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TruthOut by Dave Lindorff | Dec. 10, 2010 (Opinion)

The Strange Case of Interpol's Red Alert on Assange, and the US Attack on WikiLeaks

In most countries, including the US and UK, these would not pass the test to be considered a crime, much less qualify as a category of “rape," but Swedish authorities, who in all of this year have only submitted one other request to Interpol for assistance in capturing a sex crimes suspect, asked the international police agency to issue a so-called Red Alert for Assange, who was subsquently asked by police in the UK, where he was staying, to turn himself ... Full Story »

Posted by Dwight Rousu - via NewsRack (U.S.), David K. Miller (t), Alex Williams (f), Tobie Openshaw (f), Steven K Samra (f)

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by Dwight Rousu - Dec. 13, 2010

A well laid out set of facts and circumstances of the attack on a news source for purely political purposes directly contrary to the intent of the first ammendment.

 “There is a long tradition of the use of rape and sexual assault for political agendas that have nothing to do with women’s safety. In the south of the US, the lynching of black men was often justified on grounds that they had raped or even looked at a white woman. Women don’t take kindly to our demand for safety being misused, while rape continues to be neglected at best or protected at worst.” The long arm of the US in this case is hard to miss here.

Back in the US, there has been no move by news organizations to come to Assange’s defense. In fact, the corporate media reaction to this whole issue has been the opposite.

Dwight posted this story.