The Supreme Court’s chief justice denied whistleblower David McBride’s attempt to appeal the trial judge’s decision to deprive him of a public interest defense, reports Joe Lauria.
McBride Trial: Appeal Bid Rejected; Public Interest Still Denied
Category: Australia
McBride Trial: Defeat — ‘It Looks Like I’m Going to Jail’
Judge rules that he will instruct the jury that there is no aspect of duty that allows the accused to act in the public interest contrary to a lawful military order, reports Joe Lauria.
McBride Trial: A Soldier’s Duty
On day two of the David McBride trial, the central question remains: whom does a soldier serve? Joe Lauria reports.
McBride Trial: Defense Argues Duty to Nation Supersedes Military Law
Whistleblower David McBride’s lawyers argued on Day One of his trial that a soldier’s duty is not just to follow his superior’s orders, but to serve the entire nation. Joe Lauria reports.
McBride Trial Tests Australian Justice
JOHN PILGER: We Are Spartacus
There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Meanwhile, once welcomed mavericks are heretics now in an underground of journalism amid a landscape of mendacious conformity.
Without Hamas, Gaza Would Still Not Be Free
As a classic settler-colonial state, Israel is doing the only thing it knows how to do, writes Jonathan Cook. So long as the West keeps cheerleading, that includes genocide.
WATCH: A Last Message From Gaza?
“Today may be my last day. My family and I will not make the mistake of the Nakba of 1948. … I do not forgive the world, from east to west, for what will happen to us.”
WATCH: 200 Weeks for Assange
Supporters of Julian Assange have gathered each Friday for 200 consecutive weeks outside Sydney Town Hall to spread the word that Assange should be free.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Assange & the DC Six’
CN Live! presents an exclusive interview with Australian Senator David Shoebridge, who was part of the six-member delegation from the Australian Parliament that visited Washington to lobby for the release of imprisoned publisher Julian Assange.