Quietly Killing Julian Assange

The sculptured tableaux of Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and Chelsea Manning – crusaders of transparency and free speech – are true to life… their silence is ironic. Where are the voices for Julian Assange? While Manning is serving her own jail sentence and Snowden lives in exile, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange remains locked up in […]

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A view to an Embassy

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. ~ George Orwell, British author (1903-1950) It’s a rare sunshiny day in June when I pop by Harrods the famous department store in Knightsbridge to stockpile my favorite brand of knickers before heading back to Kenya. Large families – mostly […]

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