Browsing Year: 2016

How Sweden bribed its way to a seat in the UN Security Council using millions taken from the public budget for aid to poor countries

By Prof Marcello Ferrada de Noli, PhD. Chair, Swedish Doctors for Human Rights.  “It was a cover operation for what this is really about, namely to buy votes, says the source” (In DN) In a few days, Sweden will be occupying a seat on the UN Security Council, including the chairmanship. This was the result […]

Filling the Phantom of Democracy with Our Networked Power

By Nozomi Hayase, Ph.D. Member of The Indicter Editorial Board. After the Electoral College vote, the Trump presidency is now official. As denial and blame games continue, this was not a ‘foreign government coup d’état’, clarified by U.S. Intelligence Chief James Clapper, noting that agencies lacked evidence for WikiLeaks’ connection with alleged Russian cyber-attacks. The […]

The new geopolitics of Sweden: Feminism, arms exports to dictatorships, & NATO. Impact in the Assange case

  By Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli, chair, Swedish Professors & Doctors for Human Rights – SWEDHR. Introduction For exactly six years ago, Sweden ordered the detention of the WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange. According to the Snowden documents, the US government had  asked the countries participating in the occupation of Afghanistan under US-military command, to […]

Julian Assange replies to allegations on WikiLeaks helping to elect Donald Trump. The Stefania Maurizi interview

Editor’s Note. While a persistent campaign in social media has questioned during weeks the actual whereabouts of Julian Assange, author and journalist Stefania Maurizi conducted newly this interview with the WikiLeaks founder.  The Guardian reproduced today a segmented text of the interview, not oly leaving important items out of the publication, but also falsifying Julian […]

Assange Defense Underscores Shameful Swedish, U.S. Tactics

By Andrew Kreig, J.D., M.S.L., attorney and journalist. Member of The Indicter editorial board. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange last week refuted the dubious prosecution Sweden began against him in August 2010. Assange’s written response on Dec. 7, with his first detailed defense, underscores the disgraceful procedures used by Sweden, the United States, and the United Kingdom, […]

Tell Sweden to respect decision by the United Nations body on Arbitrary Detention and free Julian Assange!

By Prof Marcello Ferrada de Noli, chair, Swedish Professors and Doctors for Human Rights – SWEDHR. Updated image: Senator Sasse wishes to stop WikiLeaks exposures on CIA. Sweden refuses to clearly state whether or not they will extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S. There is no charge whatsoever against Julian Assange in Sweden; […]

The answer given by Julian Assange to the Swedish prosecutor in the London questioning of 14-15 November 2016

More details at justice4assange.com. See also on Julian Assange health status at “What about the health-status of Mr Assange?” in Analysis: Trump, WikiLeaks, Assange and Sweden, and “HR lawyer Jennifer Robinson: Assange going through Swe interrogation amid deteriorated health“. 14/15 NOVEMBER 2016 QUESTIONING AT THE ECUADORIAN EMBASSY LEGALLY PRIVILEGED You have subjected me to six […]

Six years arbitrary detention of Assange in the context of Sweden’s military strategy

By Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli, chair, Swedish Professors & Doctors for Human Rights – SWEDHR.   This is the second part of the series “Why Sweden’s violations against international law &  Assange’s human rights remain unabated after 6 years of his arbitrary detention?” [First part: The Assange case in the context of Sweden’s feminist […]

Analysis: The Assange case in the context of Sweden’s feminist foreign policy for international trade gains

By Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli, chair, Swedish Professors & Doctors for Human Rights – SWEDHR. This is the first part of the series “Why Sweden’s violations against international law &  Assange’s human rights remain unabated after 6 years of his arbitrary detention?”   Introduction A previous analysis concluded that Sweden most likely would persist […]

“Awakening Courage in the Era of Trumpism”

By Dr. Nozomi Hayase. Editor’s Note. Nozomi Hayase’s op-ed might leave readers with a constellation of emotions –beyond agreement, or not, with her thesis. In the editor’s impression, a principal feature of Nozomi Hayase’s text here is that the reader is left with a variety of political-anthropological reflections; not only about this segment of US […]