[Peace-discuss] Assange trial day 3 updates, interesting stories

[J.B. Nicholson]

Consortium News
Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDZuNFwJ4BIRV_Z5IxFXVrA/videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3P6DUTZJU -- (19m 31s) Joe Lauria's report on day 3 
activities.



RT UK/Sputnik
Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ab7FFA2ACk2yTHgNan8lQ/videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZI_j6KG9lU -- (55m 07s) "LIVE: Julian Assange 
defence leave court on day 3 of his extradition hearing"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXPOYIhlICg -- (1h 17m 32s) "LIVE: 3rd day of Julian 
Assange's extradition hearing"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IumxaTJBuow -- (1h 24m 45s) "Hearings Continue in 
Assange Extradition Trial in London: Departures"

There is likely some overlap between the reports as they ultimately come from the 
same news organization.



Craig Murray

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-7/ 
-- "Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 7"



Interesting stories on "In Question" today:
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylMcqcQrhx8

- "War on Terror" has displaced 37 million people.
- AstraZenica/Oxford Univ. pauses testing their Coronavirus vaccine as one person 
falls ill; details on what caused the illness aren't known yet.
- Russian "Sputnik" vaccine is in Phase 3 trials.

Grayzone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHtPsyEukz8 -- (1h 16m 57s) "Push Back" with Aaron 
Maté debating the nearly 1,000-page Senate report (about Trump's alleged collusion 
with Russia to win the US presidency) with Mattathias Schwartz, contributing editor 
for the New York Times magazine. The debate also gets into why this report uses such 
hedging language (e.g., something claimed is "likely" to be true to allow for 
maximalist interpretation via innuendo as most of Russiagate has gone down). This 
debate is interesting but probably not for the uninitiated -- they get into details 
on the report and basics of how to determine what is salient and what constitutes 
accepted facts versus why it's reasonable to not believe everything the government 
says (which you'd hope wouldn't need to be reiterated but...).

Democracy Now

One small bit of good news:

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/9/julian_assange_extradition_hearing_jennifer_robinson 
was an interview between DN's Amy Goodman & Juan González and Jennifer Robinson, 
Assange's and Wikileaks' legal advisor since 2010.

This doesn't address DN's weeks of no coverage, de minimis coverage with poor 
retelling of facts, and no interviews with on-the-scene protestors (much unlike how 
DN handled other events where protestors are active such as the run-up to the 2003 
US/UK-led invasion of Iraq, Occupy Wall St., or the pipeline protests). But it's good 
for DN's audience to hear from someone in the know. There's nothing in this interview 
you won't find elsewhere (particularly if you follow other far more informative 
interviews I've linked to in these posts).

-J