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    Feb 15, 2018
    Julian Assange’s latest attempt to have his arrest warrant dropped has failed in what stands as one of the most blatant examples of the British legal system being wielded as an instrument of persecution against a man whose crime is speaking truth to power.
    The Scourging of Julian Assange
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    Apr 14, 2017
    Hunter S. Thompson, writing for ESPN's Page 2 on Sept. 12, 2001...
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    Sep 26, 2017
    Aldous Huxley.
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    Oct 13, 2016
    Malcolm X on lesser evil voting.
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    Feb 13, 2018
    It now emerges that the last four years of Julian Assange’s effective imprisonment in the Ecuadorean embassy in London have been entirely unnecessary. In fact, they depended on a legal charade.
    The UK’s Hidden Hand in Julian Assange’s Detention
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    Sep 19, 2017
    American Priorities...
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    Jun 18, 2018
    The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Or it will end in tragedy. The Australian government and prime minister Malcolm Turnbull have an historic opportunity to decide which it will be.
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    Bring Julian Assange Home
    The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Or it will end in tragedy.  The Australian government and prime minister Malcolm Turnbull have an historic opportunity to decide which it will be.  They...
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    Jan 2, 2023
    Žižek could take the most reactionary political positions imaginable, have them broadcast around the world by the capitalist cultural apparatus, and still be presented as a towering intellectual of the Left. As a matter of fact, he has done precisely that.
    Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek
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    Jan 27, 2020
    It doesn't matter if you have opposed every form of racism your entire life, if you are a British or US political figure and do not support Israeli policy toward the Palestinians, you will be smeared as antisemitic.
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    The Misuses of Antisemitism in the UK and the USA
    Britain and the USA have had close ties, echoes and parallels from our start, some very good, others nasty. One of the latter may now be threatening.
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    Aug 2, 2016
    Jill Stein picks long-time CounterPuncher Ajamu Baraka as her VP running mate. counterpunch.org/2016/08/01/jil…
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    Jun 21, 2017
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    Jul 21, 2017
    Famous moments in history, reimagined by centrists. thenib.com/centrist-histo…
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    Dec 31, 2018
    The US authorities’ relentless pursuit of Assange is encouraged by the cowardice of many journalists who have abandoned him to his fate or even delight in his misfortune. counterpunch.org/2018/12/31/pri…
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    Feb 8, 2019
    "The United States has no meaningful Left and it hasn’t for a generation. And so activating people has to be the number one goal." - Matt Christman of @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE interviewed by Lucy Schiller.
    Forward Left: An Interview with Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House
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