2023-09-05: News Headlines

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2023-09-05). What's Behind Talk Of A Possible Plea Deal For Assange? popularresistance.org Australia has too often behaved as a doormat to the United States, to the point where Australia is threatening its own security by going along with an aggressive U.S. policy towards China, which poses no threat to Australia. | But this time, Blinken got an earful. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reiterated that he wanted the Assange case to be dropped. Certain members of Parliament brusquely gave it back to Blinken. | Assange was "not the villain … and if the US wasn't obsessed with revenge it would drop the extradition charge as soon as possible," Independent MP Andrew Wilkie told The Guardian's Australian edi…

_____ (2023-09-04). Tracking Orwellian Change: New Meanings of "Deep State" and "Working Class" transcend.org 30 Aug 2023 – Today's theme involves once-embraced liberal terminology re-branded as right-wing and therefore infamous, false, or seditious: DEEP STATE.

ecns.cn (2023-09-05). Xi's exchanges with people in U.S. pay off. ecns.cn The upcoming 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, have set the stage for more than just athletes, as a group of young people from both China and the United States is seeking to provide new artificial intelligence services and functions to make the sporting event even greater.

John McEvoy (2023-09-05). Commemorating September 11, 1973: Britain Secretly Helped Chile's Military Intelligence After Pinochet Coup. globalresearch.ca

Ediz Tiyansan (2023-09-04). The impact of AI on labor market. america.cgtn.com During the next five years, 75% of organizations are expected to adopt artificial intelligence into their practices, according to a study by the World Economic Forum, which suggests a job loss rate of about 25 percent directly related to AI adoption. | CGTN's Ediz Tiyansan met with founders of one of the many start-up tech companies that are aiming to use AI to save resources like time and money in a variety of industries. | His report takes a look at what AI could mean for the labor market.

Fight Back (2023-09-04). Chicago Mayor Johnson proclaims Chairman Fred Hampton Day. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. has spent his entire life fighting to carry forward the revolutionary legacy of the Black Panther Party. Chairman Fred Hampton Sr. was assassinated in hail of bullets from a combined Chicago Police Department, FBI, Illinois States Attorney's Office death squad on December 4, 1969. The 4: 30 a.m. raid was part of a nationwide counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO) against the Black Panther Party and other revolutionary organizations. | Chairman Fred Jr. has always kept the revolutionary struggle front and center. August 30 is Chairman Fred Sr.'s birthday. Every year th…

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Lowkey (2023-09-05). Understanding the Niger Coup, with David Hundeyin. mintpressnews.com The MintPress podcast, "The Watchdog," hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know — including intelligence, lobby and special interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. "The Watchdog" goes against the grain by casting a light on stories largely ignored by the mainstream, corporate media. | | The world holds its breath. Last month, the Nigerien military overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum, decl…

ecns.cn (2023-09-04). Nation sets impressive pace on AI applications. ecns.cn The meteoric rise of generative artificial intelligence has the potential to be a major game changer for businesses, industry experts said.

Paul Street (2023-09-05). The Chicago Non-Defender's Cowardly Cuddle with Anti-Communist Cancel Culture. counterpunch.org The Chicago Defender and the "Eye of the [Racist-Imperialist United States] Government" One Century Ago First, some haunting history. In early 1918, an agent from United States (US) Military Intelligence visited the offices of The Chicago Defender, the most influential Black newspaper in the US. Read by masses of Black folks north and south, the

_____ (2023-09-04). Australian Intelligence Agency Funding Research to Merge Human Brain Cells with AI. transcend.org

Larry Johnson (2023-09-04). U.S. Intelligence Community Sending Mixed Messages on Ukraine. sonar21.com The U.S. Intelligence Community is not a monolith. It is more like a feudal society. The big three Feudal lords for intelligence analysis are the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the…

Alan MacLeod (2023-09-04). Documents Show Taiwan Working With FBI To Prosecute Chinese Americans, Intimidate US Politicians. orinocotribune.com By Alan Macleod — Aug 18, 2023 | Amid a controversial visit from Vice President William Lai (the front-runner to be his country's next leader), official documents reviewed by "MintPress News" show that the Taiwanese government is attempting to drum up anti-China hostility, influence and intimidate American politicians and is even working with the FBI and other agencies to spy on and prosecute Chinese American citizens. | Key points of this investigation | ‚Ä¢ Taiwanese officials are monitoring Chinese Americans and passing intelligence to the FBI in attempts to have them prosecuted. | ‚…

Medea Benjamin (2023-09-05). Is CIA Director Bill Burns a Biden Yes-Man, a Putin Apologist or a Peacemaker? globalresearch.ca

Staff (2023-09-05). "Doing Harm": Roy Eidelson on the American Psychological Association's Embrace of U.S. Torture Program. democracynow.org A military judge at Guantánamo has thrown out the confessions of Saudi man Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri because he had been tortured and waterboarded at secret CIA black sites in Afghanistan, Thailand, Poland, Romania and Morocco before being sent to Guantánamo. Psychologists James Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen, who were paid at least $81 million by the CIA to develop and then implement the CIA's post-9/11 torture program, had waterboarded al-Nashiri at a CIA black site. We get response from Roy Eidelson and discuss his new book, Doing Harm, which investigates the American Psychological Association's comp…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-09-04). The Betrayal, Arrest and 27-Year Imprisonment of Nelson Mandela: CIA Still Refuses to Declassify Documents Exposing Its Responsibility. globalresearch.ca

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-09-04). Son of Slain Journalist Who Exposed Web of CIA Corruption Calling For New Murder Investigation. covertactionmagazine.com Danny Casolaro's Death in August 1991 Was Ruled a Suicide But Overwhelming Evidence Indicates That He Was Murdered—Likely by Rogue Elements of the CIA in Collaboration with the Kuwaiti Royal Family When a housekeeper at the Martinsburg, West Virginia, Sheraton Hotel entered Room 517 on the morning of August 10, 1991, she found journalist Danny …

Anna Massoglia (2023-09-04). New Filings Reveal More Luxury Trips and Payments to Ginni Thomas. truthout.org Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reported more trips paid for by Texas billionaire and Republican megadonor Harlan Crow in 2022, according to a newly-filed disclosure detailing the justice's financial dealings. The new financial disclosure reveals that Crow — who is described in the new filing as "a longtime friend of filer and his wife" —- paid for Thomas' travel to speak at a conference in… |

Mark Gruenberg (2023-09-05). Trump faces Manhattan trial Oct. 2 unless he pays $250M. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK—Donald Trump will face yet another trial, in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan on October 2. That is unless he, his company and his kids pay New York State at least $250 million first, to settle massive fraud claims. So says New York Attorney General Letitia "Tish" James in a 100-page filing …

Stephen Cooper (2023-09-05). Has the Texas Lawyer's Creed Gone to Seed? An Exploration of Professional Ethics and the Death Penalty. counterpunch.org The "Texas Lawyer's Creed" was promulgated by the Supreme Court of Texas and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on November 7, 1989. Established to eliminate abusive tactics within the practice of law, it was thought to be a seminal moment in the legal profession; the culmination of months of hard work and spirited debate

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