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Assange’s liberty represents that of all journalists and publishers whose job is to expose government and corporate criminality without fear of prosecution.
Assange would never receive a fair trial in the U.S., but he's not receiving one in Britain either.
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If Trump’s Justice Department ups the ante to charge Julian Assange under the Espionage Act, he may spend the rest of his life in prison.
“In Extremis” by Lindsey Hilsum is the new biography of war correspondent Marie Colvin, who was killed in 2012 while covering the Syrian war.
Miko Peled’s new book is an exhaustive study of the U.S.’s case against five Palestinian-American defendants who were convicted under anonymous accusations.
In his new book, “Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom,” Norman Finkelstein presents Gaza’s case like a veteran prosecutor at a homicide trial.
Ronen Bergman’s history of Israel’s assassination program exposes a policy that blurs distinctions between soldiers and assassins, politicians, and killers.
Had anyone simply listened to the people of Syria, the multiple tragedies of the past century might have been avoided.
“The Edge of the Precipice” draws on official Syrian archives to tell the story of Henry Kissinger’s shuttle diplomacy after the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
Christopher Phillips’s brilliant analysis of the factors fueling the Syria war is a refreshing contrast to works by ostensible but ill-informed experts.