Daily Archives: September 18, 2023

2023-09-18: News Headlines

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2023-09-18). Stella Assange Speaks Out On Julian Assange's Prison Conditions. popularresistance.org Prison is always a political tool, and in the case of whistleblowers like Julian Assange, the use of incarceration to suppress, discourage, and silence dissent is self-evident. Since being imprisoned, Assange has married and even started a family—but has been kept apart from his wife and children. In the second part of a two-part conversation, Stella Assange and Chris Hedges discuss the conditions of Julian's incarceration, and how it offers a glimpse into the overall brutality of the prison system.

Daniel Hurst, The Guardian. (2023-09-18). More Than 60 Australian MPs Urge US To Let Julian Assange Walk Free. popularresistance.org More than 60 Australian federal politicians have explicitly called on the US to drop the prosecution of Julian Assange, warning of "a sharp and sustained outcry in Australia" if the WikiLeaks founder is extradited. With a small cross-party delegation due to fly to Washington next week, the Guardian can reveal the lobbying trip has won the open support of 63 members of Australia's House of Representatives and Senate. | In a letter, the 63 MPs and senators said they stood in support of the trip to the US and were "resolutely of the view that the prosecution and incarceration of the Australian citizen Julian Assange…

Editor (2023-09-17). Chris Hedges: Craig Murray on the 'Slow Motion Execution' of Assange. scheerpost.com By Chris Hedges / The Real News Network As Julian Assange continues to fight extradition to the United States to face prosecution under the Espionage Act, a growing chorus of voices is rising to demand an end to his persecution. Hounded by US law enforcement and its allies for more than a decade, Assange has …

Editor (2023-09-17). Ex-UK Amb. Craig Murray: "The US Has Completely Ceased to be a Democracy" scheerpost.com By Max Blumenthal / The Grayzone Craig Murray is the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, a whistleblower, journalist and one of the leading voices for the freedom of Julian Assange. In this wide-randing interview with The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal, Murray takes aim at the US and UK's claims to uphold democracy while jailing dissidents — …

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2023-09-17). Craig Murray Blocked From Assange Courthouse In Virginia. popularresistance.org Craig Murray, a former British ambassador and close associate of imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, said he was prevented by a U.S. marshal from entering the courthouse in Alexandria, VA where Assange would be put on trial if he loses his extradition case in Britain. | In Washington on a U.S. tour, Murray told a gathering on Wednesday that with some time to kill he decided earlier that day to visit the federal courthouse in Alexandria "just to see what that was like." | "So I found the federal court and I went to enter, as any member of the public is entitled to do," Murray said, according to a video…

Staff (2023-09-17). Talk World Radio: Greg Barns on Efforts to Free Julian Assange. davidswanson.org


Editor (2023-09-18). Sep 18, 2023. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ Merle Haggard — Are the Good Times Really Over It's Hard To Find Fulfillment In A Civilization That Revolves Around Corporate Profits, by Caitlin Johnstone AI and Spiritual Intelligence, by Mark Vernon The Hunter Biden scandal has exposed the death of journalism, by Brendan O'Neill Military Industrial Complex Unraveled & Exposed, by Helena Glass UN Marks Halfway Point to Agenda 2030 with Sustainable Development Goals Summit, by Derrick Broze American Pravda: Mutually-Assured Political Destruction, by Ron Unz The Side of Huawei We Don't Know, by Chandran Nair A Few Thoughts on the Russel…

Kyle Anzalone (2023-09-17). Milley: Chinese Spy Balloon Collected No Intelligence. news.antiwar.com In February, a Chinese balloon floated over the US, prompting politicians on both sides of the aisle to claim Beijing was threatening Americans. The event led American officials to cancel high-level meetings with their Chinese diplomats. Seven months later, Gen. Mark Milley said the balloon never collected intelligence. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told …

Rainer Shea (2023-09-17). The US Empire May Still Occupy Syria, but the Exposing of Its Anti-Assad Psyops Brought Ongoing Repercussions Upon It. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Sep 15, 2023 | A hidden disadvantage of our ruling class within the US/NATO imperialist sphere is that frequently, these elites need to scramble in response to developments they haven't foreseen, and whose consequential outcomes they have limited control over. When the Democratic Party and its partnered intelligence agencies used the DNC leaks to

Marjorie Cohn (2023-09-18). The Fate of the "Dreamers" Is Likely Headed to the Right-Dominated Supreme Court. truthout.org Eleven years after Barack Obama launched the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, six years after the Trump administration tried to rescind it, and five years after it began wending its way through the courts, the fate of the "Dreamers" is now likely headed to the Supreme Court. On September 13, Judge Andrew Hanen of the Federal District Court in Houston ruled in Texas v. U.S. |

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-18). War crimes whistleblower David McBride: 'I'll eventually win — from public support'. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-17). War crimes whistleblower David McBride: 'I'll eventually win — from public support'. greenleft.org.au




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