(2021-10-31). China Accuses US of Politicization of COVID-19 Origin After Report of Intelligence Service. sputniknews.com BEIJING (Sputnik) – The report made by the US intelligence community on the origins of COVID-19 is politicized, unscientific, and unreliable, and Washington is obsessed with political manipulations that can damage the global efforts in fighting the pandemic, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Sunday.
(2021-10-31). US should cease persecution of Assange. asiatimes.com 
I am deeply concerned over the precedents the fallout from the situation involving the detention and potential extradition of Australian editor and publisher Julian Assange will set. While the legal grounds for the charges against Assange bring up many important questions that should not be overlooked, we risk a more flagrant assault on the principles …
(2021-10-30). US Lawyers Argue Assange Healthy Enough To Be Sent To His Death. popularresistance.org Some background information first: Assange's extradition battle with the United States continued at the appeal hearing on October 27-28 at the High Court in London. The first day was largely the prosecution's, with half an hour at the end for the defense. The second day was given to the defense to expand on its responses to the prosecution's arguments. Equally, the US' prosecutors were also given a brief moment at the end to counter. | The High Court judges overseeing the hearing were Lord Justice Holroyde and Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett. Holroyde ruled in the United States' favor on August 11th, allowing the…
(2021-10-30). The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time. zcomm.org If Assange is extradited and found guilty of publishing classified material it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting…
(2021-10-30). The Most Vital Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time. orinocotribune.com 
By Chris Hedges — Oct 28, 2021 | If Assange is extradited and found guilty of publishing classified material it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting. | For the past two days, I have been watching the extradition hearing for Julian Assange via video link from London. The United States is appealing a lower court ruling that denied the U.S. request to extradite Assange not, unfortunately, because in the eyes of the court he is innocent of a crime, but because, as Judge Vanessa Baraitser in January concluded, Assange's precarious psychological state would deteriorate g…
(2021-10-30). Assange's brother: "The CIA plan to kidnap Julian is continuing under a veil of legality" indybay.org The attempted US extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange resumed yesterday with the opening of a hearing into a US government appeal.
(2021-10-30). Assange Must Not Be Extradited for Exposing War Crimes in Afghanistan. zcomm.org Ali calls the case "a political trial" and a "punitive attempt by the British government … to try and punish Julian on behalf of the United States."
(2021-10-30). The Assange Persecution is Western Savagery at its Most Transparent. orinocotribune.com 
By Caitlin Johnstone — Oct 28, 2021 | The first day of the US appeal of the Julian Assange extradition case saw grown adults arguing in a court of law that the US government could guarantee that it would not treat the WikiLeaks founder as cruelly as it treats its other prisoners. | I wish I was kidding. | In
(2021-10-30). Beijing dismisses 'unscientific' report on Covid-19 origins by US intelligence community. rt.com 
The US is using "intelligence apparatus instead of scientists" to determine the origins of Covid-19, undermining genuine research, Beijing said in response to the declassification of an ODNI report. | On Friday, the Office of the US Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its
(2021-10-30). Three Attacks Reported In Syria's Daraa In Less Than 24 Hours. southfront.org 
File image. | On October 30, at least three attacks took place in different parts of the southern Syrian governorate of Daraa where the situation is still unstable. | The first attack targeted Abdul al-Kafi al-Ali, an alleged informer of the General Intelligence Directorate. The man was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen on a road between his hometown al-Shajarah and the nearby town of Nafa'ah in the western countryside of Daraa. | A few hours later, doctor Widad al-Harriri was seriously wounded when her veh…
(2021-10-30). CrowdStrike one of Russiagate's 'biggest culprits': ex-House investigator. thegrayzone.com Former Congressional investigator Kash Patel, who helped expose the Steele dossier fraud, on the overlooked, suspicious role of another Clinton campaign contractor, CrowdStrike, which accused Russia of hacking the DNC. As a top investigator on the House Intelligence Committee, Kash Patel helped uncover the Clinton campaign's funding of the Steele dossier and the FBI's extensive and deceptive reliance on it. Patel joins Aaron Maté to discuss Steele's new attempt to defend his discredited work via a softball interview with ABC …
(2021-10-30). China Calls Report of US Intelligence Community on COVID-19 Origin Unscientific. sputniknews.com BEIJING (Sputnik) – The spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the United States, Liu Pengyu, called the report on the origin of COVID-19 by the American intelligence service unscientific, South China Morning Post reported on Saturday.
(2021-10-30). Climate Advocates Fear Supreme Court May Undo EPA's Ability to Tackle Emissions. truthout.org 
As U.S. President Joe Biden prepares for a consequential United Nations "The Supreme Co…
(2021-10-30). Oklahoma death row prisoner John Grant vomits, convulses in death chamber as state resumes executions. wsws.org Grant's execution was the first in Oklahoma since 2015 after a series of them went horribly wrong. It proceeded after the US Supreme Court lifted his stay of execution.
(2021-10-30). 75 years & counting: a history of Western regime change in Syria — Part I. mronline.org 
Washington and London's latest war against Syria was incubated in CIA and MI6 offices long before the manufactured "uprising" erupted in 2011.
(2021-10-30). Guantanamo prisoner Majid Khan describes years of torture at CIA black sites. wsws.org Khan spent two hours before a jury of US military officers reading out a 36-page document that cataloged atrocities approved and applied in the name of "enhanced interrogation techniques."