NBC reveals it sat on discrediting info about Kavanaugh 'witness'
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-27
As the US Justice Department prepares to investigate media-hound attorney Michael Avenatti and Kavanaugh "victim" Julie Swetnick for making false accusations, NBC admitted they knew Swetnick's story was falling apart weeks ago. | …
rt.com/usa/442401-nbc-suppressed-swetnick-witness/

KPFA Board Won't Call for Julian Assange's Freedom
Anonymous | indybay.org | 2018-10-27
On Saturday, October 20, the KPFA Local Station Board considered a resolution calling for the freedom of Wikileaks founder, journalist, and publisher Julian Assange. The board did not pass that resolution but it did pass one saying that it encouraged programming about Assange's case. This is the audio of that part of the board meeting.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/25/18818496.php

John Roberts Is the Supreme Court's New Swing Justice
Bill Blum | truthdig.com | 2018-10-26
Here's a close look at what we can expect from Justice Roberts now based on his track record on the top court. | The post John Roberts Is the Supreme Court's New Swing Justice appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
truthdig.com/articles/john-roberts-is-the-supreme-courts-new-swing-justice/

Accused Bomber Cesar Sayoc Was a Fervent Trump Supporter
Trevor Aaronson | theintercept.com | 2018-10-26
Cesar Sayoc was a broke and marginalized man until President Donald Trump gave him a purpose, court records and online archives suggest. | The FBI arrested Sayoc in Florida today and charged him with five counts for his alleged role in mailing pipe bombs to an array of Democratic Party politicians and Trump critics, including former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, and former Attorney General Eric Holder, among others. Pipe bombs addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were addressed to CNN's headquarters in New York. | The F…
theintercept.com/2018/10/26/cesar-sayoc-bomb-suspect-trump/

The glorious, notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a traveling exhibition
Eric A. Gordon | peoplesworld.org | 2018-10-26
LOS ANGELES–In July of this year, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced that she intended to serve "at least five more years." By that time she would be 90, the same age that her senior colleague John Paul Stevens retired. The liberal Justice RBG, as she is familiarly known, is the object of what …
peoplesworld.org/article/the-glorious-notorious-ruth-bader-ginsburg-in-a-traveling-exhibition/

CIA director briefs Trump on Khashoggi torture tape
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-26
CIA Director Gina Haspel, dispatched to Turkey to investigate the murder of the Saudi journalist, has intimate familiarity with acts of torture and tapes recording them.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/26/gina-o26.html

Suspicious package found in NYC addressed to former US intelligence director Clapper
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-26
A suspicious package addressed to the former head of National Intelligence, James Clapper, has been intercepted in Manhattan, prompting the closure of several streets in New York City. | …
rt.com/usa/442354-suspicious-package-nyc-clapper/

Trump Blames Media for Inciting "Anger" After Bombs Sent to CNN & High-Profile Democrats
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-25
Federal authorities have launched an investigation after pipe bombs were sent to a number of prominent Democrats, all critics of President Trump. The targets identified include President Obama, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, former Attorney General Eric Holder, Congressmember Maxine Waters and former CIA Director John Brennan. The packages listed Democratic Congressmember Debbie Wasserman Schultz as the return address. Police are also investigating a suspicious package sent to former Vice President Joe Biden and a suspicious package found today at actor Robert De Niro's restaurant in New York. On Wednesday, CNN w…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/25/trump_blames_media_for_inciting_anger

My Boss Fired Me From My Funeral Home Job for Being Transgender
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-25
Aimee Stephens spent most of her life struggling with her gender identity. When she finally came out to her boss, she was fired. | I was in funeral services for nearly three decades before I was fired in 2013 for being transgender. In March, a federal appeals court agreed that it was wrong to fire me just because of who I am. Now, the Supreme Court will consider whether to review that court ruling. | While studying to be a pastor in college, I needed a job, and I found one in a funeral home. There are a lot of different ministries people can pursue, and I realized comforting people during one of the most vulnerab…
aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/transgender-rights/my-boss-fired-me-my-funeral-home-job-being-transgender

Turkey Shares "All the Evidence" of Khashoggi Murder With CIA Chief
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2018-10-25
(MEE) — Turkish intelligence has shared "all the evidence" relating to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi with the CIA, pro-government Turkish media reported on Wednesday. The CIA's director Gina Haspel visited the Turkish capital Ankara on Tuesday for talks with officials about the killing of the Washington Post columnist inside Saudi Arabia's Istanbul consulate. Video …

Turkey Shares "All the Evidence" of Khashoggi Murder With CIA Chief

Aimee Stephens Was Fired Because She Is Transgender. That's Sex Discrimination
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-24
The ACLU is asking the Supreme Court to let stand a lower court ruling that Aimee's firing was unlawful. | Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump think federal law shouldn't protect transgender people. They think it should be legal to fire someone just because she's trans. Five federal appeals courts disagree. On Wednesday, the ACLU asked the Supreme Court to let stand one of those rulings, in the case of Aimee Stephens. | Aimee had worked at a funeral home in Detroit for nearly six years when she wrote a letter telling her boss and coworkers that she is transgender. Two weeks after she came out as a woman to her employe…
aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/transgender-rights/aimee-stephens-was-fired-because-she-transgender-thats-sex

Unequal Justice: Why Trump Picked Kavanaugh
Bill Blum | progressive.org | 2018-10-23
The Trump Administration lauded Kavanaugh as a judge who "protects American businesses from illegal job-killing regulation."
progressive.org/dispatches/unequal-justice-why-trump-picked-kavanaugh-181023/

Bittersweet Justice in Guatemala
Jo-Marie Burt | progressive.org | 2018-10-16
A Guatemalan court found that the army committed genocide against the Maya Ixil, but at the same time acquitted the chief of military intelligence of wrongdoing.
progressive.org/dispatches/court-delivers-bittersweet-justice-in-guatemala-181016/