Daily Archives: December 5, 2022

2022-12-05: News Headlines

____ (2022-12-05). Australian PM Tells USA to Drop Charges against Julian Assange. transcend.org 30 Nov 2022 – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today said that he has personally asked the US government to drop its case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is an Australian citizen. His comments came after five major news organizations finally spoke out for Assange.

____ (2022-12-05). Cryptome Founder Asks to Be Indicted with Assange. transcend.org 30 Nov 2022 – John Young, the founder of the Cryptome website, has asked the U.S. Justice Department to also indict him as he published un-redacted State Dept. files before WikiLeaks did.

____ (2022-12-05). International Media Groups Urge US to Drop Julian Assange Charges in Letter. transcend.org Twelve years ago, on 28 Nov 2010, our five international media outlets–the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, El País and Der Spiegel–published a series of revelations in cooperation with WikiLeaks that made the headlines around the globe. Our statement supporting the end of the US government's prosecution of Julian Assange.

____ (2022-12-05). The Guardian Could Help Assange by Retracting All the Lies It Published about Him. transcend.org 30 Nov 2022 – The Guardian has joined The New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País in signing a letter from the five papers which collaborated with WikiLeaks twelve years ago to call for the Biden administration to drop all charges against Julian Assange. The Guardian's participation in this letter is particularly noteworthy, given the leading role that publication has played in manufacturing public support for his persecution in the first place.

Caitlin Johnstone (2022-12-04). Some Oil Paintings I've Done Recently. thealtworld.com I've been doing a lot of oil painting lately. Here are some of the ones I like: | ‚ùñ | Julian Assange. | | ‚ùñ | Terence McKenna. | | ‚ùñ | Assange again. I enjoy painting eyes. | | ‚ùñ | My husband Tim. | | ‚ùñ | Lightbulbs. | | ‚ùñ | The grandfather from the documentary About…

Binoy Kampmark (2022-12-04). The Raider Spirit: The Unveiling of the B-21. dissidentvoice.org The US military industrial complex has made news with another eye-wateringly expensive product, a near totemic tribute to waste in a time of crisis. The $700 million B-21 Raider stealth bomber was unveiled by Northrop Grumman Corp. and the United States Air Force on December 2 at Airforce Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. There was …

Ella Kietlinska (2022-12-04). Active US Military Service Members: Significant Increase in Cancers, Myocarditis, and Pericarditis Resulting from Covid-19 Vaccine. globalresearch.ca

Marjorie Cohn (2022-12-04). "Publishing Is Not a Crime": The New York Times Joins the Fight to Free Assange. truthout.org In a stunning development earlier this week, The New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, DER SPIEGEL and El País signed a joint open letter calling on the U.S. government to dismiss the charges against Julian Assange for obtaining and publishing classified military and diplomatic secrets. "Publishing is not a crime," the letter states. "The U.S. government should end its prosecution of Julian… |

En.mehrnews (2022-12-03). Iran calls for ties expansion with Russia to combat terrorism. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 03 (MNA) — Head of the Iranian Supreme Court called for bolstering ties with Russia to fight against terrorism and organized crimes.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-12-03). "Wiki-Gate": Julian Assange Was Framed by the People Who Supported Him. globalresearch.ca Assange has been the object of an all out smear campaign by those who supported him. The Economist which granted Assange the New Media Award in 2008 intimates that he is an "enemy agent" responsible for "information anarchy … culminating in the destabilization of American democracy"

Prof Peter Dale Scott (2022-12-03). What is the Deep State? The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11. globalresearch.ca The Doomsday Project is the Pentagon's name for the emergency planning "to keep the White House and Pentagon running during and after a nuclear war or some other major crisis."

_____ (2022-12-03). Evangelical Lobbying Threatens Supreme Court's Independence. popularresistance.org Recent exposés have uncovered an emerging pattern of improper lobbying of right-wing Supreme Court justices by wealthy evangelicals. They reveal serious threats to the independence of the judiciary. But equally alarming is that the Supreme Court is unconstrained by a code of judicial ethics. | From 1995 to 2018, the right-wing evangelical nonprofit Faith and Action executed "Operation Higher Court." It was an organized and systematic campaign "to wine, dine and entertain conservative Supreme Court justices while pushing conservative positions" on social issues pending before the court, *Politico* reports. | Faith…

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