Julian Assange seeks political asylum in Ecuador + Julian Assange Show: Rafael Correa

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Updated: June 20, 2012 added more video reports plus an Action Alert.

Julian Assange (Photo credit: acidpolly)

Jun 19, 2012 by RTAmerica

On Tuesday, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange sought political asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, UK. At a press conference today in Quito, the foreign minister said to the media that the government is evaluating the request and looking into the rules of international law. Back in 2010 the country offered the whistleblower citizenship, but why is Assange seeking to depart to Ecuador now? RT America’s Web Producer Andrew Blake helps us answer some of these pressing questions.

Iraq: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics by Felicity Arbuthnot

by Felicity Arbuthnot
Featured Writer
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London, England
19 June 2012

Image by Truthout.org via Flickr

“A rock,
Breathing with the lungs of a lunatic,
That is it,
This is the twentieth century.”
(A Mirror for the Twentieth Century: Adonis – Ali Ahmad Said, 1930 – )

Recently a contradictory, but in important areas, remarkably sunny opinion poll on “progress” in Iraq, conducted in April, was released.(i)