2023-10-06: News Headlines

Alex Bainbridge (2023-10-06). Momentum builds to free Assange. greenleft.org.au A cross-party delegation of Australian politicians visited the United States in September to lobby for an end to US attempts to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, reports Alex Bainbridge.

Eve Ottenberg (2023-10-06). Past Time to End the Persecution of Julian Assange. counterpunch.org It's long past time for the U.S. and U.K. to free Julian Assange. His flagrantly unjust incarceration is a global scandal, and the world is quite upset about it. Indeed, on September 19 at the United Nations, heads of state denounced this phony prosecution for the fraud and subterfuge it is — an assault on

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-10-05). Journalism Itself Is Locked Up In Belmarsh. caitlinjohnstone.com.au To accept the persecution of Julian Assange is to accept the idea that all media everywhere must function as propaganda organs of the US government.

Margaret Flowers (2023-10-05). Julian Assange May Be Extradited to the United States This Month. orinocotribune.com

infobrics (2023-10-06). Kiev regime repurposing airfields, civilian infrastructure for F-16s. infobrics.org Russian intelligence determined that there's a possibility that the Neo-Nazi junta will use newly established bases to receive F-16s directly from Poland and Romania, with civilian airfields in Lvov, Odessa and Nikolayev being the most likely candidates.

Jeffrey St. Clair (2023-10-06). The Mind-Breakers: the Case of Ramzi Bin al-Shibh. counterpunch.org On the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) forces raided several houses in Karachi, hunting for suspected members of Al Qaeda. In one of the incursions, the Pakistanis captured a young Yemeni man named Ramzi bin Al-Shibh. Three days later, the Pakistanis turned Bin al-Shibh and Hassan bin Attash, a 17-year-old Saudi, over to the CIA, who renditioned the pair into what was known as the Dark Prison outside Kabul, where, according to an account Bin al-Shibh later gave to the International Red Cross, he was stripped of his clothes, denied food and water and kept shackled…

Michael Snyder (2023-10-06). The Great AI Invasion: Given Enough Time, Artificial Intelligence Would Take Over Every Area of Our Lives. globalresearch.ca

Dana Sanchez (2023-10-05). CEO Of Largest U.S. Bank Jamie Dimon Predicts AI-Driven 3.5-Day Work Week. moguldom.com Live to be 100, don't get cancer, and a 3.5-day work week — that's the quality of life JP Morgan Chase & Co CEO Jamie Dimon predicts for future generations thanks to artificial intelligence — even if some jobs get lost along the way. "Your children are going to live to 100 and not have …

Jon Miltimore (2023-10-06). Three Questions for Dr. Fauci on His Alleged Secret Visit to CIA Headquarters. globalresearch.ca

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-05). Bolivia: US Promotes Division. libya360.wordpress.com Mg. José A. Amesty Rivera CIA agent and US diplomat Debra Hevia On September 14, the U.S. Embassy announced the arrival of the new Chargé d'Affaires to Bolivia, career diplomat Debra Hevia, with extensive experience in Latin America and specifically in Bolivia, where she has already served two diplomatic missions. Her most recent assignment was…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-10-05). America's War on Afghanistan, October 7, 2001: From Reagan's "Soviet-Afghan War" (1979) to George W. Bush's "Global War on Terrorism" globalresearch.ca Osama bin Laden was recruited by the CIA in 1979. The US spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-10-05). America's War on Afghanistan, October 7, 2001: From Reagan's "Soviet-Afghan War" (1979) to George W. Bush's "Global War on Terrorism. globalresearch.ca Osama bin Laden was recruited by the CIA in 1979. The US spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings.

Justin Elliott (2023-10-05). Even by His Interpretation of Disclosure Law, Thomas Looks to Have Violated It. truthout.org For months, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his allies have defended Thomas' practice of not disclosing free luxury travel by saying the trips fell under a carve-out to the federal disclosure law for government officials. But by not publicly reporting his trips to the Bohemian Grove and to a 2018 Koch network event, Thomas appears to have violated the disclosure law, even by his own… |

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-10-06). DPRK delegation participates in Asia-Pacific International Forum. plenglish.com The state news agency ACNC reported that the meeting, sponsored by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, had as its central theme the balance of the protection of interests and rights of Asia-Pacific countries in international economic relations. | The meeting was attended by the delegation of the Central Court of the DPRK led by its president Choe Kun Yong; and the chief justices of China, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, among other delegations and authorities from 16 countries. | On the occasion, various issues were discussed related to the protection of business rights and ensuring t…

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