2023-08-29: News Headlines

Labor Video Project (2023-08-28). KPFA Journalist Frank Sterling, , Elections, Pacifica & The Fight Against The Racist Anti. indybay.org KPFA journalist Frank Sterling and KPFA LSB candidate Steve Zeltzer speak out about the refusal of the KPFA Local Station Board group "The Protectors" to support a resolution calling for the dropping of Antioch police charges against journalist Frank Sterling. The KPFA Local station board and the past manager have refused to also call for the freedom of journalist s Mumia Abu-jamal and Julian Assange. KPFA also put on programmer Ian Masters who has said he is for keeping Mumia in jail and the supporters of Mumia are dupes.

Marjorie Cohn (2023-08-28). Extradition of Julian Assange threatens First Amendment, Press Freedom. indybay.org JURIST: My favorite Supreme Court Justice of all time is William O. Douglas. A staunch defender of the First Amendment, he asserted in his book Points of Rebellion, "We must realize that today's Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution."

Redazione Roma, Pressenza. (2023-08-28). On September 2, Worldwide Rallies For Julian Assange At Australian Embassies. popularresistance.org Recently (29 July 2023), US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, on a visit to Australia, rejected the call by his Australian counterpart to put an end to the U.S.'s judicial persecution of Julian Assange. Blinken justified his refusal by saying that Assange, with his revelations of US/UK war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, had "risked causing very serious harm to [US] national security." | But notice his choice of words. Blinken did not state that Assange had actually caused harm (as was claimed at the time of the revelations); he is simply alleged to have risked — hypothetically — causing harm, which…

ecns.cn (2023-08-28). Degree revocation to battle AI thesis writing in China. ecns.cn Students at Chinese universities who utilize artificial intelligence to ghostwrite their academic theses may have their degrees revoked, according to a draft law on academic degrees.

Ali Abunimah (2023-08-29). Elizabeth Tsurkov's Iraq travel was not authorized, Princeton confirms. electronicintifada.net Mystery remains over activities of detained Israeli intelligence veteran and graduate student.

Dave DeCamp (2023-08-28). Report: Ukrainian Drone Attacks Inside Russia Use Western Intelligence. news.antiwar.com The Economist reported Sunday that Ukraine's increasing drone attacks inside Russia are carried out using intelligence gathered by Kyiv's Western backers. The report cited sources close to Ukrainian drone developers and Ukrainian military insiders, including a drone coordinator within Ukraine's military intelligence. It detailed the planning that goes into the drone attacks, which involves gathering …

Jake Johnson (2023-08-28). US Declassifies Docs Related to Chile Coup Following Pressure From Progressives. truthout.org The U.S. State Department has declassified a pair of documents related to events leading up to the 1973 coup in Chile, a violent assault on democracy covertly backed by the Central Intelligence Agency. The two documents were made public late last week following renewed calls for transparency by U.S. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Greg Casar (D-Texas), and other progressive lawmakers who… |

ecsorinoco (2023-08-28). Brazil's Supreme Court Rules Homophobic Hate Speech Can Result in Prison Time. orinocotribune.com In Brazil, the use of homophobic slurs is now punishable by up to 5 years on prison. | The country's Supreme Court ruled on According to

Staff (2023-08-29). Judge in D.C. Sets Trump Trial for March 4 & Rejects Trump Lawyer's Citation of Scottsboro Boys Case. democracynow.org We continue to look at Donald Trump's mounting legal battles with constitutional law professor Anthony Michael Kreis. Trump's federal trial for election interference is set to begin in Washington, D.C., in March, but his legal team argued this week for a two-year delay, citing the case of the Scottsboro Boys, nine young Black men who were falsely accused of raping a white woman and convicted in a rushed trial before the Supreme Court ultimately intervened. "It's offensive," Kreis says of the comparison. "To claim that Donald Trump is a victim of some unlawful, unruly criminal justice…

Patricia Harrity (2023-08-28). Whistleblower Who Disclosed Myocarditis Spike in Military After COVID Vaccine Rollout Goes Public. expose-news.com

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