(2019-08-28). Pre Jimmy Dore show #FreeAssange #FreeManning. indybay.org Marines' Memorial Theatre | 609 Sutter St. | San Francisco…
(2019-08-28). Clinical psychologist Lissa Johnson: They are trying to break Assange "physically and psychologically" wsws.org "Of all the passive bystanders to Julian Assange's abuse, the Australian government is by far the most culpable and complicit."
(2019-08-28). Russiagate skeptics are vindicated, but conspiracy theorists are rewarded (w/ Glenn Greenwald). thegrayzone.com Glenn Greenwald on Robert Mueller's disappearance; how Andrew McCabe has become the latest former U.S. intelligence official to join either…
(2019-08-28). Veteran New Democrat to chair Canada's new intelligence "watchdog" agency. wsws.org Until recently a senior NDP MP, Rankin has accepted a post that will see him provide a pseudo-democratic fig leaf for the activities of Canada's spy agencies.
(2019-08-28). 'It Was an Outrage': Mike Pompeo Celebrates Defeated ICC Probe Into US War Crimes. commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/pompeo-icc-outrage-indianapolis.jpg …
(2019-08-27). Does Israel Interfere in American Elections? globalresearch.ca Does anyone remember what the Mueller investigation was all about? It was to determine whether the team surrounding candidate and then president-elect Donald Trump had colluded with a foreign power, presumed to be Russia. | It did not discover any such …
(2019-08-27). New Resource Tool Sheds Light on Government's Prepublication Review System. aclu.org Millions of current and former government employees are subjected to this far-reaching censorship system. | This piece was originally published in Just Security. | For more than three years, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University have been litigating a series of Freedom of Information Act requests relating to "prepublication review." Under this far-reaching censorship system, millions of current and former government employees, con…
(2019-08-26). Breaking The Media Blackout on the Imprisonment of Julian Assange. mintpressnews.com The same media that has spent years dragging Assange's name through the mud is now engaging in a blackout on his treatment. If you are waiting for corporate media pundits to defend freedom of the press, you're going to be disappointed.
(2019-08-23). Unsealed Filings Detail Felix Sater's Work as an Intelligence Asset, With Significant Gaps. theintercept.com 
Felix Sater was among the most closely held secrets for federal prosecutors and investigators in New York for nearly a decade. Two documents unsealed Friday following a request by The Intercept reveal in greater detail the government's account of his history as an informant and intelligence asset. However, redactions in the release point to ongoing interests in the government maintaining secrecy around a man who has…
(2019-08-23). Will North Carolina's Supreme Court Allow Racism to Remain a Persistent Factor in its Death Penalty? aclu.org North Carolina's Supreme Court will determine whether evidence of racism in capital punishment can be swept under the rug. | In 2009, North Carolina passed the Racial Justice Act (RJA), which allowed defendants to strike the death penalty from their cases if they could show that racial discrimination was a factor in their prosecution. The law came as a response to a series of exonerations of Black people who were falsely convicted of crimes they did not commit by all-white or nearly all-white juries. The legislature took a bold step to address was what suspected to be deeply troubling evidence of racism infe…
(2019-08-20). Mike Pompeo Has Extreme Views on Muslims — and Liberals Don't Seem to Care. theintercept.com 
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo before an event on June 26, 2019. | began Mike Pompeo, before going on to claim that "silence has made these Islamic leaders across America potentially complicit in these acts and, more importantly still, those that may well follow." | Pompeo's remarks were " false and irresponsible," as the Council on American Islamic Relations demonstrated at the time. Every major Muslim organization in the United States had (2019-08-20). 40 rebuttals to the media's smears of Julian Assange — by someone who was actually there. thegrayzone.com A former diplomat who worked in the Ecuadorian embassy while Julian Assange lived there in asylum debunks 40 of CNN's…
(2019-08-14). Venezuela's Maduro Reshuffles Cabinet as Supreme Court Strips Three Opposition Lawmakers of Immunity. venezuelanalysis.com The National Constituent Assembly will also evaluate bringing forward legislative elections.
(2019-08-13). SPLC joins brief opposing Kansas law targeting immigrants. splcenter.org The SPLC and 29 worker and immigrant rights organizations filed an amicus brief today urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a court decision stating that a Kansas identity theft law cannot be used to turn local law enforcement into immigration agents.
(2019-08-13). Unequal Justice: John Roberts' Dark Legacy of Voter Suppression. progressive.org Plaintiffs are litigating voting rights cases in Alabama, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, and several other states. Some will succeed, some will fail, but all will be more uncertain and expensive thanks to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
