UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean embassy to seize Assange

By Robert Stevens; 17 August 2012 – WSWS
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/aug2012/assa-a17.shtml

The threat by the UK’s Conservative-Liberal Democrat government to storm the Ecuadorean embassy to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange shows contempt for international law and a colonial-style disregard for Ecuadorean sovereignty.

It marks a new stage in the British ruling class’ descent into criminality, aiming to silence a man who has helped expose many of its innumerable crimes and those of the United States and other imperialist powers.

Thursday saw the much-anticipated announcement by Ecuador that it will grant political asylum to Assange, based

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