Daily Archives: August 23, 2022

2022-08-23: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-08-23). Spanish-Russian journalist Pablo Gonzalez held six months in Polish jail on bogus spying charge. wsws.org His arrest was coordinated between NATO states, including Spain's Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government, and has met with silence by European and US media.

John Parker (2022-08-22). What do the New York Times, Kiev Independent, Euromaidan Press, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and TikTok All Have in Common? covertactionmagazine.com They are all funded by or staffed by Western and U.S. intelligence members pushing the U.S. narrative about the war in Ukraine. This is why Struggle-La-Lucha.org organized a fact-finding mission to Ukraine and Russia to report on the suppressed information that challenges the narrative of NATO and its member states, led by the U.S. This …

WSWS (2022-08-22). The assassination of Daria Dugina and the US-NATO war in Ukraine. wsws.org The assassination of Daria Dugina carries the stench of the Ukrainian secret police and their CIA handlers, with the intention of provoking a response that will be used to escalate the US-NATO war against Russia.

SAM (2022-08-22). Julian Assange Was Illegally Surveilled By Pompeo And The CIA. progressivehub.net MARJORIE COHN | TRUTHOUT…

____ (2022-08-22). Science, technology week gets underway nationwide. ecns.cn China's national science and technology week started on Saturday and will run until Aug 27, featuring exhibitions and events showcasing the latest scientific and technological achievements, from giant drones shaped like a dragonfly, to tiny artificial intelligence chips.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-21). BBC Assault on Antiwar Academics Was Apparent Product of UK Intel Plot. libya360.wordpress.com Kit Klarenberg Leaked emails expose the fingerprints of UK intelligence all over a factually challenged BBC special that aimed to deprive antiwar academics of their jobs and destroy their reputations. On May 31, BBC Radio initiated an embarrassing imbroglio when it broadcast a factually challenged, overtly propagandistic documentary special called Ukraine: The Disinformation War. Fronted by a British…

_____ (2022-08-21). The Biden-Trump Persecution Of Julian Assange. popularresistance.org For a good while one could blame Trump for the prosecutorial monstrosity perpetrated on journalist Julian Assange. But now it's time for Trump to move over. The single worst assault on the first amendment and a free press in recent centuries is no longer solely his. Biden owns it. Biden could end this state persecution of a journalist today, if he felt like it. A persecution that a U.N. expert has called torture. A persecution that could easily lead to Assange's death. | But maybe that's the point. Indeed, if killing Assange isn't the point, Biden should prove it, by pardoning him now. Biden doesn't feel like it.

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