Dave DeCamp (2023-10-24). House Members Circulate Bipartisan Letter to Urge Biden to Drop Assange Case. news.antiwar.com Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and James McGovern (D-MA) are circulating letters in the House urging their colleagues to join them in demanding that President Biden drop the charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Fox News Digital reported on Monday. In the letter to fellow House members, Massie and McGovern ask them to join them to …

WSWS (2023-10-24). Official documents show Australian government doing nothing to free Assange. wsws.org The Labor government's full-throated support of imperialist militarism, in Israel, Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific, is incompatible with the defence of a persecuted anti-war publisher.

Marjorie Cohn (2023-10-23). Assange Freedom May Be Pivotal in Australia's Support for US Cold War With China. truthout.org The stakes are high as Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrives in Washington, D.C., today to meet with President Joe Biden. The U.S. government hopes to obtain Australia's support for its cold war initiatives against China. Australia is one of the United States' closest allies. Australia, the U.S. and the U.K. comprise "AUKUS," a trilateral "security" alliance in the Indo-Pacific. |

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-23). Pentagon Expects 'Significant Escalation' of Attacks on US Troops Over Gaza War. news.antiwar.com A Pentagon official told reporters on Monday that the military is preparing for a "significant escalation" of attacks on US troops stationed in the Middle East due to President Biden's support for Israel's onslaught in Gaza. The comments came the same day US Central Command said its forces downed two drones that were fired at …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-23). New Whistleblower Emerges to Implicate CIA in Cover-up of COVID Origins. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov The famous Wuhan lab.[Source: nypost.com] An unidentified but current senior-level CIA officer told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on September 12 that the CIA offered to pay off analysts with the CIA's COVID-19 discovery…

Editor (2023-10-17). Oct 17, 2023. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye — The Irish Rovers Pulling the Roof Down on Today's Paradigm, by Alastair Crooke The Insane Idea That Nations Get To Do War Crimes Whenever Something Bad Happens To Them, by Caitlin Johnstone Sunday Sermon: Human Coexistance, by Karl Sanchez The Complicity of Compliance, by Robin Koerner PCR: Aside from the Wars Against Russia and Palestine, Don't Forget DC's War Against Assange and Trump US faces defeat in geopolitical war in Gaza, by MK Bhadrakumar Peace Dividends? Not in Our Lifetimes — War is America's Growth Stock, by Bill Astore Chas W. Freeman: EuroAt…

Kit Klarenberg (2023-10-17). Former ambassador and Assange advocate Craig Murray detained under UK terror laws. thegrayzone.com The former diplomat's detention is just the latest example of British terror laws being used to harass and intimidate dissidents, while brazenly prying into their private affairs. On the morning of October 16, counter-terror police in Glasgow Airport detained journalist, whistleblower, human rights campaigner, and former British diplomat Craig Murray upon his return from Iceland. After grilling him intensively about his political beliefs, officers seized Murray's phone and laptop. Murray, a proud Scottish nationalist, flew back to Glasgow after several …

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-10-16). In the Midst of the Wars Against Russia and Palestine, Don't Forget Washington's War Against Julian Assange and Donald Trump. thealtworld.com One war is not over and another bloody one has started. War is the history of the 21st …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-16). US Stretched Thin as Ukraine Offensive Fails, Israelis Threaten Large-Scale Conflict. libya360.wordpress.com Brian Berletic As Ukraine's "spring counteroffensive" nears five months of intense fighting and equally intense losses achieving only negligible gains, Kiev's sponsors in Washington, London, and Brussels find their military stockpiles nearing depletion and their military industrial base stretched far beyond capacity. This single conflict has tested the limits of US military power, diplomatic reach,…

Brian Berletic (2023-10-16). US Stretched Thin as Ukraine Offensive Fails, Israelis Threaten Large-Scale Conflict. thealtworld.com As Ukraine's "spring counteroffensive" nears five months of intense fighting and equally intense losses achieving only negligible gains, Kiev's sponsors in Washington, London, and Brussels find their military stockpiles nearing depletion and their military industrial base stretched far beyond capacity. This single conflict has tested the limits of US military power, diplomatic reach, and economic influence, exposing significant and growing weakness. | At the same time cracks begin to emerge militarily, diplomatically, and economically in the US and among its European allies, the rest of the globe continues its pi…

presstv.ir (2023-10-16). Adviser to Netanyahu's wife calls for torture of Gazans to death as war on Gaza rages. presstv.ir An adviser to the wife of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for torturing the residents of Gaza to death.

Mike Ludwig (2023-10-17). Mother Sues Alabama Jail After Being Forced to Give Birth Alone in a Shower. truthout.org Attorneys for an incarcerated mother in Alabama say she experienced nothing less than "torture" when she was jailed while pregnant, denied prescribed psychiatric medication and forced to give birth alone in a shower. Authorities in Gadsden, Alabama, jailed Ashley Caswell during her high-risk pregnancy, ostensibly to protect the fetus from alleged drug use. However, after seven months of alleged… |

Chip Gibbons (2023-10-16). As Israel's Violence Against Palestinians Reaches Catastrophic Proportions, Washington Remains Firmly Gripped by War Mania. thedissenter.org Editor's Note: Typically, the Dissenter Newsletter focuses on whistleblowers, government secrecy, and press freedom-related issues. But in a follow-up to last week's *** | As Israel's attacks on Gaza enter their tenth day, the cruel siege and vicious bombing have taken a grim human toll. | Israel's growing violence has been nearly universally determined to be collec…