2023-03-12: News Headlines

Editor (2023-03-12). 'Snowden,' 'Assange' & 'Manning' Arrive in Sydney [VIDEO]. scheerpost.com The three bronze statues that have been touring the world have arrived in Assange's home country, where John Shipton, John Pilger, David McBride and other speakers demanded the prime minister tell Joe Biden to release the WikiLeaks publisher.

John Pilger, Mintpress News. (2023-03-12). The Betrayers Of Julian Assange. popularresistance.org Those who are the antithesis of Julian: in whom courage is unheard of, along with principle and honour, stand between him and freedom. I am not referring to the Mafia regime in Washington whose pursuit of a good man is meant as a warning to us all, but rather to those who still claim to run a just democracy in Australia. | Anthony Albanese was mouthing his favourite platitude, 'enough is enough' long before he was elected prime minister of Australia last year. He gave many of us precious hope, including Julian's family. As prime minister he added weasel words about 'not sympathising' with what Julian had done.

americanthinker (2023-03-11). Does artificial intelligence have 'rights'? americanthinker.com No, chatbots don't have human rights.

Editor (2023-03-11). Six war mongering think tanks and the military contractors that fund them. mronline.org Leaders at top think tanks like the Atlantic Council and Hudson Institute have even been called upon to set focus priorities for the House Intelligence Committee. However, one look at the funding sources of the most influential think tanks reveals whose interests they really serve: that of the U.S. military and its defense contractors.

Larry Johnson (2023-03-11). How Could Western Intelligence Have Got It Wrong, Again? They Didn't. They Had Other Purposes. sonar21.com By Alastair Crooke [NOTE — The following is reprinted with the express permission of Mr. Crooke.] The West now faces the task of de-fusing the landmine of their own electorate's…

WSWS (2023-03-11). US Director of National Intelligence confirms end of "strategic ambiguity" over Taiwan. wsws.org Testifying before the Senate Intelligence committee, Avril Haines confirmed that Biden was stating the official government position last year when he pledged to go to war with China over Taiwan.

Editor (2023-03-12). 'Snowden,' 'Assange' & 'Manning' Arrive in Sydney [VIDEO]. scheerpost.com The three bronze statues that have been touring the world have arrived in Assange's home country, where John Shipton, John Pilger, David McBride and other speakers demanded the prime minister tell Joe Biden to release the WikiLeaks publisher.

John Pilger, Mintpress News. (2023-03-12). The Betrayers Of Julian Assange. popularresistance.org Those who are the antithesis of Julian: in whom courage is unheard of, along with principle and honour, stand between him and freedom. I am not referring to the Mafia regime in Washington whose pursuit of a good man is meant as a warning to us all, but rather to those who still claim to run a just democracy in Australia. | Anthony Albanese was mouthing his favourite platitude, 'enough is enough' long before he was elected prime minister of Australia last year. He gave many of us precious hope, including Julian's family. As prime minister he added weasel words about 'not sympathising' with what Julian had done.

americanthinker (2023-03-11). Does artificial intelligence have 'rights'? americanthinker.com No, chatbots don't have human rights.

Editor (2023-03-11). Six war mongering think tanks and the military contractors that fund them. mronline.org Leaders at top think tanks like the Atlantic Council and Hudson Institute have even been called upon to set focus priorities for the House Intelligence Committee. However, one look at the funding sources of the most influential think tanks reveals whose interests they really serve: that of the U.S. military and its defense contractors.

Larry Johnson (2023-03-11). How Could Western Intelligence Have Got It Wrong, Again? They Didn't. They Had Other Purposes. sonar21.com By Alastair Crooke [NOTE — The following is reprinted with the express permission of Mr. Crooke.] The West now faces the task of de-fusing the landmine of their own electorate's…

WSWS (2023-03-11). US Director of National Intelligence confirms end of "strategic ambiguity" over Taiwan. wsws.org Testifying before the Senate Intelligence committee, Avril Haines confirmed that Biden was stating the official government position last year when he pledged to go to war with China over Taiwan.

WSWS (2023-03-11). Canada's New Democrats stoke intelligence agency-incited furor over alleged Chinese election interference. wsws.org The NDP's trumpeting of the lurid, unsubstantiated claims of Chinese interference have emboldened the Conservatives' newly-minted, far-right leader, Pierre Poilievre, in his denunciations of Liberal government "collusion" with China and his portrayal of Trudeau as semi-treasonous.

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-11). Top Georgian opposition leader meets with Biden's NSA, ex-Saakashvili interior chief hails new Maidan coup. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Rustavi2March 10, 2023 Vano Merabishvili compares the events on Rustaveli to the Maidan protests and does not rule out a similar scenario in Tbilisi Georgia's former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili claimed ensuring the release of the imprisoned Mikheil Saakashvili was one of the goals of the public protests held in Tbilisi over the Draft Law …

Martin Edwin Andersen (2023-03-12). Torture, Murder and Security Clearances at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. indybay.org The news out of the democratic republic of Chile this week is that the conviction of Jaime Garcia Covarrubias—the former National Defense University / Defense Security Cooperation Agency professor who was since 2008 the target of the Petitioner's disclosures through the NDU/DSCA chain of command—for the torture and murder of an unarmed detainee was upheld by that country's Supreme Court. | Garcia Covarrubias has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his authorship of that crime, one of two involving the torture and clandestine murder of unarmed detainees for which he has already been convicted a…

Andy Kroll (2023-03-11). Inside the Private Conservative Group That Promises to "Crush Liberal Dominance" truthout.org A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid out his next audacious project. Ever since the longtime Federalist Society leader helped create a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court, and then received more than a billion dollars from a wealthy Chicago business owner to disburse to conservative causes, Leo's next moves had been the subject of speculation. Now, Leo declared in a slick but private… |

ProPublica (2023-03-11). Inside the "Private and Confidential" Conservative Group That Promises to "Crush Liberal Dominance" juancole.com by Andy Kroll and Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented Co-published with Documented ( ProPublica ) — A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid out his next audacious project. Ever since the longtime Federalist Society leader helped create a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court, and then received more than a billion dollars from …

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