Daily Archives: May 27, 2023

2023-05-27: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-05-27). Australian war crimes whistleblower David McBride demands freedom for Julian Assange. wsws.org Assange faces life behind bars for revealing war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan as a publisher. McBride could be jailed indefinitely for exposing the same atrocities as a whistleblower.

Alex Bainbridge (2023-05-26). Stella Assange headlines rally to free Julian Assange. greenleft.org.au Stella Assange headlined a protest of up to 1000 people on May 24 calling for her husband Julian Assange to be freed. Alex Bainbridge reports.

Alex Bainbridge (2023-05-26). Video: Sydney rally calls for Julian Assange to be freed. greenleft.org.au Video by Alex Bainbridge of the rally to free Julian Assange on May 24.

Consortium News. (2023-05-26). Biden Missing, But Assange Sydney Rally Goes On. popularresistance.org Joe Biden was due in Sydney Wednesday where he's facing increased pressure to let Julian Assange go. Biden cancelled the trip but a rally in Hyde Park sent him the message anyway. | Stella Assange, Scott Ludlum, John Shipton, Gabriel Shipton, David McBride and Stephen Kenny addressed the rally Wednesday morning. Stella Assange, on her first trip to Australia, vowed that she would return with a liberated Julian Assange and their children to his home country.

Gideon Polya (2023-05-26). Censorship of Indigenous Australians and Palestinians, Stan Grant, Julian Assange, and Truth Tellers. dissidentvoice.org Eminent Australian and Indigenous journalist, Stan Grant, was recently driven to resign from the ABC (the tax-payer-funded Australian equivalent of the UK BBC) as compere of the high-rating Q+A TV program by a flood of devastating racist abuse after he participated in a frank and truthful ABC discussion of the British Crown and genocidal colonialism on …

WSWS (2023-05-26). Assange's brother and Australian lawyer speak out: "Julian must be brought home" wsws.org Lawyer Stephen Kenny warned: "If we don't have people telling us the truth like Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange, then we are going to be ignorant. Our democracy is at stake."

Staff (2023-05-26). Stella Assange Optimistic For His Release. leecamp.com

Olga Peterson (2023-05-27). Former Serb Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic's 2003 Murder Remains Unsolved. covertactionmagazine.com Suspicion lingers that he was killed with the assistance of the CIA or other Western intelligence services when he began to question U.S. regional designs in the aftermath of the 1990s Balkan Wars. The right of humanitarian intervention, if it exists as a category in international law, is premised on the 'good faith' of those …

ecns.cn (2023-05-26). Accusing China of spying on U.S. infrastructure a U.S.-initiated 'disinformation campaign': Chinese FM. ecns.cn According to Reuters, Western intelligence agencies and Microsoft said on Wednesday that a state-sponsored Chinese hacking group is alleged to have been "spying on a wide range of U.S. critical infrastructure organizations, from telecommunications to transportation hubs."

WSWS (2023-05-26). Spy agency-instigated anti-China furor within Canada's political establishment intensifies after rapporteur's report. wsws.org The Trudeau government's Special Rapporteur has endorsed the reactionary, pro-war narrative of a Chinese threat to Canadian "democracy." But because he rejected and qualified some of the claims made in illegal intelligence leaks and opposes a public inquiry, he is being pilloried.

Anonymous669 (2023-05-26). New Footage Confirms Russian Intelligence Ship Was Not Damaged In Recent Ukrainian Attack. southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Source: the Black Sea Fleet channel on Telegram (t.me/kchf_ru) | On May 26, Russian intelligence ship Ivan Khurs was seen entering its base in Sevastopol on its own power without any visible damage, just a few days days after it was attacked by Ukrainian unmanned suicide boats. | The Russian Ministry of Defense said on May 24 that the ship was attacked by three suicide boats. The incident took place 140 kilometers northeast of the Bosphorus.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-26). Ukraine and the "Disinformation" Project: How Universities, NATO, and Intelligence Agencies Suppressing Dissent. libya360.wordpress.com Tamara Lorincz has a Masters in International Politics & Security Studies from the University of Bradford and a Law degree and MBA from Dalhousie University. She's a member of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom-Canada. Tamara is also on the board of the Global Network…

Bennan Center for Justice (2023-05-27). Tuesday 6/13: How the Supreme Court is Dividing America. indybay.org Online event – FREE…

Center for Biological Diversity (2023-05-27). California Supreme Court to Hear Arguments Thursday Over Monterey Oil, Gas Drilling Restrictions. indybay.org Residents to Rally at Local Courthouse in Support of Measure Z…

Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. (2023-05-26). US Troops To Train Peruvian Armed Forces, Proves US Behind Coup. popularresistance.org Amid continuing social upheaval five months after the parliamentary coup against Pedro Castillo, the Peruvian Congress, controlled by the hard right, has approved the entrance of US troops into national territory to train the Peruvian military and National Police beginning June 1st through the end of the year. This comes after the Supreme Court ruled that protest is not a protected right under the 1993 Fujimori dictatorship era constitution. This also comes after a visit from the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Peaceful Assembly and Association Clément Nyaletsossi Voule stated that there was no evidence of…

Staff (2023-05-26). Headlines for May 26, 2023. democracynow.org GOP Pushes for Steep Cuts to Domestic Programs, Environmental Protections as Debt Default Looms, U.S. and South Korea Hold Largest-Ever Live-Fire War Games, French Police Attack Climate Activists Protesting TotalEnergies' Annual Investor Meeting, Supreme Court Guts Clean Water Act, Indiana Medical Board Disciplines Doctor Who Provided Abortion to 10-Year-Old Rape Survivor, Oath Keepers Founder Gets 18 Years in Prison for Role in Jan. 6 Insurrection, Minneapolis Remembers George Floyd 3 Years After His Murder Set Off Historic Protests, NYC Activists Demand End to NYPD's Strategic Response Group 3 Years…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-05-26). Kissinger Vs. 'The Most Dangerous Man In America'. thedissenter.org "Daniel Ellsberg is the most dangerous man in America. He must be stopped at all costs." —Henry Kissinger | In 1970, before whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg shared copies of the Pentagon Papers with several newspapers in the United States, Ellsberg was invited by his friend Lloyd Shearer, who was the editor of Parade magazine, to attend a lunch with President Richard Nixon's national security adviser Henry Kissinger. | Ellsberg recounted the lunch in his book, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. Kissinger knew Ellsberg from his work at the RAND Corporation, and what Ellsberg recou…

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