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The DISNTR (The Dissenter)
Personal blog · dissenter.substack.compolitics
The DISNTR (The Dissenter) is a personal blog at dissenter.substack.com about politics. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for day-by-day coverage of the Assange extradition hearings, mostly by Craig Murray, whom commenters cite as a source alongside Kevin Gosztola's reporting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Are you looking for The DISNTR? It is available at https://thedissenter.substack.com. Launched 3 years ago.
What Hacker News says?
> don't seem to realize that any journalist that publishes a leak that involves a government can be threatened with the same accusations the US is making against him. Some of the testimonies over the course of last week were exactly about this. How the US government didn't really try to prosecute US journalists for aiding sources to obtain classified material. See Craig Murray's[1] or Kevin Gosztola's reports on the…
Comment linking /p/good-ellsberg-bad-assange-at-extradition
on “Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?”Submitted Survivor of CIA Torture and Rendition Supports Assange at Extradition Trial as a story · 301 points
HN discussion> I can't trust his reporting to be factual. We should find other sources. No major news source is covering this to the extent Craig Murray is. That in itself should be more worrying than Murray's views on other matters. His reporting on Assange has been very good. There are other sources, but I doubt they diverge much from what Murray's reporting. See for example Kevin Gosztola's reporting: https://dissenter.substa…
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on “Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 11”Submitted Password-cracking theory against Assange unravels at extradition trial as a story · 201 points
HN discussionAn Assange update; time to go to Craig Murray since no mainstream journalist, let alone paper or network, provides genuine context on this issue... Oh wait, Craig Murray was jailed, on bogus, utterly unverifiable charges. And prevented from testifying about Assange's legal team being spied on in an embassy. - https://dissenter.substack.com/p/craig-murray-8-months-priso... Let's see what context the Guardian gives...…
Comment linking /p/craig-murray-8-months-prison-sentence
on “Julian Assange loses court battle to stop US expanding extradition appeal”