2021-04-26: News Headlines

Moderator (2021-04-26). The CIA Has Been Taking Over for Decades—Even Former Presidents Tried to Warn Us. scheerpost.com Wikimedia] By Lee Camp / Original to ScheerPost December 22, 1963 — exactly one month after President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated, former President Harry S. Truman published an op-ed in the Washington Post that most people, especially our perfumed ruling elite, wanted to ignore. Truman, who signed the CIA into existence just after World War II, wrote, "I think it has become necessary to… |

PAI (2021-04-26). Sleazy payday lenders win big at the Supreme Court. peoplesworld.org &nbsp…

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (2021-04-26). The Supreme Court's looming dark money decision. nationofchange.org The Court could reinforce the growing influence of this type of secret funding for political campaigns.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-04-26). Mayo researchers, collaborators identify 'instigator' gene associated with Alzheimer's disease. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In a new paper published in Nature Communications, Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators report the protein-coding gene SERPINA5 may worsen tau protein tangles, which are characteristic of Alzheimer's disease, and advance disease. By combining clinical expertise, brain tissue samples, pathology expertise and artificial intelligence, the team clarified and validated the relevance of …

Mehr News Agency (2021-04-26). MI6 'green spying' on China & other nations. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 26 (MNA) — British agents are monitoring the world's largest polluters, particularly China, to ensure that they are honoring their international commitments regarding the environment.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2021-04-26). The "Russian Threat" globalresearch.ca During 2016 CIA director John Brennan and FBI director James Comey…

slorinoco (2021-04-25). Memo to Biden—What About the Other Whistleblowers? orinocotribune.com By John Kiriakou — Apr 22, 2021 | Darnella Frazier deserves national commendation. The same goes for Joshua Schulte, Daniel Hale and Darin Jones, all of whom are in dire straits right now. | Darnella Frazier is a whistleblower. She's an important one. Few Americans will know her name, but we should all be thanking her. | Darnella is the 17-year-old who

T.J. Coles (2021-04-25). A History of the CIA in Congo. counterpunch.org The Belgian colonizers transformed Congo into a slave-state for rubber and ivory. So-called Congo Free State (État indépendant du Congo) existed as a private colony of King Leopold II (1835-1909) until the Belgian government took over in 1908. Belgian rule killed an estimated 10 million people. Post-independence, the country split into what is now the

T.J. Coles (2021-04-25). A History of the CIA in Congo. counterpunch.org The Belgian colonizers transformed Congo into a slave-state for rubber and ivory. The so-called Congo Free State (État indépendant du Congo) existed as a private colony of King Leopold II (1835-1909) until the Belgian government took over in 1908. Belgian rule killed an estimated 10 million people. Post-independence, the country split into what is now

_____ (2021-04-25). Canada: Supreme Court Upholds Sinixt Nation's Right To Land Across Border. popularresistance.org Canada's highest court has upended the federal government's 65-year-old claim that an Indigenous nation from British Columbia's Interior no longer exists. | In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada said the Sinixt Nation, whose reservation is in Washington state, has constitutionally protected Indigenous rights to hunt in their ancestral territory north of the border. | The ruling means that if Indigenous groups outside of modern-day Canada can prove they descended from a pre-contact society in what is now Canada, they can claim Section 35(1) rights under the Constitution, which recognizes and affirms the r…

UCAN (2021-04-25). Pakistan: Commission Under Fire For 'Betraying' Minorities. eurasiareview.com By Kamran Chaudhry | Minority and education rights groups have expressed dismay at Pakistan's National Commission for Minorities (NCM) for rejecting a recommendation to exclude Islamic topics from compulsory textbooks. | Chela Ram Kewlani, the Hindu chairman of the NCM, rejected a report by a Supreme Court-appointed commission that suggested all Islamic content from the Single National Curriculum should be exclusively placed in the textbooks of Islamic studies/Islamiyat, a subject compulsory only for Muslim students. | "Islamic content in English and Urdu textbooks amounts to religious instruction, which no no…

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (2021-04-25). Much Depends on Supreme Court's Review of Dark Money Case. commondreams.org If you think Dark Money's attack on democracy couldn't get any worse, guess again. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/scotus_2_2.jpg

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-04-25). Mayo researchers, collaborators identify 'instigator' gene associated with Alzheimer's disease. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In a new paper published in Nature Communications, Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators report the protein-coding gene SERPINA5 may worsen tau protein tangles, which are characteristic of Alzheimer's disease, and advance disease. By combining clinical expertise, brain tissue samples, pathology expertise and artificial intelligence, the team clarified and validated the relevance of …

Arab News (2021-04-25). How Iran Made Itself A Haven For Israeli Spies — OpEd. eurasiareview.com By Baria Alamuddin* | There's nothing new in Iran's paranoid ayatollahs seeing spies, saboteurs and enemies under every rock. But their recent paranoia may be well founded, as the Iranian parliament and media accuse their leaders of allowing the nation to be turned into a "haven for spies," while openly wondering about the extent of infiltration of the state's nuclear and intelligence apparatuses. | Iranian officials fear that a substantive clandestine Israeli sabotage network is operating with impunity throughout the Islamic Republic, staging assassinations and attacks against strategically sensitive sites, a…

T.J. Coles (2021-04-25). A History of the CIA in Congo (Zaire). counterpunch.org The Belgian colonizers transformed Congo into a slave-state for rubber and ivory. So-called Congo Free State (État indépendant du Congo) existed as a private colony of King Leopold II (1835-1909) until the Belgian government took over in 1908. Belgian rule killed an estimated 10 million people. Post-independence, the country split into what is now the

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