(2022-07-09). How War Crimes Went Unpunished and a Publisher Became the Criminal (Book Review). orinocotribune.com By Kamala Emanuel — | The Trial of Julian Assange: A story of persecution (2022, Verso, London) by Nils Melzer (with Oliver Kobold), a highly readable, newly-released book offers a wealth of information on the ongoing persecution and torture of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. | The book is as invaluable for those who have supported Assange from the outset, as it is for those sceptical of his fear of extradition to the United States, or influenced by the prolonged character assassination campaign against him. | It begins with a compelling explanation of why the book has come into existence. Au…
(2022-07-09). Whistleblower Relief: Dropping the Collaery Case. southfront.org 
Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark | The Anglo-Australian legal system has much to answer for. While robed lawyers and solemn justices proclaim an adherence to the rule of law, the rule remains a creature in state, more fetish than reality. Had the farcical prosecution of former ACT Attorney General Bernard Collaery gone on, all suspicions about a legal system slanted in favour of the national security state would have been answered. | Collaery, a sagacious and well-practiced legal figu…
(2022-07-09). The Breakdown of Legitimacy: A Good and Necessary Thing. scheerpost.com 
By Gary Leupp / CounterPunch Last December Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioned whether the Supreme Court would retain its legitimacy if it overturned Roe v. Wade. "Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?" she asked, adding, "I don't …
(2022-07-09). US Congresswoman Tlaib Reintroduces Amendment To Reform Espionage Act. thedissenter.org Michigan Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib reintroduced an amendment to refor, US Espionage Act to protect whistleblowers and journalists…
(2022-07-09). Dealing with Police and Government Agents. indybay.org "Any lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to police under any circumstances." (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson writing in Watts v. Indiana, 338 U.S. 49 (1949))…
(2022-07-09). VIDEO: Attend SEP public meeting to oppose British extradition order and fight to free Julian Assange. wsws.org "It's time to step up the fight to free Julian Assange!"
(2022-07-08). ACLU Takes Fight Against Palestinian-Exception in the First Amendment To Supreme Court. scheerpost.com 
By Jessica Buxbaum / MintPress News LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS — In June, a federal appeals court upheld an Arkansas law barring state contractors from boycotting Israel, sparking concerns over First Amendment rights in the United States. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a decision made last year by a panel of three judges who found …
(2022-07-08). Adele Stan & Elliot Mincberg on John Roberts, Chip Gibbons on Why Assange Matters. fair.org 
John Roberts | This week on CounterSpin: When disastrous things happen, like the
(2022-07-08). Reproductive justice and the U.S. carceral system. iacenter.org By Marie Kelly July 8, 2022 The Supreme Court ruling against reproductive rights guaranteed for 50 years in the SCOTUS Roe v. Wade decision has had dramatic and devastating consequences for anyone who can get pregnant but is trapped in the U.S. carceral system. Number of incarcerated women accelerating Ban the shackling of incarcerated pregnant people! Illustration by Molly Crabapple According to the Prison Policy Initiative, the incarceration rate of women in the U.S. has grown at twice the pace of men over the past 40 years. There has been a startling 475% increase in women incarcerated. The majority of women (…
(2022-07-08). Gabriela USA and International Women's Alliance condemn overturn of Roe v. Wade. iacenter.org July 8, 2022 This slightly edited joint statement was released on June 24 by Terrie Cervas, GABRIELA USA Secretary General and Angelica Lim, GABRIELA USA International Relations Officer and International Women's Alliance Secretariat Member. You can email both organizations at gabrielawomen@gmail.com and internationalwomensalliance@gmail.com. GABRIELA USA and International Women's Alliance (IWA) vehemently condemn the United States Supreme Court overturn of Roe v. Wade and call on all people to defend basic human rights to health care, including access to abortion, and to fight the attacks on women's rights. Roe v…
(2022-07-08). Texas oil city Beaumont turns out against abortion ban. peoplesworld.org 
BEAUMONT, Texas—The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has rocked the whole country, nowhere less than Texas, where in less than three weeks a trigger law will make providing, seeking, and receiving an abortion a first-degree felony. Nevertheless, at Roger's Park in Beaumont, at the intersection of Dowlen and Gladys, a crowd of …
(2022-07-08). UK Bill Threatens Journalists With Life in Prison. scheerpost.com 
Assange supporters marching on Parliament, February 2020. (Joe Lauria) | By Mohamed Elmaazi / The British Parliament is debating a national security bill which could undermine the basis of national security reporting and ultimately throw journalists in jail for life. | A person convicted under the new offense of "obtaining or disclosing protected information," defined in Section 1 of National Security Bill 2022, faces a fine, life imprisonment, or both, if convicted following a jury trial.
(2022-07-08). Genocide in Indian Country: Torture Experiments, Trafficking and Mining. indybay.org Censored News: Exposing the Genocide: Torture Experiments, Trafficking and Mining. Mohawk Mothers continue their case in Quebec Superior Court. Their case exposes the U.S. CIA torture experiments, as Mohawk Mothers demand a search for unmarked graves of their children at McGill University in Montreal.
(2022-07-08). Wisconsin Supreme Court Pushes Trump's Big Lie in Ruling Banning Most Ballot Drop Boxes. commondreams.org The ruling solidified the court's status as "the most rogue and vehemently antidemocratic state court in the nation," said one critic.
(2022-07-07). We must band together in this age of repression: Abby Martin on resistance and the role of CovertAction Magazine. mronline.org 
Time and again, CovertAction Magazine (originally founded as CovertAction Information Bulletin) has been one of the only publications that has been willing to tackle some of the most uncomfortable truths about Deep State crimes against democracy, from CIA backed political assassinations to false flag operations.
(2022-07-07). Two Generations of Reproductive Rights Advocates on Life After Roe. aclu.org 
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court turned back the clock nearly years in the fight for abortion rights. In overturning Roe v. Wade, the court's ruling dismantles federal constitutional protections and relegates women and all people who can become pregnant to second-class status. It's a shameful step backward for civil rights and liberties, and a devastating blow to activists who have been fighting for decades to protect this right. | In light of this ruling, Louise Melling, the ACLU's deputy legal director and director of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Center for Liberty, talked to Chelsea Tejada, a staff attorney…
(2022-07-07). Appleton WI: "Nothing to celebrate" July 4 rally demands non-enforcement of state's anti-abortion law. fightbacknews.org Appleton, WI — On July 4, hundreds of community members gathered in downtown Appleton to make their voices heard in support of reproductive rights for all. | What started earlier in the week as two separate events converged into one mass gathering of people who are stirred to action in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling in Jackson v. Dobbs on June 24, which erased the 50 years of affirmed federal protection for access to safe, legal abortion. | Concerned community individuals were supported by members of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), Food Not Bombs-Fox Valley (FNBFV), United Action Oshkosh…
(2022-07-07). A Radical Supreme Court Term in Review. aclu.org The recently completed U.S. Supreme Court term was the
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organiza…
(2022-07-07). Beyond the SCOTUS attack on abortion. iacenter.org July 5, 2022 White supremacy did not begin nor will it end with the June 24 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that swept away Roe v. Wade, that for almost 50 years legalized access to abortion. Yet the ruling has sharpened this major pillar of capitalist oppression that touches every aspect of life in the U.S. Without this depraved weapon to uphold the superrich's status quo, that targets oppressed peoples, especially those of color, the U.S. would not have developed into the most powerful imperialist country in history. White supremacy permeates U.S. society. The SCOTUS ruling is a frontal attack on the right to health…
(2022-07-07). How the 'Janes' created underground abortion access. iacenter.org By Marie Kelly June 24, 2022 A U.S. Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization is expected to overturn the 1973 SCOTUS Roe v. Wade ruling sometime during late June — and pave the way to re-criminalization of the right to abortion. At this writing 26 states are poised to outlaw abortion and impact the lives of 64 million women — and any person of childbearing age who has a uterus. (guttmacher.org/abortion-rights-supreme-court, U.S. Census Bureau) A banner for the Jane Collective, the Abortion Counseling Service of Chicago Women's Liberation, carried during a protest for abor…
(2022-07-07). Utahns rally on July 4, furious at overturn of Roe. liberationnews.org 
Utah is one of thirteen states that had a "trigger law" in place that banned abortions virtually immediately following the repeal of Roe by the Supreme Court.