The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday August 2nd, 2023
The Julian Assange rejection should prompt Australia to make a new defence assessment – Time for honest self-realization by Murray Hunter
After a long and drawn-out saga, the Australian Guantanamo inmate David Hicks was eventually repatriated back to Australia in 2007, after behind the scenes discussion between former prime minister John Howard and US president George Bush.
However, in Brisbane last Saturday, US secretary of state Antony Blinken rebuked prime minister Anthony Albanese’s attempts to secure the release of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is languishing in Belmarsh Prison, awaiting extradition to the United States on 17 charges of espionage, and one count of computer misuse over the Wikileaks publication of hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents back in 2010.
The Guardian, New York Times, and Der Spiegel, which jointly published the documents were never charged. US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning stole classified diplomatic documents and miliary files, that Wikileaks later published. She has been treated much more leniently when former US president Barack Obama commuted Manning’s 35-year sentence to seven years, which allowed her to be released back in 2017.
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When time expires by Bohdan Yuri
“Our journey wanders in lost shadows,
Seeking dreams of ancient hallows.”
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Always something; the family edition #67 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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