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🔒🇬🇧 People around the world need to add their voices to the call for Julian’s release from the dungeon in Britain.

👤 John Shipton, Julian Assange’s father, spoke to Finian Cunningham in an interview just days before Christmas.

John Shipton has traveled the world appealing to parliaments, politicians, civic bodies, and ordinary public members for the release of his son. John tells how a rallying call for Julian’s release is growing. Every parliament in Europe, for example, now has members explicitly calling for freedom. So too has the Australian government finally wakened up to demand the end of the barbaric mistreatment. In Latin America, North America, and other parts of the world, the clamor for justice is growing.

Only two weeks ago, major newspapers in the United States and Europe published joint editorial statements urging the Biden Administration to end the imprisonment of Assange, stating that “publishing is not a crime”. That renewed appeal for freedom is a reflection of the swelling sea-change in public support around the world for Julian Assange.

John Shipton says he is not “into hope” in the superficial meaning of the word. By that, he means a sort of cheap hope, blithe optimism, or cheery, glib ignorance. A sort of “consumerist hope” that is fickle and vanishes at the slightest obstacle.

However, what he displays in his tenacious, resilient, courageous support for his son is a much deeper hope. One of faith and commitment in the face of immense adversity. That strength inspires profound hope. An audacious hope. One that defiantly smiles in the face of cold barbarity.

The kind of hope that can break chains

🎬 Watch the interview on YouTube

#Assange #Justice #FreeJulianAssange

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👁 A surveillance court order unsealed last week that details massive violations of Americans’ privacy by the FBI underscores why Congress must end or radically change the unconstitutional spying program enabled by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

Greater transparency and more timely disclosures of the government’s mass surveillance programs are sorely needed. At the same time, Congress does not need any more reports or declassified opinions to see what’s really happening here: routine misuse of Section 702 to violate people’s Fourth Amendment rights. Congress can and should put a stop to this.

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#Congress #FBI #Justice #UnitedStates

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🗽 It is getting very messy. Verging on insanity. A new indictment with four charges in respect to the events of 6 Jan has been issued to former President Trump – who has now been charged with more than 75 crimes. These latest charges however are likely only to further eradicate confidence in the Federal Justice process, and in the integrity of the American political system itself. The indictment is to be heard in the District of Columbia which is notoriously politicised, and unlikely to empanel anything but a wholly hostile jury (the saying in DC is that the Justice Dept could convict a hamburger with a DC jury).

Charging Trump with conspiring to ‘steal’ the 2020 Presidential election entrenches more deeply than before that the country is headed for a great reckoning – in the courts and at the ballot box. It poses questions that cannot but further lead to an unravelling of politics in the U.S.

The entire American political set-up – with or without a FARA indictment, and with the 2024 elections looming – is fragile 🔮

💬 Alastair Crooke writes

#UnitedStates #Trump #Justice #politics

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