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
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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.
WATCH: Biden Missing, But Assange Sydney Rally Goes On
Joe Biden was due in Sydney Wednesday where he’s facing increased pressure to let Julian Assange go. Biden cancelled the trip but a rally in Hyde Park sent him the message anyway.
WATCH: Assange Rallies on Press Freedom Day
Assange supporters on Wednesday rallied in front of The Washington Post in D.C. and at NBC in New York, as in San Francisco, Sydney, India, and at the DOJ building to highlight the hypocrisy surrounding World Press Freedom Day. (7 videos)
WATCH: A May Day March for Assange
Julian Assange’s father and Australian whistleblower David McBride marched with hundreds of Assange supporters and union members on May Day in Brisbane.
WATCH: The Persecution of Truth
Whistleblowers, WikiLeaks and the War on Truth was the subject of a conference this week in Brisbane, Australia.