‘Wikileaks gave us COLOUR to the black and white understanding of the US empire’s war crimes abroad. Julian Assange is the best example of how you DON’T STOP.’ —Matthew Hoh, former State Department & Defense Department official, ahead of the 20th Anniversary of the founding of Wikileaks. ‘The first time we met, I was in London on a visit to visit Julian when he was in the Ecuadorian embassy. In these years we’ve seen this great shift in our technology, this ability to access information to see things from a firsthand perspective, of course, the genocide in Gaza, the best example of that. We’ve seen the success of what Julian Assange built with WikiLeaks in the sense of bringing some accountability. Maybe we understood things in Iraq, but WikiLeaks gave us color to that black and white understanding that we had in Iraq and in so many other places where the American Empire was carrying out its war crimes, and this idea of an accountability that was able to surface from that. And we have seen the backlash to that, whether it’s been the surveillance, whether it’s been the government censorship. Afshin, I mean, there’s no one better to talk to about government censorship than you and your folks on this program here, right? But then also too, we saw the culmination of that backlash against information, against letting people know what their governments were doing in these last three years, as we’ve seen the Israelis and the Americans murder over 250 journalists in Gaza. So I think what it means to me is we don’t ever stop, right? That no matter what success we have, we don’t stop. Whatever setback we have, we don’t stop. And I think Julian, of course, with what he’s done, his work, but also too his personal trials, the prosecution and the persecution he endured for years by the British state, by the American state, I think he is the best example of how you don’t ever stop.’ Watch the full interview in the quoted post below 👇 @MatthewPHoh @wikileaks @JulianAssange

"The Green Party conference is set to be dominated by Corbyn-era motions around Gaza, Zionism, Palestine. "These are dividing this party and risks, on some level, tearing it apart." Have the Greens got lost in 'fractious' politics? thenewsagents.co.uk/article/…

EXCL: Zack Polanski has insisted his authority as leader of the Green party does not depend on winning next week’s Holborn and St Pancras byelection, amid suggestions the party’s popularity has peaked. "It doesn’t depend on it whatsoever," he tells @alethaadu, adding that the election has ramifications for politics nationally but “not for my leadership”. “I think the seat is winnable, and I think it’s probably 50-50 right now. It’s really, really on a knife edge.” But senior Green figures privately fear defeat could severely damage his leadership. There are concerns the party’s rapid rise in membership and polling hasn’t translated into strong campaigning on the ground. theguardian.com/politics/202…

Zohran Mamdani: One of the things that I'm proud of is that we live in the most Jewish city in the United States of America. No Jewish person in New York City is responsible for the actions of the state of Israel. If you want to hold anybody accountable, it's the people who are making those decisions — the prime minister, the state of Israel, also our complicity as American taxpayers, given that we know how many billions of dollars we have sent in bombs and continue to send.

BREAKING: Saudi Arabia plans 100,000-troop Yemen offensive to retake the Bab el-Mandeb from Yemen's Houthis, without any US support and all troops under Saudi command, supported by Saudi air strikes and expected to launch in the coming weeks, per Reuters. Crown Prince MBS is weighing a narrow push along the coast around Bab el-Mandeb or a broader offensive on multiple fronts, with synchronized attacks in Al-Bayda, Marib, Taiz and Al-Jawf. The US and Saudi Arabia's other allies are not expected to take any part in combat operations, after Trump refused MBS's requests for US strikes and then called off strikes with bombs already loaded on US warplanes two weeks ago.

The day that Biden grew so angry at Netanyahu that he nearly cut him off: "He was just completely fed up with everything and I think at that moment he was ready to just say, 'I’m done,'" @brett_mcgurk recalls as he releases "Brink," his memoir of Gaza war. nytimes.com/2026/10/01/us/po…

🚨 Breaking 🚨 More strikes on Kievs major suspension Bridge by Russian advanced "Cutter" geran 5 jet drones They seem to be targetting the massive cable stays supprting the span.