Monthly Archives: July 2021

2021-07-23: News Headlines

Staff (2021-07-23). Rev. Liz Theoharis of Poor People's Campaign Arrested in Protest over Voting Rights & Infrastructure. democracynow.org Nearly 100 women from around the United States were arrested outside the Supreme Court as they marked the 173rd anniversary of the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls with a protest calling for voting rights and economic justice. We speak with Reverend Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign and one of those who was arrested. She says Congress needs to scrap the filibuster, pass voting rights legislation and pass a "bold infrastructure bill" that addresses economic inequality, as well as the climate. She also discusses the work of her father, historian Athan Theoharis, who recently died…

John Feffer (2021-07-23). Artificial Intelligence Wants You (and Your Job); ;We'd Better Control Machines Before They Control Us. juancole.com By John Feffer | — ( Tomdispatch.com ) — My wife and I were recently driving in Virginia, amazed yet again that the GPS technology on our phones could guide us through a thicket of highways, around road accidents, and toward our precise destination. The artificial intelligence (AI) behind the soothing voice telling us where …

Nozomi Hayase (2021-07-23). Redeem American Ideals: US Government Must End the Political Prosecution of Julian Assange. counterpunch.org On July 3, 2020, Julian Assange will turn 50 years old, spending his third birthday behind bars. The WikiLeaks publisher has been held without any formal charges alongside criminals and terrorists inside London's high-security prison for exposing the US government's war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. On January 4, 2021, the British Judge Vanessa Baraitster

_____ (2021-07-23). In Pre-Sentencing Letter, Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Says Crisis of Conscience Motivated Leak. commondreams.org Human-induced climate change has gotten so bad that our only hope isn't to reverse it, but to simply save what we can.

Andy Kroll (2021-07-22). Artificial Intelligence Wants You (and Your Job). tomdispatch.com My wife and I were recently driving in Virginia, amazed yet again that the GPS technology on our phones could guide us through a thicket of highways, around road accidents, and toward our precise destination. The artificial intelligence (AI) behind the soothing voice telling us where to turn has replaced passenger-seat navigators, maps, even traffic updates on the radio. How on earth did we survive before this technology arrived in our lives? We survived, of course, but were quite literally lost some of the time. My reverie was interrupted by a toll booth. It was empty, as were all the other booths at this partic…

Staff (2021-07-22). Headlines for July 22, 2021. democracynow.org WHO: Global COVID Cases Jumped 12% Over Past Week, Pelosi Rejects GOP Reps. Jordan & Banks for Jan. 6 Select Committee, Armed DEA Agent Arrested for Taking Part in Jan. 6 Insurrection, Republicans Block $1 Trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, Opioid Crisis: States Reach $26 Billion Settlement with J&J and Drug Distributors, Four Colombian Mercenaries Tied to MoàØse Assassination Were Trained at Fort Benning in U.S., U.S. Launches First Drone Strike on Somalia Under President Biden, Biden Administration Seeks 9-Year Sentence for Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale, Argentina Issues Gender-Neutral ID Cards i…

teleSUR, yart, JCM (2021-07-22). Presidente López Obrador llama a liberar a Julian Assange. telesurtv.net El llamamiento sucede en medio del destape de un escándalo de espionaje realizado por el gobierno predecesor.

Guest Contributor (2021-07-22). Supreme Court dismisses solitary confinement appeal. ukhumanrightsblog.com R (on the application of AB) v Secretary of State for Justice [2021] UKSC 28 The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed an appeal which considered whether treatment throughout a 55 day period in solitary confinement of a then 15-year-old appellant in Feltham Young Offenders' Institution constituted a violation of Article 3 of the European Convention …

_____ (2021-07-22). UN Experts Warn US Sanctions Endangering Lives of Venezuelan Cancer Patients. commondreams.org Artificial intelligence wants you (and your job).

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2021-07-22: News Headlines

Andy Kroll (2021-07-22). Artificial Intelligence Wants You (and Your Job). tomdispatch.com My wife and I were recently driving in Virginia, amazed yet again that the GPS technology on our phones could guide us through a thicket of highways, around road accidents, and toward our precise destination. The artificial intelligence (AI) behind the soothing voice telling us where to turn has replaced passenger-seat navigators, maps, even traffic updates on the radio. How on earth did we survive before this technology arrived in our lives? We survived, of course, but were quite literally lost some of the time. My reverie was interrupted by a toll booth. It was empty, as were all the other booths at this partic…

_____ (2021-07-22). UN Experts Warn US Sanctions Endangering Lives of Venezuelan Cancer Patients. commondreams.org Artificial intelligence wants you (and your job).

Staff (2021-07-22). Headlines for July 22, 2021. democracynow.org WHO: Global COVID Cases Jumped 12% Over Past Week, Pelosi Rejects GOP Reps. Jordan & Banks for Jan. 6 Select Committee, Armed DEA Agent Arrested for Taking Part in Jan. 6 Insurrection, Republicans Block $1 Trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, Opioid Crisis: States Reach $26 Billion Settlement with J&J and Drug Distributors, Four Colombian Mercenaries Tied to MoàØse Assassination Were Trained at Fort Benning in U.S., U.S. Launches First Drone Strike on Somalia Under President Biden, Biden Administration Seeks 9-Year Sentence for Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale, Argentina Issues Gender-Neutral ID Cards i…

Guest Contributor (2021-07-22). Supreme Court dismisses solitary confinement appeal. ukhumanrightsblog.com R (on the application of AB) v Secretary of State for Justice [2021] UKSC 28 The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed an appeal which considered whether treatment throughout a 55 day period in solitary confinement of a then 15-year-old appellant in Feltham Young Offenders' Institution constituted a violation of Article 3 of the European Convention …

teleSUR, yart, JCM (2021-07-22). Presidente López Obrador llama a liberar a Julian Assange. telesurtv.net El llamamiento sucede en medio del destape de un escándalo de espionaje realizado por el gobierno predecesor.

Staff (2021-07-21). Snowden grills WaPo for 'embarrassingly weak' reaction to NSO spyware scandal, says it's untrue Pegasus can't target US phones. rt.com NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has berated the Washington Post for not taking a more forceful stance on the Pegasus spyware scandal, and said it was untrue to claim the now-infamous malware can't infect US phones. | The former US intelligence contractor expressed dismay over a WaPo editorial in response to reports that NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance firm, sold its Pegasus spyware to government clients who then used the powerful hacking tool to spy on journalists, NGOs workers and even heads of state. The explosive allegations, based on a leaked list of purported Pegasus targets and subsequent forensic an…

Binoy Kampmark (2021-07-21). Pegasus Rides Again: The NSO Group, Spyware and Human Rights. dissidentvoice.org They keep insisting they don't do it. But companies such as the Israeli NSO Group are global vendors for regimes, whatever stripe or colour, for surveillance tools to spy on those they deem of interest. The 2013 revelations by Edward Snowden that exposed the warrantless world of mass surveillance by entities such as the US …

_____ (2021-07-21). Robotic Killing Machines And Our Future. popularresistance.org The idea of robots fighting aliens is no longer a purely speculative one, as the robots do exist. Autonomous robots that utilize artificial intelligence, machine learning, computerized fire control systems, and amazingly sensitive sensors are machines that do not seem to miss and never hesitate to pull the trigger.

_____ (2021-07-21). How A Proposed Secrecy Law Would Recast Journalism As Spying. popularresistance.org Nearly 50 years ago one of us was arrested under the Official Secrets Act for working on a story for Time Out magazine, where the other one of us was the news editor. This led to the so-called ABC case, named after fellow reporter Crispin Aubrey, a brave ex-soldier whistleblower called John Berry, and the aforesaid Campbell. A lengthy Old Bailey trial followed in 1978 and, with it, a major discrediting of the use of the act against the press.

Megan Redshaw (2021-07-21). Federal Lawsuit Seeks Immediate Halt of COVID Vaccines, Cites Whistleblower Testimony Claiming CDC Is Under-Counting Vaccine Deaths. globalresearch.ca America's Frontline Doctors …

Editor2 (2021-07-21). Legalized Apartheid: The Israeli Supreme Court Just Cemented Jewish Supremacy into Law. orinocotribune.com By Jessica Buxbaum — Jul 16, 2021 | Only a few years old, the nation-state law has already proven it can serve as a legal tool for discrimination, racial segregation, and outright apartheid. | JERUSALEM — In November of last year, an Israeli judge invoked the controversial Jewish Nation-State Basic Law when striking down a lawsuit against the city of Karmiel over funding transportation for two Palestinian students. | In his ruling, the chief registrar of the Krayot Magistrate's Court, Yaniv Luzon, said that establishing an Arabic-language school in Karmiel or funding transportation for Palestinian Arab…

John Potash (2021-07-21). U.S. Intelligence Coverup? Newly Declassified FBI File on Nirvana's Kurt Cobain Compounds Evidence Implicating his Wife's Role in his Murder. covertactionmagazine.com If so, The Question Is—Why? The grisly death of mega rock star Kurt Cobain in 1994 (by a shotgun blast to his head) was officially ruled a suicide by the Seattle police, but evidence quickly came to light that Cobain had actually been murdered. However, despite serious holes in the official narrative about Cobain's death, …

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