2023-04-02: News Headlines

Anonymous103 (2023-04-01). Inglorious Inertia: The Albanese Government and Julian Assange. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark | The sham that is the Assange affair, a scandal of monumental proportions connived in by the AUKUS powers, shows no signs of abating. Prior to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese assuming office in Australia, he insisted that the matter dealing with the WikiLeaks publisher would be finally resolved. It had, he asserted, been going on for too long. | Since then, it is very clear, as with all matters regarding US policy, that Australia will, if not agree outright with Washi…

Defending Rights, Dissent. (2023-04-01). Take Action: End The Persecution Of Julian Assange. popularresistance.org Australian publisher Julian Assange is a political prisoner. After being abducted out of the Ecuadorian embassy, he has languished in Belmarsh prison for nearly four years. In the intervening time, press freedom groups, major newspapers, and civil libertarians have all condemned the US's unprecedented charges against Assange. | After years of grassroots advocacy, now members of Congress are starting to speak out. But they need to hear your voice. | Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is currently circulating a sign-on letter calling for Attorney General Merrick Garland to drop the charges against Assange.

WSWS (2023-04-01). Australian Labor government refuses to defend Assange as it backs US plans for war against China. wsws.org Foreign Minister Penny Wong contemptuously rejected calls to intervene in defence of Assange, the Australian citizen and journalist persecuted for exposing the war crimes of the US and its allies.

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-04-01). Australia Isn't A Nation, It's A US Military Base With Kangaroos. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | One of the many, many signs that Australia is nothing more than a US military and intelligence asset is the way its government has consistently refused to intervene to protect Australian citizen Julian Assange from political persecution at the hands of the US empire. | In a new article titled "

Andrew Korybko (2023-04-01). The US-Backed Color Revolution in Israel Just Reached Crisis Proportions. orinocotribune.com By Andrew Korybko — Mar 27, 2023 | At all costs, America believes that it must do whatever's necessary to prevent the Israeli state from exercising its sovereign right under Bibi's restored leadership to balance between the US-led West's Golden Billion and the Sino-Russo Entente in the New Cold War instead of decisively take the former's side against the latter. Most immediately, its "deep state" wants Israel to arm Kiev, which Bibi himself warned earlier this month could abruptly catalyze a crisis with Russia in Syria, thus opening a "second front" in the US' Eurasian-wide "containment" campaign. | There's…

Florence CGTN (2023-04-01). How AI technology helps monitor women's health. america.cgtn.com Artificial intelligence and machine learning are increasingly being used to innovate healthcare. But there are concerns over privacy, particularly in the U.S., where data could be used to prosecute people such as under anti-abortion laws.

Anonymous103 (2023-04-01). Inglorious Inertia: The Albanese Government and Julian Assange. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark | The sham that is the Assange affair, a scandal of monumental proportions connived in by the AUKUS powers, shows no signs of abating. Prior to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese assuming office in Australia, he insisted that the matter dealing with the WikiLeaks publisher would be finally resolved. It had, he asserted, been going on for too long. | Since then, it is very clear, as with all matters regarding US policy, that Australia will, if not agree outright with Washi…

Defending Rights, Dissent. (2023-04-01). Take Action: End The Persecution Of Julian Assange. popularresistance.org Australian publisher Julian Assange is a political prisoner. After being abducted out of the Ecuadorian embassy, he has languished in Belmarsh prison for nearly four years. In the intervening time, press freedom groups, major newspapers, and civil libertarians have all condemned the US's unprecedented charges against Assange. | After years of grassroots advocacy, now members of Congress are starting to speak out. But they need to hear your voice. | Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is currently circulating a sign-on letter calling for Attorney General Merrick Garland to drop the charges against Assange.

WSWS (2023-04-01). Australian Labor government refuses to defend Assange as it backs US plans for war against China. wsws.org Foreign Minister Penny Wong contemptuously rejected calls to intervene in defence of Assange, the Australian citizen and journalist persecuted for exposing the war crimes of the US and its allies.

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-04-01). Australia Isn't A Nation, It's A US Military Base With Kangaroos. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | One of the many, many signs that Australia is nothing more than a US military and intelligence asset is the way its government has consistently refused to intervene to protect Australian citizen Julian Assange from political persecution at the hands of the US empire. | In a new article titled "

Andrew Korybko (2023-04-01). The US-Backed Color Revolution in Israel Just Reached Crisis Proportions. orinocotribune.com By Andrew Korybko — Mar 27, 2023 | At all costs, America believes that it must do whatever's necessary to prevent the Israeli state from exercising its sovereign right under Bibi's restored leadership to balance between the US-led West's Golden Billion and the Sino-Russo Entente in the New Cold War instead of decisively take the former's side against the latter. Most immediately, its "deep state" wants Israel to arm Kiev, which Bibi himself warned earlier this month could abruptly catalyze a crisis with Russia in Syria, thus opening a "second front" in the US' Eurasian-wide "containment" campaign. | There's…

Florence CGTN (2023-04-01). How AI technology helps monitor women's health. america.cgtn.com Artificial intelligence and machine learning are increasingly being used to innovate healthcare. But there are concerns over privacy, particularly in the U.S., where data could be used to prosecute people such as under anti-abortion laws.

WSWS (2023-04-01). Preview release of ChatGPT shows potential of artificial intelligence. wsws.org ChatGPT, released as a free prototype by the research laboratory OpenAI last November, is a powerful artificial intelligence technology with socially transformative potential that is being used under capitalism to eliminate jobs, increase exploitation and automate warfare.

Wei Yu, Nuvpreet Kalra, Melissa Garriga, LA Progressive. (2023-04-01). Warmongers In Congress Use Tik-Tok To Justify Aggression Towards China. popularresistance.org Last Thursday, a Congressional hearing took place where the TikTok CEO was grilled for five hours on the grounds of "security concerns." This was days after the FBI and DOJ launched an investigation on the Chinese-owned American company. Isn't it ironic that while the US government is putting TikTok under the magnifying glass, it's turning a blind eye to its own surveillance programs on the American people? | Ten years ago, Edward Snowden told the whole world the truth about the US global surveillance programs. If Congress cares about our digital privacy, it should first begin by investigating the surveillance po…

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