Julian Assange asks for political asylum in Ecuador Embassy

Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said today that Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, has taken refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and sought political asylum.

Patiño said that his country "is evaluating Mr. Assange’s request" and that the decision will be made based on the rules and principles of human rights and international law... read full article.

Friends of WikiLeaks fight for Julian Assange’s human rights

Friends of WikiLeaks is an international group, aiming to promote WikiLeaks and "defend its mission". They have sent a letter to the Human Rights Court, asking it to stop the "unlawful detention" of Julian Assange.

The Friends of WikiLeaks  (FoWL) group boasts members worldwide.... read more

Assange Episode 9: 'Pakistan a hired gun to kill US enemies'

This week on "The World Tomorrow", Julian Assange interviews Imran Khan, a Pakistani anti-corruption activist and politician known by some as 'a one-man-party'.

Imran Khan is a Pakistani politician, statesman and former cricketer, who played international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century.

After retiring from cricket, he entered politics. Currently, besides his political activism, Khan is also a philanthropist, cricket commentator, Chancellor of the University of Bradford and Founder and Chairman Board of Governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre.

In April 1996, Khan founded and became the chairman of a political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice). He represented Mianwali as a member of the National Assembly from November 2002 to October 2007. Foreign Policy magazine has described him as "Pakistan's Ron Paul".... read more and watch interview.

Luke Rudkowski beats the mainstream media to Senator Marco Rubio

When Senator Marco Rubio attended an Earth Freedom Coalition conference recently, the mainstream media were all lined up to ask him questions. 

However, it turns out none of them had any luck whatsoever.

While he doesn't actually get his question answered, the cheeky citizen journalist, Luke Rudkowski of We are Change, shows how you can beat the mainstream media when wishing to interview someone... read more and watch video.

San Onofre nuclear power plant — reasons for shut down reported

The San Onofre power station was shut down in January this year due to a scare, when the plant released trace amounts of radiation. Now a report is out explaining what actually happened.

The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is located 70 miles south of Los Angeles, and has been on temporary shut down since January 2012. At the time, Unit 2 of the San Onofre facility was shut down for routine maintenance and upgrades, when the plant’s crew was forced to halt operations of Unit 3 upon discovering a leak.

After months of meticulous investigation, Federal regulators have now published a report on the incident, and have told AP that design flaws have caused the tubing carrying radioactive water throughout the plant to be worn down extensively.

While it was initially thought that the release of trace amounts of radiation was a fluke, it now seems that this could have been very much worse.... read full article.