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On a point of principle
Because 6% of college-aged men, slightly over 1 in 20, will admit to raping someone in anonymous surveys, as long as the word “rape” isn’t used in the description of the act—and that’s the conservative...
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Sense of entitlement
This post has trigger warnings. It’s mostly about rape. I’ve never been raped. Like most women who haven’t been raped, I do have a bunch of near-miss stories, starting from when I was six or seven and...
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Naomi Wolf says sorry… sort of
Consistently, since her original “Dear Interpol” letter in the Huffington Post in December 2010, Naomi Wolf has been the most high-profile self-identified feminist to argue that Assange did not rape or...
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Yes, Julian, because it’s all about you
Chris Stevens, US ambassador to Libya, killed in Benghazi attack: On Tuesday [11th September] night a group of extremists attacked the US consulate building in Benghazi, setting it on fire, and killing...
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Jeremy Duns, ‘Maria James’, and Julian Assange
It will surprise no one to know that I am a firm and fervent supporter of the right to pseudonymity on the Internet. Maria James “jerermyduns-watch” 12th September: It is probably not a surprise that...
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Assange and human rights
Tomorrow, Julian Assange is invited to speak on human rights and diplomatic asylum, via weblink from his room in Knightsbridge, at a UN event for permanent representatives to the UN General Assembly....
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Gorgeous George
Btw; any damages I recover from the NUS for defamation will be donated to Defence Fund for Julian Assange and Bradley Manning — George Galloway (@georgegalloway) October 1, 2012 Warning: this blog...
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This is rape culture
Louis Theroux asked Jimmy Saville in 2000 [full transcript here] “So why do you say in interviews that you hate children, when I’ve seen you with kids, and you clearly enjoy their company and you have...
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Wikileaks is not Assange
In 2007, Wikileaks published the protocol manual for the US army at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta. The manual included a designated list of prisoners...
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On 2013
Things that will happen in 2013: It’s a beautiful morning in Edinburgh today: the sun is shining. It’s cold but not too cold. The weather in 2013 will be terrible with consequent knock-on effects on...
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Safe sex and Julian Assange
They fell asleep and she woke up by his penetrating her. She immediately asked if he was wearing anything. He answered: “You.” She said: “You better not have HIV.” He said: “Of course not.” 12th July...
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Assange: Not in jail
Yesterday, Channel 4 News ran an anniversary programme, of sorts: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – hiding for two years in the Ecuadorian embassy – is in “a prison cell with internet access” and...
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Julian Assange evading justice
The statute of limitations for the crimes that Julian Assange is evading justice for in Knightsbridge, will expire this August. Swedish prosecutors will therefore travel to London to carry out the...
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Chutzpah: Julian Assange
It surely cannot be the case that Assange can rely on his own refusal to go to Sweden to escape answering the allegations. However, this does seem to be the case. It would seem that, in the...
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Julian Assange evading justice
The statute of limitations for the crimes that Julian Assange is evading justice for in Knightsbridge, will expire this August. Swedish prosecutors will therefore travel to London to carry out the...
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Chutzpah: Julian Assange
It surely cannot be the case that Assange can rely on his own refusal to go to Sweden to escape answering the allegations. However, this does seem to be the case. It would seem that, in the...
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Julian Assange evading justice
The statute of limitations for the crimes that Julian Assange is evading justice for in Knightsbridge, will expire this August. Swedish prosecutors will therefore travel to London to carry out the...
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Chutzpah: Julian Assange
It surely cannot be the case that Assange can rely on his own refusal to go to Sweden to escape answering the allegations. However, this does seem to be the case. It would seem that, in the...
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Brexit, the four directions: nadir
EU Referendum Results MapLast week, I wrote and posted a series about the four possible directions the UK can go from where we are. First, hard Brexit, which is catastrophic; second, soft Brexit, which...
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Julian Assange: condemned by his own actions
In the summer of 2010, Julian Assange went to Sweden. The servers which host the main Wikileaks website are based there: in August 2010, the primary host seems to have switched from PRQ to Bahnhof....
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