The song that tells the story of Julian Assange, sung by David Rovics. In the video you see clips of the war crimes Julian Assange reported on, of rallies in his support and of Julian in prison and in court fighting extradition, as they're being sung. Song reproduced with permission: https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/behind-these-prison-walls/
Read MoreJune 24 2023, the sculpture 'Anything to Say' by Italian artist Davide Dormino that shows Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange standing on chairs inviting you to speak out, is at Parliament Square in London for the rally for publicist and journalist Julian Assange. In this report Djamila and Rico first visit the prison Belmarsh, then at the demonstration many speakers standing on the empty chair next to the whistle-blowers, explain what is at stake and where the defence for Julian stands. Interviews with Sean, Davide Dormino and Stella Assange.
Read More"Waar we hier mee te maken hebben, is een zeer ernstig probleem. Het is radicalisering en extremisme dat zich in onze academische instellingen heeft geïnstitutionaliseerd, Ze worden betaald door de belastingbetaler, ze zijn bedoeld voor algemeen onderwijs en onderzoek, ze worden nu gekaapt door geradicaliseerde groepen". - interview met Laurens Buijs (Engels gesproken)
Read MoreIn dit interview in drie delen vertelt Teun van Sambeek over het 1CoinH project (één munt per uur). Een digitale munt, die de belofte in zich heeft van een systeem met echt onvoorwaardelijk basisinkomen, als community munt die wereldwijd schaalbaar en uitwisselbaar is.
Read MoreFollow the Science visited a conference called “Lack of Scientific Freedom; Cause Consequences and Cures” in Copenhagen oct. 24 and 25 2022. What we heard there blew our mind: From scientists receiving death threats to scientists being attacked, fired and censored. It became quintessential when we ourselves came under attack by the organisers using the samen tools on preventing us from publishing as they discussed during the sessions. What’s going on?
Read MoreBefore they went after Assange, they locked out Wikileaks from using their crowd funding platforms. The one that did not censor remained; Bitcoin. There’s a special relationship between the early adopters of Bitcoin and Julian Assange. Stella Assange, Julian’s wife, and Gabriel Shipton, his brother, appeared as guest speakers at the Bitcoin Amsterdam conference October 12th in Amsterdam. In this report we first see Dutch activist Djamila le Pair interview Gabriel about recent developments in the case of Assange, in front of the information booth she was allowed to host in the exhibition hall. Followed by a part of Stella’s address in the main auditorium, as taken from the live stream.
Historian and Economist Martin Armstrong, as a computer programmer created the system called socrates that analyses history, current affairs and the flow of money and extrapolates to what may lie ahead. It gave him the nickname ‘the Forecaster’ and a documentary that to this day is forbidden in the USA. Armstrong through FOIA retreived information from the Clinton Library about what happened after the Soviet Union fell. He’s written that down in a book called ‘the Plot to Seize Russia. In this interview we discuss his upcoming book, the current state of collapsing global finance and the inescapable war on Russia as a result of that..
Read MoreAlfred de Zayas is a law professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and served as a UN Independent Expert on International Order 2012-18. He is the author of ten books including “Building a Just World Order”. De Zayas is also a returning guest to Potkaars. The last time we spoke was the day before Russia took its military action in Ukraïne in February. It is 26 September 2022 when we speak again while a referendum on secession is taking place in eastern Ukraïne regions. I re-invited mr. De Zayas, to learn his assessment on the validity of the referendum and of the actions by Ukraïne, Russia, the EU and the US under international law and treaties. We recorded this interview the day before the Nord Stream I and II pipelines were blown up in the Baltic sea. In this conversation Alfred de Zayas discusses the use of coercive measures as deployed by the US.
Read More"Children learn, always and everywhere" is a series of conversations on home education with (former) homeschooling mothers from around the world. First guest is Terry Kraettli, from New Zealand. Djamila and Terry met in Switzerland twenty years ago, when Terry was already homeschooling her two children and Djamila was having second thoughts about sending her son to kindergarten. Terry’s educational view, life-embracing approach and the open, happy and exploring nature of her children gave Djamila the courage to homeschool her own children.
Read MoreGeen van de organisatoren had ooit durven dromen dat het zo'n groot succes zou worden. De Free Assange Wave in Brussel begon met een panelsessie op vrijdagavond 22 april 2022 en werd de volgende dag voortgezet met een protestdemonstratie met spraakmakende sprekers en toegewijde artiesten. In deze podcast interviewt Potkaars de organisatoren die beschrijven hoe schijnbaar uit het niets een stel niet-gelieerde, in Europa gevestigde Assange-campagnevoerders online samenkwamen en het organiseerden.
Read MoreOp 23 maart 2022 trouwden Julian Assange en Stella Moris in Her Majesty’s Belmarsh Prison, de zwaarst bewaakte gevangenis in Engeland. Assange zit daar sinds 11 april 2019 opgesloten, in afwachting van twee juridische procedures: een beslissing over zijn uitlevering aan de Verenigde Staten en over de mogelijkheid tegen de Verenigde Staten in hoger beroep te gaan.
In Den Haag 'vierden' we het huwelijk tegelijkertijd mee, op steenworp afstand van het Nederlandse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, dat zich nog altijd in stilzwijgen hult over de vervolging van deze politieke gevangene. Nederland heeft sinds kort zijn eigen politieke gevangenen. Djamila le Pair constateert dat de (ooit symbolische) leus 'Wij zijn allemaal Assange' nu heel hard werkelijkheid aan het worden is.
Alfred de Zayas doceert internationaal recht aan de Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations. Hij is expert op het gebied van mensenrechten en internationaal recht en onafhankelijk VN-expert op het gebied van internationale orde. Hij is de auteur van zijn nieuwe boek ‘Building a just world order’. We praten over het recht op zelfbeschikking en afscheiding, zoals vastgelegd in het handvest van de Verenigde Naties. De Zayas geeft zijn ongecensureerde kijk op de NAVO, VN, EU en de OVSE. We bespreken de erkenning gisteren door Rusland van Donetsk en Lugansk in Oekraïne en de implicaties daarvan. De Zayas neemt ons mee terug in de tijd naar 1989 met Michail Gorbatsjov tot nu met Vladimir Putin, bij het uitleggen van de situatie tussen Oekraïne en Rusland.
Read MoreCensuur vanuit big-tech en de overheid is allesbepalend geworden voor wat je zien kunt op TV en internet. Maar niemand is zo weggecensureerd als journalist en publicist Julian Assange dat is. Hij vertelde met WikiLeaks over oorlogsmisdaden begaan door de VS in de Irak oorlog en Afghanistan. Assange is sindsdien in Engeland gemarteld (zo stelde VN rapporteur Nils Melzer vast) en hij zit al meer dan twee jaar in eenzame opsluiting in Londen in afwachting van het verloop van zijn uitleveringsrechtszaak. Op 27 oktober 2021 is die zaak in hoger beroep. Djamila le Pair organiseerde de dag er voor deze demonstratie, voor de deur van het Amerikaanse consulaat.
Read More“By and large the system functions or so I thought. But when I started scratching the surface of this case, That to me was profoundly shocking: to see how much dirt was coming to the surface”.
Nils Melzer in 2016 was appointed as the Special Rapporteur on Torture for the United nations. In 2019 he assessed that Julian Assange showed all signs of being a victim of psychological torture. Shortly after Melzer started his investigation, Assange was removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and transferred to Belmarsh prison where he remains to this day fighting extradition to the United States.
Bailey Lamon and Rico Brouwer talk to Melzer in this 90 minute interview for a chapter in their own upcoming book; ‘the Whistleblowers Book of Courage’. How can it be that the United Nations rapporteur on torture, appointed by the countries of the world to report on torture is now considered a whistle-blower for just doing his job?
Read MoreIn 2020 dr. Huber and her team published various peer reviewed papers on the health risks of face masks in the corona crisis and is continuing to do research into adverse effects of the various mandatory measures. Colleen Huber is a returning guest to the Potkaars podcast, and has recently published her book on those studies, available on Amazon: ‘The Defeat of COVID: 500+ medical studies show what works & what doesn't’.
Read MoreIn this in depth 80 minute interview in English, Jade Kuit explains the Dutch citizens initiative BPOC2020 she founded with her dad, investigating the adverse consequences of the corona measures. Earlier this year medical pro’s and scientists testimonies (among many others) were joined by police officers blowing the whistle on their working conditions and the use of extreme violence against citizens we observed in the Netherlands.
Read MoreProfessor of international law and human right expert Alfred de Zayas comments on the media censorship happening right now in the US. It's not just freedom of speech that's been taken away, but also the right to be informed. In this interview we discuss last weeks verdict in the extradition case of Julian Assange, and the judge’s denial of bail. Not just free speech is broken; the rule of law itself appears broken both in the US and UK. In the second half we discuss the Netherlands new rules for returning citizens abroad, effectively exiling them due to corona policies.
Read MoreDe dag vóór de uitspraak in de uitleveringszaak van Julian Assange demonstratie in Amsterdam voor het Amerikaanse Consulaat om 14.00 uur. Organisator Djamila Le Pair vraagt je op te komen voor de publicist die durfde te vertellen over oorlogsmisdaden begaan door de VS en voor persvrijheid.
Read MoreIn this interview Dr. Huber explains what happens when you hinder breathing by prolonged wearing or a cover over your mouth and nose. In all our evolution this has never happened before. The reduced availability of oxygen you need to take in and the excess levels of CO2 you can’t get out are acute, measurable and have negative health effects both short and long term, which Dr. Huber explains.
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