2023-06-13: News Headlines

Tareq Haddad, Consortium News. (2023-06-13). Jonathan Swift's Lilliputian Reasoning. popularresistance.org Four years into Julian Assange's imprisonment at H.M.P. Belmarsh and four years since plain-clothed officers from London's Metropolitan Police Service dragged the WikiLeaks journalist and publisher out of Ecuador's London embassy, taking him from Kensington to a maximum-security prison, a British judge last week rejected two separate applications made by Assange's lawyers to appeal his extradition to the United States — striking down all submitted grounds. | In making his judgements, Justice Jonathan Swift, formerly a lawyer for the British government [whose favourite clients he says were the intelligence s…

Editor (2023-06-12). The D-Notice: Very British State Censorship. scheerpost.com By Kit Klarenberg / Substack Julian Assange is "dangerously close" to being extradited to the US after losing his latest legal appeal. In a three-page judgment handed down on June 6th, British High Court judge Justice Jonathan Swift rejected all eight grounds of Julian's appeal against the US extradition order, signed by then-Home Secretary Priti Patel a …

WSWS (2023-06-12). UK Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer slanders Roger Waters, demands censorship. wsws.org Waters' steadfast criticism of NATO's war in Ukraine, defence of the Palestinians from Israeli state repression and support for the imprisoned anti-war journalist Julian Assange has earned him the ire of imperialist governments everywhere.

Anonymous765 (2023-06-13). Locations Of US Carrier Strike Groups — June 13, 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. | | Carrier strike group (CSG) is an operational formation of the United States Navy. It is centered on an aircraft carrier and a carrier air w…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-06-13). Video: Fake Intelligence and the Destruction of Iraq. globalresearch.ca


Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (2023-06-13). U.S. and UK reach 'first of its kind' agreement on renewable energy and AI. nationofchange.org "The United States and the United Kingdom recognize Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform our societies and economies and share a commitment to the role of government action to unlock the opportunities and mitigate the risks arising from the rapid development of these technologies."

teleSUR (2023-06-13). UN Sec-Gen A. Guterres Supports Creation of AI Advisory Body. telesurenglish.net On Monday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated hi fully supports the establishment of an AI watchdog similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency. | Related: | "It's my intention to create a high-level advisory body on artificial intelligence to seriously prepare the different kinds of initiatives that we will be able to take … I would be favorable to the idea that we could have an artificial intelligence, an agency,…

Dave DeCamp (2023-06-12). Israel Creates New Military Intelligence Unit to Prepare for War With Iran. news.antiwar.com Israel's military has created a new intelligence unit to prepare for war with Iran amid simmering tensions between the two nations, Ynet reported on Sunday. Israel has been conducting a covert war against Iran for some time, but in recent years, Israeli officials have been speaking more openly about the fact that they're preparing for …

_____ (2023-06-12). A Chaotic Re-Sorting: Europe's 'Seminal Shift' Is (Broadly) Moving in the Same Direction as U.S. Politics. strategic-culture.org Europe it seems is (broadly) moving in the same direction as U.S. politics, Alastair Crooke writes. | The backlash has started. It has been slow to emerge, and is lagging that of the U.S., yet it has begun in earnest. It is, as Wolfgang Màºnchau, a former FT journalist and editor of EuroIntelligence, has It is likely to reshape politics along a new fault-line: No longer the banal issues of 'uni-party' (pro-Establishment) politics: marginal tax rates; easy monetar…

_____ (2023-06-12). Imperial Blowback and the CIA's 'Tainted Source'. strategic-culture.org America's premier intelligence service has a fundamental design flaw. | By Chad NAGLE | Among the most recent redactions lifted on documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy housed at the National Archives are two lines in a fifteen-page memorandum from presidential aide Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.—"SUBJECT: CIA Reorganization"—written in June 1961 at Kennedy's request. In the memo, Schlesinger proposes "a fairly drastic rearrangement of our current intelligence set-up." Although almost a page-and-a-half remains redacted, recently disclosed text includes the title sentence of t…




WSWS (2023-06-12). The Trump indictment and the "national security" secrets of the state. wsws.org Amidst the voluminous media commentary on the indictment, there is little discussion of the content of the documents Trump removed from the White House, which involve the most dangerous and explosive secrets of the US military and intelligence apparatus.

_____ (2023-06-12). Leaks Reveal FBI Helps Ukraine Censor Twitter Users and Obtain Their Info. transcend.org 7 Jun 2023 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal.

Dave DeCamp (2023-06-12). China Denies Allegations That It's Spying on the US from Cuba. news.antiwar.com The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday denied allegations that China was spying on the US from Cuba and criticized the conflicting information coming from the US government and media outlets. The Wall Street Journal first reported last week that Beijing and Havana reached an agreement "in principle" on establishing a Chinese spy facility in Cuba. …

Jeremy Kuzmarov, CovertAction Magazine. (2023-06-13). Israeli State And Lyndon B Johnson Deliberately Murdered 34 US Sailors. popularresistance.org On June 8, 1967, Israeli air and naval forces—with covered over insignia—fired rockets, torpedoes and napalm on a U.S. spy ship, the USS Liberty, in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 34 Americans and injuring 174 more. A secret congressional hearing revealed that two of the pilots were Americans—ex-Navy fliers.[1] | A survivor stated that the ship's deck afterwards looked "like the floor of a slaughterhouse, with pieces of flesh, bone, hair, various organs and everything else…held in place by dried blood." | In 2021, the CIA released three one-page information reports from June and October 1967,…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-06-12). Neo-Nazi Regiments in the Ukraine Army? It's Perfectly Ok with U.S. State Department and CIA—and Its Reliable New York Times Echo Chamber—as Long as They Hide Those Nasty Neo-Nazi Insignia. covertactionmagazine.com Bellingcat is a Netherlands-based investigative research group that received funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA cutout that promotes propaganda denigrating U.S. enemies and defending U.S.-NATO foreign policy. On June 6, one of its researchers, Michael Colborne, provided a tortured defense essentially of the adoption of Nazi insignia by Ukrainian soldiers on …

WSWS (2023-06-12). The Trump indictment and the "national security" secrets of the state. wsws.org Amidst the voluminous media commentary on the indictment, there is little discussion of the content of the documents Trump removed from the White House, which involve the most dangerous and explosive secrets of the US military and intelligence apparatus.

_____ (2023-06-12). Leaks Reveal FBI Helps Ukraine Censor Twitter Users and Obtain Their Info. transcend.org 7 Jun 2023 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal.

Dave DeCamp (2023-06-12). China Denies Allegations That It's Spying on the US from Cuba. news.antiwar.com The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday denied allegations that China was spying on the US from Cuba and criticized the conflicting information coming from the US government and media outlets. The Wall Street Journal first reported last week that Beijing and Havana reached an agreement "in principle" on establishing a Chinese spy facility in Cuba. …

Jeremy Kuzmarov, CovertAction Magazine. (2023-06-13). Israeli State And Lyndon B Johnson Deliberately Murdered 34 US Sailors. popularresistance.org On June 8, 1967, Israeli air and naval forces—with covered over insignia—fired rockets, torpedoes and napalm on a U.S. spy ship, the USS Liberty, in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 34 Americans and injuring 174 more. A secret congressional hearing revealed that two of the pilots were Americans—ex-Navy fliers.[1] | A survivor stated that the ship's deck afterwards looked "like the floor of a slaughterhouse, with pieces of flesh, bone, hair, various organs and everything else…held in place by dried blood." | In 2021, the CIA released three one-page information reports from June and October 1967,…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-06-12). Neo-Nazi Regiments in the Ukraine Army? It's Perfectly Ok with U.S. State Department and CIA—and Its Reliable New York Times Echo Chamber—as Long as They Hide Those Nasty Neo-Nazi Insignia. covertactionmagazine.com Bellingcat is a Netherlands-based investigative research group that received funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA cutout that promotes propaganda denigrating U.S. enemies and defending U.S.-NATO foreign policy. On June 6, one of its researchers, Michael Colborne, provided a tortured defense essentially of the adoption of Nazi insignia by Ukrainian soldiers on …

Laura Moraff (2023-06-12). Core First Amendment Rights are Implicated in This Supreme Court Case about True Threats. aclu.org The internet is full of strong, impassioned, sometimes offensive language. In response to an activist's post about being choked by a sheriff's deputy, someone

Fight Back (2023-06-12). On June 24, take to the streets in protest as we reach one year without Roe! fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following joint call to action from the Reproductive Justice Action – Milwaukee and the Minnesota Abortion Action Committee. | Since the summer of 2022, the fight for reproductive rights has been front and center in the people's movements, as the Supreme Court has demonstrated that long held protections and fundamental human rights can be stripped from the masses quickly and without remorse. The overturning of Roe vs. Wade on June 24, 2022 effectively revoked federal protections for a person's right to an abortion, meaning that states with conservative majorities across…

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