(2023-03-10). John Pilger: The Betrayers of Julian Assange. mintpressnews.com I have known Julian Assange since I first interviewed him in London in 2010. I immediately liked his dry, dark sense of humour, often dispensed with an infectious giggle. He is a proud outsider: sharp and thoughtful. We have become friends, and I have sat in many courtrooms listening to the tribunes of the state …
(2023-03-10). Torture, Murder and Security Clearances at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. indybay.org The news out of the democratic republic of Chile this week is that the conviction of Jaime Garcia Covarrubias—the former National Defense University / Defense Security Cooperation Agency professor who was since 2008 the target of the Petitioner's disclosures through the NDU/DSCA chain of command—for the torture and murder of an unarmed detainee was upheld by that country's Supreme Court. | Garcia Covarrubias has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his authorship of that crime, one of two involving the torture and clandestine murder of unarmed detainees for which he has already been convicted a…
(2023-03-10). Hearing Brings Attention To US Agency's Effort To Compel Twitter To Identify Journalists Working On 'Twitter Files'. thedissenter.org 
A hearing convened by a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee brought further attention to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) effort to compel Twitter to identify "all journalists and other members of the media" who have had access to any files from Twitter. | Matt Taibbi, the most prominent journalist who has spent several months combing through hundreds of thousands of files, said he found the FTC's request to be "scary.""I think it's none of the government's business which journalists a private company talks to and why," Taibbi declared. "I think every journa…
(2023-03-09). US Still Trying To Bury 'Collateral Murder' Video That WikiLeaks Released. shadowproof.com 
Three years before WikiLeaks made it possible for the public to watch this video, Dean Yates, Reuters bureau chief in Iraq, learned of its existence. Yates testified about the impact of the video at the Belmarsh Tribunal in Sydney, Australia on March 4, 2023.
(2023-03-09). March To Iraq War, 20 Years Later: March 9, 2003. thedissenter.org The Dissenter Newsletter recalls each day in the timeline of events that led up to the US invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003, twenty years ago…