2022-12-02: News Headlines

Anonymous669 (2022-12-02). U.S. Is Considering Supplying Ukraine With Rocket-Propelled Bombs That Can Hit Russia's Crimea. southfront.org The GLSDB system. Source: Saab Group | The Pentagon is considering a proposal by Boeing to supply Ukraine with rocket-propelled precision-guided bombs that would allow Kiev forces to strike far behind Russian lines, Sources in the United States military industrial complex told the news agency that B…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-12-02). Major Outlets Call on the US To Drop Charges Against Assange. orinocotribune.com "Holding governments accountable is part of the core mission of a free press in a democracy," the New York Times and European media said. | Through a joint letter published on Monday, The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and El Pais asked the United States to the Espionage Act charges against Julian Assange because it undermines press freedom. | Twelve years ago, those American and European media released excerpts of the revelations obtained in 2 ,000 documents, which were leaked to WikiLeaks by the then American soldier Chelsea Manning. Following that leak, Washington began proceedings to ind…

Binoy Kampmark (2022-12-01). Julian Assange and Albanese's Intervention. dissidentvoice.org The unflinching US effort to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange for 18 charges, 17 of which are chillingly based upon the Espionage Act of 1917, has not always stirred much interest in the publisher's home country. Previous governments have been lukewarm at best, preferring to mention little in terms of what was being done to …

Binoy Kampmark (2022-12-01). Albanese must act to free Julian Assange. greenleft.org.au Anthony Albanese publicly revealed that he had been lobbying the Joseph Biden administration to stop proceedings against Julian Assange, reports Binoy Kampmark.

Dave DeCamp (2022-12-01). Australian PM Tells US to Drop Charges Against Julian Assange. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2022-12-01). Four British Ministries Refuse To Say if They've Discussed Assange With US. scheerpost.com

WSWS (2022-12-01). Australian PM says "legal action" against Assange should end. wsws.org Albanese broke a longstanding silence on Assange, but his comments fell far short of a demand for the immediate and unconditional freedom of the persecuted Australian journalist.

Anonymous669 (2022-12-01). Russian Lancet Drones Take Out Ukrainian Fighting Vehicle, Battle Tank (Videos). southfront.org Lancet-3, screen grab from Russia-24 report. | The Russian military continues to use Lancet loitering munitions against the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) with much success. | On November 30 and December 1, two videos documenting recent Lancet strikes on AFU equipment in the special military operation zone surfaced online. The first strike targeted a Soviet-made MT-LB amphibious armored fighting vehicle, while the second hit a Soviet-made T-80 battle tank. | The Lancet was developed by the ZALA A…

____ (2022-12-01). Russia gets moving on plan to make drones. ecns.cn Russia has announced that it will begin to mass-produce a self-designed drone next year, as the United States and Europe pledged to provide more air defense equipment to Ukraine.

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2022-12-01: News Headlines

Dave DeCamp (2022-12-01). Australian PM Tells US to Drop Charges Against Julian Assange. globalresearch.ca

Binoy Kampmark (2022-12-01). Albanese must act to free Julian Assange. greenleft.org.au Anthony Albanese publicly revealed that he had been lobbying the Joseph Biden administration to stop proceedings against Julian Assange, reports Binoy Kampmark.

WSWS (2022-12-01). Australian PM says "legal action" against Assange should end. wsws.org Albanese broke a longstanding silence on Assange, but his comments fell far short of a demand for the immediate and unconditional freedom of the persecuted Australian journalist.

____ (2022-12-01). Russia gets moving on plan to make drones. ecns.cn Russia has announced that it will begin to mass-produce a self-designed drone next year, as the United States and Europe pledged to provide more air defense equipment to Ukraine.

_____ (2022-11-30). Brazil's President-Elect Lula Calls To Free Julian Assange. popularresistance.org Brazil's left-wing President-elect Lula da Silva has called for journalist Julian Assange to be freed from his "unjust imprisonment." | Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing journalism publication WikiLeaks, has languished since 2019 in a maximum-security British prison, where he has suffered from prolonged torture that could threaten his life, according to the top United Nations expert. | The United Kingdom is preparing to extradite the Australian journalist to the United States, where he is facing up to 175 years in prison on politically motivated charges based in part on illegal CIA spying and threats. | On…

_____ (2022-11-30). Cryptome Founder Asks To Be Indicted With Assange. popularresistance.org The founder of a U.S.-based website that earlier published the same un-redacted documents that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange was later indicted for has invited the U.S. Department of Justice to make him a co-defendant with Assange. | "Cryptome published the decrypted unredacted State Department Cables on September 1, 2011 prior to publication of the cables by WikiLeaks," John Young wrote in a Justice Department submission form, which Young posted on Twitter on Tuesday. | "No US official has contacted me about publishing the unredacted cables since cryptome published them," he wrote. "I respectfully request t…

Caitlin Johnstone (2022-11-30). The Guardian Could Help Assange By Retracting All The Lies It Published About Him. thealtworld.com

Joe Lauria (2022-11-30). Media Serve the Governors, Not the Governed. orinocotribune.com By Joe Lauria Nov 24, 2022 | [Joe Lauria gave the original version of this speech at a rally for Julian Assange in Sydney on March 3, 2019. The video of the speech can be watched In his 1971 opinion in the Pentagon Papers case, US Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black wrote: | In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was…

Staff (2022-11-30). Exige Lula que Assange sea liberado de su "injusto encarcelamiento" cubadebate.cu El presidente electo de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, exigió que el periodista australiano Julian Assange sea liberado de su "injusto encarcelamiento", luego de reunirse con dos miembros de WikiLeaks. El líder progresista reafirmó su defensa de Assange y de la libertad de prensa.

Ben Norton (2022-11-29). Brazil's President-elect Lula calls to free Julian Assange from 'unjust imprisonment,' sends 'solidarity'. multipolarista.com Brazil's left-wing President-elect Lula da Silva called for journalist Julian Assange to be freed from his "unjust imprisonment" and said he "sent my solidarity," after meeting with his colleagues from WikiLeaks.

Editor (2022-11-29). New York Times and Other Major Media Urge US to Drop Charges Against Julian Assange. scheerpost.com

Editor (2022-11-29). UK Government Deployed 15 Staff on Secret Operation To Seize Julian Assange. scheerpost.com

Editor (2022-11-29). WikiLeaks Delegation in Latin America to Rally Support for Assange's Release. scheerpost.com

Jake Johnson (2022-11-29). Because 'Publishing Is Not a Crime,' Major Newspapers Push US to Drop Assange Charges. globalresearch.ca

Kwjorinoco (2022-11-29). Former Consul of Ecuador: Latin American Leaders 'Have the Key' to Free Assange. orinocotribune.com The support of Gustavo Petro, Lula, and other Latin American leaders for the freedom of Julian Assange may be crucial for his release, former Ecuadorian consul in London, Fidel Narváez, told. For the diplomat, the Assange case is "a political case" that requires "increasing international pressure" against the US. | In dialogue with, Fidel Narváez, who accompanied Assange during his refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in the United Kingdom, acknowledged the importance of the support of Colombian President Gustavo Petro for Wikileaks and the demand for freedom for the Australian cyberactivist and journ…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-11-29). Thuggish Ways: Mike Pompeo, Punishing Leakers and Getting Assange. orinocotribune.com

Anonymous103 (2022-11-29). Military Situation In Syria On November 29, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org On November 29, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 2 times: 1 in Latakia province, 1 in Idlib province; | On November 29, Turkish artillery shelled SDF positions near Tal Tamar; | Five SDF members were killed by the Turkish Army in the Euphrates Shield area in the northern Syria, according to the Turkish MOD; | On November 28, Turkish drones struck SDF positions in the west of Tal Abyadh; | On November 29, a…

Abby Martin (2022-11-29). Ron DeSantis's Military Secrets: Torture & War Crimes. mronline.org In this Eyes Left/Empire Files exclusive, Mike Prysner sheds light on the shadowy military career of Ron DeSantis.

TeleSUR, JCM (2022-11-29). Exigen a EE.UU. retirar cargos contra Julian Assange. telesurtv.net De ser declarado culpable de espionaje, Assange podría ser condenado a 175 años de prisión.

TeleSUR, JGN (2022-11-29). Lula exige la libertad de periodista Julian Assange. telesurtv.net "Les pedí que enviaran mi solidaridad. Que Assange sea liberado de su injusto encarcelamiento", manifestó el exmandatario (2003-2011).

WSWS (2022-11-29). What took them so long? New York Times, Guardian finally call for Assange's freedom. wsws.org Ten years after Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange was forced to seek refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and three years after he was arrested and subjected to solitary confinement, the editors and publishers of the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, El País and Der Spiegel have issued an open letter calling on US President Joe Biden to end his prosecution.

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