Snowden: “Nuestros gobiernos, actuando concertadamente, han creado un sistema mundial de espionaje masivo; controlando cada cosa que hacemos”

“En vez de espiar al pueblo, será siempre más económico preguntarle directamente, qué siente”  / Edward Snowden, 25 Dic 2013 EL Mensaje de Navidad leído por Edward Snowden en Channel 4. Londres, 25 de Diciembre de 2013. Traducción por Marcello Ferrada de Noli   English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubtMCzYqlps Svenska: http://jinge.se/allmant/snowdens-julbudskap-igar-kvall.htm Feliz Navidad. Es un honor para mi…

Five political scenarios that can break the Swedish obstruction of Ecuador’s asylum to Mr. Assange

Against the backdrop of the not-yet-concluded Swedish Gripen fighters deal with Brazil, we appeal to the respect for the Latin-American (and International) institution of political asylum, that should be paramount in the dealings with EU-countries. Examining five political scenarios that can break the deadlock in London in the Swedish “case” VS. the WikiLeaks founder. By…

The Alleged Board-Member affiliations of Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt in the background of the case Snowden

How Bloomberg-Businessesweek’s Table “Board Members affiliated with Carl Bildt” shows our Minister of Foreign Affairs in a same “tree” connected to people at “Booz Allen Hamilton Corporation”, the NSA security contractor that employed Snowden? And with George Bush’s FM Condoleezza Rice? Pick your coincidence. – Minister Carl Bildt viewed as “Assange’s prosecutor” . . According…

Open Letter to Intelligence Employees After Snowden

By Peter Kofod, Thomas Andrew Drake, Daniel Ellsberg, Katharina Gun, Jesselyn Raddack,  Ray McGovern, Coleen RowleyOpen [1] At least since the aftermath of September 2001, Western Governments and  Intelligence Agencies have been hard at work expanding the scope of their own power, while eroding privacy, civil liberties and public control of policy. What used to…

Supplementary Letter to the Swedish Bar Association Regarding a formal complain on lawyer in “Sweden VS. Assange case”

Update received from Rafik Saley (general secretary African Committee for Sustainable Development – Sweden), of the letter delivered to the Chairman of the Swedish Bar Association regarding a formal complain on lawyer Ms. Elisabeth Massi Fritz, in the Swedish case VS. the founder of WikiLeaks, Mr. Julian Assange . We have reasons to update the…

Tema Orígenes del MIR. Entrevista por prof. Matías Ortiz a M. Ferrada de Noli

El profesor Matías Ignacio Ortiz Figueroa es licenciado en Historia de la Universidad Andrés Bello, y Profesor Ayudante en Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, cátedras “América Latina: Formación de los Estados Nacionales”,  y “Metodología de la Investigación Histórica”. Su proyecto de investigación se desarrolla en torno al tema “la construcción identitaria mirista (1965- 1969)”.  …

The Swedish collaboration with US/NATO spying

In a thought-provoking piece in SvD, columnist Sam Sundberg opens with a reflection done by Julian Assange on the imperative for people’s own Intelligence endeavours: “The organization, Assange believes, will reveal the abuse of power and corruption in the world’s ruling class. Things that people deserve to know. It is a beautiful thought. Most journalists…

Great Risk that Sweden extradite Assange to the US

Dagens Nyheter, DN, published today (11/12, 2013) a main debate article [“Risken är stor att Sverige utlämnar Assange till USA”] authored by Thomas Olsson and Per E Samuelson – Assange’s lawyers in Sweden – and by Michael Ratner, Assange’s lawyer in the United States. – [Translation by M Ferrada de Noli] By December 7, 2013,…