First Amendment

The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues

May 24, 2024 UNAC Editor Free Speech, Lawfare, Political Prisoners, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, Whistleblowers

by Chris Hedges, published on Socialist Action, May 21, 2024 (Original to Scheerpost) The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point. The May 20 decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian Assange the right to[…]

Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Uhuru 3 Put State on tTrial in Fightback Against Bogus Charges

April 13, 2024 UNAC Editor Attacks on the Movement, Black Liberation Movement, Peoples' Movements, Racism, Reparations, The War at Home, US Hypocrisy, War on the Poor

by Penny Hess, published on Uhuru Solidarity, March, 29, 2024 We are known as the Uhuru 3! In yet another political attack by the U.S. government against the African Liberation Movement, African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) Chairman Omali Yeshitela and two members of the Party’s Solidarity Front are currently under federal indictment and facing 15 years in prison on the[…]

The Last Flurry: The US Congress and Australian Parliamentarians Seek Assange’s Release

January 19, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Free Speech, Journalism, Lawfare, Legal Struggles, Political Prisoners, US Hypocrisy

by Dr. Binoy Kampmark, published on Countercurrents, January 19, 2024 On February 20, Julian Assange, the daredevil publisher of WikiLeaks, will be going into battle, yet again, with the British justice system – or what counts for it. The UK High Court will hear arguments from his team that his extradition to the United States from Britain to face 18[…]

The Myth of Free Speech in America…

May 8, 2023 UNAC Editor Corruption, Free Speech, Press Freedom, US Hypocrisy

Fox News to Pay Dominion $787.5 Million for 2020 Election Lies While African People’s Socialist Party Persecuted and Julian Assange Jailed For Telling the Truth Recent developments exposed the hypocrisy of the oligarchy owned Mainstream Media. We shouldn’t forget that while all this Trump related BS was airing on Fox, the supposedly ‘left’ stations were busy covering for Joe Biden[…]

ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Why the Crumbling Computer Conspiracy Case Is So Vital to the US

July 21, 2021 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Whistleblowers

by Catherine Vogan, published on Consortium News, July 19, 2021 While most of the talk about the Julian Assange case is about the espionage charges, which are political in nature, the U.S. case hangs by a thread for the second time on the non-political charge: conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. There is a reason why the computer charge is so[…]

Never Again Can US Lecture Other Countries about Censorship

February 20, 2021 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Fascism

By Steve Lalla, published on the Orinoco Tribune, Feb 15, 2021 Following the past month’s events, the US can no longer imagine they’re in a position to lecture other nations about censorship. All and sundry see that the US doesn’t possess any moral high ground from which to dictate standards of free speech or free markets, either within their own[…]