By Stefania Maurizi Journalist at L’Espresso* Five years after ‘Collateral Murder’, the secret US military video which made the Pentagon furious and WikiLeaks famous around the world, l’Espresso meets the WikiLeaks founder in the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he is holed up to ask whether he has changed his mind and goals In a […]
UN Covenant on Civil & Political Rights says that the arresting of Mr Julian Assange shall be put to an end
By Professor Marcello Ferrada de Noli, Chairman, Swedish Doctors for Human Rights – SWEDHR This analysis was first published April 30, 2015 in NewsVoice A view of Swedish Doctors for Human Rights (SWEDHR) * is that the case versus Mr Assange in Sweden has conveyed an overriding political factor rather than abiding a legal […]
Putin Throws Down the Gauntlet
By Mike Whitney for The Indicter* Above: Texts excerpted from Vladimir Putin’s statements in the video “Who created Isis?” Added by The Indicter Would you be willing to defend your country against a foreign invasion? That’s all Putin is doing in Syria. He’s just preempting the tidal wave of jihadis that’ll be coming his way once the current […]
Political facts in the Swedish case VS. Assange. Analysis
by Professor Marcello Ferrrada de Noli Chairman, Swedish Doctors for Human Rights Against the backdrop of a drastic falling of Sweden’s international status under the Reinfeldt/Bildt administration, the “Assange Case” emerged as the Swedish rulers’ political alibi. Now when the plot has been debunked, it has come the time for dropping the “case”. But […]
Many questions have still not been answered on the downing of the MH17
By Maj Wechselmann . Member of The Indicter’s Editorial Board. . Few airplane crashes have caused such a big attention as the crash of the Malaysian plane MH17 in eastern Ukraine. The plane fell in the area of the separatists. The theories and accusations about who shot it down and murdered 295 passengers […]
The refugee crisis – to a part a Scandinavian responsibility
By Sven Ruin, Leif Elinder, and Anders Romelsjö. Members of European Human Rights Front In this article, we look at some of the war-torn countries that many people are fleeing from today: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Ukraine. In all these countries, the West has been involved in one way or the other in attempts […]
Russian Attacks In Syria Expose U.S., Allied Debacle
By Andrew Kreig . Russia’s Intervention into Syria has revealed long-running scandals in the regional foreign policy of the United States and its allies. President Obama’s reversal in late October of his firm pledge to avoid deployment of ground troops in Syria is one of the most obvious short-run embarrassments. But others abound that discredit […]
Migrant Crisis in Europe: The West Is Collecting on Its Misdeeds in Iraq, Libya and Syria
by Gilbert Mercier Editor in chief of News Junkie Post, replies to questions at Sputnik’s “Red Line“ hosted by Andrew Korybko.* . Andrew Korybko: What are you thoughts on President Putin’s assessment that this refugee crisis should have been expected and is due to the West’s failing foreign policies in the Mid-East? Gilbert Mercier: I […]
The war in Syria is the result of a US-planned intervention
By Professor Anders Romelsjö Ph.D.. Editor-in-Chief of the ‘radical-left’ magazine Flamman wrote recently in her editorial column, “Putin has allied with al-Assad, although his regime is the root of the senseless violence against civilians in Syria”. This commonly assessment of Assad’s role is incorrect, and it can be seen as part of the US propaganda […]
Assange and Snowden entitled to political asylum according to UN Convention
This article analyses the definition of Political Refugee in the currently applied UN Convention of 1951, and against the backdrop of the increasing migrant influx into Europe during the last months. It concludes partly that the general ascribing of political asylum to migrations on the cause of war – but without the presence of the […]