Monthly Archives: May 2023

2023-05-28: News Headlines

mforinoco (2023-05-28). Assange's Life is in 'Hands of Australian Government,' Says Wife. orinocotribune.com By Anadolu Staff — May 22, 2023 | ANKARA (AA) — The wife of the WikiLeaks founder has said that Julian Assange's life is "in the hands of the Australian government" and called for his release. | Stella Assange, who is also part of her husband's legal team, contended that Assange's release from prison has never been closer, urging Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to "make it happen," Australia's SBS News reported on Monday. | "It is important to recognize that Australia plays an important role and can secure Julian's release," Assange told the National Press Club. | "Julian's life is in the hands of the A…

krish-rad_ind (2023-05-27). Visits of Justice: Stella Assange's Plea to Australia. dissidentvoice.org

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.

Anonymous669 (2023-05-27). Russian Airstrikes On Syria's Greater Idlib Were Response To Drone Attack. southfront.org File image. | The According to Syrian pro-government news sources, the attack involved a single suicide drone and targeted the govern…

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.

Editor (2023-05-27). After Clearing MI5 of Torture, Keir Starmer Attended its Chief's Farewell Party. scheerpost.com The year after he protected Jonathan Evans from possible prosecution, the U.K. Labour leader — then senior public prosecutor — went to the spymaster's farewell drinks, paid for by the security agency, Matt Kennard reports.

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.

Editor (2023-05-28). Kissinger vs. 'The Most Dangerous Man in America'. scheerpost.com By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter "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 …

Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. (2023-05-28). ICE, Homeland Security Accused Of Targeting Outspoken Migrant Worker. popularresistance.org Immigrant rights attorneys filed a complaint against United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that alleges that ICE detained a migrant worker known for speaking out against workplace abuse at construction and poultry plants. | Baldomero Orozco Juarez, an indigenous father from Guatemala who lives in Mississippi, was arrested at an ICE check-in on April 12, 2023. Authorities sent Orozco Juarez to a private detention facility in Jena, Louisiana, owned by LaSalle Corrections. He faces deportation. | In 2019, Orozco Juarez was deported to Guatemala after the "largest workplace immigration raid in a sin…

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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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