2022-01-31: News Headlines

Staff (2022-01-31). CIA Knew of Plans for Coup Attempt Against President Maduro: Operation Gideon. orinocotribune.com A retired Venezuelan general reveals that top CIA officials were aware of coup plans to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro. | The stunning revelation of the Venezuelan general, identified as Cliver Alcalá, came in a court document filed by his lawyers seeking to nullify narco-terrorism charges. The charges were filed against him nearly two years ago by US federal prosecutors in New York, as reported on Saturday, January 29, by the US news agency Associated Press (AP). | Indeed, Alcalá had lived in Colombia since he fled Venezuela in 2018 after it was discovered that he was secretly leading a plan that sought to o…

Editor (2022-01-30). Lee Camp and Legendary Journalist John Pilger on Assange, Ukraine, & More. scheerpost.com Lee Camp has a very important guest this week. John Pilger is a brilliant journalist with a long history of award-winning reporting. They discuss the show-trial faced by Julian Assange and the current situation on the border of Russia and Ukraine. Julian Assange recently received some good news after a decade of torturous detainment when a British court decided that he could appeal his extradition into the hands of a government who had tried to assassinate him. They then dive into the current reality of a collapsing U.S. Empire and how it's leading into a dangerous period of nuclear brinkmanship between the…

_____ (2022-01-30). On Contact: Assange Can Appeal UK Supreme Court. popularresistance.org The British High Court of England and Wales on Monday said it would allow the imprisoned publisher of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, to, in essence, appeal a ruling that would have seen him extradited to the United States where he faces a possible 175 years in prison for the publication of classified documents and videos. | The High Court technically refused to allow an appeal to the Supreme Court, but, in a legal loophole, it left it up to that court to determine whether it will grant permission to consider one legal issue. | "We certify a single point of law … in what circumstances can an appellate court receive…

Center for Biological Diversity (2022-01-30). California Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Measure Z Oil, Gas Protections Case. indybay.org Court Will Determine Fate of Local Ordinance Restricting Oil Extraction, Pollution…

Editor (2022-01-30). The Supreme Court Just Allowed the Executions of Two Disabled Black Men. scheerpost.com Officials from San Quentin State Prison in California display the prison's lethal injection facility in 2010. California recently placed a moratorium on capital punishment, but other states are moving in the opposite direction, pursuing methods such as gas chambers and firing squads. MICHAEL MACOR / THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE VIA GETTY IMAGES | By Mike Ludwig / In what activists warn could be the first in a spike of executions this year, Matthew Reeves and Donald Anthony Grant were k…

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