2023-05-30: News Headlines

Staff (2023-05-29). Free Julian Assange: Noam Chomsky, Dan Ellsberg & Jeremy Corbyn Lead Call at Belmarsh Tribunal. democracynow.org Former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and famed linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky joined others earlier this year calling on President Biden to drop charges against Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks founder has been languishing for over four years in the harsh Belmarsh prison in London while appealing extradition to the United States. If he is extradited, tried and convicted, Assange faces up to 175 years in jail for violating the U.S. Espionage Act for publishing documents that exposed U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Belmarsh Tribunal at the National…

Dana Sanchez (2023-05-30). Highlights From Nvidia CEO's Commencement Speech On How AI Will Change Industries, The World. moguldom.com Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told recent graduates at National Taiwan University that they have good timing, starting their careers at the rebirth of the computer industry with boundless opportunities in artificial intelligence. The timing is parallel, he said, to the world he entered when he graduated 40 years ago at the dawn of …

Anonymous103 (2023-05-30). 2 Patriot Systems, 29 Storm Shadow Missiles, Headquarters Of Military Intelligence in Kiev: Russia Assessed Ukrainian Losses. southfront.org The Russian military continues its effective massive precision strikes on the military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine…

Anonymous765 (2023-05-30). Locations Of US Carrier Strike Groups — May 30, 2023. southfront.org This is the newest update of the 'U.S. Carrier Strike Groups Locations Map' exclusive series showing the approximate locations of U.S. Carrier Strike Groups. SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence tracks locations of U.S. aircraft carriers using the available open-source information. No classified information was used in production of the map. | click to see the full-size image | Carrier strike group (CSG) is an operational formation of the United States Navy. It is centered on an aircraft carrier and a carrier air…

_____ (2023-05-29). Censorship at the American Psychological Association. transcend.org There's more than a little irony in the APA's decision to quash Arrigo's article; it examines the damage and danger of letting military-intelligence interests covertly interfere in the proper functioning of psychological science.

_____ (2023-05-29). Coherence of Sustainable Development Goals through Artificial Intelligence. transcend.org Elaboration of Strategic Sonnets as Memorable 14-Fold Modes of Aesthetic Presentation…

Anonymous103 (2023-05-29). Military Situation In Iraq On May 29, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On May 29, Qasim al-Aarji, Iraq's national security adviser, met and discussed with Ali Akbar Ahmadian, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council in Tehran; | On May 27, Qasim al-Aarji, Iraq's national security adviser, headed a security delegation which entered Sulaimaniyah to review measures related to the implementation of the security memorandum between Iran and Iraq regarding border security; | On May 26, the National Intelligence Service of Iraq arrested a…

Staff (2023-05-30). "King: A Life": New Bio Details Extensive FBI Spying & How MLK's Criticism of Malcolm X Was Fabricated. democracynow.org We speak in depth with journalist Jonathan Eig about his new book, King: A Life, the first major biography of the civil rights leader in more than 35 years, which draws on unredacted FBI files, as well as the files of the personal aide to President Lyndon Baines Johnson, to show how Johnson and others partnered in the FBI's surveillance of King and efforts to destroy him, led by director J. Edgar Hoover. Eig also interviewed more than 200 people, including many who knew King closely, like the singer, actor and activist Harry Belafonte. The book has also drawn attention for its revelation that King was less…

Editor (2023-05-30). The Grayzone Debates National Endowment for Democracy on Group's CIA Ties. scheerpost.com The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) contacted The Grayzone to dispute our characterization of their organization as a CIA cutout. Listen to our highly revealing conversation with the NED's communications director.

Alexander Rubinstein (2023-05-29). The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group's CIA ties. thegrayzone.com The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) contacted The Grayzone to dispute our characterization of their organization as a CIA cutout. Listen to our highly revealing conversation with the NED's communications director. On April 4, 2023, National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Vice President of Communications and Public Engagement Leslie Aun contacted me, Alex Rubinstein, to request a phone conversation about an article I published at The Grayzone a day before. My report detailed the open justification of the terrorist bombing of …

Kevin Gosztola (2023-05-30). Film Review: Reproducing FBI's Interrogation Of Whistleblower Reality Winner. thedissenter.org Before the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested NSA whistleblower Reality Winner, agents surrounded her home in Augusta, Georgia. Two agents interrogated Winner without advising her of her rights. But when Winner's defense attorneys tried to suppress incriminating statements that she made, the FBI and United States Justice Department contended that Winner had always been "free to leave." | Playwright Tina Satter's first feature film "Reality," which premiered on HBO on May 29, shows the control that FBI agents immediately established over Winner at her relatively small home. It discred…

Albert C. Lin (2023-05-29). Supreme Court "Sackett" Decision Shrinks Protections for US Wetlands. truthout.org The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in Sackett v. EPA that federal protection of wetlands encompasses only those wetlands that directly adjoin rivers, lakes and other bodies of water. This is an extremely narrow interpretation of the Clean Water Act that could expose many wetlands across the U.S. to filling and development. Under this keystone environmental law, federal agencies take the lead in… |

Ana Luisa Brown (2023-05-29). Lopez Obrador criticizes violence by supporters of Mexico's SCNJ. plenglish.com Mexico City, May 29 (Prensa Latina) The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, today criticized supporters of the National Supreme Court of Justice (SCNJ) in their Sunday's march when they attacked opposing groups.

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (2023-05-29). Supreme Court ruling against EPA 'undoes a half-century of progress' in protecting waters of the United States. nationofchange.org "It puts our Nation's wetlands — rivers, streams, lakes, and ponds connected to them — at risk of pollution and destruction, jeopardizing the sources of clean water that millions of American families, farmers, and businesses rely on."

Robert Hunziker (2023-05-29). Supremes Declare War on Wetlands. dissidentvoice.org Image credit: Boreal Conservation The Supreme Court is effectively axing a major component of the Clean Water Act, rolling back 50 years of wetland protection in a declaration of war against nature by changing a word in the text of the Clean Water Act. Seldom, if ever, will repercussions of a Supreme Court decision be …

Justin Smulison (2023-05-30). Honoring Military Whistleblowers on Memorial Day. globalresearch.ca

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