I genuinely do not care who owns the factory as long as it creates jobs.

Those were the Sweden rape charges and that was actually 2010. He went to the embassy in 2012. The Trump admin charged him under the Espionage Act in 2018.

Assange thought it was win favor with Trump and maybe get him a pardon.

??? The emails were leaked before any charges were filed. The Trump admin filed the charges. Ultimately the Biden admin cut him a deal. Obama or other democrats didn’t seem to want to charge him.

Seeing as it was just patched together from other releases with Russian disinfo laced in between - it should have been removed a long time ago.

Could you show what specifically was fake?

BRICS is less about alliances, in fact the UAE and Iran are enemies to the level of the US and Russia. It’s more about reducing the influence of Western sections on global politics. Basically anyone not reliant on the West financially would benefit from joining BRICS since it reduces the leverage the West has over them.

ETA: it’s a similar concept to OPEC where many countries are outright enemies.

It’s definitely “why” they want to put him in jail regardless of what anti-journalism charges they hit him with.

So the argument from Assange was that all relevant information from the cache was already public from previous publication. The entire cache was public when FP published the article you’re referring to so they could have pointed out what was actually worth reporting if there was anything.

Here’s the article for everyone else:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-leaks-on-russian-government-during-u-s-presidential-campaign/

The point about the 2012 Syria emails is more interesting, but the whole point about Wikileaks running cover for Russia never made a lot of sense to me since they have published damaging info about Russia.

ETA: I’d be remiss not to mention that the discussion of Assange’s biases is a red herring to the real problem which is the US’s attempt to criminalize publication of state secrets.

Whatever you think of Assange, you should know why the US government wants to prosecute him. He published this among other things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8xhH0FkCQg

Context: that’s a US gunship firing on Reuters journalists among other civilians including kids.

Is there a reason they can’t use a conventional warhead to destroy a satellite? Even if they wanted to use it to attack a surface there isn’t a lot of evidence that a normal ICBM can be reliably intercepted so I doubt them being in space will change much.

Edit: *surface target

Yeah, Iran has a bad habit of waiting until these groups become powerful independently and then slyly trying to take credit for it after the fact. The US amplifying these claims to try to demonize these groups usually just makes them more popular especially in Shia majority areas.

All Israel has to do is publish their evidence and these questions go away. If 190 members are militants then surely they have some evidence that won’t compromise their sources and methods.

How convenient for dem leadership that anyone who disagrees with them is actually a foreign agent.

To be clear since it seems like Pakistan is trying to re-muddy the waters here, the cable is authentic. It does show that the US pressured them to jail Khan. https://theintercept.com/2023/08/16/imran-khan-cable-pakistan-us/

Edit: my bad I meant the US pressured the military to remove him from office.

So they didn’t throw out the case nor did they order an end to military operations. Consider the can kicked, not that it’s a surprising outcome. Tough to parse the legalspeak at this point so I don’t have the whole picture.

This is well put. The fact is the US has been trying to deal with Iran since '79 and none of their tactics work to unseat a purely ideological regime.

The Taliban is a great example too since the US fought them for 20 years to no avail just to see the regime they put in place go down in a day to a few bribes (allegedly).

Mainly when people talk about this they mean privatization through some convoluted scheme. Look up some of Thatcher’s policies for some out there examples. Outsourcing supply chains is a big part of this privatization, and probably what the commenter meant was that not funding domestic chip production led to this mess.

It’s a bit difficult to take all this pearl clutching about independent media seriously when it all comes from corporate media whose bottom line is threatened by people choosing a different news source.