Monday, April 15, 2019
Pompeo and Bolton Push Us Closer to War with Iran
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Sultan of Brunei, Who Passed Anti-LGBT Laws, Owns Slew of Luxury UK Properties
The architect of new laws mandating the stoning to death of gay people in Brunei has billions of pounds of property wealth in the UK, shares in a leading tech fund and gets assistance from City auditing firms, a Guardian analysis has found.
Hassanal Bolkiah, the sultan of Brunei, owns a slew of properties in the super-rich enclaves of Kensington and Ascot, including luxury hotels and polo parks. One property alone could be worth an estimated £500m in rent each year.
He has also invested millions of pounds in Draper Esprit, a tech-focused venture capital fund with holdings in Trustpilot and the financial services firm Revolut. Until recently his global hotel empire was audited by the accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Bolkiah has become an international pariah for his implementation of sharia laws, including the stoning to death of people thought to be gay or to have committed adultery, in the country he has ruled as a supreme monarch for decades. » | David Pegg, Hilary Osborne and Caelainn Barr | Sunday, April 14, 2019
Steve Bannon Is Going After Pope Francis | Morning Joe | MSNBC
British PM Tony Blair: Brexit or Not, Britain Will Remain a Great Country | Morning Joe | MSNBC
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Duty to Warn: Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess the “Dangerous Case” of President Trump
Dr. Bandy Lee declares that she is not representing the views of Yale University, Yale School of Medicine or Yale Department of Psychiatry.
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Psychiatrist Bandy Lee On What's Wrong With Trump's Mental Health
'We Are Not Going to Shut Up': New York Protesters Demand Freedom for Assange and Manning
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Geoffrey Robertson QC: Assange's Arrest a Deterrent to Journalists Exposing US War Crimes!
Assange Indictment: A Threat to the Foundation of US Democracy?
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Paul Craig Roberts Interview on Julian Assange Arrest, Brexit, Venezuela
Italy: Steve Bannon's Populist Academy in the Trisulti Monastery | Focus on Europe
Democracy Now! US Trying to Make Assange “Suffer” for Publishing Secrets, His Former Lawyer Says
At the end of the day, you come down to the question of free speech, whether it’s right that a publisher who has received information from sources who want it published ... should be jailed and punished for the efforts he’s made on behalf of free speech," says Robertson.
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Will Julian Assange Be Extradited? | Inside Story
Assange was an unintended guest of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, as he tried to avoid angry governments and accusations of sexual assault and hacking. But on Thursday that all changed, as Ecuador revoked his political asylum, and then allowed police into the embassy, where he was arrested on the spot.
It's a complicated story because there are many allegations across multiple countries. Some have been dropped on technicalities. This first arrest, dramatically played out in front of the media, was for breaching bail and could mean 12 months in prison. But then later Assange was arrested again at the request of the United States, which wants him extradited.
Is this all about freedom of speech? Or about a man hiding from charges against him?
Presenter: Kamahl Santamaria | Guests: Michael Patchett-Joyce, barrister in International and European law; Claire Finkelstein, Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Vaughan Smith, freelance journalist and personal friend of Julian Assange
John Pilger: Julian Assange Exposed US' 'Kill Them All' Mentality!
Amerika und Julian Assange: Aktivist, Journalist, Hochverräter?
Heldenhafter Freiheitskämpfer oder terroristischer Hochverräter? Mit der Festnahme von Julian Assange, die aller Voraussicht nach in seine Auslieferung an die Vereinigten Staaten münden wird, ist in Amerika abermals eine heftige Diskussion um den Wikileaks-Gründer entbrannt. Ob Assange als Held oder Verräter gilt, hängt ganz davon ab, ob die Veröffentlichungen des Australiers als Journalismus eingestuft werden – wie er und seine Befürworter es stets für Wikileaks reklamiert haben. » von Nina Rehfeld, Phoenix | Samstag, 13. April 2019
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Steve Bannon ‘Told Italy’s Populist Leader: Pope Francis Is the Enemy’
Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon advised Italy’s interior minister Matteo Salvini to attack the pope over the issue of migration, according to sources close to the Italian far right.
During a meeting in Washington in April 2016, Bannon – who would within a few months take up his role as head of Trump’s presidential campaign – suggested the leader of Italy’s anti-immigration League party should start openly targeting Pope Francis, who has made the plight of refugees a cornerstone of his papacy.
“Bannon advised Salvini himself that the actual pope is a sort of enemy. He suggested for sure to attack, frontally,” said a senior League insider with knowledge of the meeting in an interview with the website SourceMaterial. » | Mark Townsend, Home affairs editor | Saturday, April 13, 2019
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