(2021-08-13). Scheer Intelligence: Prisons Enable America's Obscene Wealth. popularresistance.org The story of Marshall "Eddie" Conway, a military veteran and former Black Panther who was imprisoned for 43 years for a crime he didn't commit, is one that gets to the heart of systemic racism in the United States. Despite grueling conditions, in prison Conway pursued three college degrees, and was considered an "exemplary" prisoner for starting a prison literacy program and organizing the prison library. On the other hand, his efforts to organize a union among his fellow convict laborers was crushed by the authorities. After being released in 2014 following an appellate court judgment that his jury had been give…
(2021-08-13). Headlines for August 13, 2021. democracynow.org U.S. Begins Evacuating Afghanistan Embassy Staff as Taliban Seize Kandahar and Herat, China Closes Shipping Terminal over Single COVID-19 Case; Russia Logs Record Death Toll, FDA Approves Third COVID-19 Vaccine Dose for Immunocompromised People, New Orleans, San Francisco to Require Vaccination Card or Negative Test for Indoor Venues, Four Teachers in Florida's Broward County Die of COVID-19 in One Day, Supreme Court Blocks Part of New York Eviction Moratorium Despite Worsening Pandemic, Israel to Resume Building Illegal Settlements in Occupied West Bank, Jewish American Leaders Demand AIPAC Apologize over Islamo…
(2021-08-13). Protests demand the release of Julian Assange in the UK. peoplesdispatch.org Dozens of supporters of Julian Assange protested outside the High Court of Justice in London, UK on Wednesday, July 11 demanding his release as the United States has appealed the earlier decision not to extradite him. Assange is being indicted in the US under the infamous Espionage Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
(2021-08-13). UK court allows US to expand grounds of appeal against Assange; family raises concerns. peoplesdispatch.org The new and expanded appeal will have prosecutors representing the United States challenge medical assessments by an expert witness that were the grounds to deny extradition of the Wikileaks founder…
(2021-08-13). Targeting the Medical Evidence: the US Challenge on Assange's Health. counterpunch.org The desperate attempt by the US imperium to nab Julian Assange was elevated to another level on August 11 in a preliminary hearing before the UK High Court. The central component to this gruesome affair was the continuing libel of the expert witness upon which District Justice Vanessa Baraitser placed so much emphasis in her
(2021-08-13). Jeremy Corbyn and the political dead-end of the official Don't Extradite Assange Campaign. wsws.org The DEA makes no appeal to the working class whatsoever, or to any broader layers of the population. It has produced a near hermetically sealed campaign of more or less prominent individuals, held in high regard by each other, who attend each other's events, and repost each other's comments.
(2021-08-13). A Day in the Death of British Justice. counterpunch.org I sat in Court 4 in the Royal Courts of Justice in London yesterday with Stella Moris, Julian Assange's partner. I have known Stella for as long as I have known Julian. She, too, is a voice of freedom, coming from a family that fought the fascism of Apartheid. Today, her name was uttered in court by a barrister and a judge, forgettable people were it not for the power of their endowed privilege.
(2021-08-13). U.S. intelligence agencies hurry to satisfy Biden's 90-day order on Covid origin tracing. ecns.cn U.S. President Joe Biden in May ordered the Intelligence Community to produce a report on COVID-19 origin tracing within 90 days. As the deadline approaches, U.S. intelligence agencies have shown their latest "progress" to the public through CNN.
(2021-08-13). Embracing the transformative power of digital pathology. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic is in the midst of a digital pathology initiative that will integrate digital infrastructure, automate highly manual processes, and employ artificial intelligence to advance clinical capabilities and care for patients. As this digital pathology initiative advances, a clear illustration of its transformative power is taking place now in Mayo Clinic's Department of Dermatology. Dermatology at Mayo Clinic is organized into three divisions: clinical dermatology, surgery, and dermatopathology. The department's seven dermatopathologists, supported by Mayo's Department of Laboratory Medicine…
(2021-08-13). US Supreme Court partially overturns New York's statewide eviction ban. rt.com 
The US Supreme Court has temporarily blocked New York's eviction moratorium, ruling that the policy violates landlords' right to due process. The decision will remain in force as litigation on the dispute continues. | The 6-3 decision partially stuck down the statewide eviction ban on Thursday, ruling in favor of a group of property owners who challenged the moratorium in an emergency filing to the Supreme Court. Three liberal-leaning justices — Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan —
(2021-08-13). US Supreme Court declines to block Indiana University's vaccine mandate, preserving key precedent for compulsory Covid-19 jabs. rt.com 
The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from students who sought to strike down Indiana University's Covid-19 vaccine mandate, leaving in place a potentially key legal precedent for forced inoculations. | Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected the emergency request to hear the case on Thursday, meaning the high court won't overturn rulings by an Indiana district court and the US Court of Appeals in Chicago, which upheld the mandate. There were no dissenting opinions cited from other Supreme Court justices. | The Indiana case marked the first legal challenge of a Covid-19 vaccine mandate to come before…
(2021-08-13). Saturday 8/28: #Rally4ERA: No Time Limit on Equality Rally at U.S. Supreme Court. indybay.org U.S. Supreme Court or join online rally livestream and actions…
(2021-08-13). Death and abuse of a child swept under the rug in New Mexico, whistleblowers punished. liberationnews.org 
The treatment of children, and their lack of protection by the capitalist state, is particularly appalling.
(2021-08-13). The Filmmaker Who Chronicles National Security Whistleblowers (Exclusive For Paid Subscribers). thedissenter.org In special edition of "Dissenter Weekly," filmmaker Sonia Kennebeck discusses her films profiling Reality Winner, Matt Dehart, and Daniel Hale.
(2021-08-13). In support of sovereignty. mronline.org 
The dog-whistle calls of "Freedom for Cuba" that reverberated round the world on 11 July, emanating from a mix of forces in Cuba, which were carefully manipulated and crafted by the CIA and U.S. anti-Cuban forces abroad, shed a great deal of light not only on U.S. foreign policy hypocrisy but on left-wing hypocrisy and impotence, both here in Ireland and elsewhere.
(2021-08-12). Daraa Rebels Attacked Syrian Army, Intelligence Posts Ahead Of Russian Delegation Visit (Videos, Photos). southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | Early on August 12, local fighters in the northern countryside of Daraa attacked positions of the Syrian military and intelligence. | The fighters attacked posts of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the center of the town of Nawa with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Some fighters also targeted an army checkpoint located on the road leading to the nearby town of Tasil. | At the same time, local fighters in Jasim attacked the town's cultural center, where a force of the General Intellige…
(2021-08-12). Antiwar Group Blocks Entry to Raytheon Facility to Protest Killing of Civilians. truthout.org 
A group of anti-war activists blockaded the entrances to a Raytheon facility in Portsmouth, Rhode Island on Thursday morning to protest the role the weapons-maker plays in the killing of civilians in Yemen, the occupied Palestinian territories, and elsewhere around the world. | The demonstration was organized and live-streamed on Facebook by Resist and Abolish the Military Industrial Complex (RAM INC) and The FANG Collective, a direct-action organization based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. (…
(2021-08-12). Dear CIA Director Burns: Don't Listen to the Israelis on Iran— They just want you to fight a war for them. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Jonathan Lis at Haaretz reports that the Israeli government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is lobbying the US to get on a war footing with Iran. The Israelis will try to convince CIA director William Burns of their position on Iran in his meetings there on Wednesday. Lis makes 3 …
(2021-08-12). US intelligence warns Kabul could fall within one month. wsws.org The new dire predictions of the collapse of Washington's puppet government in Afghanistan came as the Taliban increased the number of provincial capitals under its control to nine.
(2021-08-12). Texas House speaker issues arrest warrants for missing Democrats in bid to pass anti-voting rights bill. wsws.org The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a restraining order that protected Democratic lawmakers from being forced into the Texas House chamber.
(2021-08-12). Targeting Cuba and China: Disinformation Against Communism. orinocotribune.com By Kim Petersen — Aug 10, 2021 | — Mike Pompeo, former US secretary of state on how the United States conducts its business | One of the filters in the Propaganda Model propounded by professors Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky was stoking a fear of communism. [1] The establishment's anti-communism has never abated in the United States. The elitists require a populace fearful of communism to protect their own misbegotten wealth accumulation. Thus, the bugaboo of communism must be op…
(2021-08-12). US Wins Right To Appeal Health Grounds On Assange Extradition. popularresistance.org Two judges at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Wednesday sided with the United States to allow it to appeal the judgement by District Judge Vanessa Baraitser in January that Julian Assange was at too high a risk of suicide to be extradited to the United States. | The U.S. on July 5 was granted the right to appeal the decision not to extradite but not on the grounds of Assange's health. That was reversed on Wednesday. | The U.S. now has the right to argue that the testimony of the defense's key expert witness on suicide, Prof. Michael Kopelman, should be deemed inadmissible or granted little weight because…
(2021-08-12). Wikileaks Julian Assange and Free Press Setback. strategic-culture.org 
It is imperative that everyone who understands the need for a free press, the people's fundamental-democratic right to know, must act to defend Julian Assange. | Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is in greater danger of being extradited to the United States for publishing its crimes, and those of many other countries' governments. | Assange lost a high court decision yesterday, which allows the U.S. government to expand the reasons for its appeal to the January ruling of Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser. She had ruled against extradition to the United States to face charges of espionage in a Virginia court where whi…
(2021-08-12). The Heat: Afghanistan crisis. america.cgtn.com 
"Everything is moving in the wrong direction." That's the assessment of U.S. Intelligence, as the Taliban retakes 11 of 34 provincial capitals in a matter of days. The United Nations reports more than a thousand civilians have been killed in the fighting in the last …
(2021-08-12). US Supreme Court Strikes Down Part of New York State's Ban on Evictions During Pandemic. sputniknews.com In addition to roughly 11 million Americans behind on rent due to pandemic-related financial issues, another 1.75 million homeowners are also behind on their mortgages, threatening a tsunami of evictions once federal protections are lifted.
(2021-08-12). Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Indiana University's Vaccine Mandate. commondreams.org "To date, 10 countries have administered more than 75% of the world's vaccines, while low-income countries have received just over 1%."
