U.K. and Ecuador Conspire to Deliver Julian Assange to U.S. Authorities
Gareth Porter | truthdig.com | 2018-11-27
What follows is a murky story of a political ploy by the two governments to create a phony rationale for ousting Assange from the Ecuadorean embassy in London. | The post U.K. and Ecuador Conspire to Deliver Julian Assange to U.S. Authorities appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
truthdig.com/articles/u-k-and-ecuador-conspire-to-deliver-julian-assange-to-u-s-authorities/

Schrodinger's indictment? US prosecutors oppose unsealing presumably nonexistent Assange charges
RT | rt.com | 2018-11-27
Federal prosecutors are trying to contain the damage after a filing error disclosed the existence of a sealed indictment against Julian Assange, but their refusal to admit the charges exist lends the proceedings a Kafkaesque air. | …
rt.com/usa/444935-prosecutors-oppose-unsealing-assange/

Artificial Intelligence May Destroy Humanity by Accident (But It Won't Apologize)
Lee Camp | truthdig.com | 2018-11-27
The U.S. military has quietly said it wants 70 unmanned self-driving supply trucks by 2020. And seeing as $21 trillion has gone unaccounted for 21 trillion has gone unaccounted at the Pentagon over the past 20 years, when the Pentagon wants something, it tends to get that something. | Of course supply trucks in and of themselves don't sound so bad. Even if the self-driving tru…
truthdig.com/articles/artificial-intelligence-may-destroy-humanity-by-accident-but-it-wont-apologize/

Canadian Woman Continues to Fight to Obtain a Passport
Rick Sterling | globalresearch.ca | 2018-11-27
In the fall of 2012, 20-year-old Damian Clairmont of Calgary received a new Canadian passport. He received it despite the fact the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) had been monitoring him and knew he intended to fly to Turkey and … | The post Canadian Woman Continues to Fight to Obtain a Passport appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/canadian-woman-continues-to-fight-to-obtain-a-passport/5661131

Trump's "America Incorporated"
L. Michael Hager | counterpunch.org | 2018-11-27
Photo Source Michael Esposito | CC BY 2.0 | In the runup to the 2016 election, candidate Donald J. Trump proposed, if elected, to run government "like a business." As President, he has largely done just that. | The Republican Party has become in effect his board of directors; a fawning "base," his shareholders. As President, Trump hires and fires appointees like a CEO, demanding unfailing personal loyalty. When Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from overseeing the Mueller investigation in accordance with established conflict of interest rules…
counterpunch.org/2018/11/27/trumps-america-incorporated/

Mueller claims Manafort violated plea agreement by lying to FBI
RT | rt.com | 2018-11-27
Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been accused of lying to the FBI in violation of his plea agreement, Manafort refutes the allegation, and elusive "Russian collusion" still nowhere in sight. | …
rt.com/usa/444939-mueller-manafort-lied-fbi/

Mueller: Ex-Trump Campaign Chair Manafort Lied, Broke Plea Agreement
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-11-27
The special counsel makes the stunning allegation with details to come later. It could mean more jail time or charges for a key witness. | The post Mueller: Ex-Trump Campaign Chair Manafort Lied, Broke Plea Agreement appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
truthdig.com/articles/mueller-ex-trump-campaign-chair-manafort-lied-broke-plea-agreement/

Ecuador in Cahoots with US and UK Against Assange. Ecuador Ambassador to UK Carlos Abad Is Removed
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-11-26
Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno earlier said Julian Assange must eventually leave the country's London embassy — at the time indicating it would be through dialogue. | According to an Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling, asylum granted to anyone is irrevocable … | The post Ecuador in Cahoots with US and UK Against Assange. Ecuador Ambassador to UK Carlos Abad Is Removed appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/ecuador-in-cahoots-with-us-and-uk-against-assange-ecuador-ambassador-to-uk-carlos-abad-fired/5660987

Crucifying Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | zcomm.org | 2018-11-26
Chris Hedges and Joe Lauria, journalist and editor-in-chief, Consortium, discuss efforts to force #WikiLeaks publisher, #JulianAssange, out of the Ecuador Embassy in London and extradite him to the USA to stand trial.
zcomm.org/zvideo/1015019/

Newsweek-Employed Spy Explains Why Julian Assange Should Be Prosecuted
Caitlin Johnstone | theantimedia.com | 2018-11-26
(CJ Opinion) — So it turns out it's really really important for powerful people to be able to lie to us with impunity, you guys. I know this because an actual, literal spy told me that that's what I'm meant to believe in an article published by Newsweek yesterday. If you were wondering how long it would take the imperial …

Newsweek-Employed Spy Explains Why Julian Assange Should Be Prosecuted

Remembering Alger Hiss in the Age of Russia-Gate
Jeremy Kuzmarov | counterpunch.org | 2018-11-26
In January 1950, Alger Hiss, a former State Department employee and Director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was convicted of perjury after being charged with spying for the Russians. He was sentenced to ten years in a federal penitentiary of which he served three and a half. The sentencing was the culmination of a frenzied political trial which catapulted Richard Nixon to fame and undergirded the advent of a period of domestic political repression known as McCarthyism.
counterpunch.org/2018/11/26/remembering-alger-hiss-in-the-age-of-russia-gate/

'Liberal' Establishment Whitewash Former CIA/NSA Director Michael Hayden
Mohamed Elmaazi | globalresearch.ca | 2018-11-26
Michael Hayden, the former director of the CIA and NSA has been hospitalised following a stroke. Predictably, well-wishes and praise has been pouring in from national-security journos, self-proclaimed #resistance members, and other figures from across US 'liberal' society: | Olivia … | The post 'Liberal' Establishment Whitewash Former CIA/NSA Director Michael Hayden appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/liberal-establishment-whitewash-former-ciansa-director-michael-hayden/5661009

The Supreme Court Can Put a Stop to Excessive Fines on Children
Jessica Feierman | progressive.org | 2018-11-26
A 13-year-old boy spent three months in a juvenile facility — including time in solitary confinement — because he could not pay a $500 fine for skipping school.
progressive.org/dispatches/court-should-end-excessive-fines-on-children-181126/

The Fate of Julian Assange: Chris Hedges Interviews Consortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2018-11-25
On his program "On Contact," journalist and author Chris Hedges interviews Joe Lauria, CN editor, on the moves to prosecute Julian Assange using the Espionage Act; the media's cravenness and the latest on Assange's condition in London. Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2018/11/24/the-fate-of-julian-assange-chris-hedges-interviews-consortium-news-editor-in-chief-joe-lauria/

Reality Winner Battles an Eating Disorder Behind Bars
Taylor Barnes | theintercept.com | 2018-11-24
In August, Reality Winner stood before a federal judge, ready to accept a plea bargain of more than five years in prison for sharing classified information with journalists. Surrounded by dozens of reporters, attorneys, and activists who have followed her case, the whistleblower told the court something deeply personal that she had not even shared with her closest family members before her arrest. | Winner struggles with depression and bulimia."I try to be optimistic, and then they just surprise me and I'm just like, I signed a plea deal to get help." | Weeks later, Winner made a distressed phone call from a crow…
theintercept.com/2018/11/24/reality-winner-prison-eating-disorder/

Did Israel Kill Yasser Arafat? Stunning Investigation Exposes Israel's Secretive Assassination Program
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-11-21
Israeli intelligence officials desperately tried to prevent Ronen Bergman from writing "Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations," a stunning book exposing the details of Israel's extrajudicial killing program. Israel even changed and extended secrecy laws to prevent Bergman from gaining access to historical documents. Despite this, Bergman gained unprecedented access while writing the book, scouring thousands of documents and meeting with some 1,000 sources. The result is a stunning investigation that dives deep into the targeted killing programs of Israel, which has assassinat…
www.democracynow.org/2018/11/21/did_israel_kill_yasser_arafat_stunning

COMMENTARY: US Intel Will Bring Assange to US in Chains
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2018-11-14
It appears increasingly likely Wikileaks founder and publisher Julian Assange will wind up in the clutches of the U.S. government, says Ann Garrison. United States Will Bring Assange to US in Chains By Ann Garrison It appears increasingly likely Wikileaks… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2018/11/14/us-intel-will-bring-assange-to-us-in-chains/