2023-07-11: News Headlines

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-07-11). Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange And Slit Their Own Throats. popularresistance.org London – The persecution of Julian Assange, along with the climate of fear, wholesale government surveillance and use of the Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers, has emasculated investigative journalism. The press has not only failed to mount a sustained campaign to support Julian, whose extradition appears imminent, but no longer attempts to shine a light into the inner workings of power. This failure is not only inexcusable, but ominous. | The U.S. government, especially the military and agencies such as the CIA, the FBI, the NSA and Homeland Security, have no intention of stopping with Julian, who faces…

krish-rad_ind (2023-07-11). Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Should Keep Up the Pressure on Washington and Demand the Release of Julian Assange. covertactionmagazine.com

teleSUR- jaa, DRL (2023-07-11). Esposa de Julian Assange pide clemencia a presidente de EE.UU. telesurtv.net Las declaraciones de Stella Assange se dieron en el marco de la presentación de una nueva demanda contra la decisión del Gobierno británico de extraditarlo a Estados Unidos.

Chris Hedges (2023-07-10). Chris Hedges: Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats. mintpressnews.com The failure of journalists to mount a campaign to free Julian Assange, or expose the vicious smear campaign against him, is one more catastrophic and self-defeating blunder by the news media.

Kit Klarenberg (2023-07-11). British intelligence in the dock for CIA torture. thegrayzone.com Recent developments raise the prospect that British intelligence agents could finally face justice for their little-known role in the CIA's global torture program. Britain's foreign and domestic intelligence apparatus is facing scrutiny by a tribunal tasked with intelligence oversight. On May 26, London's infamously opaque Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) unanimously issued a landmark ruling which means the complaints of two Saudis brutally tortured at CIA black sites and jailed for years in Guantanamo Bay can finally be heard, at least …

John Kiriakou, CovertAction Magazine. (2023-07-11). Australian Prime Minister Should Keep Up The Pressure On Washington. popularresistance.org When I was at the CIA, I was taught that David Hicks was a very bad man. As a teenager in Australia, I was told, his school principal once called him "one of the most troublesome kids." He was expelled from school at the age of 14 and began using alcohol, and drugs. He was particularly fond of stealing cars, according to a former partner. He was later accused of beating his girlfriend, although no charges were ever filed. | In 1999, Hicks converted to Islam and began studying the faith's fundamentalist Wahhabi strain at a Saudi-funded mosque in Adelaide, Australia.


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