The stakes in Julian Assange's court case could not be higher. The outcome will determine whether the US can seek to extradite any journalist, of any nationality听from anywhere听with which it has an extradition treaty, for disclosing US war crimes.听Kellie Tranter reports.
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Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather used the听50th anniversary of the military coup in Chile to propose we scrutinise Australia鈥檚 role in helping the United States overthrow socialist president Salvador Allende. The major parties refused.听Federico Fuentes reports.
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If there was any reason to halt a farcical train of legal proceedings, the case against Julian Assange would have to be the standard bearing example, argues听Binoy Kampmark.
Led by Rodrigo Acu帽a听and Adriana Navarro,听Chilean-Australian community members are听campaigning听for the federal government to give an 鈥渦nreserved apology鈥 for Australia's听covert support to the US-backed coup against Dr Salvador Allende in 1973.
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On the 48th anniversary of the military coup against Chilean president Salvador Allende, never-before-seen archive posts听by the Australian Secret听Intelligence Service show that the CIA requested and received support. Peter Kornbluh reports.
Recently-released former secret United States embassy cables reinforce the long-held view that once prominent union leader and former Prime Minister Bob Hawke was also an informant for the United States government and the Central Intelligence Agency. Jim McIlroy reports.
The decades-long campaign demanding truth and justice for victims of Chilean General Augusto Pinochet鈥檚 dictatorship scored two important victories in Australia last month, reports Federico Fuentes.
The Report is based on the real-life work of US Senate staffer Daniel Jones, who led the investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency鈥檚 international torture program that followed the 2001 World Trade Centre attacks.
Human rights advocates expressed outrage on March 13 after US President Donald Trump听听deputy director Gina Haspel to be the next CIA director 鈥 despite her leading role in听听where detainees were systematically and gruesomely abused, writes Jessica Corbett for
On the tail of its damning CIA hacking听, WikiLeaks published another trove of documents on March 23 outlining how the spy agency has been uploading secret software to Apple devices as far back as 2008.
WikiLeaks has published what it says is the largest leak of secret听CIA听documents in history. The thousands of documents published on March 6, dubbed 鈥淰ault 7鈥, describe听CIA听programs and tools that are capable of hacking into Apple and Android mobile phones.
By hacking into entire phones, the听CIA听is then reportedly able to bypass encrypted messenger programs such as Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp. However, contrary to many news reports, the documents do not show the听CIA听has developed tools to hack these encrypted services themselves.
On the strength of a claimed turnover of $1 billion, the Australian Financial Review reported in early February 1978: 鈥淎t this sort of growth rate Nugan Hand will soon be bigger than BHP.鈥
But two years later, on January 27, 1980, one of the bank's two founders, Frank Nugan, was found dead near Lithgow in NSW from a gunshot wound to the head. An inquest found it was suicide. Meanwhile, the other founder of the bank, Michael Hand, was busy shredding documents, including 鈥渇iles identifying clients regarded as sensitive鈥.
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