2022-02-19: News Headlines

Ron Ridenour (2022-02-19). "American soldiers in Denmark is a 'logical extension' of NATO cooperation," Says Denmark's Prime Minister. covertactionmagazine.com Part II of a CAM Exclusive on Historic U.S.-Danish Military-Intelligence Cooperation (See Part 1 here) We were awakened to the …

Valentina Rose (2022-02-19). Stanford Stands for Choice on Valentine's Day. indybay.org Activists in Palo Alto shut down a major downtown intersection during rush hour to call attention to an impending crisis. The US Supreme Court is poised to dismantle Roe v. Wade if immediate and mass action doesn't stop it.

Staff (2022-02-19). 'Naive' govt policy poses 'catastrophic' security risk — media. rt.com Interviews for 'top secret' UK jobs are being done by video call, whistleblowers warn | British military personnel, civil servants, and private contractors applying for positions with access to "top secret" information are no longer automatically vetted in person, whistleblowers have revealed to The Telegraph. The UK risks a "catastrophic security breach" due to this shift toward virtual vetting, they warned. | Officers in the UK Security Vetting Department (UKSV) have raised concerns with the Cabinet Office over retaining online interviews via phone and video conferencing as part of the selection process, the…

Rick Rozoff (2022-02-18). Headlines that cause wars. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com And are designed to do just that. Recent stories picked up and circulated by Yahoo News. The first is only missing the adjectives Young and Innocent before the word Kids. Daily BeastPro-Russian Forces Shell Ukrainian Kindergarten Full of Kids The HillRussia likely to launch 'limited' attack against Ukraine, Estonia foreign intelligence agents say AxiosU.S. warns …

_____ (2022-02-18). America's Dirty Habit… Another Historic Intelligence Operation to Incite Aggression and War. strategic-culture.org Western media are complicit in selling war propaganda by distorting the danger and falsely attributing the aggression to Russia. | Well, there it is for the whole to see. Great expectations and theatrical predictions that Russia would invade Ukraine this week failed spectacularly to materialize. | But the situation is far from funny nor far from the danger of war being yet incited. That's largely because the United States, from its president and his top officials to an army of ghoulish media pundits, are crying wolf even more hysterically. | The combustible conflict in Ukraine between a U.S.-backed Neofascist re…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-18). Was the Hacking of Ottawa Trucker Convoy Donors a US-Canadian Intelligence Operation? libya360.wordpress.com Kit Klarenberg Aubrey Cottle, the hacker claiming credit for stealing convoy donor info, has boasted of work with the FBI and Canadian law enforcement. The data was published by DDoSecrets, an anti-Wikileaks non-profit which has targeted states in the crosshairs of US intelligence. On February 13th, the names and personal details of almost 100,000 individuals…

Staff (2022-02-18). Jorge Rodríguez: Colombia Seeks to Destabilize Venezuela with Terrorist Gangs. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, February 17, the president of Venezuela's National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez, held a press conference at which he denounced the financing by the Colombian government and the Venezuelan extreme right of criminal gangs intending to destabilize the country. | He reiterated that Venezuela has denounced, on 24 occasions, attacks carried out from Colombia in Venezuela. He pointed out that evidence was delivered between 2018 and 2022 to international bodies such as the United Nations, demonstrating that Colombia's intelligence agencies, Armed Forces, and police forces were used to attack Venezuela.

Adriaan Alsema (2022-02-18). Colombia's police suspends paramilitary cooperation with Truth Commission. colombiareports.com Colombia's police suspended the cooperation of former paramilitary commander "Otoniel" with the commission that is investigating the armed conflict. Police intelligence unit DIJIN ended a visit of the Truth Commission…

WSWS (2022-02-18). DC police lieutenant placed on "administrative leave" for ties with Proud Boys leader. wsws.org In an interview with the Washington Post, former Proud Boys chairman Henry "Enrique" Tarrio said he had been coordinating with Sean Lamond, a 22-year veteran of the force who most recently worked in the intelligence branch of the department.

_____ (2022-02-18). Long Before US Extradition Request, Hondurans Cried, 'Get Out JOH!'. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, Honduran national police arrested JOH from his residence in the capital Tegucigalpa. It came a day after the US government requested JOH's extradition by the Honduran Supreme Court of Justice for allegedly conspiring to traffic drugs in the US. On Tuesday morning, Supreme Court judge Edwin Ortez formally accepted the extradition request and issued an arrest warrant for Hernández. Hours later, Hernández was handcuffed by officials and moved to a high-security detention center.

Nick Ehli (2022-02-18). State Constitutions Could Stymie Right-Wing Strategies for a Post-"Roe" World. truthout.org Republican lawmakers in a handful of conservative states have stumbled on a roadblock to what they thought would be a clear path to setting new restrictions on abortion if the Supreme Court upends the landmark Roe v. Wade decision: right-to-privacy protections enshrined in their own state constitutions. | In states where courts have ruled that their constitutions' explicit privacy rights extend to the right of a woman to have an abortion, the procedure would continue to be legal even if the Su…

Andrew Perez (2022-02-18). Koch Machine Pressing Supreme Court To Crush EPA. dailyposter.com

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