WSWS (2022-04-05). Labor-Greens bury Assange's plight ahead of Australian federal election. wsws.org A particularly pernicious role is played by Greens MPs who have criticised Assange's persecution, but are working with Labor to ensure it is buried in the forthcoming election.

Matt Kennard (2022-04-04). Priti Patel Was Part of CIA-Linked Lobby Group with Husband of Assange Judge. orinocotribune.com By Matt Kennard — Mar 29, 2022 | Home Secretary Priti Patel, who will soon decide whether to extradite Julian Assange to the US, has been a political adviser to — and been funded by — a right-wing lobby group which has attacked Assange in the British media for a decade. | ‚Ä¢ Patel sat on advisory council of Henry Jackson Society (HJS) with Lord Arbuthnot, whose wife later made two key legal rulings against Assange | ‚Ä¢ Former CIA director James Woolsey has been an HJS patron since 2006 | ‚Ä¢ HJS has hosted three other ex-CIA directors in London si…

Yves Wegelin, Serge Halimi (2022-04-04). More weapons are not the solution and Julian Assange. indybay.org What is insane, however, is the belief that peace can be secured for the future with even more weapons. SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that he wants to invest an additional hundred billion euros in Germany's army; and in Switzerland, too, armament fantasies are being voiced.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-04-04). Oliver Stone Documents the Past to Illuminate the Present. transcend.org 29 Mar 2022 – While Kennedy was the last U.S. president to genuinely seek peace at the cost of his life, his successors have all been lackeys in love with war and in full awareness that the promotion of war and the military industrial complex were at the top of their job description. They have gladly served the god of war and ravaged countries around the world with the glee of sadists and madmen.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-04). Torture and Massacres: Testimony of a Survivor in Donbass. libya360.wordpress.com Laurent Brayard The neo-Nazi Aydar Battalion held citizens hostage and blocked evacuation efforts. A forgotten massacre, along the path of the Aydar battalion. March 9, 2016, in the hinterland of Donbass, in a place where war reporters, humanitarians and especially the OSCE observers never come… Laurent Brayard was taken by a former militiaman of the Donetsk…

Editor (2022-04-04). Briefing: World hunger and the war in Ukraine. mronline.org The New Cold War is rapidly heating up, with severe consequences for people around the world. Our new series, Briefings, provides the key facts on these matters of global concern.