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Julian Assange and the global war on truth

September 29, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray The revelation that US intelligence agencies were actively considering how they might kidnap and/or assassinate Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in 2017 isn't too surprising, I'm sorry to say. Such rumours had been circulating since 2010, when it was alleged that then US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton had remarked during a high-level discussion of Assange and Wikileaks: "Can't we just drone this guy?" Ms Clinton has been famously unable to recollect the remark ever since, and chances are it may have been just a throwaway line in a State…

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From Julian to Barnaby, and points between

June 30, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray. All praise the Member for Rinehart Thanks to Peter Lewis for this lifelike portrait of Barnaby and friend Oh Barnaby. If the National Party is the tail that wags the Coalition dog, then where on the tail do we find Barnaby Joyce? At the head of the tail, of course. You might need to draw a picture to locate that precisely. But really, all you need to know about the Nationals in this day and age is that they are a shady rump of the former Country Party, still…

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Slow-motion assassination of Julian Assange

The slow-motion state-sponsored assassination of Julian Assange, the award-winning Australian journalist who helped expose, through his outlet Wikileaks, some of the ugly truth about the powers that run the western world, appears to be gathering pace. Ever since he was charged by Sweden on conveniently timed rape charges (just as conveniently dropped once he was securely trapped in the UK), Assange has been more or less a dead man standing. With the entire security establishment of the United States baying for his blood, no country’s government has been willing to risk defending him. Not Sweden, where…

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