2022-07-31: News Headlines

Binoy Kampmark (2022-07-31). Penal Assassination: The Gradual Effort to Kill Assange. dissidentvoice.org They really do want to kill him. Perhaps it is high time that his detractors and sceptics, proven wrong essentially from the outset, admit that the US imperium, along with its client states, is willing to see Julian Assange perish in prison. The locality and venue, for the purposes of this exercise, are not relevant. …

Editor (2022-07-30). An interview with John Pilger: "Assange is the courageous embodiment of a struggle against the most oppressive forces in our world" mronline.org Last month, British Home Secretary Priti Patel approved Assange's extradition to the U.S., where he faces 175 years imprisonment under the Espionage Act for publishing true information exposing American war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Ana Perdigón (2022-07-30). UK Court Insists on Withholding Venezuelan Gold Reserves, Venezuela Denounces Ruling. orinocotribune.com This Friday, July 29, the British judiciary ruled in favor of the "ad hoc board of directors" of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), appointed by former deputy Juan Guaidó, who never had any power to appoint any directive body of the BCV. This ruling reiterates the British policy of withholding the Venezuelan gold reserves in Bank of England, valued at about $2 billion. | The ruling was issued by Judge Sara Cockerill of the High Court of London, who determined that the British judiciary does not recognize the resolutions of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) of Venezuela that had declared Guaidó's illegitimate d…

Emanuel Pastreich (2022-07-30). The Future of "Global Governance" and The "Earth Congress". Transform the United Nations. globalresearch.ca

English.alaraby.co.uk (2022-07-30). Iran arrests Sweden citizen on espionage charges: IRNA. english.alaraby.co.uk "The intelligence ministry announced that a citizen of the Kingdom of Sweden was arrested on espionage charges," IRNA quoted a ministry statement a saying. It did not say when the arrest was made. | Sweden's foreign ministry said it was aware of the case. | "This is a known and ongoing case which the Foreign M…

Puja Mehta, Boghuma K Titanji (2022-07-30). [Comment] Baricitinib in COVID-19: a coming-of-age from artificial intelligence to reducing mortality. thelancet.com Immunomodulatory therapies targeting excessive host immune responses,1 vaccination, and immunity from natural infection have changed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the rapid emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants has stymied progress towards ending the pandemic. An unmet need remains for accessible therapies that reduce mortality. In The Lancet, the RECOVERY Collaborative Group assessed the use of baricitinib, a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, for the treatment of patients hospitalised with COVID-19, in the randomised, controlled, open-label platform trial (Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy [RECOVE…

Hendrik Sybrandy (2022-07-30). Demand for abortion pills soaring in the U.S. america.cgtn.com It's been a little over a month since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, the law upholding a woman's right to an abortion. Today, many abortion clinics in states where the procedure remains legal report a surge of patients. One telemedicine clinic …

Christopher Brauchli (2022-07-30). The Death Penalty Returns to the Supreme Court. commondreams.org In the U.S. the person facing the prospect of execution has to take it upon himself to make sure it is done in a "humane" way.

A Guest Author (2022-07-30). Julian Assange defense files appeals, granted extension. workers.org By Tareq Haddad This excerpted article, which originally appeared July 16 in Popular Resistance, can be read in full at tinyurl.com/kfzvkh2c. London — Following a June 17 decision from British Secretary of State Priti Patel approving the order to extradite Julian Assange to the U.S., lawyers for the imprisoned WikiLeaks . . . |

Jeffrey Sterling (2022-07-30). CIA Whistleblower Reflects on the Persecution of Julian Assange. indybay.org UK legal system puppets as US pulls strings. Media complicit.

Staff (2022-07-30). Swedish national charged with spying detained. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 30 (MNA) — Iran intelligence forces managed to identify and detain a Swedish national accused of spying.

WSWS (2022-07-30). Top Trump Homeland Security officials deleted January 6 messages. wsws.org The deletion of text messages by the leadership of the Department of Homeland Security underscores the complicity of all the major police and intelligence agencies in Trump's efforts to overthrow the government.

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