Daily Archives: June 22, 2021

2021-06-22: News Headlines

The Conversation (2021-06-22). Iran election: what Ebrahim Raisi's victory will mean for his country — and the rest of the world. juancole.com By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam | — When Iranians elect a new leader, the world watches. So the election of Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline right-winger, to replace the more centrist Hassan Rouhani, is global news of some significance. Raisi is the choice of Iran's socially arch-conservative and politically anti-reformist "deep state". This ideological core of the state …

_____ (2021-06-22). Outrage at ProPublica Tax Leaks Underscores Their Importance. popularresistance.org The attack on both the leak itself and ProPublica's willingness to publish the information is chilling, especially when one considers the fate of leakers targeted by the United States government. Edward Snowden is still living in Russia because of his disclosure of National Security Agency surveillance to the Guardian. As Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman recently said, the "US State Department [is] still pushing to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from Britain, where he's been locked up for over two years." The leaker or leakers will be very lucky if they avoid a a visit from federal agents, if not much…

Caitlin Johnstone (2021-06-22). The Left isn't Failing, it's Being Sabotaged: Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — Jun 20, 2021 | In later years we're going to learn about some of the covert operations which US intelligence agencies and their proxies were using to smash the rise of socialism in America today and a lot of people are going to feel silly for all their remarks blaming the state of the left on leftists. I see so much talk about the left's fragmentation and political ineffectiveness like it's the result of some kind of character flaw in leftists themselves, when it is clearly the result of generations of high-intensity mass-scale psyops which with 100 percent certainty continue to this d…

Staff (2021-06-22). Supreme Court Ruled Against Enslaved Children Even as US Celebrated Juneteenth. truthout.org On the very same day last week that President Biden signed legislation declaring Juneteenth a national holiday, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court effectively declared in While self-congratulatory celebrations proliferated in the wake of the new…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-06-22). Rapid exclusion of COVID-19 infection using AI, EKG technology. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Artificial intelligence (AI) may offer a way to accurately determine that a person is not infected with COVID-19. An international retrospective study finds that infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, creates subtle electrical changes in the heart. An AI-enhanced EKG can detect these changes and potentially be used as a …

Shabbir Manjee (2021-06-22). "Free Assange!" Chicago protesters demand release of whistleblower at British Consulate. liberationnews.org The protest was one stop of a nation-wide call to action organized by Assange Defense.

Cynthia Papermaster (2021-06-22). Saturday 6/26: Free Assange! Stop the Extradition! Drop the Charges! indybay.org Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California, 1433 Madison St., | Oakland, between 14th & 15th Streets, near Lake Merritt BART…

Jason Ditz (2021-06-21). Pakistan PM Rules Out Hosting CIA Bases. news.antiwar.com In comments with interviewers, Pakistani Premier Imran Khan The CIA has been very public in seeking new basing options for its war in Afghanistan. Previously operating off of US military bases in Afghanistan, they don't have a lot of options for where to go when the US withdraws. | The CIA has floated the idea of getting new bases in Pakistan or former Soviet states in…

Joanna Wuest, Briana Last (2021-06-21). Dark Money, the Supreme Court, and the Fate of LGBTQ+ Rights. thenation.com Dark Money, the Supreme Court, and the Fate of LGBTQ+ Rights…

Elie Mystal (2021-06-21). How the Supreme Court Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religious Bigotry. thenation.com How the Supreme Court Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religious Bigotry…

WSWS (2021-06-21). Supreme Court upholds Obamacare, ruling opponents have no standing to sue. wsws.org The highly technical character of the decision should not obscure the fact that there is powerful support in corporate America for the Affordable Care Act, which has provided a windfall for the for-profit health care industry.

_____ (2021-06-21). CIA Stories: The CIA Is Born. popularresistance.org Abby Martin introduces the first installment of a new Empire Files series about the CIA explaining why the agency was created, and how it became the most nefarious criminal organization in the world, with CIA expert Douglas Valentine.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-06-21). Rapid exclusion of COVID-19 infection using AI, EKG technology. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Artificial intelligence (AI) may offer a way to accurately determine that a person is not infected with COVID-19. An international retrospective study finds that infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, creates subtle electrical changes in the heart. An AI-enhanced EKG can detect these changes and potentially be used as a …

Cynthia Papermaster (2021-06-21). Saturday 6/26: Free Assange! Stop the Extradition! Drop the Charges! indybay.org Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California, 1433 Madison St., | Oakland, between 14th & 15th Streets, near Lake Merritt BART…

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