Fighting Fake News with Real, 4/6/23, Ben Roberts- Smith, Julian Assange

Justice Anthony Besanko found that Chris Masters and Nick Mackenzies and their publishers were substantially reporting the truth about Ben Roberts-Smith. It is a win for quality investigative journalism, but will we now see criminal charges against the former soldier?

Source: A win for journalism. But Ben Roberts-Smith is still at large. What’s the scam? – Michael West

 

When some of the SAS witnesses Nine Entertainment subpoenaed refused to give evidence about alleged war crimes on the grounds of self-incrimination it was game, set and match as far as proving war crimes had been committed in Afghanistan.

Source: Ben Roberts-Smith undoing was Kerry Stokes’ failed legal strategy and his own witnesses colludingKangaroo Court of Austra

 

Disgraced war hero Ben Roberts-Smith waged an aggressive campaign to cover up his war crimes, invoking a special forces’ code of silence as well as smearing and threatening those he thought had revealed his misconduct.

Source: How Ben Roberts-Smith intimida

 

 What happens to some who reveal the war crimes committed

 New documents show Julian Assange got little more than a mention at Mark Dreyfus’s media talkfest this year. Amid much talk about reform and transparency, the Government wants to draw our big media outlets into cozy secret relationships with Australia’s spies.

Julian Assange ignored in “press freedom roundtable” as spies cosy up to Big Media

by Philip Dorling | Jun 3, 2023