)
— David Kaye - UN-SR on Freedom of Expression (Aug 2014 - July 2020)
— Joe Cannataci - UN-SR on Privacy (July 2015 - June 2021)
— Agnes Callamard - UN-SR on … Extrajudicial Killings (Aug 2016 - March 2021)
— Alfred de Zayas - Former UN Independent Expert
The Lawyers
United Kingdom
— Gareth Peirce - UK solicitor extraordinaire
— Edward Fitzgerald QC - UK barrister
— Mark Summers QC - UK barrister
— Geoffrey Robertson QC - UK barrister
— Jennifer Robinson - AU and UK lawyer & barrister
— John Jones QC - UK barrister (died 18 April 2016)
Sweden
— Per E Samuelsson - SE advokat
Ecuador
— Carlos Poveda - EC abogado
Australia
— Jennifer Robinson - AU and UK lawyer & barrister
— Melinda Taylor - AU & International lawyer
— Greg Barns - AU barrister
— Julian Burnside QC - AU barrister
— Stephen Kenny - AU barrister
Spain
— Baltasar Garzón - ES jurist
— Aitor Martínez - ES abogado
Belgium (European Court of Human Rights)
— Christophe Marchand - BE avocat
United States
— Michael Ratner - US attorney (died 11 May 2016)
— Margaret Ratner Kunstler - US attorney
— Barry J Pollack - US attorney
International
— Lawyers For Assange
The Doctors
— Dr Sean Love
— Dr Sondra Crosby
— Doctors For Assange
The Family
— Christine Assange - mother
— John Shipton - father
— Gabriel Shipton - half-brother
— Stella Moris - wife & mother of his two youngest children
The Official Word
— WikiLeaks
— Defend Assange Campaign
— Courage Foundation
— Don’t Extradite Assange (DEA) Campaign [UK]
— Assange Defense Committee [US]
— Committee to Defend Julian Assange (JADC) [UK]
NGOs and Free Assange groups
— Free Press groups
— Human Rights groups
— Free Assange groups
Musicians and other artists
REAL Journalists & Courageous Publishers
— Some of the brave people and media organisations who have made - and continue to make - a sincere effort to truthfully document the life and work of the UK’s most famous political prisoner - journalist, publisher and truthteller Julian Assange, and the abuse he has suffered at the hands of multiple states. Many of these have now had their work and publication channels censored and/or heavily shadowbanned.
International politicians
— Politicians tend to come and go on this campaign, as pragmatic politics and the practical aspects of campaigns (successful and not) take their toll. But some elected representatives of the people have stood up for Julian Assange over the long haul. A few of these are listed here.
This series and its author
♦ PART 7:
This compendium “Prizes for Assange: Praise where Praise is Due” celebrates many of the prizes and other awards showered on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks over nearly fifteen years. These give the lie to the vile smears by politicians and stenographers to power in the legacy press - that he "is not a journalist". Read it here.
INDEX
NB All awards are to Julian Assange unless specifically noted otherwise
2008 Economist New Media Award
2009 Amnesty New Media Award
2009 Award of Distinction from the Prix Ars Electronica
2010 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence
2010 Time Magazine: Reader's Choice for Time's Person of the Year
2010 Le Monde Man of the Year
2011 Journalist of the Year (Iceland) - (Kristinn Hrafnsson, Wikileaks staff)
2011 Gold Medal for peace with justice from the the Sydney Peace Foundation
2011 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism
2011 Voltaire Award
2011 Walkley Award for Outstanding Contribution to Leadership in Journalism
2011 José Couso Press Freedom Award
2011 Blanquerna Award for Best Communicator
2011 Piero Passetti Journalism Prize (Italy)
2012 Big Brother Award - Hero of Privacy (Jacob Appelbaum for Tor)
2013 Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts
2013 Global Exchange Human Rights Awards People’s Choice Award
2013 Brazillian Press Association Human Rights Award
2013: NY Festival World's Best TV & Films - Silver World Medal
2014 Kazakstan Union of Journalists Top Prize
2015 Willy Brandt Prize for political courage (Sarah Harrison)
2016 Quito | Academics call for Julian Assange to win Nobel Peace Prize
2019 Mairead Maguire Nominates Julian Assange for Nobel Peace Prize
2019 GUE/NGL (Galizia) whistleblower / journalist prize (shared)
2019 Mexican International Journalism award
2019 DANNY Award for Journalism
2019 Gavin McFadyen Award
2019 The Press Project (Greece): Person of the Year
2020 The Catalonia Dignity Prize
2020 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award
2020 Honorary membership of AKI (Anti War Alliance) Norway
2020 Stuttgart Peace Award
2021 Sacco & Vanzetti Award (Boston)
2021 French Prix Éthique (Anticorruption Award)
2022 Nominated for Nobel Prize
2022 Karl Renner Solidarity Award (Austria)
2022 Audálio Dantas trophy (Brasil)
2022 Gunther Wallraff prize (Germany)
2022 Honorary citizenship of Pescara (Italy)
2022 Honorary card of the Order of Journalists (Italy)
2022 Awarded Keys to Mexico City (Mexico)
2022 Finalist for the Sakharov Prize (European Parliament)
2022 Weizenbaum Prize (Germany)
2022 Entered in Book of Honours (Ligano, Switzerland)
2022 Almudena Grandes Special Award (Spain)
2022 “Ithaka” wins SOHO Audience Award & Best Documentary (UK)
2023 Nominated for Nobel Prize2022 (Presented 2023)
2023 Granted honorary citizenship by Naples (Italy)
2023 Awarded honorary card of the Union of Journalists of Campania (Italy)
2023 “Ithaka” wins Amnesty Award at Thassaloniki Film Festival (Greece)
2023 Konrad Wolf Prize (Germany)
2023 Granted honorary citizenship by Reggio Emilia (Italy)
2023 Trinity College Dublin Gold Medal (Ireland)
2023 Granted honorary citizenship by Rome (Italy)
2023 Awarded the Ossietzky Prize 2023 (Norway)
2023 Granted honorary citizenship by Naples(Italy)
2023 Granted honorary citizenship by Modena (Italy)
2023 Granted honorary citizenship of Bari and Strambinello (Italy)
2024 Federico Caffè award (Italy)
2024 Simón Bolívar National Journalism Prize 2024 (Venezuela)
2024 Premio Caravella 2024 (Puglia, Italy)
♦ PART 8:
This compendium “Torrent of Truth: A Timeline of Assange Speech” provides a timeline of many articles and videos that record the direct speech of Julian Assange. While not exhaustive, it provides a fairly comprehensive and accessible overview of his online public life. Read it here.
INDEX
Listed are videos and articles containing the direct speech of Julian Assange.
1997
1999
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
- Release of Collateral Murder (5 April)
- Release of Gitmo Files (25 April)
- Release of Afghan War Diary (25 July)
- Release of Iraq War Logs (27 Oct)
- First Release of US Diplomatic Cables (28 Nov)
- First arrest of Assange (7 Dec)
2011
2012
- Assange enters the embassy (19 June)
- Ecuador gives Assange asylum (16 Aug)
2013
2014
2015
2016
- Release of US Clinton emails(16 March)
- First Release of US Podesta emails (22 July)
- First Release of US DNC emails (22 July)
2017
- First Release of Vault 7 (CIA Hacking Tools) (7 March)
2018
- Assange gagged by Ecuador (28 March)
2019
- Second arrest of Assange and imprisonment (11 April)
2020
2021
2022
2023
Addendum: The Revelations of WikiLeaks (Consortium News)
Julian speaks …
2024 Freedom at last (24-26 June)
Author and This Series
♦ PART 9:
This compendium “View from the Other Side: Proponents of Prosecution” is a review of a one hour long podcast from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Australia’s flagship, state funded broadcaster broadcast June 2022. Much of that podcast is preserved and analysed as an exemplar of the kind of misinformation which is spread at the “intellectual” and academic end of the legacy press spectrum.
Read it here.
INDEX
This part has no index, as its structure follows the structure of the podcast it reviews.
For the sake of reporting key issues canvassed, this list of topics is offered:
TOPICS
Introduction
Participants in the podcast (Waleed Aly, Scott Stephens and Katharine Gelber)
Defamatory statements
Missing points of view
Missing: The Glass Box
“Pulling down people’s faith …”
“What do you think Assange is on trial for?” [The indictments]
The “hacking” charge
Did Julian Assange really fail to redact?
Unfairness in the UK legal process
Freedom of the press
Classified information
Parallels with Ellsberg’s “Pentagon Papers”
Evidence re those injured by the leaks (none)
Benefits of a US court case
Role of the media
Final commentary (by reviewer)
♦ PART 10:
This final part is an essay “All Roads Converge … on Julian Assange”. It looks at the place of Julian Assange - as a man, a representative of free speech and a free press, and as a symbol of the values of the Enlightenment - asking why it matters what happens to him. Why is his fate centrally related to the crises - coronavirus, Ukraine, climate - currently swirling around us? Read it here.
INDEX
The crucifixion of Julian Assange
The “banality of evil”
- Hannah Arendt’s book
- Avoiding madness in crowds
- Red Queen thinking
Modern day heretics
- Heretics on the Covid-19 ‘pandemic’
- Heretics on the Holocaust
- Heretics on ‘regime change’ wars
— The 9/11 events
— Post-9/11 wars and regime change operations
— Ukraine
— Ukraine / Russian speeches
— Trump on the case (2016 speech)
— Australia’s part
— Congruent aims
— Julian Assange - advocate for peace and justice
- Heretics on the ‘climate crisis’
— A parallel case - Steven Donziger
- Heretics, where the process is the punishment
The world inside our heads
- More ‘Looking Glass’ thinking
- The ‘Ministry of Truth’
All roads converge … on Julian Assange
- The Four Horsemen … (War, Pestilence, Famine, Death)
- What’s Assange got to do with it?
The author and the series
NB: This essay will also be available as a PDF when time allows.
♦ VIDEO SERIES: An illustrated reading of PART 10
The PART 10 very long essay has now been serialised as an illustrated reading.
The eight episodes were rolled out on YouTube (and other platforms), and have their own substack page.
Where relevant, all quotations in the essay have been included from their original video source.
All episodes have now been published:
[YouTube] [Bitchute] - Series Trailer
[YouTube] [Bitchute] [Rumble] - Ep 1: “The Crucifixion of Julian Assange”
[YouTube] [Bitchute] [Rumble] - Ep 2: “The Banality of Evil”
[YouTube] [Bitchute] [Rumble] - Ep 3: “Heretics on Covid-19” (YT CENSORED)
[YouTube] [Bitchute] [Rumble] - Ep 4: “Heretics on the Holocaust”
[YouTube] [Bitchute] [Rumble] - Ep 5: “Heretics on Regime Change Wars”
[YouTube] [Bitchute] [Rumble] - Ep 6: “Heretics on Even More War - Ukraine”
[YouTube] [Bitchute] [Rumble] - Ep 7: “Heretics on the 'Climate Crisis' ”
[YouTube] [Bitchute] [Rumble] - Ep 8: “What's Assange Got To Do With It?”
♦ PART 11:
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe [PACE] provided a warm welcome to Julian Assange for his first public speech after 6.5 years gagged.
Here is an ANNOTATED TRANSCRIPT of that event.
INDEX
The Plea Deal
12:25 INTRODUCTION
17:01 RAPPORTEUR Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC)
19:31 JULIAN ASSANGE STATEMENT
41:26 JULIAN ASSANGE Q & A SESSION
1:34:24 JULIAN ASSANGE Final Words
1:37:55 ENDS
Final Word
The Julian Assange and WikiLeaks story is now so large that it is very hard for someone new to it to grasp all the issues involved, This archive is an attempt to assist with that problem. I hope it helps individuals to grasp the enormity and importance of this persecution, and journalists, bloggers, commentators etc to get their facts straight, and to cite appropriate sources.
The author of this series lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
You can find me on Twitter at La Fleur Productions.
Related readings - further recommendations
I also recommend Gary Lord’s FREE online book: "A True History of WikiLeaks".
And of course you must order a copy of Nils Melzer’s “The Trial of Julian Assange”.
And Stefania Maurizi’s “Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies”
Also Kevin Gosztola’s “Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange.”
See a compilation by Karen Sharpe “Julian Assange in his own words”. [Book review]
Deepa Driver has also made an excellent Tweet series “#WhyAssangeMatters”
A good wiki for more information is “Challenge Power”.
See PART 6 of this series for a list of journalists who support Assange and WikiLeaks.
Still looking?
For older articles, videos or events not covered in these archives, try:
The official sources listed in PART 6 of this series
The UPDATE Files - maintained (in chronological order) since Julian’s arrest
- PART 1 - 11 April 2019 - April 2021
- PART 2 - 1 April 2021 - current date (includes links to key documents)For older (pre-arrest) items try the #Unity4J Pinterest boards, especially:
- “OP Speech ABOUT Julian & Wikileaks” (OP = other people)
- “OP Articles ABOUT Julian & Wikileaks”
- “Law & Lawyers”
NB: Pinterest boards work best if you have joined Pinterest (free) and are signed in. Pinterest limits and jumbles the entries non-members can see.
Ohhhhhhh lucky me to open this note with archives from Last April! A treasure! Thank you so much. #JournalismIsNotACrime
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Thank you so very much for everything you do and for this amazing "one-stop window on the series - a kind of 'meta-index'". I will share it wherever and when ever I can. Unfortunately Twitter decided to permanently suspend my Twitter account https://twitter.com/LandoFree without any reason, or rather with a made-up reason. But I will share it on my Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ourlandofthefree and Telegram account https://t.me/LandoFree ! Thank you again for all your hard work! ❤️