2023-07-03: News Headlines

African Stream (2023-07-03). The African Angle on WikiLeaks on Julian Assange's 52nd Birthday. towardfreedom.org Julian Assange turns 52 today. The WikiLeaks founder is spending a fourth year at Britain's Belmarsh prison and faces charges in the United States for violating the Espionage Act. But for many, he's an example of a journalist punished for exposing shocking truths about governments and the rich and powerful. African Stream looks at his revelations on Africa.

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-03). World Whistleblower Day protest calls for Assange's release. greenleft.org.au

Staff (2023-07-03). Daniel Ellsberg's Dying Wish: Free Julian Assange, Encourage Whistleblowers & Reveal the Truth. democracynow.org Whistleblower Dan Ellsberg joined us after the Justice Department charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act for publishing U.S. military and diplomatic documents exposing U.S. war crimes. Assange is locked up in London and faces up to 175 years in prison if extradited and convicted in the United States. Ellsberg died in June, and as we remember his life and legacy, we revisit his message for other government insiders who are considering becoming whistleblowers: "My message to them is: Don't do what I did. Don't wait 'til the bombs are actually f…

Lowkey (2023-07-03). How the UK Deep State Took Down Jeremy Corbyn, with Asa Winstanley. mintpressnews.com Lowkey catches up with Associate Editor of Electronic Intifada Asa Winstanley to discuss his new book: Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn.

Editor (2023-07-03). Ralph Nader: What's the Matter with the 'Liberal Press'? scheerpost.com By Ralph Nader / Nader.org David Ignatius, a long-time Washington Post columnist on military intelligence topics, probably never dreamed his newspaper would fill over three full pages serializing his latest work of thrilling fiction, "The Tao of Deception." On June 28, 2023, the "Breaking news and latest headlines" in the A section of the paper featured the …

Editor (2023-07-03). Israel Cannot Rebut Apartheid. scheerpost.com By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On 24 June 2023, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) Herzl Halevi, Chief of Shin Bet (Intelligence) Ronen Bar, and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai released a joint statement. They pointed to 'violent attacks… by Israeli citizens against innocent Palestinians', which they characterised as 'nationalist terror …

_____ (2023-07-03). U.S. Intelligence Agencies Advance Disinformation about Chinese Spy Base in Cuba… transcend.org to Gain Support for Cruel Embargo Costing Cubans $455 Million per Month – After having lied about WMDs, Russiagate, chemical weapons in Syria and so much more, the U.S. is now advancing the lie that Cuba is hosting a Chinese spy base.

Anonymous103 (2023-07-03). By Targeting Ukrainian War Criminals, Moscow Protecting Its Civilians. southfront.org Illustrative ImageAuthorities affected by recent Russian attacks actively participated in the killing of Russian civilians and showed an interest in continuing their criminal actions. | Written by Recently, the whereabouts of Ukrainian officials such as the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Kirill Budanov, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, have come to the attention of people around the world. Ma…

ecns.cn (2023-07-03). Electric cars transform industry with AI tech. ecns.cn New energy vehicles have accelerated an artificial intelligence transformation in the auto industry and brought about new experiences in mobility, a report from research company IDC showed last week.

jamanetwork (2023-07-03). Accuracy of a Generative Artificial Intelligence Model in a Complex Diagnostic Challenge. jamanetwork.com This study assesses the diagnostic accuracy of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) artificial intelligence (AI) model in a series of challenging cases.

jamanetwork (2023-07-03). Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Recommendations From an Online Chat-Based AI Model. jamanetwork.com To the Editor A recent Research Letter suggested that a research version of a dialogue-based artificial intelligence (AI) model (ChatGPT) can potentially assist clinical workflows by augmenting patient education and patient-clinician communication. Studies indicate that this dialogue-based AI model provides appropriate clinical responses and even passes parts of the US Medical Licensing Examination. Language learning models may support patient education and, as they become more accurate, may perform at levels rendering them valid as clinical decision support tools.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-07-03). Mayo Clinic researchers pioneer AI method to predict how cells are organized in disease microenvironments. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Cells in the human body, the building blocks of life, are arranged in a precise way. That's necessary because pathways and spaces provide a means for cells to communicate, collaborate and function within the specific tissue or organ. Changes in cell arrangement can lead to uncontrolled cell growth, cell death and diseases, including cancer. Scientists at the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine and Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed an artificial intelligence method, called Spatially Informed Artificial…

Editor (2023-07-03). Report Shows How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative on Ukraine. scheerpost.com By Bryce Greene / Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) Wealthy donors have long funded think tanks with official-sounding names that produce research that reflects the interests of those funders (Extra!, 7/13). The weapons industry is a major contributor to these idea factories; a recent report from the Quincy Institute (6/1/23) demonstrates just how much influence …

Bryce Greene, Fairness, Accuracy in Reporting. (2023-07-03). How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative On Ukraine. popularresistance.org Wealthy donors have long funded think tanks with official-sounding names that produce research that reflects the interests of those funders (Extra!, 7/13). The weapons industry is a major contributor to these idea factories; a recent report from the Quincy Institute (6/1/23) demonstrates just how much influence war profiteers have on the national discourse. | The Quincy Institute—whose own start-up funding came mainly from George Soros and Charles Koch—looked at 11 months of Ukraine War coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, from March 1, 2022, through January 31, 202…

Mnar Adley (2023-07-03). MintPress News Is Being Targeted: Join Us in Standing up to the War Machine. mintpressnews.com Stand up for truth. Stand up against war. Today, we invite you to join us in empowering MintPress News, the vanguard of fearless investigative journalism that unearths the hidden web of the military industrial complex.

Prentiss Haney (2023-07-03). Ohio Republicans Are Trying to Take Power From Voters. We Won't Let Them. truthout.org On June 26, the United States Supreme Court sent a redistricting challenge to Louisiana's congressional maps back to a lower court, which had ruled the maps likely dilute the Black communities' voting power. The decision paves the way for a second minority-majority district in Louisiana, something for which plaintiffs have advocated for months. The decision — hailed by voting rights advocates in… |

Ashley Curtin (2023-07-03). Supreme Court strikes down President Biden's plan to erase billions in student debt. nationofchange.org In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court claimed that the Biden administration's plan lacked authority and overstepped the powers of the Education Department and instead needed to go through Congress.

Brittani Banks (2023-07-03). Supreme Court Preserves College Preferences for Wealthy Whites. independentmediainstitute.org The United States Supreme Court's recent ruling striking down race as a factor in college and university admissions was in response to a case brought by a conservative organization claiming that Asian Americans are harmed by preferences for people of other nonwhite races. The case, which focused on Harvard University and the University of North …

Editor (2023-07-03). Supreme Court strikes down Biden's partial student loan forgiveness plan, 43 million borrowers denied debt relief. mronline.org The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday with a stroke of the pen blocked a measure that would have provided limited relief for 43 million Americans suffering under a crushing debt burden of $1.7 trillion in outstanding federal student loans.

MALDEF, EducationCounsel, CCO (2023-07-03). Thursday 7/13: Overview of the Supreme Court Decision on Race-Conscious Admissions. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. (2023-07-03). Here's What 'Moore V. Harper' Means For Voting Rights Going Forward. popularresistance.org Chief Justice John Roberts has historically not decided cases in a way that protects voting rights. In 2013, he authored Shelby v. Holder, which drove a stake through the heart of the Voting Rights Act. And in 2021, he voted to further weaken the Act in Brnovich v. DNC. But this past month, Roberts surprisingly authored two new Supreme Court opinions that support the right to vote. | On June 8, the high court struck down a racist congressional district map in Allen v. Milligan, and on June 27, the court preserved judicial review of state legislative enactments in Moore v. Harper.

Mark Gruenberg (2023-07-03). High Court's right-wing onslaught prompts demands for radical judicial reform. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The onslaught of right-wing rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court's Republican-named majority came into sharp relief for the entire country as the justices finished their work on June 30. Three rulings announced in one day last week set off waves of anger and determination to fight against a Court determined to squash existing rights for …

Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley (2023-07-03). Monday 7/3: Unpacking the Supreme Court's ruling on Affirmative Action w/ OBI UC Berkeley. indybay.org Online event…

Robert S. Becker (2023-07-03). Rethugs on a roll—downwards, chancing national threatened species status? nationofchange.org They "won" by owning the Supreme Court,/ Then lost when marked "cruel spoilsport."

WSWS (2023-07-03). The US Supreme Court's rampage against democratic rights. wsws.org The unelected justices, with lifetime appointments, are a critical part of a thoroughly anti-democratic political system controlled by the financial aristocracy.

Larry Johnson (2023-07-03). The Whatsapp Message Published by Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo. Purporting to be From Hunter Biden is likely a Forgery. sonar21.com THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED BY MY FRIEND YAACOV APELBAUM. HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ORIGINAL. Before you jump on the IRS whistleblower bandwagon and his narrative…

Amy Goodman (2023-07-03). Daniel Ellsberg Warned Crisis Over Ukraine and Taiwan Could Lead to Nuclear War. truthout.org Over the past 50 years, Daniel Ellsberg remained an antiwar and anti-nuclear activist who inspired a new generation of whistleblowers. In his last interview with Democracy Now!, in April, he spoke about the war in Ukraine and why it required a diplomatic solution, and about the latest leak of Pentagon documents by Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who has been indicted on six counts of… |

_____ (2023-07-03). "The Doomsday Machine": Confessions of Daniel Ellsberg, Former Nuclear War Planner. transcend.org 1 Jul 2023 – As we remember Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who died in June, we look at how he was also a lifelong anti-nuclear activist, stemming from his time working as a nuclear planner for the U.S. government.

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-03). Daniel Ellsberg: the establishment whistleblower. greenleft.org.au

Ryan Cristián (2023-07-03). France Is Being Used To Justify Total Information Control & Transgender Whistleblower Speaks Out. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (7/3/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

Staff (2023-07-03). Months Before Death, Daniel Ellsberg Warned Crisis over Ukraine & Taiwan Could Lead to Nuclear War. democracynow.org Over the past 50 years, Daniel Ellsberg remained an antiwar and anti-nuclear activist who inspired a new generation of whistleblowers. In his last interview with Democracy Now!, in April, he spoke about the war in Ukraine and why it required a diplomatic solution, and about the latest leak of Pentagon documents by Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who has been indicted on six counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information. We asked Ellsberg about what the leaks say about the war in Ukraine, and discussed his decision in 2021 to leak a classified government report that he had kept in…

Staff (2023-07-03). RIP Daniel Ellsberg: "Most Dangerous Man in America" on Leaking Pentagon Papers, Exposing Gov't Lies. democracynow.org In a special broadcast, we remember the life and legacy of Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who died in June at the age of 92, just months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, then a top military strategist working for the RAND Corporation, risked life in prison by secretly copying and then leaking 7,000 pages of top-secret documents outlining the secret history of the U.S. War in Vietnam. The leak would end up helping to take down President Nixon, accelerate the end of the War in Vietnam and lead to a major victory for press freedom. Henry Kissinger once called El…

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