This week’s nuclear news, AND news on Australian journalist Julian Assange

It’s not exactly ”nuclear” news. In fact, not at all. I heard that Julian Assange supports nuclear power, but that’s not the point. But what’s happening to Julian Assange is a frightening precedent for anyone who dares to publicise American military atrocities . Actually, it’s not all that new. Now forgotten – Wilfred Burchett, the Australian journalist, was the first to visit, photograph, and report on the sufferings of the Hiroshima atomic bomb victims. Burchett was censored, persecuted, and his character smeared by the USA government and its faithful vassal, the Australian government.

Meanwhile – back at the subject – the West beats the drums of war, over Ukraine.

Coronavirus; Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Weekly Epidemiological Update.Climate change: EXTREME: We Just Left the Old Climate Behind.

Some bits of good news – Largest Farm to Grow Crops Under Solar Panels Proves to Be a Bumper Crop for Agrivoltaic Land Use.
Hundreds of Solar Farms Built Atop Closed Landfills Are Turning Brownfields into Green Fields Once Biologically Dead, London’s River Thames Rebounds – With Seahorses and Seals

AUSTRALIA.

Assange facing extradition to US: where is the outrage? PM under pressure to end Assange ‘lunacy’. Australian government urged to push UK and US to free Julian Assange. Independent MP Andrew Wilkie implores the Prime Minister to pick up the phone to the US president and UK prime minister to end the prosecution of Julian Assange.
Traditional owners apply for judicial review to stop South Australia nuclear waste dump.
Nuclear Power’s Economic Crisis and its Implications for Australia.
Union leaders demand super funds dump nuclear-linked companies. Australian superannuation funds still have considerable investments in nuclear weapons companies: some are not disclosing this.
For Australia, AUKUS and the planned nuclear submarines create more problems than solutions. How the military-industrial complex has captured Australia’s top strategic advisory body. To suck up to the American government, Australia’s government leaders agreed to buy nuclear submarines, with no Parliamentary discussion. Protesters say ‘No’ to AUKUS, nuclear submarines and war with China.
The Institute of Public Affairs is seeking to destroy the ABC’s reputation. Senate inquiry calls for royal commission-like probe into Australia’s media diversity.

INTERNATIONAL

Even when he is silenced, immobilized, locked up and hidden from public view, Julian Assange continues to shine a light on the abusive mechanisms of power. The latest court case for Australian Julian Assange – and the death of democracy. Appeal to UK’s Supreme Court will just lengthen Julian Assange’s legal torment.

FIRES OF WAR Biden is pushing us to brink of NUCLEAR WAR over Ukraine in chilling echo of Cuban missile crisis, Russia claims.

What happened at COP26? Six compelling arguments why nuclear energy is spectacularly unfit to power a just transition. Nuclear can’t deliver on climate . Buyer beware: greenwashing is becoming more sophisticated

Japan’s upcoming nuclear waste dump.

UKRAINE. Who’s Telling the ‘Big Lie’ on Ukraine? Russia Angered by Senator Roger Wicker’s Nuclear Strike Remarks on Ukraine. Ukraine Is a Problem Only as Long as the West Makes It One.