Charles Negre ‘The Vampire’, Henri Le Secq stands next to Stryge grotesque, Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris 1853 • Notre Dame ‘Saved From Total Destruction’ (CNBC) • The Notre Dame Fire And The Future Of History (Wired) • Notre Dame Was Built To Last Until The End Of The World (Mason) • Salma Hayek’s Husband Pledges €100 Million For Notre Dame Rebuild (Fox) • Redacted Mueller Report To Be Released To Congress & Public On Thursday (ZH) • Uncle Tom’s Empire
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Jack Delano South Puerto Rico Sugar Company plant, Ensenada, Puerto Rico 1942 • Trump: The Stock Market Could Be As Much As 10,000 Points Higher (MW) • Pelosi Rips AOC, Says Her Posse In Congress Is ‘Like Five People’ (NYPost) • Assange Tried To Use Embassy As ‘Centre For Spying’ – Moreno (G.) • I’m Jumping Off the Trump Train: Assange Was the Last Straw (Jatras) • Democrats And Liberals Cheering Assange’s Arrest Are Foolish (Robinson) • Assange Is
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Edward Hopper The Sheridan Theatre 1937 • Draghi Worries About Fate Of Fed’s Independence (MW) • The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada Deflate (WS) • UK Tories Face European Elections Drubbing (Ind.) • Corbyn Told To Promise Final Say Referendum (Ind.) • It’s The UK Political System, Not Just MPs, That Is Failing (G.) • UK Media, MPs Unveil Latest Assange Deception (Cook) • American Values: Embassies Are For Chopping Up Journalists (McDonald) • Assange Is In The
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Pablo Picasso Standing nude 1928 • The Assange Arrest Is a Warning From History (John Pilger) • The 7 Years Of Lies About Assange Won’t Stop Now (Cook) • UK MPs Want Assange Extradited To Sweden (G.) • Labour Urges PM To Block Julian Assange Extradition To US (G.) • Assange’s ‘Conspiracy’ to Expose War Crimes Has Already Been Punished (Fair) • Cascading Cat Litter (Jim Kunstler) • Is Julian Assange Another Pentagon Papers case? (Alan Dershowitz) • Facebook
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Jean-Francois Millet Harvesters Resting1850-53 • Chelsea and Julian are in Jail. History Trembles. (Craig Murray) • Julian Assange Branded ‘Narcissist’ By Judge As He Faces US Extradition (Ind.) • They Will Punish Assange For Their Sins (Turley) • Assange ‘Direct Participant In Russian Efforts To Undermine West’ (Hill) • Tulsi Gabbard: Assange Arrest Is A Threat To Journalists (Hill) • Grave Threats To Press Freedoms (Greenwald, Lee) • 5 Years (G.) • ‘Rude, Ungrateful And Meddling’: Why Ecuador Turned
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Salvador Dali Hallucination. Six Images of Lenin on a Grand Piano 1931 47 years ago in American Pie, Don McLean talked about The Day The Music Died. Or of course the music didn’t really die, but at the same time it did. “The three mean I admired most, the father, son and the holy ghost, they caught the last train for the coast, the day the music died.” Back then you could still have claimed the country merely lost
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William Hogarth Humours of an Election, Plate 2 1754 While we’re republishing articles about the newly arrested Julian Assange, in his honor, here’s one on the role the press has played in his ordeal. And will undoubtedly continue to play. What does it say about a society that you have to hold not only the government, but also the press to account? We originally published this essay on August 17 2018. Two thirds of Americans want
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Carl Spitzweg The raven 1845 In light of the horrible news that Julian Assange was arrested by British police inside the Ecuadorian embassy this morning, what is there to say that we haven’t already said? We originally published this essay on May 16 2018. Julian Assange appears to be painfully close to being unceremoniously thrown out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. If that happens, the consequences for journalism, for freedom of speech, and for press
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Marion Post Wolcott Signboard along highway in Alabama 1939 • EU Leaders Agree Brexit Delay Until Halloween (Ind.) • Macron Enrages Other EU Leaders After Opposing Long Brexit Extension (G.) • UK Car Production Could Halve In No-Deal Brexit Scenario (G.) • Peter Strzok Could Face ‘Serious’ Charges (Sara Carter) • William Barr on 2016 Elections: ‘I Think Spying Did Occur’ (CNS) • The Next Phase of Deep State-Gate (Ray McGovern) • WikiLeaks Says Julian Assange Is Being Spied
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Marcel Duchamp The chess game 1910 • Putin Derangement Syndrome After Mueller (SCF) • ‘Mountain Brought Forth A Mouse’: Putin On Mueller Report (RT) • Same People Behind Iraq War Lies Pushed Russian Collusion (Kelly) • May’s Hopes Dashed As EU Targets Brexit Delay Of Up To A Year (G.) • UK Finance Minister Says Lawmakers Might Revoke Brexit To Prevent No Deal (R.) • Democracy Is Overrated – Let The Queen Sort Out Brexit (Jan Fleischhauer) • Brexit
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