2023-08-18: News Headlines

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-08-18). Argentineans demand Julian Assange's release. plenglish.com Buenos Aires, Aug 18 (Prensa Latina) Intellectuals, politicians and human rights defenders in Argentina will arrive rally at the United Kingdom's Embassy in here on Saturday to demand the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Télam news agency reported on Friday.

Ford Fischer, News2Share. (2023-08-18). Randy Credico Leads Blockade Of DOJ Entrance For Julian Assange. popularresistance.org Randy Credico attempted a civil disobedience rally/blockade Wednesday of the Department of Justice in Washington DC along along with Kathy Boylan of Dorothy Day Catholic Worker demanding a meeting to request the release of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. | Kathy Boylan, protesting in front of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in DC, was wearing a Kennedy 2024 shirt. She tells News2Share that "when he is elected, Robert Kennedy Jr has promised to free Julian Assange, truth-tellers, and whistleblowers." | Ultimately, Credico allowed people past his blockade, and police didn't arrest him, instea…

Global Research News (2023-08-18). Selected Articles: The Day American Journalism Died. globalresearch.ca By Julian Assange sits in jail.

Editor (2023-08-18). Assange Be Weary: The Dangers of a US Plea Deal. scheerpost.com By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch At every stage of its proceedings against Julian Assange, the US Imperium has shown little by way of tempering its vengeful impulses. The WikiLeaks publisher, in uncovering the sordid, operational details of a global military power, would always have to pay. Given the 18 charges he faces, 17 fashioned from …

Prem Thakker (2023-08-17). U.S. Official Hints at Possible Plea Deal for Julian Assange. globalresearch.ca

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-18). Science Saturday: Confronting polycystic kidney disease, a silent killer. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Researchers at the Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Center at Mayo Clinic now use artificial intelligence (AI) to assess total kidney volume, generating results in a matter of seconds. The goal is to help diagnose PKD. When Fouad Chebib, M.D., was 16 years old, his father sat him and his sister down and told them he had polycystic kidney disease (PKD). The kidneys of people with the condition become jammed with dense, fluid-filled sacs, causing them to increase in size…

Ann Brown (2023-08-17). Co-Founder Of Wikipedia: CIA And FBI Manipulate Wikipedia, It's Part Of The Information Battlefield. moguldom.com The co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, is making some serious allegations about the manipulation of information on the platform by intelligence agencies, specifically the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In a Twitter video, Sanger claimed these agencies use Wikipedia as part of an "information battlefield." Internet project developer Sanger, 54, and …

infobrics (2023-08-17). UK about to send Ukrainian neo-Nazi mercenaries to Africa. infobrics.org British intelligence agency is allegedly involved in move to neutralize pro-Russian wave in African countries.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-08-17). Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Came to Power in Carefully Planned Operation Coordinated by Western Intelligence Services, Says Former U.S. Diplomat. globalresearch.ca

teleSUR (2023-08-17). Sweden Raises Terror Threat to Second Highest Level. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Sweden raised the terrorist threat level to the second-highest due to several factors, including protests from various Muslim countries over recent Quran burnings. | RELATED: | For the first time in seven years, the threat has shifted from the third to the fourth level on a five-point scale, now categorized as "high." However, intelligence services (Sà§po) rejected the existence of specific suspici…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-08-17). 'Problem Patients': How Dialysis Corporations Deal With Sick People Who Challenge Their Malpractice. thedissenter.org Tom Mueller, author of a book on monopolistic dialysis companies, describes how DaVita and Fresenius deny care to whistleblowing patients.

repost (2023-08-18). Tom Hayden: The CIA Student-Activism Phase & Ian Masters On KPFA. indybay.org The bringing on of pro-war propagandist propagandist Ian Masters raises question about who is running KPFA and "The Protectors"

Editor (2023-08-18). Bolsonaro's Butchery: CIA Fingerprints Are All Over Brazil's Indigenous Genocide. scheerpost.com

teleSUR (2023-08-18). Brasilia Police Officers Arrested for Omission in January Coup. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the Brazilian Federal Police carry out an operation against Brasilia's police authorities who failed to act properly during the coup attempt on January 8 when supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro attacked the buildings of the three branches. | RELATED: | The federal agents comply with seven arrest warrants issued by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) at the request of the Attorney General's Office (PG…

Sharon Zhang (2023-08-17). Supreme Court Rebuffed Democrats' Call for Thomas Probe With Just One Sentence. truthout.org Earlier this year, a group of Democrats urged Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to open a probe into Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito after journalists uncovered egregious corruption in the form of alleged violations of the court's ethics code and financial disclosure requirements. Chief Justice Roberts rebuffed their call, as new reporting reveals, with just one sentence… |

Staff (2023-08-17). Headlines for August 17, 2023. democracynow.org Hawaii Officials Defend Response to Wildfires; Gov. Calls for Moratorium on Lahaina Land Purchases, Yellowknife Orders Evacuation of 20,000 Residents as Record Wildfires Continue to Devastate Canada, Appeals Court Backs Restrictions on Abortion Pill, Sending Case to Supreme Court, 60 Asylum Seekers Feared Dead Near Cape Verde, ECOWAS Military Chiefs Meet over Niger Coup Amid Mounting Humanitarian Concerns, Libya Fighting Kills 55 People, U.N. Warns of "Spiralling" Humanitarian Situation in Sudan as Army Leader Says Talks Needed, NATO Official Apologizes for Saying Ukraine Could Give Up Territory in Ex…

Anonymous (2023-08-18). Update: LAVC Administrator Retaliated Against Student Whistleblowers She Stalked. indybay.org Update: New Documents. Students at Los Angeles Valley College serving Van Nuys, North Hollywood, Burbank, Toluca Lake, Sherman Oaks, etc . . . were targeted and stalked by School Administrator Annie Goldman-Reed after reporting payroll fraud, wage theft, academic fraud, grant fraud and more.

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