(2022-03-19). Australian government sending second shipment of arms to Ukraine. wsws.org Defence and intelligence figures have acknowledged that the arms could end up in the hands of fascist Ukrainian militias, but insist that is a price worth paying as the US escalates the confrontation with Russia.
(2022-03-19). Obama defense secretary Leon Panetta says NATO is in a "proxy war" with Russia. wsws.org Leon Panetta, former secretary of defense and CIA director under Obama and chief of staff for Bill Clinton, declared Thursday: "The way you get leverage is by, frankly, going in and killing Russians."
(2022-03-18). Do Texas Prison Conditions Violate Human Rights Standards? popularresistance.org Late last year, a Scottish court quietly refused what seemed like a routine extradition. It wasn't that of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose drawn-out efforts to avoid the American prison system have grabbed international headlines for years. Instead, it was that of a relatively unknown Scottish man, Daniel Magee, who'd allegedly shot a security guard in Austin, Texas, in 2016 before fleeing to his native country. | The refusal to send a prisoner back is not unprecedented — but what has raised eyebrows in the legal community is the reason: An Edinburgh judge decided that poor conditions in Texas priso…
(2022-03-18). Extradition Looms For Assange After Court Refuses To Hear His Appeal. popularresistance.org The British judicial system has erected still another barrier to Julian Assange's freedom. On March 14, the U.K. Supreme Court refused to hear Assange's appeal of the U.K. High Court's ruling ordering his extradition to the United States. If extradited to the U.S. for trial, Assange will face 17 charges under the Espionage Act and up to 175 years in prison for revealing evidence of U.S. war crimes. | With no explanation of its reasoning, the Supreme Court denied Assange "permission to appeal" the High Court's decision, saying that Assange's appeal did not "raise an arguable point of law." The court remanded the c…
(2022-03-18). Florida May Soon Use Digital Images of Ballots in Recounts—Will All Counties Make Them a Public Record? independentmediainstitute.org Florida's recounts have been notorious. The 2000 presidential election was decided when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a recount, holding, in Bush v. Gore, that different counties were using different procedures, which was unconstitutional. In 2018, three statewide contests, including for the U.S. Senate, triggered simultaneous recounts. Some populous counties did not finish in time, …
(2022-03-18). Washington Rushes To Hide Its 'Octopus' NED Funding In Ukraine. popularresistance.org Despite the attempt to hide this sponsorship, an 80-page document showing US government NED funding for hundreds of Ukraine groups has been leaked. Now posted on several sites this document allows us a window into some of the internal U.S. influence since the CIA orchestrated Kiev coup of 2014. Many of the allocations have to do with anti-Russian propaganda, usually in the name of 'transparency', human rights, 'independent journalism', monitoring and so on. | For example, the list shows us that a Ukraine group 'InformNapalm', set up "to debunk myths and expose secrets of the Russian hybrid war" and which claims t…
(2022-03-18). Oliver Stone Criticizes Stephen Sondheim for Promoting Lone JFK Assassin Theory in Broadway Musical "Assassins" covertactionmagazine.com One of the most daring politically themed plays disappoints in repeating CIA disinformation while distorting history Stephen Sondheim's Assassins is …