(2023-09-25). Australian parliamentarians lobby for Assange in Washington. wsws.org The tour reflected a groundswell of support for Assange among ordinary people, but also underscored the bankruptcy of a fight for his freedom based on backroom diplomacy and politicking.
(2023-09-24). Mission to Free Assange: Australian Parliamentarians in Washington. dissidentvoice.org It was a short stint, involving a six-member delegation of Australian parliamentarians lobbying members of the US Congress and various relevant officials on one issue: the release of Julian Assange. If extradited to the US from the United Kingdom to face 18 charges, 17 framed with reference to the oppressive, extinguishing Espionage Act of 1917, …
(2023-09-25). Australian MPs Washington mission to press for Julian Assange's release. greenleft.org.au 
(2023-09-25). Artificial intelligence: profit versus freedom. nationofchange.org As with previous technological breakthroughs, AI places on society's agenda both new issues and old contentious ones.
(2023-09-24). Kyiv Launches More Attacks on Sevastopol in Crimea. news.antiwar.com Kyiv launched cruise missile attacks on the Crimean Peninsula with weapons provided by NATO on Friday. This was followed by another missile strike on Sevastopol, where Russia's Black Sea fleet is based, on Saturday morning. Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine's intelligence chief, told Voice of America — the US state-funded media outlet — that at least nine …
(2023-09-24). Forget Bellingcat — Meet A Real 'Open Source' Watchdog. popularresistance.org On September 11th of this year, on the third floor of the Nauticus museum in Norfolk, Virginia, defense and intelligence representatives gathered for the first and only unclassified meeting of a Naval Special Warfare Command "technology integration exercise," called Trident Spectre 2024. What is Trident? The three-minute video above was unveiled for attendees. It pitched the program as a matchmaking forum for contractors and "defense leaders" who "tour the experimentation camp during the exercise, leading to technology transition or outright acquisition," the contract-hungry crowd was told, in tantalizing narrati…
(2023-09-25). John Kiriakou: Never forget America's torture legacy. mronline.org 
CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou joins Robert Scheer to discuss the dark history of America's torture program, and the normalization of the Espionage Act to attack those that expose the secrets of the state.
(2023-09-24). An Israeli Civil-War Brewing Over Judicial Overhaul, Or A New War? thelastamericanvagabond.com In July, the Israeli Knesset ratified the first of a wave of bills that seek to curtail the powers of Tel Aviv's supreme court, dividing Israel's Jewish population between supporters of the current "liberal western democracy" model and those seeking a more radical system. While hundreds of thousands of Israeli protesters packed the streets, Israeli