“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: A Last Message From Gaza?
Category: Australia
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.
WATCH: Australian MPs at DOJ After Assange Talks
A delegation of six Australian members of Parliament are in Washington this week lobbying for the release of Julian Assange. Watch their press conference today outside the Department of Justice. (W/Transcript)
Australian MPs Endorse ‘Bring Assange Home’ Delegation
“The prosecution and incarceration of the Australian citizen Julian Assange must end,” states a letter signed by 64 Australian politicians and published in The Washington Post. Six MPs are in Washington today lobbying for Assange’s freedom.
WATCH: A US Tour for Assange
Former British diplomat Craig Murray has been touring the U.S. ahead of the possible extradition of imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Watch these events with Chris Hedges, Scott Ritter and other supporters.
CHILE 50 YRS: Allende Grandson Tells CN: US Empire ‘Is Going Down’
The grandson of Salvador Allende, the democratically-elected president of Chile who was overthrown by a U.S.-backed, fascist junta 50 years ago on Sept. 11, 1973, spoke with CN at a conference in Australia remembering the coup. (w/Spanish transcript).
The ‘Planet-Wrecker in Chief’
Planned fossil fuel expansion in the U.S. accounts for more than a third of new oil and gas extraction projects through 2050, according to Oil Change International.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: US Justice Dept’s Next Victim
Daniel Duggan is facing the same extreme tactics applied to Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Daniel Hale and others caught in Washington’s “national security” dragnet.
Aussie MPs Headed to Washington to Lobby For Assange
The MPs will face obstinate views about Assange entrenched in the U.S. political establishment, with two days to educate Congressional, State and Justice officials about the threat to the Constitution and a free press, reports Joe Lauria.