2023-05-05: News Headlines

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-05-05). Julian Assange And World Press Freedom Day. popularresistance.org The detention and persecution of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. The illegalities, embraced by the Ecuadorian, British, Swedish and U.S. governments are ominous. They presage a world where the internal workings, abuses, corruption, lies and crimes, especially war crimes, carried out by corporate states and the global ruling elite, will be masked from the public. They presage a world where those with the courage and integrity to expose the misuse of power will be hunted down, tortured, subjected to sham trials and given lifetime prison terms in solitary co…

Labor Video Project (2023-05-05). KQED Security Used To Coerce Speak-out on World Press Freedom Day For Assange & Mumia. indybay.org On World Press Freedom Day a rally speak-out was held in front of KQED TV and radio. The station bosses mobilized security to try to coerce and threaten the action.

_____ (2023-05-04). Biden's Atrocious Assange Prosecution. strategic-culture.org By James BOVARD | "A confident government that is unafraid of the truth embraces a free press," proclaimed Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. But he was referring only to the Chinese government crackdown on Hong Kong journalists early last year. Unfortunately, the Biden administration continues rushing to destroy one of the most important truth tellers of our times. | Julian Assange has been locked away for four years in a maximum-security prison in Britain. Assange was initially charged in 2019 with "conspiracy to commit computer intrusion" for allegedly giving advice to Army Corporal Bradley (later Chelsea) Ma…

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-05-05). Julian Assange And World Press Freedom Day. popularresistance.org The detention and persecution of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. The illegalities, embraced by the Ecuadorian, British, Swedish and U.S. governments are ominous. They presage a world where the internal workings, abuses, corruption, lies and crimes, especially war crimes, carried out by corporate states and the global ruling elite, will be masked from the public. They presage a world where those with the courage and integrity to expose the misuse of power will be hunted down, tortured, subjected to sham trials and given lifetime prison terms in solitary co…

Labor Video Project (2023-05-05). KQED Security Used To Coerce Speak-out on World Press Freedom Day For Assange & Mumia. indybay.org On World Press Freedom Day a rally speak-out was held in front of KQED TV and radio. The station bosses mobilized security to try to coerce and threaten the action.

_____ (2023-05-04). Biden's Atrocious Assange Prosecution. strategic-culture.org By James BOVARD | "A confident government that is unafraid of the truth embraces a free press," proclaimed Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. But he was referring only to the Chinese government crackdown on Hong Kong journalists early last year. Unfortunately, the Biden administration continues rushing to destroy one of the most important truth tellers of our times. | Julian Assange has been locked away for four years in a maximum-security prison in Britain. Assange was initially charged in 2019 with "conspiracy to commit computer intrusion" for allegedly giving advice to Army Corporal Bradley (later Chelsea) Ma…

Dave LIndorff (2023-05-04). They Can't Extol US Press Freedom while Seeking to Extradite and Prosecute Publisher Assange. thiscantbehappening.net Today's make or break for President Joe Biden and his wimpy attorney general Merrick Garland on the issue of a free press. The US Constitution, flawed as it is as a founding document, is unequivocal on the matter. Its much cited and touted First Amendment states; "Congress shall make no law…abridging freedom of speech … |

Editor (2023-05-04). Chris Hedges: Julian Assange and World Press Freedom Day. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-05-04). US Double Standards on World Press Freedom Day. scheerpost.com By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter For the United States government, World Press Freedom Day is an opportunity to further project an image of the U.S. as a supposed champion of journalism and human rights. But that projection is muddied greatly by the prosecution against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. An event was hosted by the United Nations …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-04). On World Press Freedom Day, progressives draw attention to Assange and other journalists under attack. peoplesdispatch.org In a Press Freedom Day panel discussion, progressive journalists sought to highlight the ongoing persecution of the WikiLeaks founder and the many ways in which journalists are under attack the world over…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-05-04). After Years Of Refusing To Comment, State Department Backs Assange Prosecution. shadowproof.com On World Press Freedom Day, the United States State Department abandoned its policy of not commenting on the case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and essentially backed the prosecution against him.

Staff (2023-05-04). Headlines for May 4, 2023. democracynow.org Russian Shells Kill 23 in Kherson as Moscow Accuses Ukraine of Drone Attack on Kremlin, Israeli Soldiers Kill 3 Palestinians in Raid on Occupied Nablus, Rwanda Death Toll from Flooding and Landslides Rises to 136, Egypt Frees Al Jazeera Journalist Hisham Abdel Aziz After Four Years Behind Bars, Protesters Confront Blinken over Julian Assange Extradition and Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, Fed Chair Accused of "Aiming to Put People Out of Work" with Latest Interest Rate Hike, Police Arrest Wife of Texas Mass Shooter, Whom She Accused of Domestic Violence, Georgia Police Arrest Mass Shooting Suspect as Se…

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-05-04). Multiple US Officials Confronted About US Assange Hypocrisy On World Press Freedom Day. thealtworld.com

WSWS (2023-05-05). CDC confirms that its 2023 Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference became a COVID superspreader event. wsws.org The four-day conference held in Atlanta, Georgia, last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention became a superspreader event.

Dana Sanchez (2023-05-04). Are Businesses Dying Already From ChatGPT? Chegg Shares Collapse 40% After Disclosing Impact From AI Bots. moguldom.com Chegg, a publicly traded company that provides homework assistance and online tutoring, lost almost half its share price Tuesday after the company said that artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT is hurting its growth. Based in Silicon Valley, Chegg sells subscriptions for academic services that help students with writing, math assignments and studying. ChatGPT, a chatbot tool …

Editor (2023-05-04). You Are Reading This Thanks to Semiconductors. scheerpost.com By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On 7 October 2022, the United States government implemented export controls in an effort to hinder the development of China's semiconductor industry. An expert on the subject told the Financial Times, 'The whole point of the policy is to kneecap China's AI [Artificial Intelligence] and HPC [High Performance Computing] efforts'. The …

The Lever (2023-05-04). üéß LEVER TIME: Will Artificial Intelligence Destroy Us — Or Set Us Free? levernews.com

teleSUR (2023-05-04). Report Discloses CIA Cyberattacks Against Other Countries. telesurenglish.net An investigation report was released Thursday on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), revealing an "empire of hackers" under U.S. manipulation. | RELATED: | Over a long period, the CIA has been secretly orchestrating "color revolutions" around the world, continuously conducting espionage activities, said the report by China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center and internet security company 360. | The…

Anand Naidoo (2023-05-05). The Heat: U.S. Abortion Controversy. america.cgtn.com Abortion rights are no longer guaranteed as several states across the U.S. limit access to the procedure. It was considered a watershed moment in modern American history. Roe v. Wade, a landmark Supreme Court decision in 1973, recognized the right to personal privacy including a …

Amy Goodman (2023-05-04). Supreme Court: Are new ethics rules needed as Gorsuch, Roberts & Thomas face questions over finances? nationofchange.org "Because they don't have an ethics code, you don't know whether they're doing things in an above-board way."

Joshua Kaplan (2023-05-04). Billionaire Harlan Crow Paid for Clarence Thomas's Great-Nephew's Private School. truthout.org In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was far from home. For the previous decade, he had lived with the justice and his wife in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Thomas had taken legal custody of Martin when he was 6 years old and had recently… |

Sharon Zhang (2023-05-04). Report: Central Legal Case Against Student Debt Relief Is "Fundamentally False" truthout.org An argument at the very center of Republican attorney generals' Supreme Court case against President Joe Biden's student debt cancellation analysis is based on a "fundamentally false" assertion, according to a new and apparent first-of-its-kind analysis released this week. The central theory of standing for Biden v. Nebraska — the case brought by six Republican state attorneys general… |

Gordon Duff (2023-05-04). Willful Ignorance Has Killed America, It Just Doesn't Know it Yet. thealtworld.com A recent set of scandals involving the Supreme Court of the United States has rocked the nation. However, these scandals are years old, all pushed off the mainstream news and social media by powerful organizations. Four of nine justices are involved, Thomas, Roberts, Kavanaugh and former Justice Scalia. Sources tell us two more are involved and that powerful oligarchs such as Elon Musk are being looked at as well. We begin. | A story tying Justice Clarence Thomas to a worldwide pedophile ring was published in varying media, including by Democratic Party publicists at Mideas Touch Network on or around April 10, 20…

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