I cannot tell you how happy I am at Julian’s release. It is 4.00am and I haven’t been to bed yet. I have spoken to John Shipton but everyone else is on a plane en route to Australia.
The guilty plea is of course coerced in the extreme and nobody should take it seriously. It gives a chance to claim hollow victory to the odious Biden regime, at the cost of a terrible precedent in law classifying journalism in espionage. But the precedent is only in a court of first instance so is not binding.
I should be plain I have always advised Julian and Stella to take a plea deal if offered and get out of jail. I have no doubt this was a life or death choice. I also believe we will be grateful for the still greater contributions Julian’s immense intellect and capacity for radical thought will make to human development in the future.
The Justice Department were further motivated to offer a deal by the fact that they appeared to have painted themselves into a very difficult corner at the next UK extradition hearing in a fortnight, over Julian’s ability as a foreign national acting outside the US to claim constitutional protections, and could have lost the extradition case altogether.
There is so much more to say but if I don’t get some sleep I will not be alive to say it. I am crying with happiness.
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Wonderful news
Wonderful determination of all supporters and dogged journalism from Craig .
X
Livestream – Julian is expected to appear at a press conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XATYVc6upMY
Al Jazeera has better sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCNeDWCI0vo
From what Stella said, I think Julian is not going to appear.
I must thank you again, you kept me so well informed.
I read all your Assange reports, those court days, prison visits.
I am sitting here in Australia watching the national broadcaster’s live coverage. It is such a huge event here, and the Government unusually seems to have done such a clever complex operation over months that it quite impressive. So happy he’s home and free!
I watched his flight on FlightRadar, along with 54,000 others! Huge.
Thank you so much.
Stella live on TV now! Just amazing to see.
Smh editor claiming JA didn’t do publishing, didn’t do name suppression, etc. Bullshit.
When can we start talking about Luke again?
Shameful lies from Sydney Morning Herald International and Political Editor Peter Hartcher.
But what do you expect?
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Hartcher&oldid=1213285005
– He is also a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute, a Sydney-based foreign policy think tank. […] …went to the US for three years, where he was the Washington DC correspondent. In 1998, he was the recipient of the Citibank Award for Excellence in Journalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lowy_Institute&oldid=1191207666
– The institute has been described as “neoliberal”, “centre-right” leaning and “reactionary”. […] The institute receives funds from the Australian government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Department of Defence, and the Department of Home Affairs. Companies which provide funding include BHP [multinational mining and metals], Capital Group [“As of 2019, Capital Group held 5% of BAE Systems, 9% of British American Tobacco, and 15.28% of ASML Holding.”], Rio Tinto [“Rio Tinto Group is a British-Australian multinational company that is the world’s second largest metals and mining corporation (behind BHP).”], and Rothschild & Co. [no introduction necessary].
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Extractivist war-mongering death cult.
So glad he’s free! A great injustice has just been corrected. Best wishes to him and his family. And to all who persevere.
He’s free which is great, but no injustices have been corrected.
Seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy and over five years in Belmarsh. That’s 12 years of his life he’ll never get back – and all for reporting on proven USA War Crimes.
Injustices may be corrected if he is suitably compensated and American war criminals are prosecuted.
Stevie Boy
Exactly. Julian Assange has had to plead guilty to something he wasn’t guilty of. He knows that – we know that, and those who don’t live in fear of the US’s childlike sanctions and overseas lawfare know that – he was forced to plead guilty under severe pressure.
This is the rule that pervades the world: if the US doesn’t like something being done that exposes them as villains and warmongers (by proxy these days) then the acquiescent countries (AUKUS plus many others) have to bow to their bidding. It’s utterly cowardice from the quivering grovellers to the US.
The BBC as usual is still joining in the sycophancy – Julian is spitefully referred to as “Assange” and only a grudging strapline refers to him as Julian Assange. This is all just in case the US politicians are watching the BBC.
So, Julian Assange should read out a roll of dishonour – namely all the politicians (including Starmer) and all the Seekers and Defenders of Truth that are purported to exist in the UK and the US who did zero – diddly squat, nada, zilch to fight to release him.
That could have been a fight for themselves and not just Julian. They utterly bottled it out of fear and cowardice Unlike Julian who stuck to his guns.
The bad news for these cowards is that the US will continue to do this across certain parts of the world so nothing is over or finished. They will still report ‘truth’ in fear, meaning they won’t report anything that damages US interests.
For the idiotic US politicians who are mouthing off about putting American lives in danger: No you idiots – it was you who sent US troops into ‘harm’s way’ when you sent them to invade and create a ‘Regime Change’ in a disarmed Iraq on a massive lie, viz Weapons of mass destruction. Therefore blame lies with the US not Julian Assange – he reported on your invasion.
And the same crackpots wonder why Iran, China and Russia are doing what they are doing. These people are in charge of the World, which is extremely scary – but don’t expect the BBC to ask any questions.
p.s. Not sure but it looks like the Australian PM has done a lot of work on this. If so, well done, as his predecessors didn’t do a tap.
Anyway very pleased that Julian Assange is free.
Good luck to Julian and his family and to all those who supported him in the courts for so long and to PM Albanese who has helped to broker a new deal for them.
For Craig, as with Alex Salmond, patience is its own reward. Justice is seen to be done. Blessed are the peacemakers , both in the Gospels and Islam.
What price freedom ?
“As a condition of his plea, he will be required to destroy information that was provided to WikiLeaks.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/06/26/assange-walks-out-of-court-a-free-man/
Correct but the case appears to be more complicated than that, the CN text ends:
“A lot remains unclear. First, what information is being referred to? Is it even technically possible to do, given that WikiLeaks is mirrored on many servers around the world? So many documents have also been copied and written about for more than a decade now.”
And a few other things.
I am no expert. But it would be delusional to assume the info once out can be removed again.
The question e.g., what is happening if others use the info for publications, seminars etc.
With the Pentagon Paper principle still valid (or is it?) Supreme Court would have to order a remarkable change to First Amendment regulations. And other courts, as ridiculous as they might have become, outside the US but in the West, would have to rule likewise.
The question over what is journalism and what is freedom of speech will become subject of some major battles in the future.
In the US plea bargains cannot legally be used as precedent so do not worry
Of course justice would have freed him unconditionally and jailed Pompeo for a start
But it is such a relief
I hope he’s getting a good night’s sleep. I was worried he’d be arrested as he got off the plane:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian_Assange&oldid=1231098349#Legal_issues_in_Australia
I am now prepared to breathe a sigh of relief. Had Julian been arrested as he disembarked, I would have expected the Australian government to continue the US/UK lawfare. From my Wikipedia link above:
– On 2 September 2011, Australia’s attorney general, Robert McClelland released a statement that the US diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks identified at least one ASIO officer, and that it was a crime in Australia to publish information which could identify an intelligence officer. McClelland said that “On occasions before this week, WikiLeaks redacted identifying features where the safety of individuals or national security could be put at risk. It appears this hasn’t occurred with documents that have been distributed across the internet this week.” According to The Guardian and Al Jazeera, this meant “Julian Assange could face prosecution in Australia.”
Some commenters here dismiss Wikipedia, but to its credit it does (at present) report the truth of the release of the unredacted cables:
– In August 2010, Assange gave Guardian journalist David Leigh an encryption key and a URL where he could locate the full file. In February 2011 David Leigh and Luke Harding of The Guardian published the encryption key in their book WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy. […] When WikiLeaks learned what had happened it notified the US State Department [note – there is a recording of this telephone conversation on YouTube]. On 25 August 2011, the German magazine Der Freitag published an article giving details which enabled people to piece the information together. On 1 September 2011, WikiLeaks announced they would make the unredacted cables public and searchable.
– The Guardian wrote that the decision to publish the cables was made by Assange alone [my emphasis], a decision that it and its four previous media partners condemned. Glenn Greenwald wrote that “WikiLeaks decided—quite reasonably—that the best and safest course was to release all the cables in full, so that not only the world’s intelligence agencies but everyone had them, so that steps could be taken to protect the sources and so that the information in them was equally available”.
– John Young, the owner and operator of the website Cryptome, testified at Assange’s extradition hearing that the unredacted cables were published by Cryptome on 1 September, the day before WikiLeaks, and they remain on the Cryptome site. Lawyers for Assange gave evidence it said would show that Assange was careful to protect lives.
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This most pernicious lie is currently being vigorously promoted by the warmongering establishment – that Julian is “not a journalist” because “proper journalists act responsibly”. Had Julian been arrested as he got off the plane I would have expected continued abuse of legal processes by the Australian authorities. That they did not do so is very encouraging, and if this matter is brought to court it could serve to establish legally that Julian indeed acted with complete journalistic integrity.
Clark
Wonder why all these anti-disinformation outfits, US News and BBC Verify are so reluctant to explain this absolutely critical timeline of events; a timeline which goes a long way to exonerating him and WikiLeaks?
The ‘reckless man, releasing unredacted cables’ narrative, is the main reason so many claim to be ambivalent about him today.
On the contrary, what you’ve re-posted from Wikipedia shows that David Leigh and Luke Harding, indeed their employer The Guardian, did not practise “proper journalism”. Assange was extraordinarily naive in placing any trust in The Guardian or its minion writers to use the encryption key responsibly.
I thought that Wikileaks were damned if they did, damned if they didn’t; they gambled on the revelations affecting public opinion before the duplicitous bastards at the Grauniad betrayed them. I also thought that he was a bit reckless with the Swedish women, given that American Caesar would have busted him for lack of deportment on a bicycle if he could.
Less dramatic, but it´s an original thought, Alexander Mercouris compares Assange to Dreyfus.
The battle over the truth of what and how Wikileaks operated will be a permanent one.
This shouldn´t surprise us considering the ongoing falsifications over the Iraq War.
It is astonishing how disinformed members of the US political and media elites are.
Assuming Bush´s conduct was a “misunderstanding” (oops, accidentally getting, 1.5 mio. killed.)
On the other hand the dire state of things might help Julian Assange to find the energy to one day take up a project related somehow to what he has been doing.
Of course being careful with all the caveats of his situation and those crosshairs on his back.
But his legacy is alive more than ever.
And to make that undeniable point was of such an importance it cannot be overstated.
Out of interest, where do you get this abbreviation ‘mio’ from (as in “.oops, accidentally getting, 1.5 mio. killed”) ?
I’ve never seen this used anywhere else. M, MM, m, or even ‘mil’, sure, but ‘mio’ ??
Mod had already asked me to not use abbrevations if they are wrong. I have tried to keep that in mind.
I assume this one is simply an incorrect transfer from German which knows “Mio.”, another “false friend” which I have overlooked.
I try to keep it in mind.
Sry.
1,5 M/m then?
Oh, it’s German? Sorry, didn’t catch that, even though I’d worked there briefly a few times.
I’d stick with M – as in 1.5M, everyone should understand. Some use ‘m’, but the meaning is clear enough.
M
thx
I hope I can remember that.
What about billion and trillion? Since we are at it.
(After reading my news mostly in English for 2,5 years now I have started to incorrectly spell German words! Mixing them up with English and French from my high school memory…argh)
AG: That would be B and T, it’s reasonably straightforward:
eg £42B wasted on Track&Trace, estimated $3T wasted on the Iraq adventure of Blair and Bush, £1T deficit ran up by Tory incompetence and cronyism…
Here is Dreyfus on the occasion of his pardon and release on September 19, 1899. Assange might consider such a statement:
“The government of the Republic gives me back my freedom. It means nothing to me without honor. From today on I shall continue to seek reparation for the atrocious judicial error of which I am still the victim. I want the whole of France to know by force of a final judgment that I am innocent.”
Bear with me… I cannot separate the Time line on this video …as George Galloway talks about Julian..
Amazing to see him lift Stella off her feet -3
George Galloway –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkfspY1gNxs
Also – Yanis Varoufakis on Julian Assange’s release
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rHHvIkTOSs&t=9s
Thanks for that link Brianfujisan.
How the MSM does its best to lie about Assange.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/julian-assange-freedom-this-time-no-thanks-to-the-media/
Frauds. They also suppressed all the outrages and discrepancies in his extradition trial, if they even reported it at all. Now they show up pretending they care.
I’m happy for Assange, but what does his plea bargain mean for WikiLeaks? Some docs will be removed/destroyed?
Any chance of seeing your SKY interview on here?
“It was the media, led by the Guardian, that kept Julian Assange behind bars”
Let’s bash the DS stenographers of the zionazi warmongering supporting Obsessive Grauniad. JA outed their true wizard self’s by playing with their ‘reputation’. for me It was the final straw in any respect for the paper I had worshipped for decades since a youth. Well before Skripal and JC propaganda they spew into the supposed ‘Leftist readership’
Jonathan Cook has done it better so here it is
“It was the media, led by the Guardian, that kept Julian Assange behind bars”
26 June 2024
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2024-06-26/media-guardian-julian-assange/
Named but they have No shame to be shamed by.
Excellent piece by Jonathan Cook exposing the Guardian’s shameless complicity in Julian Assange’s misfortunes in forensic detail – well worth a read.
Sharing responsibility is also German Foreign Office, i.e. Baerbock´s ministry.
Fabio De Masi, former legal expert of THE LEFT, now Alliance Wagenknecht, and member of the EU parliament, has announced on his Twitter account to publish documents showing how German FO participated in blocking Assange´s release. Documents acquired via German FOIA.
More honest: Mrs. Hillary Clinton: “Can´t we just drone this guy?”
May be someone should drone her.
ISIS are at least so brave as to take up the gun and kill people in person.
Congratulations to the author and to the Assange family…on another subject; Scottish independence (remember that?).
‘…they will not stand anywhere against the Alba Party, which would render my own position impossible.’ (Craig Murray16/4/24).
‘In December 1980 I stood alongside George Galloway in Caird Square…’ (Craig Murray 29/5/24)
If the author found himself in central Dundee today, who would he be supporting, Raymond Mennie of the Worker’s Party or Alan Ross of the Alba Party?
George Galloway interviewed Mr Murray last night on MOATS; I think he mentioned Saipan and its liberation.
I read a book that spoke about the political situation on Saipan in the 90’s It is apparently some kind of slave colony. There are many manufacturing facilities there that employ imported labour, a majority from China. The conditions that these people work in, are criminal in nearly all jurisdictions in the world – forced abortions, living and working in locked facilities and all rest of “dark satanic mills” stuff. It takes place because Saipan is a real 19th century colony – local compradors “sweating the assets” to service Capital
Maybe the flight landing there will increase peoples awareness of what is happening in this American colony
Will, Wikipedia has a section on the virtual slave economy of Saipan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saipan,_Northern_Mariana_Islands&oldid=1231231141#Labor_controversies
Short excerpt:
– In 2005–2006, the issue of immigration and labor practices on Saipan was brought up during the American political scandals of Congressman Tom DeLay and lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who visited the island on numerous occasions. Ms. magazine published an exposé in their Spring 2006 article “Paradise Lost: Greed, Sex Slavery, Forced Abortion and Right-Wing Moralists”.
Four years ago the US government told a British court that Assange was so dangerous he could be locked up for the rest of his life, confined to a cell for 23 hours a day, with only 1 hour of exercise indoors in an identical cell. No contact with other prisoners, and only 30 minutes of phone time per month which would be monitored by the FBI.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-20/
Now he’s free to wander around Australia with no supervision or restrictions.
Where’s the accountability for the people who lied to the court?
C’mon, you know how it works !
• Iraqi WMD
• David Kelly
• White helmets
• Brexit
• Novichok
• Skripals
• Covid
• Ukraine
• Gaza
• Climate change
• Assange
The list is endless, as are the lies. They can say and do what they like and know there never will be any repercussions – for them.
Yeah, you’ve got some people denying the world is flat too!
You’re not one of these conspiracy theorists who believe it’s a sphere floating in “space” are you Glenn? – now you have let this slip, I am going to start a thread on flatist denialism and challenge you everytime you refer to this lunacy lol
I’m not worried, Will!
All I need to do is follow the shining example of the shy climate change denialists here (Stevie Boy, Bayard, Tom, to name but a few) – boldly make an assertion, and then run away like the worst sort of coward 😀
But that’s not what happens, glenn, is it?
What happens is, someone mentions eg climate change, then you pile in, then the mods say “take it to the forums”, before any debate can be had…
‘strewth, James – that’s precisely the point! Get on over to the forums and let’s discuss it as much as you like!
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/forums/topic/climate-change-denialists-who-get-all-shy/
What are you waiting for? Shy or something?
I see you’ve, so kindly, opened a discussion for “climate change deniers” – well, there on the first line, anyone who joins in is automatically labelled a “climate change denier”. The very title of the thread is pathetic. How about “A discussion about the Earth’s climate”? Isn’t that better?
I’ll post a comment there anyway…
It’s turtles all the way down surely?
Flat? Sphere? Just go to the seaside and you can see that it bobs up and down.
Patrick Moore wrote an amusing book on people holding unusual world-views called “Can you speak Venusian?” It’s on archive.org for now, but beware:
https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/26/were-fighting-for-library-rights-in-court-this-friday-join-us/
Stevie Boy, I caught covid again just over two weeks ago, which is why I haven’t gone to Blackburn to help Craig with his campaign. I’m testing negative now, but I’m still not well. I hope I do get better because not everyone does; there are more people with long covid than people who have died of it.
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/from-long-covid-odds-to-lost-iq-points-ongoing-threats-you-dont-know-about
If you were a farmer in Bangladesh you’d find yourself retreating from the rising seas. You post some good comments here; not sure why you’d want to discredit them with the “I’m all right Jack” bullshit.
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/6/17/how-extreme-are-global-weather-conditions-so-far-this-year
Clark, I’m sorry for your affliction, however.
How do you know you caught Covid ? You got tested right, doh ! What did you do before Covid ?
Those vaxed up to the eyeballs as part of the gene experiment have had their immune system seriously compromised, they will be constantly sick, sorry, it’s not their fault but they’e taking the hit.
Bangladesh is, badly, located where major rivers outflow from the Himalayas. Also, recently there has been serious deforestation that has removed natural flood mitigation. Bangladesh has always suffered from floods – Remember George Harrison’s ditty ? Attribution is not cause.
If you were a scaffolder in Texas, you’d find yourself with no employment laws to protect you against excessive heat, as each summer becomes hotter than the previous one. If you were a climate scientist, you’d be tearing your hair out and getting yourself arrested because governments take no notice of your data.
You’re confusing deception in foreign policy, where ‘information’ comes from spooks and secretive think tanks, with science, in which methods and data are presented and debated by equals in public. Get to the forums (climate, covid) or STFU; you’re making me angry.
Steve, you’re off your chump, mate. Plenty of people – the majority – who died of covid weren’t vaccinated. If you want to discuss this and your silly notions on the climate, man up and do so in the forums.
It’s pretty disgraceful, in fact, shame on you for lumping your fringe conspiracy hobbies with serious and real causes. Pleasure yourself elsewhere with them.
Craig Talks to Katie Halper about Julian –
Assange Was Going To Be Epstein’ed” – Whistle Blower Craig Murray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS58w8VFFU4
Here’s an interview with Craig Murray on the Judging Freedom channel with Judge Napolitano, covering the legal implications of the Julian Assange case for freedom of speech, the UK politicians’ complicity in the genocide in Gaza, and the risks of Western involvement in the Ukraine war:
Judging Freedom: Stop the Genocide (27 June 2024) – YouTube, 29m 53s
Justin.. Great interview with Craig
Love Judge Napolitano
Thanks for the link
Funny, in the 5 hour youtube program “Freedom Flight” Chloe Schlosberg mentions a few supporters who were wondering “What are we going to do now?”
Well, enough to do for 100 lifetimes!
See minute 49:00. Schlosberg is great to listen to anyway, she begins at 34:00
“Assange’s Freedom Flight”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwutQ2orqAs
Well the entire program was 5 hours long, with Stella Assange, Greenwald, Kennard, Maurizi, Hoh, and many many more wonderful, excellent people (many of whom being Australian of course are scarcely known in Europe.)
Extraordinary event.
A must for everyone!
p.s. Just today The Intercept had a text about the CIA torture report from 2014 still not declassified entirely. So the author wants to press for that.
“More Than 10 Years Later, the Senate Torture Report Is Still Secret
I filed a lawsuit to obtain the 6,700-page report with “excruciating detail” about CIA’s abuses.”
by Shawn Musgrave
27/6/24
https://theintercept.com/2024/06/27/senate-torture-report-cia-lawsuit/
(However Intercept has started to restrict access. I am not yet sure how it works. But archive.is apparently is no more.)
And a billion other things to fight for.
An area given little attention.
UK Bail law.
If any case is in the murky category without much precedent and is likely to take time prosecuting then the defendant must be given bail if not a danger to society.
If no charges are ever made then any bail skipping cannot be brought up in the future as reason for denying bail.
It’s the UK laws that need attention not so much the US spying.
Murderers, Rapists and other crooks have been allowed back into the community on bail, albeit tagged, but not Assange the journalist.
The UK gagged, imprisoned and tortured Assange. That was their explicit choice, they didn’t need to.
Now Assange is free we will, eventually, get to hear the full horror of his story. And the UK can’t stop that.
I wonder if there is any way the UK Government can be sued for unfairly denying bail?
Have rewatched the Katharine Gun whistleblower movie adaptation “Official Secrets” with what I had learned from this blog in the past 2 years in my mind. Reading about Martin Bright who was then writing her story for The Observer it struck me that he had worked for the Tony Blair Faith Foundation in 2015 for 5 months before resigning.
How could he even start doing that after everything that had happened?
With this turn of a life story I am not surprised about journalists denouncing Assange.
People seem to completely lose their principles over the decades.
May be that´s another reason why they hate Assange.
When I first watched the movie in 2019 I found some parts clumsy. Trying too hard to deliver the message what true journalism is. In the light of the events since they however sound more true than could be desired by any screenwriter.
(For that see the actor Rhys Ifans as reporter Ed Vulliamy.)
Vulliamy of course being in no way extraordinary in real life I guess. (Just like Martin Bright probably as much as his work with Gunn was important back then.)
Wikipedia ends on Vulliamy: “He is currently working in Ukraine, on resistance – military, musical and cultural – to the Russian invasion.” Well he has given up journalism officially having switched to writing literature.
Good interview of Craig with Brother Billy and Tiz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJVJTZDQ1c4
To be honest, that interview contained something I’ve heard before which IMHO could cause problems in Blackburn. I’m not quoting verbatim, but it was something like this: ‘You Muslims voted for Straw in 2005, even though he supported torture. You’re a disgrace! You must redeem yourselves and vote for me!’ GG seems to have spoken similarly.
The problem is that many people who voted for Straw in 2005 might have had their reasons. It may have had to do with his willingness to solve their local problems. Their reaction to your ‘prophetic exhortation’ might be to vote for Labour again, for the same reasons as last time.
As for Adnan, much depends on how voters react on your telling of your sky-high ability and accomplishment compared to other candidates. I’ll leave that assessment to others better able to judge.
So doing better than your rivals is by no means certain.
Another week, and we’ll know!
Yea MJ a fascinating watch. The two interviewers were good, they asked a lot of the questions I would have asked and I appreciated the rapport that developed. Whatever one thinks of Mr Murray’s performance here, it surely demonstrates he is not a “party hack”, falling much into his “own person” category
I would say this a fair interview, some softball, some hardball questions. The dynamics in Blackburn are much clearer now thanks to watching this
I thought Brother Billy and Tiz performed to a higher journalistic standard than most professional reporters do these days, I learnt more watching this than Media and News can tell. I will watch some of their back editions