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	Rio Tinto turns Cultural Vandal: The Destruction of the Juukan Gorge Caves by Dr. Binoy Kampmark It was a calamity in cultural terms likened to the destruction of the Buddhist statues of Bamyan and the ancient city of Palmyra. The explosive eradication of two Aboriginal sites in West Australia's Juukan Gorge in May...
	Assange's Fifth Day at the Old Bailey: Supermax Prisons and Special Administrative Measures by Dr. Binoy Kampmark Having had a coronavirus scare towards the end of last week, necessitating a brief suspension of proceedings for September 11, the extradition proceedings for Julian Assange resumed with Eric Lewis.
	New Australian Law Endangers Thousands of Migration Experts by Murray Hunter Australia's lawyers appear to be the beneficiaries of a stunning coup that puts their lay competition out of business in the lucrative practice of guiding the 200,000-odd annual migrants through the complicated task of gaining entry to the country.

	Fruits of Illegality: The NSA, Bulk Collection and Warrantless Surveillance by Dr. Binoy Kampmark He has become part of the furniture when it comes to discussions about privacy rights and personal liberties, arguably an odd sort of thing for a man who also dealt in the shadows of intelligence secrets.
	Turkey-Greece Mediterranean Tensions: Track II Efforts Needed by Rene Wadlow With Turkish war ships in the Mediterranean and the Greek army on alert, the tensions between Greece and Turkey are growing. On 10 August, 2020, Turkey sent an oil and natural gas exploration ship, the Oruc Reis, into...
	Assange's Fourth Day at the Old Bailey: COVID in the Courtroom by Dr. Binoy Kampmark As James Lewis QC for the prosecution, representing the US government, revealed, "I'm just saying about my charger. It's in court and I'm going to run out of battery."
	Vaccine Nationalism, Big Promises and Warped Speed by Dr. Binoy Kampmark From sneering dismissiveness of the coronavirus as nothing more than a common cold to a grand promise to find a vaccine, President Donald Trump is all promises. "We remain on track to deliver a vaccine before the end of the year...
	The EU should live up what it stands for: We might be all Hong Kong tomorrow by Ovi Magazine Guest On 26 June 1963, the then-President of the United States John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the Free World for West Berlin and West Germany.
	Assange's Second Day at the Old Bailey: Torture, Drone Strikes and Journalism by Dr. Binoy Kampmark The highlights of the second day of Julian Assange's extradition proceedings at the Central Criminal Court in London yielded an interesting bounty. The first was the broader public purpose behind the WikiLeaks disclosures...
	Mitsotakis xenophobia rises from Moria's fires by Thanos Kalamidas The refugee camp in Moria, Lesbos, which burned to the ground, hosted over 13.000 refugees and immigrants. Among them thousands of defenceless women and children, victims of war, violence and later from ...xenophobia.
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