(2021-11-04). Why Julian Assange's inhumane prosecution imperils justice for us all. mronline.org The damage done to the Wikileaks co-founder in his decade of incarceration and uncertainty, including more than two years in Belmarsh is beyond doubt. But so, too, is his courage beyond doubt.
(2021-11-04). CIA Plot to Kill Julian Assange: Will Perpetrators Ever Face Legal Accountability for Criminal Behavior? covertactionmagazine.com Chances are Slim as Political Cowardice Reigns Supreme in America's Second Gilded Age Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) last week asked …
(2021-11-04). Julian Assange's Fiancée Stella Moris On dangers Of US Extradition Case. youtube.com Moderate Rebels live: Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with Stella Moris, the fiancée of imprisoned WikiLeaks journalist Julian Assange, about the appeal hearings in the US extradition case and how it threatens freedom of the press around the world.
(2021-11-04). Julian Assange: øDónde está el mundo?, pregunto. cubadebate.cu Empatía. Hay causas que necesitan que nos coloquemos en el lugar del otro. Sentir su zozobra y hasta su asombro. Porque al final de cuentas Julian Assange solo hizo lo correcto: develó hechos, cifras y saberes incómodos a un mundo acostumbrado a mandar pisoteando a través de la mentira.
(2021-11-04). The U.S. Moral Superiority Complex Is Accelerating Its Decline. strategic-culture.org Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Someone should tell the Biden team. | Soon after the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist and Deep State insider, remarked "The reversals in Afghanistan are confounding for a Biden national security team that has rarely known personal failure (…) These are America's best and brightest, who came to the messy endgame of the Afghanistan war with spotless résumés." | Though his criticism of the national security team is understandably guarded, anyone taking a dispassionate…
(2021-11-04). China's Counterintelligence People's War Is Patriotic & Pragmatic. oneworld.press The Chinese people are rallying in support of their country after the CIA announced earlier in October that it created a China Mission Center exclusively dedicated to spying on the People's Republic.
(2021-11-03). Facebook whistleblower's revelation on 'profits over safety' model. peoplesdispatch.org Senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and tech expert Bappa Sinha discuss the Frances Haugen revelations on Facebook, the perils of its business model and what can be done to regulate the company…
(2021-11-03). Justice For Assange Is Justice For All. popularresistance.org When I first saw Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison, in 2019, shortly after he had been dragged from his refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy, he said, "I think I am losing my mind". | He was gaunt and emaciated, his eyes hollow and the thinness of his arms was emphasised by a yellow identifying cloth tied around his left arm, an evocative symbol of institutional control. | For all but the two hours of my visit, he was confined to a solitary cell in a wing known as "healthcare", an Orwellian name. In the cell next to him a deeply disturbed man screamed through the night. Another occupant suffered from terminal cancer.
(2021-11-03). USA Versus Julian Assange — Extradition Appeal. southfront.org Click to see full-size imageSF foreword: our team expresses its full support to Julian Assange and all those who are fighting for justice and his immediate release. | On the 27th and 28th of October prosecutors for the United States tried to persuade two High Court judges that they should overturn the decision made in January not to extradite Julian Assange to the US. | Outside the court there was a lively protest that was addressed by various speakers including Jeremy Corbyn. He made an impassioned speech demanding the British…
(2021-11-03). 'We Defend Press Freedom,' US State Department Alleges. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the State Department spokesperson Ned Price dared to condemn intimidation and surveillance against journalists despite the fact that his country has been harassing Julian Assange for over a decade. | RELATED: | "On the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, we renew our resolve to advocate for an open press and pay tribute to journalists and other media professionals who were…
(2021-11-03). Daniel Hale And America's Unending Persecution Of Whistleblowers. popularresistance.org Struggling with the moral injury of taking part in America's expanding drone wars, Daniel Hale took it as his civic duty to tell his fellow Americans the truth about what was being done in their name. In 2014, the former Air Force member and National Security Agency intelligence analyst leaked 17 documents to The Intercept that provided the basis for a series of articles detailing the full scope of the civilian deaths caused by U.S. drone strikes. | Despite being billed by President Barack Obama, whose administration greatly expanded the drone wars, as "exceptionally surgical and precise," what Hale's leaks revea…
(2021-11-03). Wings of death: How availability of combat drones will change war forever. thealtworld.com Drones used to be the exclusive purview of advanced military powers. Today, almost any military can afford cheap drones with high-quality sensors and lethal munitions, and, in doing so, change the course of any future conflict. | The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, commonly referred to as drones) has brought about a sea-change in the way nations wage war today, ranging from the ability to gather intelligence in ways unthinkable using manned aircraft, to the discreet and precision employment of lethal weapons in a way which delivers a bigger bang for the buck when it comes to battlefield impact. W…
(2021-11-03). ICC Prosecutor is Scheduled to Visit SEBIN and DGCIM in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, will visit the prisons where those awaiting trial for their role in Operation Gideon and other civic-military events, destined at the time for the overthrow of President Nicolás Maduro, are incarcerated. | According to some judicial sources, Khan has planned to visit detention centers of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) and the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM). Both sites were already visited in the past by agents of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). |
(2021-11-03). Cuba Faces CIA's Most Complex Cultural Warfare Operation. telesurenglish.net A Cuban government representative said that Cuba has probably been facing up the largest and most complex cultural warfare operation orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), promoting a new type of counterrevolution. | RELATED: | On Twitter, Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister Anayansi Rodríguez posted a U.S. plan to bring Cuba's political system down, which combines social media, digital communication me…
(2021-11-03). Why Do Supreme Court Justices Keep Saying They're Not Hacks? otherwords.org Ralph Waldo Emerson once told about a guest who came to dinner and spent the entire evening prattling about his own integrity: "The louder he talked of his honor," Emerson wrote: "the faster we counted our spoons." | Today, America has not one, but six guests in our national home babbling about their integrity. | They are the six extremist Republican judges who now control our Supreme Court, and it's a bit unsettling to hear them go on and on, almost frantically pleading with us to believe in their judicial impartiality. | For example, the Court's newest member, Amy Coney Barrett, suddenly blurted out at a public…
(2021-11-03). Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah facing forced expulsion reject Israeli court's 'compromise deal'. peoplesdispatch.org The Israeli supreme court had offered the Palestinians 'protected tenants' status in exchange for them recognizing temporary Jewish ownership of their homes and paying a symbolic rent to the Israeli settler organization involved in the so-called 'property dispute' in Sheikh Jarrah…
(2021-11-03). With Roe in Danger, Coalition Demands Supreme Court Expansion. zcomm.org "We need both legislation to protect our rights and legislation to expand the Court so six hyper-partisan conservative justices can't undo that progress," said one advocate. "This is the urgent response the Court's onslaught on our rights demands."
(2021-11-03). SCOTUS Likely to Allow Challenge to Texas Law, But May Still Overturn "Roe" truthout.org Texas's draconian anti-abortion law remained in effect as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on November 1 about whether it could be challenged in court. Known as the "
(2021-11-03). How Dark Money Captured The Supreme Court. dailyposter.com