Sam Campbell

Listen to understand: your own story & others'. Manchester GP. Personal&professional interests here: views are my own & I respect that everyone has theirs. 💙🕊

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

LABOUR I DON’T VOTE FOR GENOCIDE

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

"Julian has to recover - that’s the priority.

Julian will always defend human rights. He will always defend victims. He’s always done that. And that’s just part of who he is.

He’s deeply principled. And he remains deeply principled. And unafraid." - @Stella_Assange

[@JosetteCaruso Josette Caruso @JosetteCaruso_]

SAIPAN (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appear in court Wednesday to plead guilty to a felony for publishing U.S. military secrets under a deal that will set him free to return home to Australia after years holed up and imprisoned while fighting extradition to America.
The hearing, which will take place in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Pacific, is the stunning culmination of the U.S. government’s yearslong pursuit of the publisher who has been painted both as a hero and a reckless criminal for exposing hundreds of thousands of sensitive military documents.
A private jet carrying Assange is expected to land in Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, ahead of the hearing, where Assange is expected to plead guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defense information.

The U.S. Justice Department agreed to hold the hearing on the remote island because Assange opposed coming to the continental U.S. and because it’s near Australia, where he will return after he enters his plea.
The deal — disclosed Monday night in court papers — represents the final chapter in a more than decade-long legal odyssey over the fate of the eccentric computer expert, whose hugely popular secret-sharing website made him a cause célèbre among press freedom advocates who said he acted as a journalist to expose U.S. military wrongdoing. U.S. prosecutors have said his actions recklessly put the country’s national security at risk.

Though the deal with prosecutors requires Assange to admit guilt to a single felony count, it also allows him to avoid spending any time in an American prison. He will get credit for the five years he has already spent in a high-security British prison while fighting extradition to the U.S. to face charges. Before being locked up in London, Assange spent years hiding out in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault, which he has denied. The abrupt conclusion enables both sides to claim a degree of success, with the Justice Department able to resolve without trial a case that raised thorny legal issues and that might never have reached a jury at all given the plodding pace of the extradition process.
Last month, Assange won the right to appeal an extradition order after his lawyers argued that the U.S. government provided “blatantly inadequate” assurances that he would have the same free speech protections as an American citizen if extradited from Britain.
His wife, Stella Assange, told the BBC from Australia that it had been “touch and go” over 72 hours whether the deal would go ahead but she felt “elated” at the news. A lawyer who married the WikiLeaks founder in prison in 2022, she said details of the agreement would be made public once the judge had signed off on it.
“He will be a free man once it is signed off by a judge,” she said, adding that she still didn’t think it was real. Assange on Monday left the London prison, where he has spent the last five years, after being granted bail during a secret hearing last week. He boarded a plane that landed hours later in Bangkok to refuel before taking off again toward Saipan. A video posted by WikiLeaks on X, showed Assange staring intently out the window at the blue sky as the plane headed toward the island.
“Imagine. From over 5 years in a small cell in a maximum security prison. Nearly 14 years detained in the UK. To this,” WikiLeaks wrote. The top Australian diplomat in the United Kingdom accompanied Assange on the flight.
The guilty plea resolves a criminal case brought by Republican President Donald Trump’s administration over the receipt and publication of war logs and diplomatic cables that detailed U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prosecutors alleged that Assange conspired with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to obtain the records.

[Sam Campbell @samcampbell77]

This is so moving #julianassange #freeJulianAssange

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Arriving in Bangkok #AssangeJet

[Plan B Earth @PlanB_earth]

BREAKING: JURY REFUSE TO CONVICT MEDICS WHO BROKE WINDOWS AT JP MORGAN, DESPITE JUDGE REMOVING ALL LEGAL DEFENCES

* Outcome exposes @gmcuk's position, that doctors taking direct action undermine public trust

https://t.co/SXCxG48cHB

[Sam Campbell @samcampbell77]

📍Manchester Withington @LG4Withington
Vote Lizzie GREENWOOD for Withington.
She and her party have deep roots in the Islamic faith and she has great support from our Muslim brothers and sisters. And active loud support for Palestine 🇵🇸 see her instagram.

[The Muslim Vote @themuslimvoteuk]

📍Manchester Withington: @RKilpatrickMCR
📍Newport East: @pippabartolotti
📍Aldridge & Brownhills: Ian Garrett
📍Wolverhampton West: Zahid Shah

[Sam Campbell @samcampbell77]

@themuslimvoteuk @RKilpatrickMCR @pippabartolotti 📍 Manchester Withington Lizzie GREENWOOD @LG4Withington. A person doing this from her heart & not for a career, pledging to donate Zakat half her salary as an MP back into the community. She knows the area well and is already supported strongly by her Muslim brothers & sisters.

[Sam Campbell @samcampbell77]

@themuslimvoteuk @RKilpatrickMCR @pippabartolotti Lizzie GREENWOOD @lizzie4withington stands on a clear platform of solidarity with Gaza evidenced by her speeches in Piccadilly Gardens at the weekly rallies.
Take a look at her instagram account with her pledges and what she stands for.
Comprehensive and deeply honourable.

[Dr Becky Haines @padsbigsis]

If you’re a GP or a GP Registrar, and a BMA Member, please cast your vote in the referendum.
Practices are closing, GPs are unable to get jobs, patients are not getting the care that we all want to provide. Check your emails. @BMA_GP #TeamGP

[Sam Campbell @samcampbell77]

@DrAseemMalhotra We are not anti-vaxxers to choose not to have the latest covid booster.

[Sam Campbell @samcampbell77]

@Grutsfortea123 And that doesn’t make us anti-vaxxers… @DrAseemMalhotra even if using “quote unquote” quotation marks.

[David Oliver, Freshwell @LoCarbFreshwell]

Introducing the "Freshwell Guide"!

Some of the Freshwell Low Carb Programme participants have asked us what to eat, summarised on one side of A4. So that’s what we’ve done. You can download an A4 PDF copy and / or print it as a poster using this link: https://t.co/EUWoXznmxx

[Sam Campbell @samcampbell77]

Was proud to be invited to represent the Neighbourhood team project for Asthma Friendly Schools, Clean Air Whalley Range and including air pollution discussions in every child’s asthma review. https://t.co/eY3d3GcEFv

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

“This is happening in real time. There are My Lai massacres happening every day. There are Abu Ghraibs every day. It makes me sick to my stomach.”

Abby Martin calls out the “genocidal bloodlust” of the Israeli regime.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

An entire neighborhood destroyed in an instant. This kind of barbarism knows no bounds.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

"Males who may be children" is a new one.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

"Hezbollah-run neighborhood"

Notice how the insertion of this language acts to attempt to justify bombing civilians.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

My new article:

Blood Money: The Top Ten Politicians Taking the Most Israel Lobby Cash.

Number one on the list will probably surprise you!

https://t.co/dgYdVBmNKQ

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Note the language used:

Hamas "propaganda"
Israel "media campaign"

This is how Western media primes readers to support one side and reject the other.