Daily Archives: November 19, 2021

2021-11-19: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-11-19). Australian PM touts sweeping character of AUKUS pact aimed at preparing war with China. wsws.org Morrison stressed that Australia's acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines was just one aspect of an all-sided alliance with Britain and the US, which will involve stepped-up military-intelligence collaboration across the board.

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2021-11-18). Bloomberg CIA Apologia accidentally vindicates China's strict domestic policies. mronline.org Beijing's anti-corruption crackdowns, widespread surveillance and strict control over Chinese society is making it harder for the CIA to undermine that nation, and now the CIA is expressing its frustration through the billionaire media.

_____ (2021-11-18). New Files Expose Australian Government's Betrayal Of Assange. popularresistance.org Was the government of Australia aware of the US Central Intelligence Agency plot to assassinate Julian Assange, an Australian citizen and journalist arrested and now imprisoned under unrelentingly bleak, harsh conditions in the UK? | Why have the country's elected leaders refused to publicly advocate for one of its citizens, who has been held on dubious charges and subjected to torture by a foreign power, according to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer? What does Canberra know about Julian's fate and when did it know it? | The Grayzone has obtained documents revealing that the Australian government has…

Kit Klarenberg (2021-11-18). New files expose Australian govt's betrayal of Julian Assange and detail his prison torment. thegrayzone.com Documents provided exclusively to The Grayzone detail Canberra's abandonment of Julian Assange, an Australian citizen, and provide shocking details of his prison suffering Was the government of Australia aware of the US Central Intelligence Agency plot to assassinate Julian Assange, an Australian citizen and journalist arrested and now imprisoned under unrelentingly bleak, harsh conditions in the UK? Why have the country's elected leaders refused to publicly advocate for one of its citizens, who has been held on dubious charges and …

Ann Brown (2021-11-18). A Warning To Black America About Scammy 'Artificial Intelligence' Hype: 5 Things To Know. moguldom.com Artificial Intelligence (AI) everyone's talking about it. Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has declared that "The world's first trillionaires are going to come from somebody who masters AI." Tesla CEO Elon Musk has predicted that "We're headed toward a situation where AI is vastly smarter than humans. I think that time frame is less than five …

Andrew Emett (2021-11-18). Bernie opposes exorbitant defense spending bill. nationofchange.org "Isn't it strange how even as we end the longest war in our nation's history concerns about the deficit and national debt seem to melt away under the influence of the powerful Military Industrial Complex?"

Ramzy Baroud (2021-11-18). From Pegasus to Blue Wolf: How Israel's "Security" Experiment in Palestine Became Global. dissidentvoice.org The revelation, a few years ago, that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been conducting mass surveillance on millions of Americans has reignited the conversation on governments' misconduct and their violation of human rights and privacy laws. Until recently, however, Israel has been spared due criticism, not only for its unlawful spying methods on …

Staff (2021-11-18). FBI hid evidence in Malcolm X murder trial, convictions tossed. rt.com A New York judge voided the convictions of two black men for the 1965 assassination of activist Malcolm X, after a re-investigation inspired by a Netflix documentary found the FBI had withheld evidence of their innocence. | State Supreme Court Justice Ellen Biben threw out the convictions of Muhammad A. Aziz (aka Norman 3X Butler) and Khalil Islam (aka Thomas 15X Johnson), who were charged with assassinating Malcolm X at Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom and sentenced to life in prison in 1966. | "I am an 83-year-old man who was victimized by the criminal justice system," Muhammad Aziz says as DA moves to vacate hi…

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