Assange remains the target of powerful forces and has been largely left hung out to dry by both the legitimate voices of dissent and those who continue to prosecute these wars and isolate and crush any resistance to them. In the U.K. a lot of this isolation can be put down to the Guardian newspaper in its role as the Pravda of the liberal left (their niche market if not their personal politi…

How are the Metropolitan police preparing for this weekend's mass demonstrations against public spending cuts? Hugh Muir investigates

- Met's assistant commissioner, Lynne Owens

- Chair of the Met Police Federation, Peter Smyth

- Green party London assembly member Jenny Jones

- Liberty's legal director, James Welch

- Val Swain from Fit Watch

- Vikram Dodd, the Guardian's crime correspondent

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Rounding off an extremely bad month (for them), the past 12 hours has been hard on police credibility as they try to address the fallout from the 24 November demos.  First, they denied that a serving officer discharged a BCF halon fire extinguisher point-blank into the faces of young demonstrators during the student demonstrations this past Wednesday.  However, with the help of one of our very ow…

The Guardian has picked up on a story that's old but still burning: British secret services were (and are?) inolved in torturing pisoners in the name of the 'war on terror'. Omar Deghayes chilling account of his years in Guantanamo Bay can also be seen on video: in September 2009 a documentary was release including extensive interviews with Omar and other ex-detainees. Outside the Law: Stories fro…

FitWatch activists at climate camp last year aggressively targetted by the police.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/21/kingsnorth-protester-arrests-video-complaint