2021-10-16: News Headlines

WSWS repost (2021-10-16). Australian government, Labor silent over revelations CIA planned to kill or kidnap Assange. indybay.org Hardly any media outlets have even asked whether the Australian authorities knew about the US plans to murder or kidnap an Australian citizen and journalist.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-10-16). Expert Alert: Advancing individualized medicine through genomics. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — The virtual 10th Annual Individualizing Medicine Conference on Oct. 8—9 will highlight the latest discoveries, diagnostics, therapeutics and emerging approaches in the field of genomics. Attendees will hear from renowned experts and learn first-hand how individualized medicine is transforming clinical practice, research and education. Highlighted topics will include artificial intelligence, health disparities, precision oncology, microbiome, genomic clinical applications and challenges, and many others. Taking the virtual center stage will be keynote speakers Gianrico…

_____ (2021-10-15). Free Julian Assange: The Belmarsh Tribunal Comes To London. popularresistance.org Inspired by the famous Russell-Sartre people's tribunal, the Belmarsh Tribunal places the War on Terror on trial and holds the US government accountable for its war crimes. It is named for the London prison that has held Assange in permanent confinement for the last two years, as he faces extradition to the US, whose government plotted his assassination. The Belmarsh Tribunal will hold its first physical proceedings in London on the 22 of October 2021 at the Convocation Hall, Church House, Westminster, which was used for sittings of parliament during the Second World War. | The Belmarsh Tribunal will gather leadi…

Ramón Pedregal Casanova (2021-10-15). Julián Assange, el defensor del humano, perseguido por el criminal. globalizacion.ca Mike Pompeo (director de la CIA): ´Mentimos, engañamos y robamos. Teníamos hasta cursos de entrenamiento completos ª (declaración en una conferencia en la Universidad A&M de Texas el 15 de abril de 2019). øQuién manda a sus hijos a semejante universidad?,…

WSWS (2021-10-15). The fight to free Julian Assange and to defeat Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws are linked. wsws.org One function of Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws is to prevent any discussion of Assange's plight, or the broader assault on civil liberties, at the next federal election.

Derek Royden (2021-10-15). The CIA's illegal plots against Wikileaks and Julian Assange. nationofchange.org There should be more sympathy for Assange and the outlet he founded in corporate media.

_____ (2021-10-15). Scheer Intelligence: Brave Boys Who Helped End The Vietnam War. popularresistance.org Decades after the end of the Vietnam War, the impact on both Vietnam and the United States is still felt. Yet few Americans are aware that the conflict, which killed several million people, ended in large part thanks to the anti-war movement made up of, among others, 570,000 Americans that refused to be drafted to fight a war that many saw as immoral even then. Among those, 3,250 draft resisters—many of whom considered themselves conscientious objectors—were punished with up to five years in prison, including the anti-war activist and journalist David Harris. These valiant young men from a wide range…

Rosalind English (2021-10-15). Law Pod UK latest episode: Can AI receive patent protection? ukhumanrightsblog.com In Episode 150 Rosalind English talks to Professor Ryan Abbott about the recent ruling in the Court of Appeal on whether an invention made by Artificial Intelligence without a traditional human inventor is entitled to a patent. The Court (with one of the judges dissenting) said no. And in the matter of patent applications GB …

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-15). One man's itinerary: NATO's expanding trans-Atlantic military network. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Military Intelligence Committee Chair Visit General Philippe Lavigne, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, met with Major General Ivica Kinder, the current NATO Military Intelligence Committee Chair, October 13th 2021. Major General Kinder has already visited NATO's Allied Command Operations in Mons, Belgium; the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Force in Sigonella Airbase, Italy; as well as …

South Front (2021-10-15). Video: Gruesome Warfare and Artificial Intelligence: Robot Dogs with Assault Rifles. globalresearch.ca

James W. Carden (2021-10-15). What Kind of a Threat is Russia? counterpunch.org In his latest book, The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency, American political scientist John Mueller demonstrates that since the end of World War II, American policymakers have developed a kind of addiction to threat inflation by "routinely elevating the problematic to the dire… focused on problems, or monsters, that

Juan Cole (2021-10-15). Is Sec. of State Antony Blinken as bad as Mike Pompeo? Silent on Israeli theft of Palestinian Land, Promoting Phony Abraham Accords. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is shaping up to be as much of a disaster as secretary of state as Mike Pompeo. He appears to have nothing to say about Israel's outrageous new plans to steal more Palestinian land and to further divide Palestinians into Bantustans as was done by …

Isheka N. Harrison (2021-10-15). Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Parents Of NFL Protestors Come From Places Where They Would Never Have Had A Decent Life, Like America. moguldom.com Late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — affectionately known as RBG — made some inflammatory remarks about NFL players kneeling to protest racial injustice that never saw the light of print, according to veteran journalist Katie Couric's new book. In her soon-to-be-published memoir entitled "Going There," Couric said she feared comments Ginsburg made during …

Kathy Durkin (2021-10-15). No abortion bans/'We won't go back!'. workers.org The right to access safe, legal abortions is under attack across the U.S., especially in the South and Midwest. It had been considered settled law since the Supreme Court of the United States legalized access to abortions in the landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v Wade. Bans Off Our Bodies . . . |

Anonymous103 (2021-10-15). Engineered Economic Chaos, "Fake Shortages". Collapse in Industrial Production. southfront.org Illustrative image | Whistleblower: Los Angeles Port Worker Says Shortages Are Fake! | Written by Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Stew Peters; Originally published on The global economy is in crisis. The Covid-19 Lockdown policies have triggered a process of Worldwide economic destabilization which directly affects both "Supply" and "Demand" relations. It's the most serious economic crisis…

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