The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday August 18th, 2023
Hope for resolution in the long running Assange case by Murray Hunter
Just two weeks after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken publicly rebuked any possibility of resolving the Australian journalist and Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange extradition to the US from Britain to face espionage charges, the US Ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennady has publicly indicated there could be a resolution to the case.
Assange is languishing in solitary confinement in Britain’s notorious Belmarsh Prison, awaiting extradition to the US on 17 charges of espionage, and one charge of computer misuse, over the Wikileaks publication of hundreds of thousands of classified documents and other materials in 2010.
The Guardian, New York Times, Le Monde, El Pais, and Der Spiegel, which jointly published the documents were never charged. US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning stole the classified diplomatic documents and military files, that Wikileaks later published. Manning had been treated much more leniently when former US President Barack Obama commuted her 35 year sentence to seven years, which allowed her to be released in 2017.
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Celebrations All On In Earnest #poem by Saloni Kaul
“In each and every lifetime there appears that phase
When all your yearnings get granted like matters drilled,
Your far-flung dreams realised in minutest ways,
Your impossibly distant whims and fancies all fulfilled.”
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Fika bonding! #064 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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