The media that once praised Julian Assange, hailing him a hero for his work as a whistleblower, has now drastically changed its tune, after the debut of his talk show on RT. While some say it’s due to journalistic jealousy, others believe the U-turn is political. RT on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com RT on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews [...]
Julian Assange’s debut as TV-show host on RT was bound to provoke a mixed reaction from around the globe. The world’s top whistleblower has drawn a wave of criticism for his choice to talk to a guest largely ignored by the mainstream media. Journalist Glenn Greenwald thinks there’s apparent hypocrisy in the way some US [...]
Hezbollah urged the Syrian opposition to engage in dialogue with Assad’s regime, but they refused. Hezbollah leader Sayyid Nasrallah confirmed this in his first interview in 6 years, the world premiere of Julian Assange’s ‘The World Tomorrow’ on RT. READ MORE http://on.rt.com/ndqs1x OFFICIAL VIDEO PAGE http://assange.rt.com
Watched Julian Assange’s show on RT and dying to express your outrage? The World Tomorrow host compiled a list of hateful notions he encourages journalists and public figures to use. Julian Assange’s interview with Hezbollah leader Sayyid Nasrallah sparked a wave of media reaction and saw Twitter trends soar. While the general public expressed their [...]
Anyone who would like to witness a vivid example of modern warfare that adheres to the laws of war — that corpus of regulations developed painstakingly over centuries by jurists, humanitarians, and soldiers, a body of rules that is now an essential, institutionalized part of the U.S. armed forces and indeed all modern militaries — [...]
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange said today that he’s made 75 official complaints over shoddy reporting of his extradition battle. Assange itemized the complaints in a written statement to Britain’s judge-led inquiry into media ethics, which is examining the standards and practices of the UK’s scandal-ridden press. Assange said in a statement released Thursday that he had [...]
A US government-contracted private security firm is helping the Syrian opposition to overthrow the Bashar al-Assad regime, leaked Stratfor emails indicate. The same firm earlier operated extensively in Libya. The private military company SCG International had been contracted to engage the Turkey-based Syrian opposition, according to correspondence released by WikiLeaks. For more on this story, [...]
Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of leaking classified material to website Wikileaks, is appearing in court today, beginning a two day pre-trial motion hearing in Fort Meade, near Baltimore. During this hearing, military judge Col Denise Lind will announce the date of Manning’s trial. According to Associated Press, military prosecutors are now saying that Manning aided [...]
The United Nations special rapporteur on torture has reached the conclusion that the United States violated some of the rights of the Army private accused of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks. Pfc. Bradley Manning has been in U.S. custody since May 2010 and as we’ve reported, Juan Méndez, the U.N.’s top torture official, has already [...]
The UN special rapporteur on torture has formally accused the US government of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment towards Bradley Manning, the US soldier who was held in solitary confinement for almost a year on suspicion of being the WikiLeaks source. Juan Mendez has completed a 14-month investigation into the treatment of Manning since the [...]