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I’m free because I pleaded guilty to journalism

LADIES and gentlemen, the transition from years of confinement in a maximum security prison to being here before the representatives of 46 nations and 700 million people is a profound and a surreal shift. The experience of isolation for years in a small cell is difficult to convey. It strips away one sense of self, leaving only the raw essence of existence...

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Assange is free: what he’s given us

AFTER a 14-year struggle, including five years spent in Belmarsh, a maximum-security prison in London, WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is finally free. Under the terms of a plea deal with the U.S. Department of Justice, Assange pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to obtain documents, writings and notes connected with the national defense under...

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Truth dies, truth braves, Assange goes home

THE truth defies power and denies dying. Truth survives by surmounting odds and obstacles. Despite this trajectory of truth, sometimes it appears to be dying — a short phenomenon in life. Julian Assange’s journey to freedom presents this fact: a simultaneous act of surviving and the apparent dying of truth. The Spanish define truth in a proverb: ‘Truth is God’s daughter’. The daughter lives...

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The media kept Assange behind bars

IT IS only right that we all take a moment to celebrate the victory of Julian Assange’s release from 14 years of detention, in varying forms, to be united, finally, with his wife and children — two boys who have been denied the chance to ever properly know their father...

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Exposing craven media stable

THE WikiLeaks project was always going to put various noses out of joint in the journalistic profession. Soaked and blighted by sloth, easily bought, perennially envious, a good number of the...

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns home a free man

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned home to Australia to start life as a free man on Wednesday after admitting he revealed US defence secrets in a deal that unlocked the door to his London prison cell....

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The judicial torture of Assange

ONLY this month, the near-comatose US president, Joe Biden, made a casual, castaway remark that his administration was ‘considering’ the request by Australia that the case against Julian Assange...

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