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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Leonardo da Vinci (?) La Joconde nue or Monna Vanna 1515 • Furious Tory MPs Will Bid To Oust May If UK Fights Euro Poll (O.) • I Had No Choice But To Approach Labour Over Brexit – May (BBC) • UK PM May Has Plan To Offer Labour Brexit Customs Arrangement (R.) • Merkel Throws May A Lifeline Over Brexit Departure Date (O.) • Labour Chairman Attacks Corbyn Over ‘People’s Vote’ On Brexit (O.) • Second Brexit Vote
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Raphael The school of Athens 1509-11 Allow me to start with a question: Has anyone seen any of the main newspapers and networks who went after Donald Trump for 3 years accusing him of colluding with “the Russians”, apologize to either Trump, or to their readers and viewers, for spreading all that fake news now that Robert Mueller said none of that stuff was real, that they all just made it up? I’ve seen only one such apology, albeit
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti Monna Vanna 1866 • Cross-Party Talks Fail As Labour Says May Unable To Compromise (G.) • France, Spain and Belgium ‘Ready For No-Deal Brexit Next Week’ (G.) • Sucker Punch (Jim Kunstler) • The Russian Collusion Hoax Meets An Unbelievable End (Nunes) • Boeing Slashes 737 Production By 20% (ZH) • Trump Says Economy Would Take Off Like ‘A Rocket Ship’ If Fed Cut Rates (CNBC) • Ray Dalio Says Capitalism Needs Urgent Reform (MW) •
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