greenleft.org.au (2023-06-26). World Whistleblower Day protest calls for Assange's release. greenleft.org.au

Editor (2023-06-25). Why Julian Assange Must Be Freed. scheerpost.com

_____ (2023-06-25). A iminente extradicao de Julian Assange e a morte do jornalismoPublicado originalmente por Patria Latina. strategic-culture.org By Chris HEDGES | O juiz da Suprema Corte Jonathan Swift — que anteriormente trabalhou para uma variedade de agências governamentais britânicas como advogado e disse que os seus clientes favoritos sà£o "as agências de seguranàßa e inteligência" — rejeitou duas petiàßàµes de apelaàßà£o dos advogados de Julian Assange contra a sua extradiàßà£o na semana passada. A ordem de extradiàßà£o foi assinada em junho passado pela Secretária do Interior do Reino Unido, Priti Patel. A equipe legal de Julian deu entrada numa petiàßà£o final de a…

Bay Action To Free Julian Assange (2023-06-25). Monday 7/3: Rally On Julian's Birthday To Free Julian Assange & IFJ Journalist Mumia Abu-jamal. indybay.org Harry Bridges Plaza | Across The Street From Ferry Building | San Francisco…

Craig Murray, Consortium News. (2023-06-25). Daniel Ellsberg's Day In Court For Julian Assange. popularresistance.org The massive obituaries to Daniel Ellsberg last weekend in both The New York Times and Washington Post were proof of the status he held in the United States. | Only presidents get an obituary that size. | His name was not nearly so widely known in the U.K. | I first met Dan on 3 May 2006 when we were giving a joint presentation at Berkeley. The large hall was full to overflowing and to my surprise there were young students queuing outside and striving to listen on stairways through open doors. | The large majority of the audience were not born when Dan leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

WSWS (2023-06-26). After failed coup attempt, Kremlin gives Wagner free passage, tries to subordinate paramilitary formations. wsws.org So far, the only clear move by the Kremlin has been the announcement of a law that will bring private military contractors under the control of the Ministry of Defense.

Jeremy Kuzmarov, Covert Action Magazine. (2023-06-26). 'If You Challenge The FBI, They Will Crush You,' Says Whistleblower. popularresistance.org Being an FBI agent was Stephen Friend's dream job. For eight and a half years working there, the Notre Dame graduate and Iraq War veteran investigated around 200 violent crimes, including human and sex-trafficking cases, and served five years as part of an FBI SWAT team. | Friend did his job so well that he won an FBI performance award. | Then one day this past fall, his top-secret security clearance was revoked by his superiors at the Jacksonville, Florida, field office, and he lost his job. | The reason was that he had expressed concern about a) the inflation of statistics regarding Domestic Violent Extremism (…

Bay Action To Free Julian Assange (2023-06-25). Monday 7/3: Rally On Julian's Birthday To Free Julian Assange & IFJ Journalist Mumia Abu-jamal. indybay.org Harry Bridges Plaza | Across The Street From Ferry Building | San Francisco…

Craig Murray, Consortium News. (2023-06-25). Daniel Ellsberg's Day In Court For Julian Assange. popularresistance.org The massive obituaries to Daniel Ellsberg last weekend in both The New York Times and Washington Post were proof of the status he held in the United States. | Only presidents get an obituary that size. | His name was not nearly so widely known in the U.K. | I first met Dan on 3 May 2006 when we were giving a joint presentation at Berkeley. The large hall was full to overflowing and to my surprise there were young students queuing outside and striving to listen on stairways through open doors. | The large majority of the audience were not born when Dan leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

Editor (2023-06-25). Why Julian Assange Must Be Freed. scheerpost.com

Stansfield Smith (2023-06-24). Liberal and Left Silence on National Security Police State When Used Against Trump and His Supporters. orinocotribune.com By Stansfield Smith — Jun 21, 2023 | The National Security police state now regards the Democratic Party as a more useful tool to criminalize opposition to US wars and maintain their control over the US government. We see this in the attack on the Uhuru Movement as being in the pay of Russia, in the imprisonment and torture of Julian Assange, in the jailing of numerous whistleblowers, in the censoring of hundreds of anti-war websites, claiming they spread Russian "disinformation." Unfortunately, not a few who consider themselves on the left or liberals acquiesce to these attacks. Many actually repeat them.

Anonymous669 (2023-06-24). Ukraine Attacks Russia's Kursk With Drones As Its Forces Struggle With Counteroffensive (Videos). southfront.org File image. | Ukraine launched an attack at the western Russian region of Kursk with two suicide drones on June 23 as its forces continue to struggle with their counteroffensive. | Kursk Governor Roman Starovoit said in a statement that both drones were shot down by Russian air defenses. The governor added that there was no significant infrastructure damage."Last night, our air defenses shot down unmanned aerial vehicles in the sky over Kursk. The fragments that fell to a land plot of a gardeners' partnership in…

John Kiriakou (2023-06-24). The Godfather of Whistleblowers. orinocotribune.com By John Kiriakou — Jun 21, 2023 | When the author blew the whistle on the C.I.A.'s torture program in 2007, Daniel Ellsberg called to congratulate him and say he had friends at his side. Years later, at a red-carpet event in Hollywood, the "most dangerous man in America" showed what he meant. | Like so many Americans, I was heartbroken last week to learn of the death of my friend, mentor and personal hero, Daniel Ellsberg. | Dan was a giant of modern American history. He was the godfather of national security whistleblowers. And he was a patriot who wanted nothing more than to ensure transparency, truth, an…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-24). The Rise and Fall of a Russian Oligarch. libya360.wordpress.com M. K. Bhadrakumar Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin [centre] poses with two Wagner Group fighters, Bakhmut in Donetsk region, Ukraine, May 25, 2023 The Kremlin leadership has acted decisively to meet the threat of an armed insurrection by the Russian oligarch and self-styled 'founder' of Wagner Group of military contractors, Yevgeny Prigozhin. In a series of videos…

Larry Johnson (2023-06-24). U.S. Military Shackled to China because of Rare Earth Minerals And Prigozhin Has a Psychotic Break. sonar21.com I want to touch on three issues. First, the dependence of the U.S. military industrial complex on rare earth minerals supplied by China and what that portends for war in…

Diego Ramos, Scheer Post. (2023-06-25). IRS Whistleblowers Allege Misconduct Of Biden Investigation In Testimony. popularresistance.org After pleading guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges this week, Hunter Biden faces new scrutiny after two IRS whistleblowers allege extensive misconduct in the handling of his tax investigation. Biden failed to pay tax on more than $3 million in income. His plea helps him "avoid full prosecution on a separate gun possession charge," according to a CBS report. | Gary Shapley, one of two IRS whistleblowers—the second remains anonymous—testified to the House Ways and Means Committee that the IRS substantiated the need for stricter penalties and Biden was given a sweetheart deal. "I am alleging, with evid…