Daily Archives: July 15, 2022

2022-07-15: News Headlines

Benjamin Norton (2022-07-15). How Trump and John Bolton attempted a coup in Venezuela. multipolarista.com Donald Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton wrote a book, "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir," detailing the US coup attempt and hybrid war against Venezuela.

WSWS (2022-07-15). Joshua Schulte convicted on all counts in second trial over 2017 leak of Vault 7 cyberwarfare trove published by WikiLeaks. wsws.org Former CIA software developer Joshua Schulte was found guilty on nine charges related to a 2017 hack of a large library of spying software and computer viruses used by the intelligence agency to spy on individuals through their smartphones and smart TVs.

Aaron Maté (2022-07-15). US intel officer targeted by John Bolton reacts to coup-plot confession. thegrayzone.com John Bolton admitted to CNN that he "helped plan coups d'etat" abroad, including Venezuela. Fulton Armstrong — a former senior US intelligence official who Bolton tried to oust — responds. In a live interview with CNN, former senior US official John Bolton admitted that he has "helped plan coups d'etat" in a number of foreign countries, including Venezuela. Fulton Armstrong, a former senior US intelligence official, has a unique perspective on Bolton's coup confession. In 2002, Bolton unsuccessfully tried to …

Natalia Marques (2022-07-15). The push-pull of the abortion rights struggle continues in the US. peoplesdispatch.org In the few weeks that have passed since the United States Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24, stripping abortion rights from millions of women, the people of the United States have continued to fight back. Despite assurances, the response from the Biden administration to protect the fundamental right has been deemed resoundingly inadequate. | "The mass of the people will have to flood into the streets, and will have to remain in the streets," Monica Illyrich, a young organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, told Peoples Dispatch. "We will have to do everything they can to let the…

Breaking The Chains (2022-07-15). 10-year-old in Ohio forced to cross state lines for an abortion. peoplesdispatch.org Three days after the Supreme Court eliminated federal abortion rights, a doctor received a call about a pregnant, 10-year-old rape victim. The doctor was not permitted to perform an abortion.

WSWS (2022-07-15). Australian journalist Andrew Fowler says the persecution of Assange is a "symptom of a declining empire" wsws.org "If Assange is extradited to the US the future will be bleak indeed for anyone who wants to stand up against the military and industrial interests that have led us to climate catastrophe and, once again, talk of war."

Kevin Gosztola (2022-07-15). Assange Fights Extradition To United States With Two Appeals. thedissenter.org Photo: This article was funded by paid subscribers of The Dissenter Newsletter. Become a Attorneys for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange separately appealed decisions by Home Office Secretary Priti Patel and a United Kingdom district court, which authorized his extradition to the United States.  Assange faces 18 charges, 17 of which are charges under the US Espionage Act. All of the allegations…

Kit Klarenberg (2022-07-14). Leaked Docs: Facebook 'Bot' Adviser Secretly in Pay of US Regime Change Agency. mintpressnews.com U.K. intelligence-linked communication firm Valent has been advising Facebook on which accounts to ban for inauthentic behavior and on suspicions for being foreign-backed disinformation operations. But documents show that Valent itself is secretly funded by U.S. regime change organization USAID. This connection might explain the recent mass purgings from Sudanese and Ethiopian social media.

Labor Video Project (2022-07-14). WorkWeek Rally Against Billionaire John Fisher's Stadium & Prisoners Strike Over $1 Wage. indybay.org WorkWeek on 7-7-22 covers rally against billionaire John Fisher's stadium & Immigrant prisoners strike over $1 A Day, and rally to top the extradition of journalist Julian Assange on his birthday…

_____ (2022-07-14). Force The Government To Prove Espionage, Not Whistleblowing. popularresistance.org If you've been following the case of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder whose revelations about US wars and war crimes outlets like the New York Times published to great acclaim, you know that you haven't been following it in, for example, The New York Times. | Major US outlets' interest in Assange's prosecution is hard to detect, as if they had no stake in a case which is not, at bottom, only about whether individuals can leak classified information, but whether journalists can publish that information at all. And it's as if their readers had no stake in that decision either. | Joining us now with the latest…

Jessica Buxbaum (2022-07-14). As Anti-BDS Bills Become the Norm, ACLU Takes Free Speech Fight to the Supreme Court. towardfreedom.org If certain pro-Israel and pro-fossil fuel advocates get their way, U.S. residents will lose a fundamental right to free speech and protest, reports Jessica Buxbaum.

Kevin Gosztola (2022-07-14). Jury Finds Former CIA Programmer Guilty Of Leaking CIA Hacking Materials To WikiLeaks. shadowproof.com A federal jury in New York convicted former CIA employee Joshua Schulte of violating the Espionage Act when he allegedly released materials on the CIA's hacking capabilities to WikiLeaks.

Charles Pierce (2022-07-14). How to Correct the Unconstitutional Rulings of the Current Supreme Court. dissidentvoice.org OPTIONS. There are three means by which the unconstitutional rulings by the current Supreme Court could be lawfully corrected: (1) thru new legislation, or (2) & (3) thru changing the composition of the Court (either by adding 4 addition Judges or by removing and replacing the rogue Judges) followed by obtaining reconsideration of said rulings …

Brittani Banks (2022-07-14). With the Supreme Court's EPA Ruling, Can Trump's Damage to the Environment Ever Be Repaired? independentmediainstitute.org Click here for an image that you may use to accompany the article (the caption, credit and source URL are listed in the description field). Grasping the enormity, the breadth, and the depth of "Trump corruption" is rather astonishing. Most news junkies and politicos alike are quite familiar with the in-your-face looting, skimming, and self-dealing …

Kathy Durkin (2022-07-14). Abortion access: don't agonize — organize! WW commentary. workers.org Women's March "Summer of Rage" kicked off in Washington, D.C., July 9. Thousands of women and people of all genders, nationalities and ages, who gathered in Washington, D.C., on July 9, turned out to protest the outrageous decision handed down by the Supreme Court on June 24, outlawing abortions. By . . . |

Mitchell Zimmerman (2022-07-14). Right-Wing Zealots on the Supreme Court Threaten to Make American Theocracy a Reality. commondreams.org We must expand the Supreme Court. If we don't, six extremist judges will continue to overturn the will of voters and destroy our rights.

Kathy Durkin (2022-07-14). Abortion access; don't agonize — organize! WW commentary. workers.org Women's March "Summer of Rage" kicked off in Washington, D.C., July 9. Thousands of women and people of all genders, nationalities and ages, who gathered in Washington, D.C., on July 9, turned out to protest the outrageous decision handed down by the Supreme Court on June 24, outlawing abortions. By . . . |

WSWS (2022-07-14). Australian academics attack Julian Assange on ABC program. wsws.org The ABC broke its usual silence on Assange, but only to give a platform to pseudo-academic defenders of his state persecution.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-07-14). While Guilty for Sex Trafficking, Ghislaine Maxwell Takes Fall for Alleged Sexual Blackmail Operation Run by Western Intelligence Agencies. covertactionmagazine.com Evidence suggests that Epstein and his paramour Ghislaine Maxwell were working for U.S., British and Israeli intelligence agencies to build …

Malik Miah (2022-07-14). United States: Supreme Court undermines First Nations rights. greenleft.org.au The United States Supreme Court ruling on June 29 represents a major setback to First Nations peoples' legal rights. Malik Miah reports.

TeleSUR, SH (2022-07-14). Condenan a un exempleado de la CIA por filtración a Wikileaks. telesurtv.net De acuerdo a la fiscalía de Nueva York, Joshua Schulte filtró alrededor de 8.760 documentos de la CIA a Wikileaks.

Benjamin Norton (2022-07-13). Trump advisor John Bolton admits planning US coups in Venezuela and beyond. multipolarista.com Neoconservative former US National Security Advisor John Bolton admitted he "helped plan coups d'etat" in Venezuela and "other places," in a CNN interview. His memoir provides further insight into the US hybrid war on Venezuela.

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