ITV documentary reveals conditions in prison holding WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2020-01-30
Despite going unmentioned, Assange's deteriorating health and the concerns of independent medical professionals about his effective solitary confinement in the health care unit hung silently over the programme.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/30/bel-j30.html
How Canada's corporate media smeared WikiLeaks publisher and journalist Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2020-01-30
Canada's leading media outlets have vilified Assange, while bemoaning the impact of WikiLeaks' exposures on the global interests of American and Canadian imperialism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/30/caas-j30.html
Edward Snowden warns that Assange and Greenwald prosecutions mark new stage in assault on press freedom
wsws.org | 2020-01-30
The NSA whistleblower wrote: "The most essential journalism of every era is precisely that which a government attempts to silence. These prosecutions demonstrate that they are ready to stop the presses–if they can."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/30/snow-j30.html
Gracias Chelsea Manning & Julian Assange for Exposing Bush's War Crimes
orion the elder | indybay.org | 2020-01-30
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Alan Dershowitz Is Insulting Everybody's Intelligence
Marjorie Cohn | truthdig.com | 2020-01-30
This article originally appeared on Truthout. | Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard emeritus law professor who is serving as a hired gun for Team Trump, is arguing that even if John Bolton testifies that Trump admitted the quid pro quo with Ukraine to him, the Senate could not remove the president from office. Dershowitz has gone so far as to say that even if Trump told Bolton he was withholding the congressionally authorized military aid to Ukraine until it helped him with an investigation of the Bidens, that is s…
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Weingarten: Right wants states to use public dollars for religious schools
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-30
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"Coded Bias": New Film Looks at Fight Against Racial Bias in Facial Recognition & AI Technology
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-30
A new documentary looks at the dangers of artificial intelligence and its increasing omnipresence in daily life, as new research shows that it often reflects racist biases. Earlier this month, Cambridge, Massachusetts, became the latest major city to ban facial recognition technology, joining a growing number of cities, including San Francisco, to ban the artificial intelligence, citing flawed technology and racial and gender bias. A recent study also found that facial recognition identified African-American and Asian faces incorrectly 10 to 100 times more than white faces. The film "Coded Bias" begins with Joy B…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/30/coded_bias_shalini_kantayya_joy_buolamwini
Facial Recognition Technology and AI Are Tainted With Racial Bias
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-30
A new documentary looks at the dangers of artificial intelligence and its increasing omnipresence in daily life, as new research shows that it often reflects racist biases. Earlier this month, Cambridge, Massachusetts, became the latest major city to ban facial recognition technology, joining a growing number of cities, including San Francisco, to ban the artificial intelligence, citing flawed technology and racial and gender bias. A recent study also found that facial recognition identified African-Americ…
truthout.org/video/facial-recognition-technology-and-ai-are-tainted-with-racial-bias/
Why was Rand banned? Sen. Paul reveals his CENSORED question at Trump impeachment trial
rt.com | 2020-01-30
As Senators gathered for the last day of questioning in President Trump's impeachment trial, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul found his question censored in a way that may have revealed the identity of the mysterious whistleblower. | With the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump nearing its final stages, senators gathered on Capitol Hill on Thursday to question the Democratic prosecution team, and Trump's defense attorneys. However, Paul (R-Kentucky) found his question shot down by presiding Chief Justice John Roberts, who declined "to read the question as submitted." | Paul left the chamber after Roberts' de…
rt.com/usa/479628-rand-paul-impeachment-question/
Pompeo names 'the central threat of our times' and guess what it is… It's the Chinese Communist Party
rt.com | 2020-01-30
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has labeled the Chinese Communist Party "the central threat of our times," two weeks after President Donald Trump signed the "biggest deal there is" with Beijing. | Speaking at a conference with UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in London on Thursday, Pompeo stated that "while we still have to be enormously vigilant about terror… challenges all across the world… the Chinese Communist Party presents the central threat of our times." The State Secretary then outlined the multiple avenues the US is taking to counter China's growing influence – right after he admitted that the…
rt.com/news/479603-pompeo-china-central-threat/
India's Sharia law board says women may pray in mosques as petition asks top court to declare entry ban 'unconstitutional'
rt.com | 2020-01-30
India's Muslim law board has advised the Supreme Court that nothing in the tenets of Islam bars women from praying in mosques. The non-profit noted that the court should not have a say in the religious issue, however. | The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) responded to a request by India's Supreme Court to comment on the petition filed by a Muslim couple. Yasmin Zuber Ahmad Peerzade and her husband Zuber Ahmad Nazir Ahmad Peerzade have asked the court to formally renounce any restrictions that women face as they attempt to enter a mosque, calling the practice "not only repugnant to the basic dignit…
rt.com/news/479541-india-mosque-ban-court-women/
Indian Intel 'Spooked' Over Upcoming Gathering of Muslim 'Fundamentalists' in Nepal
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-30
New Delhi (Sputnik): India's intelligence agency has questioned the timing of the event with scores of rallies underway across India to protest against the Narendra Modi government's decision to amend its citizenship law.
sputniknews.com/india/202001301078179824-indian-intel-spooked-over-upcoming-gathering-of-muslim-fundamentalists-in-nepal/
Day Nine of Donald Trump's Impeachment Trial in Senate – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-30
Democrats launched an impeachment inquiry against President Trump in autumn last year following a whistleblower's complaint that the US president had allegedly pressed his Ukrainian counterpart Zelensky to investigate former US Vice-President Joe Biden and his son Hunter regarding their business activities in Ukraine.
sputniknews.com/us/202001301078180150-day-nine-of-donald-trumps-impeachment-trial-in-senate—video/
Live Outside 10 Downing Street: US Secretary of State Pompeo Meets UK PM Johnson – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-30
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in London on Wednesday to as Britain if standing on a historic crossroads as it's about to leave the European Union.
sputniknews.com/uk/202001301078179444-us-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-meets-uk-prime-minister-boris-johnson—video/
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Meets His UK Counterpart Dominic Raab – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-30
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in London on Wednesday to as Britain if standing on a historic crossroads as it's about to leave the European Union.
sputniknews.com/uk/202001301078179898-us-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-meets-his-counterpart-dominic-raab—video/
Pompeo Brands China 'Central Threat of Our Times'
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-30
The Trump administration has repeatedly referred to the alleged challenge posed by China to US military supremacy in recent years, ramping up the standoff in the East and South China Seas, and starting a trade war which Washington says has been aimed at ending Beijing's alleged unfair trade practices.
sputniknews.com/world/202001301078180161-pompeo-brands-china-central-threat-of-our-times/
Pompeo says Huawei is a risk but US will resolve differences with UK
yenisafak.com | 2020-01-30
The United Kingdom has taken a risk by refusing to exclude China's Huawei from 5G networks but the United States will work with London to resolve their differences, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday."When you allow the information of your citizens or the national security information of your citizens to transit a network that the Chinese Communist Party has a legal mandate to obtain it creates risk," Pompeo told reporters."I am very confident that our two nations will find a way to work together to resolve this difference," Pompeo said, adding that the Five-Eyes intelligence alliance would rema…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pompeo-says-huawei-is-a-risk-but-us-will-resolve-differences-with-uk-3510882
US sees Chinese communist party as 'central threat of our times,' Pompeo says
yenisafak.com | 2020-01-30
China is the central threat of our times and the United States and its allies must ensure they have the military and technological power to ensure that this century is governed by Western principles, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said."While we still have to be enormously vigilant about terror … the Chinese Communist Party presents the central threat of our times," Pompeo said on Thursday.
yenisafak.com/en/news/us-sees-chinese-communist-party-as-central-threat-of-our-times-pompeo-says-3510880
Britain and US say a trade deal can be done this year
yenisafak.com | 2020-01-30
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday a trade deal between the two countries can be completed before presidential elections later this year."I am confident a deal can be done," Raab told reporters. "There is huge alignment in terms of our economic interest. Of course there will be difficult issues."Pompeo said: "I concur".
yenisafak.com/en/news/britain-and-us-say-a-trade-deal-can-be-done-this-year-3510884
Meh! Those pesky EU safety standards were a drag: Pompeo says Brexit will be 'fantastic' for the US
rt.com | 2020-01-30
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has suggested that Brexit will be "fantastic" for America, because it means the UK can finally do away with all those inconvenient EU trade regulations and standards. | Speaking at an event in London on Thursday alongside British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, Pompeo claimed the UK exiting the bloc on Friday would reduce barriers to trade between the two Western allies. | I think that's fantastic. I think that's fantastic for the United States. I think that's fantastic for the United Kingdom. | From February 1, PM Boris Johnson's government will officially be free to start ne…
rt.com/uk/479607-pompeo-fantastic-brexit-trade/
Trump, Pence & Pompeo, the Gang of Three, Claim Criminal Theft of Palestinian Land to be Lawful!
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-29
As the jumped-up, self-proclaimed, blonde new ruler of the world gives away half the Palestinian West Bank to the current Israeli military occupier, the world watches in amazement at the idea that this unbalanced popinjay
How Government and Media Are Prepping America for a Failed 2020 Election
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-28
Russia, China and Iran are already being blamed for using tech to undermine the 2020 election. Yet, the very technologies they are allegedly using were created by a web of companies with deep ties to Israeli intelligence.
mintpressnews.com/media-israel-intelligence-2020-elections-cyber-security/264361/
The U.S. Is Recycling Its Big Lie About Iraq To Target Iran
Nicolas J. S. Davies | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-28
Sixteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, most Americans understand that it was an illegal war based on lies about non-existent "weapons of mass destruction." But our government is now threatening to drag us into a war on Iran with a nearly identical "big lie" about a non-existent nuclear weapons program, based on politicized intelligence from the same CIA teams that wove a web of lies to justify the U.S. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/the-u-s-is-recycling-its-big-lie-about-iraq-to-target-iran/
UK mobile operators assessing 'potential impact' of Huawei 5G outcome
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-28
The UK's mobile operators have said they will look into the potential impact of the government's decision on the future of Huawei in the country's 5G network."High-risk vendors" should be allowed to play a peripheral role in the network, the National Security Council concluded on Tuesday, but said such vendors should be barred from all safety-related and critical networks.The move comes despite pressure from the US to block the Chinese telecommunications giant, over fears of spying
Under Pressure in Impeachment Trial, Trump Steps Up Attacks on Reproductive Rights
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-27
Donald Trump on Friday became the first sitting president in U.S. history to attend the so-called March for Life, the annual anti-abortion rally held in Washington, D.C., that draws thousands of participants. President Trump
The Assange Extradition Case Drags on
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-25
It is being increasingly larded with heavy twists and turns, a form of state oppression in slow motion, but the Julian Assange extradition case now looks like it may well move into the middle of the year, dragged out, ironically enough, by the prosecution. Curiously, this is a point that both the prosecutors, fronted by …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/the-assange-extradition-case-drags-on/
Murdoch University drops suit against academic
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-24
freedom of speech Mark Tan & Alex SalmonIssue 1250 Australia Whistleblowers PerthJanuary 24, 2020Mudoch University's decision on January 13 to drop its lawsuit against Associate Professor Gerd S…
greenleft.org.au/content/murdoch-university-drops-suit-against-academic
A Torturer Meets His Victims: CIA Psychologist Defends Brutal Methods at Guantánamo Military Hearing
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-22
On Tuesday, the psychologist identified as the "architect" of the CIA's torture program testified for the first time to the war court at Guantánamo Bay. James Mitchell was in the courtroom for a pretrial hearing for five 9/11 suspects who had been subject to torture, euphemistically called "enhanced interrogation techniques." Mitchell and his partner, Dr. Bruce Jessen, were paid $81 million to help design the CIA's torture methods, including some of the agency's most abusive tactics. The pair had no prior experience in interrogation. At the hearing, Mitchell reportedly told defense lawyers he only came to Guantán…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/22/cia_torture_program_guantanamo_bay
47 Years Later, We're Fighting to Make Roe a Reality Everywhere
Jessica Arons | aclu.org | 2020-01-22
Today we commemorate the 47th | anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the | landmark Supreme Court case that recognized a constitutional right to abortion. | In the nearly five decades since, the decision has weathered numerous storms | and faced plenty of erosion, leaving too many without meaningful access to | abortion care. But 2020 could be its most consequential year yet. | This spring, the Supreme Court will hear | arguments in June Medical | Services v. Gee and could uphold state abortion re…
aclu.org/news/reproductive-freedom/47-years-later-were-fighting-to-make-roe-a-reality-everywhere