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  • U.S. is engaging Julian Assange’s lawyers about a deal that could set the imprisoned publisher free.

    Assange in plea deal talks

    The report in The Wall Street Journal makes public what Consortium News had learned off the record, namely that the U.S. is engaging Julian Assange’s lawyers about a deal that could set the imprisoned publisher free.

  • Julian Assange

    Assange is doing his most important work yet

    British Home Secretary Priti Patel has authorized the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to be tried under the Espionage Act in a case which seeks to set a legal precedent for the prosecution of any publisher or journalist, anywhere in the world, who reports inconvenient truths about the U.S. empire.