“Wiki-Gate”: Julian Assange Was Framed by the People Who Supported Him

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 25, 2024

The five major news media which were instrumental in the release and “redacting” of the WikiLeaks documents issued in 2019 a somewhat contradictory joint statement (open letter) requesting the release of Julian Assange.

British Imperialism and the Opium Wars: The Kuomintang’s Narco-State

By William Walter Kay, June 24, 2024

Opium beguiled Sumer, earned infamy among Greco-Romans, yet never charmed China until 700 CE. Earliest Chinese records trace the poppy’s westward roots. After tobacco arrived, around 1600, smoking tobacco-opium mixtures gained popularity until 1800, when straight opium smoking took-off.

‘Julian Assange Is Free’: WikiLeaks Founder Strikes Plea Deal with US

By Common Dreams, June 25, 2024

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday reached a deal with the U.S. government, agreeing to plead guilty to one felony related to the disclosure of national security information in exchange for his release from Belmarsh Prison in the United Kingdom.

Biden’s Last Ditch Effort to Avoid Full-scale Middle East War

By Steven Sahiounie, June 24, 2024

US special envoy Amos Hochstein arrived in Beirut on Tuesday morning with a packed schedule of meetings. He is the special presidential coordinator for global infrastructure and energy security, and was successful in brokering a maritime border deal between Israel and Lebanon in 2022, but on this trip he is attempting to make a deal to avoid war between Israel and the Lebanese resistance group, Hezbollah.

Julian Assange Is Finally Free!

By Joe Lauria, June 25, 2024

The New York Times reported that Assange agreed to the one count of the Espionage Act — “conspiracy to disseminate national defense information” —  in exchange for a five year sentence, which the U.S. agreed had already been served on remand in Belmarsh.

Former PM Azarov Says Ukraine Has No Opposition: ‘They are in prison or abroad’

By Ahmed Adel, June 25, 2024

Currently, in Ukraine, there is no opposition and politicians challenging Volodymyr Zelensky as they are either in prison or abroad, according to the country’s former prime minister, Mykola Azarov. He also highlighted that Kiev would be forced to accept any agreement between Russia and the United States.

Пакс Россия: “Pax Rossiya” Versus “A New American Century”

By Peter Koenig, June 24, 2024

Russia-China relations were poor throughout the Cold War until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. In 1992, then Russian President Boris Yeltsin made a first post-USSR visit to China which led in 1996, when then Chinese Premier Li Peng visited Moscow, to a joint communiqué pledging to build an “equal and reliable partnership.”