What Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us
Chris Hedges | truthdig.com | 2020-02-10
The global security state, which is not bound by the rule of law, will target all who defy it.
truthdig.com/articles/what-is-happening-to-assange-will-happen-to-the-rest-of-us/
Australian pseudo-left seeks to cover up its abandonment of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2020-02-10
Socialist Alternative's article, "The betrayal of Julian Assange," is a crude attempt to cover up its own role in the "betrayal" of the WikiLeaks publisher.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/10/salt-f10.html
The Truth About Julian Assange
Nils Melzer | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-10
A made-up rape allegation and fabricated evidence in Sweden, pressure from the UK not to drop the case, a biased judge, detention in a maximum security prison, psychological torture
How the Supreme Court Could Gut Reproductive Rights
Jordan Smith | zcomm.org | 2020-02-10
Without Ruling on a Single Abortion Restriction…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-the-supreme-court-could-gut-reproductive-rights/
India's Top Court Validates Law to Deny Defensive Bail in Criminal Cases Against 'Untouchables'
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-10
New Delhi (Sputnik): Two Indian lawyers challenged a legislative change by the federal government to deny defensive bail to any person accused of atrocities against "untouchables" or those in the lower social order. The Supreme Court ruled against such arrests, but the federal government amended the law to overcome it.
sputniknews.com/india/202002101078272889-indias-top-court-validates-law-to-deny-defensive-bail-in-criminal-cases-against-untouchables/
Islamic Outfit Planning Protests Against Citizenship Law at 5,000 Places in India – Intel Sources
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-10
New Delhi (Sputnik): India's federal Home Ministry has gathered information that an Islamic outfit instigated mass protests and violence against an amended citizenship law, after it was enacted in December 2019. India's economic intelligence agency has also unearthed dozens of bank accounts believed to be used to fund these demonstrations.
sputniknews.com/india/202002101078275692-islamic-outfit-planning-protests-against-citizenship-law-at-5000-places-in-india—intel-sources/
Three Extraordinary Australian Journalists: Burchett, Pilger and Assange
Rick Sterling | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-09
Australia has produced extraordinary journalists across three generations: Wilfred Burchett (deceased in 1983), John Pilger (80 years old but still active) and Julian Assange (48 years old, currently in London's Belmarsh prison). | Each of these journalists made unique contributions to …
globalresearch.ca/three-extraordinary-australian-journalists-burchett-pilger-and-assange/5703110
US Woman Behind the Death of UK Teenager Exposed as CIA Officer
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-09
The United States national responsible for the tragic death of British young man Harry Dunn has been exposed as an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), according to a Sunday report by Sky News. | RELATED: | Iran Approves Death Sentence for 'CIA Spy' | The revelation essentially confirmed that Anne Sacoolas, responsible for the death of young Northamptonshire motorcyclist Dunn in a car accident has a CIA "record." | Following the revelation, a spokesman for the Dunn family has called for…
telesurenglish.net/news/us-woman-behind-the-death-of-uk-teenager-exposed-as-cia-officer-20200209-0014.html
Three Extraordinary Australian Journalists: Burchett, Pilger, Assange
Rick Sterling | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-08
Australia has produced extraordinary journalists across three generations: Wilfred Burchett (deceased in 1983), John Pilger (80 years old but still active) and Julian Assange (48 years old, currently in London's Belmarsh prison). Each of these journalists made unique contributions to our understanding of the world. Although Australia is part of the western world, each of …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/three-extraordinary-australian-journalists-burchett-pilger-assange/
Media darling Pete Buttigieg was in unit that worked with the CIA in Afghanistan
Alexander Rubinstein | thegrayzone.com | 2020-02-08
While Buttigieg's campaign denies allegations he was a CIA asset, military records reveal Mayor Pete was in a unit that…
thegrayzone.com/2020/02/07/pete-buttigieg-cia-afghanistan/
Media darling Pete Buttigieg was in unit that worked with the CIA in Afghanistan
Alexander Rubinstein | thegrayzone.com | 2020-02-08
While Buttigieg's campaign denies allegations he was a CIA asset, military records reveal Mayor Pete was in a unit that…
thegrayzone.com/2020/02/07/pete-buttigieg-cia-afghanistan/
Bt Cotton: Cultivating Farmer Distress in India
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-08
Later this month, India's Supreme Court will hold a lengthy hearing on the commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) mustard, which would be the country's first GM food crop. The court has asked the chair of the Technical Expert Committee to be present and says that the decision on GM mustard cannot be kept pending. The …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/bt-cotton-cultivating-farmer-distress-in-india/
Pilger, Burchett and Assange: Three Extraordinary Australian Journalists That Spoke Truth to Power
Rick Sterling | mintpressnews.com | 2020-02-07
Australia, writes Rick Sterling, should be proud of its three native sons that were willing to speak truth to power no matter the consequences.
mintpressnews.com/three-extraordinary-australian-journalists-that-spoke-truth-to-power/264753/
The Government is Using its Foreign Intelligence Spying Powers for Routine Domestic Investigations
Ashley Gorski | aclu.org | 2020-02-05
More than forty years ago, Congress | gave the executive branch a set of exceptional surveillance powers to pursue | foreign spies on U.S. soil. Now, the government is increasingly relying on those | powers to advance ordinary domestic criminal investigations. | In United States v. | Osseily, a fraud prosecution in California, the government appears to have used | this surveillance
"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