Before the judges rejected David McBride appeals on Wednesday, Joe Lauria, Jeff Morris, Bill Brown, Kathryn Kelly and John Shipton told a rally outside the court building in Canberra what is at stake in McBride’s case.
CN Editor Joe Lauria speaking outside the Canberra courthouse Wednesday before David McBride would have his appeals denied by the Supreme Court.
The Australian government whistleblower is headed back to jail with no end of incarceration in sight. He is serving nearly six years for leaking documents to the media exposing Australian war crimes in Afghanistan, reports Joe Lauria.
“Wars for oil, control and strategic dominance were cloaked in the language of democracy” — Ann Wright delivers an argument at the Cambridge Union Debates.
Those who exposed illegalities — including Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, John Kiriakou & David McBride — were almost always the only ones punished for the crimes they exposed.
Blocking his ability to tell a jury his motive, a judge sentenced David McBride to 5 years & 8 months in prison, of which he spent his 365th day Wednesday, for leaking evidence of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan.
This weekend marks the 11th anniversary of 48 ethnic Russians burnt alive by far-right thugs in Odessa, a massacre that spurred independence declarations in Donbass, leading to civil war in Ukraine and Russia’s eventual intervention.
This brief rundown of the past five decades shows that last month’s attacks on the Al Rasool Al-Azam Oncology Hospital in Yemen are far from an aberration, writes Alan MacLeod.
For the latest examples, look at where two of the most disastrous foreign policy officials from the Biden administration just landed, write Edward Ahmed Mitchell and Ismail Allison.
SPECIAL REPORT: David McBride appeared in a Canberra court earlier this month appealing his conviction in a case that could determine if a soldier’s duty is to serve only the King or also the public, reports Joe Lauria.