Yea, I see what you mean, and if you don’t know German you’ll likely not notice the ‘not now’ option in the pop-up that lets you keep reading. Kind of annoying but I promise the page is technically not paywalled.
Yea, I see what you mean, and if you don’t know German you’ll likely not notice the ‘not now’ option in the pop-up that lets you keep reading. Kind of annoying but I promise the page is technically not paywalled.
Are you having trouble with republik.ch? It doesn’t have a paywall to my knowledge! But if you prefer, you can head on archive.org without any popups: https://web.archive.org/web/20240910100941/https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange
Wikipedia is not a reliable source. Anyone can and does edit it. Heck, I know I have.
If you’ll please just read this interview with someone who has looked into the case in Sweden in great detail.
Unfortunately I’ll be at work at the time but I will be watching it soon after, I’m sure! It feels like a profound moment for humanity, that he can speak freely again. Many people are going to be watching live and hang on his every word. The pressure must be enormous. I’m very interested what he has to say.
Do you believe every rumour started by cops?
and here I thought it was a parody…
Yea, nah. Say what you want about X, but Meta is in a whole other league than X. In my communities it’s monopolising to a large degree:
amongs others. All essential services that Meta took over one by one.
X on the other hand is just a micro-blogging platform.
I’d rather be a loner than go back to that shitbook.
‘backed by mountains of bodies’
is what I read initially…
“They started it.” “We are the real victims here.” “Antisemitic terrorists”
yes.
The US tortures its dissidents. Just look at how they treated War on Terror whistleblower Chelsea Manning. Even the UN special rapporteur on torture spoke up about her treatment. She was driven to attempt suicide in prison multiple times. Including when she refused to cooperate with the secret Grand Jury investigating WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.
Julian Assange is about to be buried in a US prison and get a taste of that same medicine. Where are the Guardian outrage-articles on that? Oh, wait, that’s right. They threw him under the bus as soon as he’d given them access to the best scoops of the century (US diplomatic cables). The Guardian journos divulged the pass phrase to the unredacted cables in their book giving anyone who could locate the files online access. Cryptome published the unredacted cables before WL did while Assange called the State Department trying to warn them of the bad news. The Guardian then tried to make out like WL had acted irresponsibly in publishing the unredacted cables, when in reality the cat was already out of the bag and WL was doing harm-minimization. The Guardian’s blame-shifting makes my blood boil.
The ‘Guardian’ has no ethics and can’t be trusted on anything political imo.
This is a case brought by 4 US citizens against the CIA. They are attorneys Margaret Ratner Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, and journalists John Goetz and Charles Glass. They all visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in the relevant time period ~2017 and claim their 4th amendment rights have been violated. I can’t wait to see this trial unfold! The evidence that will come out of this could well mean the end of the DOJ’s pursuit of Assange.
This is a case brought by 4 US citizens against the CIA. They are attorneys Margaret Ratner Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, and journalists John Goetz and Charles Glass. They all visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in the relevant time period ~2017 and claim their 4th amendment rights have been violated. I can’t wait to see this trial unfold! The evidence that will come out of this could well mean the end of the DOJ’s pursuit of Assange.
It’s because they operate in secrecy.
Masha Gessen erspart der Böll-Stiftung, vertreten durch den Vorstand Imme Scholz und Jan Philipp Albrecht, an diesem Abend nichts. Dieses öffentliche Gespräch sei nicht auf Einladung der Böll-Stiftung zustande gekommen, enthüllt Gessen. Imme Scholz habe nach dem Eklat um den Preis eine private Einladung ausgesprochen. „Die habe ich abgelehnt“, so Gessen. „Ich habe ein öffentliches Gespräch vorgeschlagen, sie haben sich darauf eingelassen und das weiß ich zu schätzen.“ Doch um auch das gleich zu sagen: Ein wirkliches Gespräch kam nicht zustande. Nie fragte einer auf dem Podium: „Verstehst du, Masha …?“ Und auf die Frage der Verlegerin Katharina Raabe, die im Publikum saß, warum die Böll-Stiftung es in Kauf genommen habe, eine Autorin zu beschädigen, gab es keine Antwort. Imme Scholz und Jan Philipp Albrecht fühlten sich sichtlich unwohl, auch schon vor dem an sie gerichteten Einwurf des langjährigen Aufsichtsratsmitglieds der Böll-Stiftung Hartmut Bäumer, er habe sich noch nie so geschämt.
I think that’s debatable. I don’t get the impression that Gessen would have won the award if she had written her Gaza article before her winning it was decided by the jury. The fact that the original ceremony was cancelled from political pressure speaks to that fact. Credit to the Berlin crew to throw host another ceremony event albeit a small one.
Masha Gessen in Berlin: Der Versuch, mich mundtot zu machen, ist misslungen https://web.archive.org/web/20231218235218/https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur-vergnuegen/debatte/masha-gessen-in-berlin-der-versuch-mich-mundtot-zu-machen-ist-misslungen-li.2169713 Masha themselve said at the event that
Dieses öffentliche Gespräch sei nicht auf Einladung der Böll-Stiftung zustande gekommen
transl.: This public forum today is not on invitation of the Böll-Foundation.
So I don’t think it’s at all obvious that Hannah Arendt would today qualify for the ‘Hannah Arendt prize’ in Germany, given her body of work that is critical of the creation of the State of Israel.
Reading the article in Nachdenkseiten, it is my understanding that the local council cancelled the venue and wrote an open letter, followed by the local branch of the foundation pulling support. The Berlin branch of the foundation then took it upon themselves to still host an award-ceremony for Gessen in a secretive location for a small crowd. Hence the headline referring to a back-alley.
What are you on about?
El Pais is Spain’s biggest daily newspaper.
Only a Clinton shill who doesn’t know those emails contain all the dirt the DNC had collected on the Trump campaign would say that.
A New York court ruled this publication, which btw showed the DNC had rigged the primaries / stolen the primaries from Bernie, and pushed media to always talk about Trump in the mistaken Clinton would easily win against him, was First Amendment protected by the highest order.