2022-10-12: News Headlines

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-10-12). Report: Trans US Army Officer Went Undercover For Russia, Passed Classified Intelligence. moguldom.com A former military doctor, believed to be the first openly trans officer in the U.S. Army, has been arrested and charged in an alleged plot to leak classified secrets to Russia to help give them the upper hand in their invasion of Ukraine. Major Jamie Lee Henry, 39, and his wife Anna Gabrielian, 36, were indicted for …

Staff (2022-10-12). Russia's FSB says Ukraine MoD behind Crimean bridge blast. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 12 (MNA) — Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has stated that the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate was behind last week's attack on the Crimean Bridge.

Staff (2022-10-12). Health Insurance Whistleblower: Medicare Advantage Is "Heist" by Private Firms to Defraud the Public. democracynow.org Many of the nation's largest health insurance companies have made billions of dollars in profits by overbilling the U.S. government's Medicare Advantage program. A New York Times investigation has revealed that under the Advantage program, health insurance companies are incentivized to make patients appear more ill than they actually are. Some estimates find it has cost the government between $12 billion and $25 billion in 2020 alone. We speak with former healthcare insurance executive Wendell Potter, now president of the Center for Health and Democracy, who s…

Struggle-La Lucha Baltimore bureau (2022-10-12). Thousands rally: 'Free Assange!'. struggle-la-lucha.org

Emmarie Huetteman (2022-10-12). Abortion Bans Are a Top Issue for Democratic Voters This Midterm, Poll Shows. truthout.org Half of voters say the Supreme Court's decision overturning the constitutional right to an abortion has made them more motivated to vote in next month's midterm elections, with enthusiasm growing especially among Democrats and those living in states with abortion bans, according to a new poll from KFF. | The

Labor Video Project (2022-10-12). Free Julian Assange! Global Day Of Action In San Francisco At Harry Bridges Plaza. indybay.org

Chris Walker (2022-10-12). Far Right Supreme Court Justices Reject Appeal of Man Condemned by Racist Jurors. truthout.org On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court decided — along partisan lines — against hearing an appeal from a Black man on death row in Texas who was found guilty by an all-white jury with at least three members who espoused racist views. | In 2005,

Ed Rampell (2022-10-12). Biden Administration Wants Kidnapped Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab to "Suffer Like Julian Assange," according to UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur. covertactionmagazine.com New documentary by Alex Smith explores travails of Saab who faces U.S. wrath because he tried to circumvent Washington's onerous illegal sanctions levied against Venezuela The U.S. imperialists "want Alex Saab like they want Julian Assange to suffer," charges human rights and international law expert Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, who the United Nations' Human Rights Council …

_____ (2022-10-11). The Puppets And The Puppet Masters. popularresistance.org Washington, D.C. – Merrick Garland and those who work in the Department of Justice are the puppets, not the puppet masters. They are the faàßade, the fiction, that the longstanding persecution of Julian Assange has something to do with justice. Like the High Court in London, they carry out an elaborate judicial pantomime. They debate arcane legal nuances to distract from the Dickensian farce where a man who has not committed a crime, who is not a U.S. citizen, can be extradited under the Espionage Act and sentenced to life in prison for the most courageous and consequential journalism of our generation. | T…

_____ (2022-10-11). Building An Indigenous Agenda To Decolonize The United States. popularresistance.org Today is Indigenous People's Day, still celebrated by some as the violent colonizer Christopher Columbus Day. Clearing the FOG speaks with Jean-Luc Pierite of the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB) and United American Indians of New England (UAINE) about the growing recognition of the trauma and murder of American Indian children who were sent to assimilation centers called residential schools across the US and Canada and how that theft of children's cultural heritage and identity continues today through the foster care system. A major Supreme Court case that could destroy the Indian Child Welfare Ac…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-10-11). US Increased Intelligence and Special Forces Operatives' Presence in Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic The US intelligence presence in Ukraine has existed at least since the end of the Second World War. After the war was over, the CIA worked closely with the Ukrainian Nazi insurgents of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) who were tasked with carrying out acts of sabotage in western parts of the…

Anonymous103 (2022-10-11). Russia Will Use All The Available Means In Ukraine For The Sake Of Victory John Mearsheimer. southfront.org MORE ON THE TOPIC: US Increased Intelligence And Special Forces Operatives' Presence In Ukraine German Iris-T Air Defence Systems…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-10-11). Before Ukraine Blew Up Kerch Bridge, British Spies Plotted It. libya360.wordpress.com Kit Klarenberg The secret British intelligence plot to blow up Crimea's Kerch Bridge is revealed in internal documents and correspondence obtained exclusively by The Grayzone. The Grayzone has obtained an April 2022 presentation drawn up for senior British intelligence officers hashing out an elaborate scheme to blow up Crimea's Kerch Bridge with the involvement of specially…

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2022-10-11). Facing the Warmongers: An Assange Update. globalresearch.ca

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-10-11). Is the CIA Supporting Another Color Revolution in Iran—Like the One that Installed the Shah in 1953? globalresearch.ca

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-10-11). Another CIA Color Revolution in Iran. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov [Source: npr.org] CIA offshoot, National Endowment for Democracy, spent $631, 0 in Iran in 2021. In late September, protests erupted in Iran following the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, after she had been arrested by morality police in Tehran purportedly for not wearing the hijab. Amini died allegedly of a cerebral hemorrhage…

Kit Klarenberg (2022-10-10). EXPOSED: Before Ukraine blew up Kerch Bridge, British spies plotted it. thegrayzone.com The secret British intelligence plot to blow up Crimea's Kerch Bridge is revealed in internal documents and correspondence obtained exclusively by The Grayzone. The Grayzone has obtained an April 2022 presentation drawn up for senior British intelligence officers hashing out an elaborate scheme to blow up Crimea's Kerch Bridge with the involvement of specially trained Ukrainian soldiers. Almost six months after the plan was circulated, Kerch Bridge was attacked in an October 8th suicide bombing apparently overseen by Ukraine's SBU …

____ (2022-10-10). 'End the War on Journalism and Free Assange': Thousands Demand Release of WikiLeaks Founder. transcend.org 9 Oct 2022 – Supporters of Julian Assange held a massive transatlantic protest yesterday to demand his freedom. In London, thousands formed a giant human chain around Britain's parliament; in Washington D.C., people gathered outside the Department of Justice demanding that Attorney General Merrick Garland end U.S. attempts to extradite Assange.

Editor (2022-10-10). [rewind] Indigenous Peoples Day: CANCEL COLUMBUS! scheerpost.com [Editors note: This edition of the Scheer Intelligence podcast was first broadcast in September, 2016 on KCRW. We are reposting here for Indigenous Peoples Day.] UCLA history professor Benjamin Madley's book An American Genocide: The United States and the California Catastrophe 1846-1873 details the killing of tens of thousands of Native Americans as the state was being settled …

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