Monthly Archives: June 2021

2021-06-28: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-06-28). Key witness against Assange admits to lying in exchange for US immunity. wsws.org The US indictment against Assange is based on fabrications concocted by American spies and a convicted Icelandic conman and pedophile who functioned as their stool pigeon.

WSWS (2021-06-28). Key witness against Assange admits to lying in exchange for US immunity. wsws.org The US indictment against Assange is based on fabrications concocted by American spies and a convicted Icelandic conman and peodophile who functioned as their stoolpigeon.

Bjartmar Oddur àûeyr Alexandersson (2021-06-28). Key Witness in Assange Case Admits to Lies in Indictment. globalresearch.ca We bring to the …

BayAction2FreeAssange (2021-06-28). Saturday 7/3: Global Free Assange Now #Candles4Assange 50th Bday #DropTheCharges. indybay.org British Consulate General San Francisco | 1 Sansome Street | San Francisco, CA 94104…

Staff (2021-06-28). Key Witness in US Case Against Julian Assange Admits to Lying to Get Immunity. truthout.org One of the main witnesses in Julian Assange's extradition case has admitted he made false claims against Assange in exchange for immunity from prosecution, a bombshell revelation that could have a major impact on the WikiLeaks founder's fate. Assange faces up to 175 years in prison if brought to the U.S., where he was indicted for violations of the Espionage Act related to the publication of classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes. According to a new article in the Icelandic newspaper Stu…

Staff (2021-06-28). Attorney: U.S. Case Against Julian Assange Falls Apart, as Key Witness Says He Lied to Get Immunity. democracynow.org One of the main witnesses in Julian Assange's extradition case has admitted he made false claims against Assange in exchange for immunity from prosecution, a bombshell revelation that could have a major impact on the WikiLeaks founder's fate. Assange faces up to 175 years in prison if brought to the U.S., where he was indicted for violations of the Espionage Act related to the publication of classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes. According to a new article in the Icelandic newspaper Stundin, the convicted hacker Sigurdur "Siggi" Thordarson falsely claimed he was a prominent WikiLeaks representative instru…

Shawgi Tell (2021-06-28). New Jersey State Supreme Court Opposes Public Interest, Endorses Segregated Charter Schools. dissidentvoice.org Consistent with an antisocial neoliberal outlook, the New Jersey State Supreme Court ruled on June 22, 2021 that seven segregated charter schools in Newark can continue to expand. While the court made some perfunctory statements suggesting that it was critical of the well-documented harm caused by privately-operated charter schools, everyone knows that this is a …

Michael T. Hertz (2021-06-28). Supreme Court slices and dices 1789 law protecting non-citizens. nationofchange.org International law in the 21st century has expanded to include the protection of human rights.

_____ (2021-06-28). Supreme Court Allows Gavin Grimm's Victory To Stand. popularresistance.org Washington — The Supreme Court today declined to hear Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board, allowing lower court decisions in support of transgender students to stand. | The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit have both ruled that the school board violated Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause by prohibiting Grimm from using the same restrooms as other boys and forcing him to use separate restrooms. | The Supreme Court was scheduled to hear Grimm's case at an earlier stage of the litigation in 2017, but the case was sent back to…

Moderator (2021-06-28). 'Incredible Victory' for Trans Rights: Supreme Court Rejects School Bathroom Case. scheerpost.com Wikimedia Commons) By Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams In what civil rights advocates hailed as "an incredible victory," the United States Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the case of Gavin Grimm, a former Virginia high school student who in 2015 sued his county board of education over its policy of denying transgender pupils use of restrooms corresponding with their gender identity. |

Pubdatemon, 28 Jun 2021 11:24:20 -0400 (2021-06-28). 'Incredible Victory' for Trans Rights: Supreme Court Rejects School Bathroom Case. commondreams.org "We call for calm and to avoid escalation in all its forms," the Iraqi statement added.

Staff (2021-06-28). Should Justice Breyer Retire? Adam Cohen Says 82-Year-Old Can Prevent 7-2 Conservative Majority. democracynow.org We speak with legal writer and author Adam Cohen about the growing question of whether liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer should step down so that he can be replaced while there is a Democratic president and Senate. Justice Breyer is 82 and the oldest member of the high court. "If Breyer doesn't step down now, there's a very real chance that Republicans will eventually fill that seat and maybe turn a 6-3 conservative majority, which has already been terrible, into a 7-2 conservative majority," Cohen says.

Staff (2021-06-28). "Setback for Unions": Farmworkers Fought to Allow Unions Access During Breaks. Supreme Court Says No. democracynow.org The Supreme Court has ruled 6 to 3 that a California labor law violated the constitutional rights of property owners by giving union organizers access to workers on privately owned farms during their work breaks. The union-busting decision strikes down a crucial part of a landmark 1975 labor law that was the United States' first to recognize agricultural workers' rights to collective bargaining and grew out of efforts by the United Farm Workers to demand better pay and working conditions for California's agricultural workers. "This ruling is a setback for unions, for workers' rights," says Camila Chávez, executiv…

news.un (2021-06-28). WHO guidance on Artificial Intelligence‚ÄØto improve healthcare, mitigate risks worldwide. news.un.org Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds "enormous potential" for improving the health of millions around the world if ethics and human rights are at the heart of its design, deployment, and use, the head of the UN health agency said on Monday.

_____ (2021-06-27). On Contact: Judicial Lynching. popularresistance.org On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, who was removed from his post after he made public the widespread use of torture by the Uzbek government and the CIA. | Murray has since become one of Britain's most important human rights campaigners, a fierce advocate for Julian Assange and a supporter of Scottish independence. His coverage of the trial of former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, who was acquitted of sexual assault charges, saw him charged with contempt of court and sentenced to eight months in prison. The very dubious sentence, which upe…

Editorial Team (2021-06-27). Colombia: Jesus Santrich assassination straight out of the CIA playbook. challenge-magazine.org The Farc leader, killed by Colombian commandos in Venezuela, was a victim of the hybrid warfare techniques taught by the US and Israel, explains Oliver Dodd | ON May 17, Seuxis Pausias Hernandez Solarte, aka Jesus Santrich, one of the two most prominent leaders of the Farc, was ambushed and assassinated in Venezuela by commandos sent by the Colombian state. | Santrich had been a member of the Farc for three decades, having joined Colombia's Young Communist League when he was 13 years old. | Although crucial to negotiating the 2016 peace agreement, which led to the majority of the Farc becoming a legal politica…

_____ (2021-06-27). Revealing The Pentagon Papers In Congress: A Pyrrhic Victory. popularresistance.org I propped myself up on an elbow as the announcer read the news: The Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, against Nixon. The government's unprecedented move to stop the presses had failed. The Court agreed with two lower courts that the attempt to impose prior restraint on the press was unconstitutional. | The ruling turned out to be more complex than at first glance, but it was an unequivocal call for Constitutional constraint on an out-of-control control executive. The Court challenged the executive's misuse of "national security" as a mantra to undermine the Bill of Rights and accrue quasi-dictatorial powers. Writing for…

_____ (2021-06-27). How The CIA Turned Afghanistan Into A Failed Narco-State. popularresistance.org Afghanistan – The COVID-19 pandemic has been a death knell to so many industries in Afghanistan. Charities and aid agencies have even warned that the economic dislocation could spark widespread famine. But one sector is still booming: the illicit opium trade. Last year saw Afghan opium poppy cultivation grow by over a third while counter-narcotics operations dropped off a cliff. The country is said to be the source of over 90% of all the world's illicit opium, from which heroin and other opioids are made. More land is under cultivation for opium in Afghanistan than is used for coca production across all of Latin…

_____ (2021-06-27). Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan Into a Failed Narco-State. strategic-culture.org The war in Afghanistan has looked a lot like the war on drugs in Latin America and previous colonial campaigns in Asia, with a rapid militarization of the area and the empowerment of pliant local elites. | By Alan MACLEOD | The COVID-19 pandemic has been a death knell to so many industries in Afghanistan. Charities and aid agencies have even

Anonymous669 (2021-06-27). US Combat Drone Caught Flying Over ISIS Stronghold In Central Syria (Video). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. | US MQ-9 Reaper combat drones are flying over Syria's central region where Syrian government forces have been combating ISIS with support from the Russian Aerospace Forces, According to the Russian news outlet, US combat drones are flying over the region, in violation of the deconfliction mechanism with Russia, in order to carry out suspicious intelligence activities. The outlet shared a video showing one of the drones a…

Editorial Team (2021-06-27). Tories' next round of attacks target whistleblowers. challenge-magazine.org Georgina Andrews is a member of the YCL's Birmingham branch | If you thought it could not get any worse after the bombardment of our civil liberties with the Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill, think again. The Tory government has a few more tricks up its sleeves. | Boris Johnson's government is in the process of developing widespread threats to the media and the public's right to know in an overlooked consultation paper on reforms to the UK's Official Secrets Acts, prepared by the Home Office. | New proposals show that the government wants to make journalists liable and tantamount with whistleblowers an…

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2021-06-27: News Headlines

_____ (2021-06-27). Revealing The Pentagon Papers In Congress: A Pyrrhic Victory. popularresistance.org I propped myself up on an elbow as the announcer read the news: The Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, against Nixon. The government's unprecedented move to stop the presses had failed. The Court agreed with two lower courts that the attempt to impose prior restraint on the press was unconstitutional. | The ruling turned out to be more complex than at first glance, but it was an unequivocal call for Constitutional constraint on an out-of-control control executive. The Court challenged the executive's misuse of "national security" as a mantra to undermine the Bill of Rights and accrue quasi-dictatorial powers. Writing for…

_____ (2021-06-27). How The CIA Turned Afghanistan Into A Failed Narco-State. popularresistance.org Afghanistan – The COVID-19 pandemic has been a death knell to so many industries in Afghanistan. Charities and aid agencies have even warned that the economic dislocation could spark widespread famine. But one sector is still booming: the illicit opium trade. Last year saw Afghan opium poppy cultivation grow by over a third while counter-narcotics operations dropped off a cliff. The country is said to be the source of over 90% of all the world's illicit opium, from which heroin and other opioids are made. More land is under cultivation for opium in Afghanistan than is used for coca production across all of Latin…

Editorial Team (2021-06-27). Colombia: Jesus Santrich assassination straight out of the CIA playbook. challenge-magazine.org The Farc leader, killed by Colombian commandos in Venezuela, was a victim of the hybrid warfare techniques taught by the US and Israel, explains Oliver Dodd | ON May 17, Seuxis Pausias Hernandez Solarte, aka Jesus Santrich, one of the two most prominent leaders of the Farc, was ambushed and assassinated in Venezuela by commandos sent by the Colombian state. | Santrich had been a member of the Farc for three decades, having joined Colombia's Young Communist League when he was 13 years old. | Although crucial to negotiating the 2016 peace agreement, which led to the majority of the Farc becoming a legal politica…

_____ (2021-06-27). Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan Into a Failed Narco-State. strategic-culture.org The war in Afghanistan has looked a lot like the war on drugs in Latin America and previous colonial campaigns in Asia, with a rapid militarization of the area and the empowerment of pliant local elites. | By Alan MACLEOD | The COVID-19 pandemic has been a death knell to so many industries in Afghanistan. Charities and aid agencies have even

_____ (2021-06-27). On Contact: Judicial Lynching. popularresistance.org On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, who was removed from his post after he made public the widespread use of torture by the Uzbek government and the CIA. | Murray has since become one of Britain's most important human rights campaigners, a fierce advocate for Julian Assange and a supporter of Scottish independence. His coverage of the trial of former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, who was acquitted of sexual assault charges, saw him charged with contempt of court and sentenced to eight months in prison. The very dubious sentence, which upe…

Anonymous669 (2021-06-27). US Combat Drone Caught Flying Over ISIS Stronghold In Central Syria (Video). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. | US MQ-9 Reaper combat drones are flying over Syria's central region where Syrian government forces have been combating ISIS with support from the Russian Aerospace Forces, According to the Russian news outlet, US combat drones are flying over the region, in violation of the deconfliction mechanism with Russia, in order to carry out suspicious intelligence activities. The outlet shared a video showing one of the drones a…

_____ (2021-06-26). Wikipedia and the Military-Intelligence Complex: How the Free Encyclopedia Feeds the National Security State From Which It Emerged. strategic-culture.org T. J. COLES | In my new book, Wikipedia is part of the very internet developed by the military with public money in the 1950s-60s, then called ARPANET. Generally speaking, corporations hope that the systems developed in the military that evolve in the public-corporate realm—s…

Editor (2021-06-26). Pentagon whistleblower under investigation after warning about risks of war with China over Taiwan. mronline.org Pentagon whistleblower Franz Gayl has been part of the United States Marine Corps for over four decades. He spent the last months trying to warn U.S. government officials and the public of the threat of becoming entangled in a war with China over Taiwan. | June 26, 2021…

_____ (2021-06-26). Key Witness In Assange Case Admits To Lies In Indictment. popularresistance.org A major witness in the United States' Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution. | The man in question, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, was r…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-06-26). 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 …

Staff (2021-06-26). What Angers Mitch McConnell More Than Our Unfair Tax Code? Those Who Exposed It. truthout.org Recently This has Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell up in arms — but not because of what the scandal reveals about our rigged tax system. Instead, McConnell wants to go after the whistleblowers…

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