Labor Video Project (2022-07-13). 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…

Editor (2022-07-12). Whistleblower Relief: Dropping the Collaery Case. scheerpost.com By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The Anglo-Australian legal system has much to answer for. While robed lawyers and solemn justices proclaim an adherence to the rule of law, the rule remains a creature in state, more fetish than reality. Had the farcical prosecution of former ACT Attorney General Bernard Collaery gone on, all suspicions about …

Editor (2022-07-12). Craig Murray: The Film About Julian Assange. scheerpost.com By Craig Murray / Away from the Tory Babel over who will be the top "world-leading" sociopath, I just spent two evenings in the company of decent people. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian's father and brother, were in Glasgow and Edinburgh for the screening of Ithaka, the documentary that follows the fight by Julian Assange's family to have him freed. I was moderating the Q & A. | The odd pub may also have been visited. | Ithaka is heart-rending, and it has an important message in rehumanizing Julian after over a decad…

Editor (2022-07-12). Roe v. Wade is Gone. A Wave of Criminalization is Coming. scheerpost.com Police arrest four women protesters who chained themselves to the columns at the steps of City Hall to denounce the US Supreme Court decision that ended federal abortion rights protections on July 6, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. David McNew/Getty Images | By Marc Steiner / | The recent Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case achieved something the right has pursued for decades—overturning Roe v. Wade. From legislation recognizing "fetal personhood" in Georgia and Alabama to…

Urooba Abid (2022-07-12). Victims of Discrimination Have No Path to Justice Following Supreme Court Decision. aclu.org When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, our laws did not provide any recourse against the discrimination she faced. In the decades that followed, organizers and civil rights groups won key battles to expand our laws to protect against discrimination for Black people, women, and people with disabilities. Until recently, thanks to the groundwork laid by people like Parks, people who faced discrimination could seek damages for the emotional distress they endured. But the U.S. Supreme Court blocked that avenue for relief in Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C, tur…

WSWS (2022-07-12). Strong response to SEP online meeting on the fight to free Julian Assange. wsws.org "The crucial question is political perspective, and that requires an assessment of governments, political parties and an analysis of why Assange is being persecuted with such ferocity and effort."

WSWS (2022-07-12). Australian government drops charges for lawyer who exposed spying on East Timor, but maintains anti-whistleblower laws. wsws.org Collaery's only supposed "crime" was exposing the unlawful actions of the intelligence agencies, as part of Australia's neo-colonial thuggery in the Pacific.

Micheal Berosch (2022-07-12). Dealing with Police and Government Agents. indybay.org "Any lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to police under any circumstances." (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson writing in Watts v. Indiana, 338 U.S. 49 (1949))…

WSWS (2022-07-12). German Socialist Equality Party files constitutional complaint against criminalisation of Marxism. wsws.org On 2 June, the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP, Socialist Equality Party) filed a constitutional complaint with the Supreme Court against its surveillance and defamation by the Secret Service.

Staff (2022-07-12). US claims Iran plans to send Moscow armed drones. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 12 (MNA) — National security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday that US intelligence suggests Iran will be providing Russia with a rushed delivery of "weapons-capable" UAVs and other unmanned aircraft.

WSWS (2022-07-12). Wisconsin Supreme Court declares absentee ballot drop boxes illegal, questions validity of 2020 election. wsws.org The Wisconsin ruling is the latest in a long line of attacks on voting rights by Republican legislatures and courts following the defeat of former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

Staff (2022-07-12). US claims Iran plans to send Moscow armed drones. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 12 (MNA) — National security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday that US intelligence suggests Iran will be providing Russia with a rushed delivery of "weapons-capable" UAVs and other unmanned aircraft.

Micheal Berosch (2022-07-12). Dealing with Police and Government Agents. indybay.org "Any lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to police under any circumstances." (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson writing in Watts v. Indiana, 338 U.S. 49 (1949))…

Fight Back (2022-07-11). SCOTUS decision on the EPA: Time to fight for climate justice in the streets! fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement by the Minnesota-based Climate Justice Committee. | On Thursday June 30, the Supreme Court ruled against the EPA and its ability to set pollution limits on power plants. This is a blow to the U.S. government's ability to combat climate change and comes on the heels of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to an abortion. It's also a sign that the current court is set out on an anti-people agenda that will put a corporate and a right-wing agenda before the needs of the people. And it's a sign that the…

Editor (2022-07-11). Thousands on Parole and Probation Face Unique Barriers in Seeking Abortion Care. scheerpost.com Map of the United States showing which states will outlaw abortion now that Roe v. Wade is overturned. Parole and probation population data from the Prison Policy Initiative. Chart by ScheerPost. | By Victoria Valenzuela / Original to ScheerPost | ScheerPost Staff Writer | The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade leaves many among the more than

____ (2022-07-11). German Parliament Condemns Psychological Torture of Julian Assange. transcend.org In a historic vote on July 6, the German parliament voted in favor of a petition condemning "in the strongest possible terms the psychological torture of journalist Julian Assange and the associated attack on press freedom in Germany and Europe."

WSWS (2022-07-11). Supreme Court agrees to hear "independent legislature" case as Republicans prepare their next coup. wsws.org The "independent legislature theory," which was invoked in the theft of the 2000 election and in Trump's attempted coup in 2020, would give Republican-controlled state legislatures the unchecked power to rig and overturn upcoming elections.

Michael Arney (2022-07-11). Resisting Supreme Court, New York State safeguards gun safety and abortion rights. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK—Supreme Court rulings seem to mimic one Republican's slogan "Jesus, Guns, and Babies." The New York State Democratic supermajority has struck back. The state's first female governor, Kathy Hochul, convened a special session of the state legislature at the end of June in response to the Court's rulings of the prior week. She originally …

_____ (2022-07-10). Is The US Now Trying To Destabilize Uzbekistan? popularresistance.org Unfortunately, the failure of the recent attempt to create an armed conflict in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAR) has not dampened Washington's ardor in searching for ways to destabilize the situation in Central Asia and in creating an additional inconvenience for Russia, which at present is conducting a special military operation to de-Nazify Ukraine, by creating a "second front." The United States, to this end, continues to use its sponsored NGOs, media and US intelligence capabilities to foment old conflicts in the region to put pressure on regional security, with a subsequent threat to Russia, as…

Maxyyjones (2022-07-10). German MPs Demand Release of Julian Assange. scheerpost.com By Ben Knight /More than 70 members of the German parliament from four political parties have called on U.S. President Joe Biden and the British government to sto…