Daily Archives: May 27, 2023

2023-05-27: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-05-27). Australian war crimes whistleblower David McBride demands freedom for Julian Assange. wsws.org Assange faces life behind bars for revealing war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan as a publisher. McBride could be jailed indefinitely for exposing the same atrocities as a whistleblower.

Alex Bainbridge (2023-05-26). Stella Assange headlines rally to free Julian Assange. greenleft.org.au Stella Assange headlined a protest of up to 1000 people on May 24 calling for her husband Julian Assange to be freed. Alex Bainbridge reports.

Alex Bainbridge (2023-05-26). Video: Sydney rally calls for Julian Assange to be freed. greenleft.org.au Video by Alex Bainbridge of the rally to free Julian Assange on May 24.

Consortium News. (2023-05-26). Biden Missing, But Assange Sydney Rally Goes On. popularresistance.org Joe Biden was due in Sydney Wednesday where he's facing increased pressure to let Julian Assange go. Biden cancelled the trip but a rally in Hyde Park sent him the message anyway. | Stella Assange, Scott Ludlum, John Shipton, Gabriel Shipton, David McBride and Stephen Kenny addressed the rally Wednesday morning. Stella Assange, on her first trip to Australia, vowed that she would return with a liberated Julian Assange and their children to his home country.

Gideon Polya (2023-05-26). Censorship of Indigenous Australians and Palestinians, Stan Grant, Julian Assange, and Truth Tellers. dissidentvoice.org Eminent Australian and Indigenous journalist, Stan Grant, was recently driven to resign from the ABC (the tax-payer-funded Australian equivalent of the UK BBC) as compere of the high-rating Q+A TV program by a flood of devastating racist abuse after he participated in a frank and truthful ABC discussion of the British Crown and genocidal colonialism on …

WSWS (2023-05-26). Assange's brother and Australian lawyer speak out: "Julian must be brought home" wsws.org Lawyer Stephen Kenny warned: "If we don't have people telling us the truth like Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange, then we are going to be ignorant. Our democracy is at stake."

Staff (2023-05-26). Stella Assange Optimistic For His Release. leecamp.com

infobrics (2023-05-27). For the first time, Russian warship attacked in Turkish maritime zone by Western-made drones. infobrics.org The provocative actions of Ukraine and the involvement of NATO in the conflict can lead to a direct clash between Russia and the members of the alliance.

Kusai M Alsalhanie, Fatai Oluyadi (2023-05-27). Correspondence] An open letter from Syrian to Ukrainian war-displaced medical students. thelancet.com In my fifth year of medical school, staying in Syria was no longer safe. Medical facilities, including teaching hospitals, were systematically targeted and health-care providers were detained, tortured, and subsequently killed. The theme of those days was waiting for the unknown. I spent every minute preparing my mind for the worst. In the recollection of the why, when, and how, the recurring memory was the moment when I was forced to leave the only home I had ever known. The theme thereafter became foreignness.

Fight Back (2023-05-26). Judge sentences Anthony Gay to 7 years of torture; Anthony's fight continues. fightbacknews.org Peoria, IL – Activists, family members and supporters of Anthony Gay rallied outside the U.S. Central District Court in Peoria, Tuesday morning, May 23. Members of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression led the group in chanting, "Free, free Anthony Gay" and "The people united will never be defeated" before entering the courthouse for Anthony's sentencing hearing. | Anthony Gay is a political prisoner. He was incarcerated at 21 years old for a minor offense and held in solitary confinement for 22 years in Illinois prisons. Much of that time was spent in Tamms Correctional Center, a torture…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-05-26). Kissinger Vs. 'The Most Dangerous Man In America'. thedissenter.org "Daniel Ellsberg is the most dangerous man in America. He must be stopped at all costs." —Henry Kissinger | In 1970, before whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg shared copies of the Pentagon Papers with several newspapers in the United States, Ellsberg was invited by his friend Lloyd Shearer, who was the editor of Parade magazine, to attend a lunch with President Richard Nixon's national security adviser Henry Kissinger. | Ellsberg recounted the lunch in his book, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. Kissinger knew Ellsberg from his work at the RAND Corporation, and what Ellsberg recou…

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