SYDNEY: Lawyers and the mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday ramped up pressure on the Australian government to intervene over his extradition to Sweden, saying he will not get a fair trial. Assange, who is Australian, on Wednesday lost a bitter legal battle to block his being sent from Britain to Sweden [...]
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Cables Reveal Propaganda, Disinformation Efforts by US One cable explains US policy as “making the stories and bringing them to journalists – and not the other way around” by John Glaser, August 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum State Department diplomatic cables released this week by WikiLeaks reveal propaganda efforts aimed [...]
Tags: Al Ayam, Bahrain, David Hicks, Government, Guantánamo Bay, Juma al-Dossary, United States, WikiLeaks
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David Hicks’s Guantanamo Memoir ©iStockphoto.com/andrewmedina Given the hundreds of prisoners who have been released from the military facility at Guantanamo over the more than nine years of the prison’s existence, it shouldn’t be surprising that some number of these former detainees have written memoirs. Ranging from mass-market, English-language books available on Amazon.com to Pashto- and [...]
Tags: Abdul Salam Zaeef, David Hicks, George W. Bush, Guantanamo: My Journey, Murat Kurnaz, New South Wales Supreme Court, Providing material support for terrorism, United States
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