Daily Archives: January 17, 2023

2023-01-17: News Headlines

Staff (2023-01-17). Rep. Ro Khanna on CA Flooding, Big Oil's Climate Denial, Debt Ceiling, Assange & Possible Senate Bid. democracynow.org The death toll from two weeks of flooding in California has reached at least 20. As climate scientists are predicting more extreme weather linked to climate change over the next two years, outrage is growing over how fossil fuel companies were fully aware of the link between fossil fuel emissions and global warming but spent decades obscuring the science in order to make maximum profits. We speak with Democratic California Congressmember Ro Khanna, who recently concluded a congressional investigation into the allegations and says the oil industry needs to be held accountable for the damage it has wrought. Khanna…

_____ (2023-01-17). CIA Arrives in Libya to Manipulate Elections. strategic-culture.org Can the Vice President under Obama, now President Biden, and his CIA director manipulate the political situation in Libya once again? |

Peter Koenig (2023-01-17). Peru: Under Siege by the US, CIA and the WEF? globalresearch.ca

_____ (2023-01-16). Nato Deplatforms 'No To Nato'. strategic-culture.org There is considerable method in NATO's madness, the same madness that sees Julian Assange incarcerated and Gaza, Syria and far too many civilians and soldiers being bombed on a regular basis. | NATO's Irish Independent's 6th January edition

Berenice Galli (2023-01-16). Assange: The Decisive Moment. globalresearch.ca

Lee Camp (2023-01-16). "Something Is Going To Happen Soon" — Stella Assange on Julian Assange's Imprisonment. mintpressnews.com Stella Assange joins Lee Camp to discuss her husband, Julian Assange, his deteriorating condition and the impact of his confinement in Belmarsh prison in London.

americanthinker (2023-01-16). Ever wonder where the 'deep state' came from? americanthinker.com How the Deep State got here and how to get rid of it.

americanthinker (2023-01-16). Ever wonder where the Deep State came from? americanthinker.com How the Deep State got here and how to get rid of it.

Dave DeCamp (2023-01-16). CNN: Ukraine Has Become a 'Weapons Lab' for Western Arms. news.antiwar.com Ukraine has turned into a "lab" for Western arms as the war has given the US and its allies an opportunity to see how their weapons fare in a conflict with a major military power like Russia, CNN reported on Monday. A source familiar with Western intelligence on the war told CNN that Ukraine is …

Elliott Wallace (2023-01-16). Students, educators weigh pros and cons of AI assisted essays. america.cgtn.com If you are in college, you've probably already heard of ChatGPT &#1 ; the new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot that is generating university-level papers. Some professors say they can't tell the difference between their students' work and the bot's. It's raising concerns of cheating and plagiarism &#1 ; …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-16). Operation Belladonna: CIA Involvement in Ukranian Nationalism. libya360.wordpress.com Red Street Media Collective OPERATION BELLADONNA NOTE: To decode CIA Terms & Cryptonyms, use a Research Aid. If we analyze publicly available declassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency, we can learn quite a bit about the United States and its role in the historical development of Ukrainian Nationalism. To view the February 2022 Russia-Ukraine conflict, in isolation,…

Kit Klarenberg (2023-01-16). Declassified Intelligence Files Expose Inconvenient Truths of Bosnian War. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-01-16). Opening statements, first witness in Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial. wsws.org Prosecutors blamed the Proud Boys for delaying certification of the presidential election on January 6, 2021, while lawyers for the accused blamed then-President Donald Trump and the intelligence agencies.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-16). Grandson of Charles de Gaulle, an Old CIA Nemesis, Condemns West's Policy in Ukraine. transcend.org 11 Jan 2023 – Pierre de Gaulle, grandson of former French President Charles de Gaulle, has said the U.S. and NATO triggered the Ukraine conflict and are making Europeans suffer by fueling and waging a pre-planned economic war against Russia.

_____ (2023-01-16). 21 Years Later, Guantánamo Is Still Open — And We Are Still Protesting. popularresistance.org The prison that started out as a provisional, secret, slapdash gulag on the lee side of the Cuban state of Guantanamo is now a rebar-enforced institution with hundreds of millions of dollars flowing into it every year for a dwindling but entrenched population. It survives despite Supreme Court rulings against it, the accumulation of literally millions of billable hours by some of the best legal minds in the United States and Europe, decades of fervent and smart and courageous protest, and four presidents. | Witness Against Torture is a small part of that protest movement. We were founded in 2005, when 25 of us we…

_____ (2023-01-16). Lula: The Coup And The Importance Of Popular Mobilization. popularresistance.org The attempted fascist Bolsonarist coup d'état of January 8 in Brasilia is not a merely local event. Everything indicates that it had international sponsorship. It is far from being a spontaneous revolt, as there are countless facts that demonstrate a high degree of organization, coordination and financing prior to the assault and vandalizing of the main institutions representing the three branches of state power in Brazil, no less than the Congress, the Planalto Palace and the headquarters of the Federal Supreme Court. This relationship with the support of an international organization behind the coup attempt and…

Common Dreams Staff (2023-01-16). Over a Hundred Thousand Israelis March to Protest Netanyahu Government. truthout.org Tens of thousands of Israelis marched in central Tel Aviv and in two other major cities on Saturday night, protesting far rightwing PM Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to overhaul the legal system and weaken the Supreme Court — undermining democratic rule just weeks after his election. Despite cold, rainy weather, marchers, many covered with umbrellas, held Israeli flags and placards saying "Criminal… |

Editor (2023-01-16). How the Supreme Court could severely limit workers' right to strike. mronline.org A case the Supreme Court heard on Tuesday could make unions and workers liable for any damages their company incurred during a strike, dealing a blow to organized labor.

Editor (2023-01-16). The Supreme Court Is About to Eviscerate the Right to Strike. scheerpost.com

Julia Rock (2023-01-16). Corporations Are Pushing The Supreme Court To Crush Unions. levernews.com

oliviaalperstein (2023-01-16). Dynasty-Building Trusts: How the Getty and Walton Families Use Trusts To Dodge Taxes. ips-dc.org The more we learn from courageous whistleblowers like Marlena Sonn, the more outrage and pressure will build to reform trust law and eliminate the games that the Waltons and the Gettys are playing.

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