(2022-07-19). Imran Khan Rewrites Pakistan's Political History. popularresistance.org It is an unsavory proposition always, be it in India or Pakistan, when political power is usurped by fly-by-night operators who engineer defections from a ruling party, and an established government gets overthrown despite its mandate to govern. | In India — so far, at least — such shenanigans leading to regime change at the federal or state level have not been manipulated by foreign powers — except, perhaps, in the ouster of the first communist government in the southern state of Kerala, way back in 1959. | In South Asian politics, Nepal, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Maldives have been chronic ca…
(2022-07-19). Julian: Let's Take a Stand. southfront.org On July 1, Julian Assange has appealed his extradition from the U.K., prolonging legal wrangling over whether the WikiLeaks founder should be sent to the U.S. At the end of April, a British court decided to extradite Assange to the United States, where he faces life imprisonment. In mid-June, the Interior Minister approved the expulsion of the founder of WikiLeaks. | In the United States, Assange risk to be tried for publishing classified information related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The accusation against him was made after hundreds of thousands of government documents were published on the WikiLea…