Thursday, 23 August 2012

Don't Lose Sight of Why the US is Out to Get Julian Assange

By Seumas Milne

They disgorged devastating evidence of US war crimes and collusion with death squads in Iraq on an industrial scale, its illegal US spying on UN officials – as well as a compendium of official corruption and deceit across the world. Continue


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