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2022-03-20: News Headlines

Craig Murray (2022-03-19). Assange Extradition: On to the Next Hurdle. orinocotribune.com By Craig Murray — Mar 15, 2022 | With Julian still, for no rational reason, held in maximum security, the legal process around his extradition continues to meander its way through the overgrown bridlepaths of the UK's legal system. Today the Supreme Court refused to hear Julian's appeal, which was based on the grounds of his health and the effect upon it of incarceration in the conditions of the United States prison service. It stated his appeal had "no arguable legal grounds." | This is a setback which is, most likely, going to keep Julian in jail for at least another year. | The legal grounds which the Hig…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-03-19). Colin Powell and the "The Sloppy Dossier": Plagiarism and "Fake Intelligence" Used to Justify the 2003 War on Iraq: Copied and Pasted from the Internet into an "Official" British Intel Report. globalresearch.ca Fake intelligence as well as plagiarized quotations had been slipped into an official intelligence report on Iraq's WMD presented to the UN Security Council by Secretary of State Colin Powell in February 2003.

WSWS (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.

Anonymous669 (2022-03-19). Hackers Leak Documents Stolen From Israeli Mossad Chief (Video). southfront.org The official logo of the Open Hands hacking group. | On March 16, an anonymous Telegram channel released a video containing personal photos and documents belonging to Israeli Mossad chief David Barnea. | The Open Hands channel said that the information shown in the video were obtained during a lengthy intelligence operation that began in 2014. The channel released the video with English, Hebrew and Arabic translations. | The video contained personal photos of Barnea, flight tickets booked under his name, his ID card, tax…

Staff (2022-03-19). Brazil Supreme Court judge bans Telegram messaging app. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Mar. 19 (MNA) — A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has ordered the shutdown of the popular messaging application Telegram in the country.

WSWS (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."

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