For today, links to commentary from Consortium News and ScheerPost; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE and HERE. The MARCH 29 ASSANGE entry is HERE.) — MCM

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UK legal shambles in case of Assange, by Craig Murray | CraigMurrary.org.uk / Consortium News  The latest judgment by the High Court in the Julian Assange case achieved completely the objectives of the U.K. and U.S. states. Above all, Julian remains in the hell which is Belmarsh . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM MARCH 27  A mockery of British justice, by Chris Hedges | ScheerPost  Prosecutors representing the United States, whether by design or incompetence, refused — in the two-day hearing I attended in London in February — to provide guarantees that Julian Assange would be afforded First Amendment rights and would be spared the death penalty if extradited to the U.S. The inability to give . . . READ MORE . . .