Artificial Intelligence: Concerned About Facial Recognition AI? What About Behavior Recognition Software?
Matt Field | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-14
A young woman picks up and compares juices in a store aisle. She's 29. She spends 40 minutes on average shopping and likes orange juice. That's not all: She usually spends 2,500 yen per visit to the store. | The Japanese …
globalresearch.ca/facial-recognition-ai-behavior-recognition-software/5671473
Video: CIA Is Turning Refugee Camps in Eastern Syria into ISIS Hotbeds
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-14
The CIA is conspiring with ISIS commanders in northeastern Syria supplying them with fake documents and then transferring them to Iraq, according to reports in Turkish pro-government media. | About 2,000 ISIS members were questioned in the areas of Kesra, Buseira, …
globalresearch.ca/cia-turning-refugee-camps-eastern-syria-isis-hotbeds/5671406
Even a Vacuous Mueller Report Won't End 'Russiagate'
Stephen F. Cohen | thenation.com | 2019-03-14
Even a Vacuous Mueller Report Won't End 'Russiagate'…
thenation.com/article/even-a-vacuous-mueller-report-wont-end-russiagate/
Free Chelsea Manning and Assange — Stop Government Attack On Journalists & Whistleblowers
BAFJAAC | indybay.org | 2019-03-14
San Francisco US Federal Building | 70 7th St./Mission St. | San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/14/18821908.php
SFLC Supports Julian Assange, Rovics Music & Mike Elk On CWA NG Election & SEIU
WorkWeek Radio | indybay.org | 2019-03-14
KPFA WorkWeek radio on the action by the San Francisco Labor Council to support Julian Assange, music on Venezuela and the US by singer David Rovics and labor journalist Mike Elk on the CWA Newspaper Guild election dispute on voting rights. Elk also talks about the effort of the SEIU to subpoena Google to find out who the whistleblowers are that have exposed sexual harrassment and misconduct by SEIU officials.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/13/18821891.php
Fed OSHA Whistleblower Whitman Challenges Major Corruption In Gov
repost | indybay.org | 2019-03-14
Federal OSHA Whistleblower Protection Program Darrell Whitman has sent a letter to Alexander Acosta, the US Secretary of Labor charging that there has been a systemic cover-up of corruption by firing and retaliating against Federal whistleblowers in the many government departments including DOL, DOD, FAA, NASA. He states that this is a threat to the health and safety of workers and the public in the United States. The FAA and other agencies have put the safety of the public in danger by the capture of them by the companies that they are supposed to regulate.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/12/18821868.php
Poster of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on NYC subway defaced with swastika and anti-Semitic graffiti
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-14
A subway poster advertising Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's new book has been defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti reading, "Die, Jew Bitch!" complete with a swastika. | …
rt.com/usa/453796-bader-ginsburg-poster-anti-semitic/
Chelsea Manning jailed again and not a squeak from the Democrats
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-03-14
Chelsea Manning, a transgender soldier who blew the whistle on US war crimes, and spent four years in an army stockade from 2013 as a result, is back in prison again. | This time it is because she refuses to join a bipartisan campaign against Wikileaks that seeks to bring its founder Julian Assange from his refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to the US to put him on trial and send him to prison. | In 2010, Manning leaked hundreds of thousands of documents about the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. She first tried to get mainstream media to publish them, to no avail, before turning to Wikileaks, which did p…
greenleft.org.au/content/chelsea-manning-jailed-again-and-not-squeak-democrats
Whistleblowers Say NSA Still Spies on American Phones in Hidden Program
Nafeez Ahmed | mintpressnews.com | 2019-03-13
INSURGE INTELLIGENCE — On Monday 4th, the New York Times reported that the National Security Agency has "quietly" shut down a controversial phone records surveillance program revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013. | The claim was made…
mintpressnews.com/whistleblowers-say-nsa-still-spies-american-phones-hidden-program/256208/
VIPS: Mueller's Forensics-Free Findings
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-03-13
The final Mueller report should be graded "incomplete," says VIPS, whose forensic work proves the speciousness of the story that DNC emails published by WikiLeaks came from Russian hacking. March 13, 2019 MEMORANDUM FOR: The Attorney General FROM: Veteran… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/03/13/vips-muellers-forensics-free-findings/
Students and youth across the US demand freedom for Chelsea Manning
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-13
The International Youth and Students for Socialist Equality is leading the fight to organize opposition to the imprisonment of whistleblower Chelsea Manning by holding a series of meetings and rallies.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/13/rall-m13.html
Whistleblower Chelsea Manning Stands Up for Press Freedom, Gets Jailed by US Gov't
Jimmysllama | mintpressnews.com | 2019-03-12
President Donald Trump's 2010 statement that the WikiLeaks' staff should be executed and Hillary Clinton's suggestion to drone Assange, are reflective of a deeply disturbing trend to terrorize the press.
mintpressnews.com/whistleblower-chelsea-manning-stands-press-freedom-gets-jailed-us-govt/256138/
A Tale of Two Incarcerated Women
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-03-12
Chelsea Manning has done a great service in finally stripping away the last vestige of excuse from the figures who refuse to support Julian Assange, says Craig Murray. By Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk On International Women's Day on March 8 Chelsea… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/03/11/a-tale-of-two-incarcerated-women/
Pentagon plans to spend $2.6 billion on developing hypersonic weaponry
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-12
The US defense budget proposal for FY 2020 boasts a record-breaking research and development request, as the Pentagon seeks to get its hands on all the shiny new things, such as artificial intelligence and hypersonic weaponry. | …
rt.com/usa/453666-pentagon-budget-hypersonic-weapons/
As US officials repeatedly caught out over Venezuela lies, Pompeo accuses RT of 'disinformation'
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-12
The US has been calling for regime change in Venezuela for months. In that time, US officials have been caught skewing the facts on the ground and pushing disinformation to the media — but the real bad guy? RT, of course. | …
rt.com/usa/453650-pompeo-venezuela-rt-disinformation/
Impeachment 'not worth it', says Pelosi, as she positions Dems for post-Mueller Trump slump
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-12
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn't interested in impeaching President Donald Trump, because he's not worth dividing the country over, she told the Washington Post — while also describing how her party revolves around him. | …
rt.com/usa/453573-pelosi-trump-not-worth-impeachment/
"I Know No One More Patriotic": Daniel Ellsberg Praises Chelsea Manning After She Is Jailed Again
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-03-11
U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been sent back to jail after refusing to answer questions before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Manning had been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Virginia's Eastern District to appear for questioning about her 2010 leak to WikiLeaks of hundreds of thousands of State Department and Pentagon documents about the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Manning was imprisoned from 2010 to 2017 for the leak. President Obama commuted her sentence before he left office. We speak with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about the s…
www.democracynow.org/2019/3/11/i_know_no_one_more_patriotic
Journalists, Lawyers & Activists Targeted in Sweeping U.S. Intelligence Gathering Effort on Border
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-03-11
Newly revealed documents show the U.S. government created a secret database of activists and journalists who were documenting the Trump administration's efforts to thwart a caravan of migrants hoping to win asylum in the U.S. An investigation from San Diego's NBC 7 revealed the list was shared among Homeland Security Investigations, ICE, Customs and Border Protection and the FBI. It included the names of 10 journalists–seven of whom are U.S. citizens–along with nearly four dozen others listed as "organizers" or "instigators." House Democrats are now calling for the full disclosure of the government's…
www.democracynow.org/2019/3/11/journalists_lawyers_activists_targeted_in_sweeping
Glenn Greenwald: Chelsea Manning's Refusal to Testify Against WikiLeaks Will Help Save Press Freedom
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-03-11
Chelsea Manning has been sent back to jail after refusing to answer questions before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. Manning, a U.S. Army whistleblower, had been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Virginia's Eastern District to appear for questioning about her 2010 leak to WikiLeaks of hundreds of thousands of State Department and Pentagon documents about the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We speak with Glenn Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of the founding editors of The Intercept.
www.democracynow.org/2019/3/11/glenn_greenwald_chelsea_mannings_refusal_to
A GOP Bill in Georgia Would Jail Doctors Who Perform Abortions in a Post-Roe America
Rachel M. Cohen | theintercept.com | 2019-03-11
Five states have already passed a so-called trigger law, which would ban nearly all abortions if the Supreme Court were to overturn Roe v. Wade.
theintercept.com/2019/03/11/roe-v-wade-aboriton-restrictions-georgia/
As Manning Goes to Jail, Watch the 19th Vigil for Assange
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-03-08
As Chelsea Manning is jailed for refusing to testify against Julian Assange, watch the discussion on 19th online vigil for Julian Assange. The guests included Greg Palast, Brian Becker, Lee Stranahan, John Kiriakou, George Szamuely and hosts Elizabeth Vos and… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/03/08/as-manning-goes-to-jail-watch-the-19th-vigil-for-assange/
SPLC joins civil rights groups in friend-of-the-court brief urging Supreme Court to uphold fair, non-partisan redistricting principles
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2019-03-07
The U.S. Supreme Court this month will hear oral arguments in two cases that will test the court's readiness to tackle the issue of partisan gerrymandering.
splcenter.org/news/2019/03/07/splc-joins-civil-rights-groups-friend-court-brief-urging-supreme-court-uphold-fair-non
SPLC Action Fund: Grand jury investigation of school officials into alleged 'school safety' crimes erodes democracy, politicizes tragedy
Bacardi Jackson, Senior Supervising Attorney for SPLC Action Fund | splcenter.org | 2019-03-01
The Florida Supreme Court recently ordered a statewide grand jury to investigate school officials in light of last year's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people. The high court's order was in response to a request from Gov. Ron DeSantis.
splcenter.org/news/2019/03/01/splc-action-fund-grand-jury-investigation-school-officials-alleged-%25E2%2580%2598school-safety%25E2%2580%2599-crimes