2021-11-05: News Headlines

_____ (2021-11-05). Nutrionless Fakes about a Coup D'etat in North Korea. journal-neo.org On October 24, 2021, South Korea's National Intelligence Service stated that media reports about the North Korean leader's sister committing a coup against her brother were fundamentally untrue. The primary source of the 'hype' is the October 23 report of the American tabloid magazine Globe about the coup d'etat in North Korea. It turns out …

_____ (2021-11-05). A Torture Survivor Speaks At The Guantanamo Military Commissions. popularresistance.org "I have a story that I have waited almost two decades to tell, so I want to thank you for taking the time to listen to my statement." For the next two hours, Majid Khan spoke to a panel of military jurors, and to his family—especially his father and sister, who had hugged their son and brother that morning for the first time in nineteen years and sat just feet away in the spectator gallery, visibly suffering through the horror of what they heard. | Mr. Khan described brutality and its effects even beyond the heinous acts detailed in the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee's 2014 oversight…

WSWS (2021-11-05). US-trained Afghan intelligence agents, elite troops reported joining ISIS. wsws.org In the final analysis, ISIS is itself a product of the interventions by Washington and its allies in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Steve Topple (2021-11-05). 340,000 DWP claimants are affected by one court case. thecanary.co The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is having to look at 340,000 people's social security claims. It's happening as a result of a court ruling from 2019. It could mean some claimants are entitled to more money. But with this being the DWP, it may not be that straightforward. | The DWP in the dock: | In July 2019, the Supreme Court made a

James Bradley, Jeremy Kuzmarov (2021-11-05). Ray McGovern: The Man Who Got Russiagate Right and Tried to Warn the Public—To No Avail. covertactionmagazine.com For Years, Ray McGovern, George H.W. Bush's CIA Briefer, Tried to Warn the Public About the Russiagate Fraud but Was …

John Pilger (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.

John Kiriakou (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 …

Doctors for Assange (2021-11-04). Doctors for Assange Say UK May be Liable for His Torture. globalresearch.ca Important text first published on June 22, 2020 In a new letter to the British Medical journal The Lancet, Doctors for Assange say that the British government may be held legally responsible for the torture of the imprisoned WikiLeaks …

_____ (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…

Marjorie Cohn (2021-11-04). SCOTUS Likely to Allow Challenge to Texas Law, But May Still Overturn "Roe" zcomm.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…

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