Daily Archives: February 4, 2023

2023-02-04: News Headlines

Editor (2023-02-03). Revealed: Sweden Destroyed a Substantial Part of Its Documents on Julian Assange. scheerpost.com Almost six years after we unearthed that the British authorities at the Crown Prosecution Service destroyed key emails on the WikiLeaks founder, we can now report that the Swedish Prosecution Authority also destroyed a large part of the documentation. As Assange's life hangs in the balance, will Britain and Sweden finally open an investigation into the destruction of documents?

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-02-03). Ecuadorian Justice Acquits Ola Bini From Hacking Charges. orinocotribune.com His lawyer, Carlos Soria, welcomed the verdict but criticized that the case took over four years to be resolved. | On Tuesday, the Ecuadorian justice acquitted Swedish activist and digital security expert Ola Bini, a friend of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He had been facing charges for "illegal access to computer systems" since 2019. | "Innocent. Bini is innocent. The three-judge that followed Bini's case declared so in a unanimous verdict," his lawyer Carlos Soria said and criticized that the case took so long to be resolved. | "Bini has not been able to leave this country for the judicial process open agai…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-02-03). Swedish Prosecutors Destroyed Assange Documents. thedissenter.org Swedish prosecutors destroyed copies of email correspondence related to the extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi. The documents were destroyed while Maurizi was litigating her freedom of information request, making it "highly suspicious." | Maurizi

Anonymous669 (2023-02-03). Car Bomb Targets Pro-Government Faction In Syria's Daraa, Leaves Five Wounded. southfront.org File image. | Late on February 2, at least five people were wounded when an explosive-laden car blew up in the southern Syrian city of Daraa. | The attack occurred in the western part of Daraa, near the al-Sahafah building. The target was reportedly the headquarters of a pro-government armed faction led by Mustafa Al-Masalma "al-Kasm". The faction is said to be working under the command of the Military Intelligence Directorate. | According to the Syrian Arab News Agency, two of the wounded were moved to Daraa National Hospital…

Lowkey (2023-02-03). Elon Musk's Cozy Ties With The Military Industrial Complex, With Alan MacLeod. mintpressnews.com On this episode of The Watchdog, Alan Macleod exposes Elon Musk's ties to intelligence agencies and special interest groups, highlighting SpaceX's ties to the CIA and the use of Starlink in advancing US foreign policy.

Atilio A. Boron (2023-02-04). Mike Pompeo se confiesa en un libro. globalizacion.ca Al leer las memorias de Mike Pompeo &#1 ;Never give an inch (Nunca cedas un milímetro)&#1 ; el ex Director de la CIA y Secretario de Estado en la Administración Trump, no pude evitar la comparación con la figura y los rasgos…

Editor (2023-02-03). Revealed: Sweden Destroyed a Substantial Part of Its Documents on Julian Assange. scheerpost.com Almost six years after we unearthed that the British authorities at the Crown Prosecution Service destroyed key emails on the WikiLeaks founder, we can now report that the Swedish Prosecution Authority also destroyed a large part of the documentation. As Assange's life hangs in the balance, will Britain and Sweden finally open an investigation into the destruction of documents?

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-02-03). Ecuadorian Justice Acquits Ola Bini From Hacking Charges. orinocotribune.com His lawyer, Carlos Soria, welcomed the verdict but criticized that the case took over four years to be resolved. | On Tuesday, the Ecuadorian justice acquitted Swedish activist and digital security expert Ola Bini, a friend of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He had been facing charges for "illegal access to computer systems" since 2019. | "Innocent. Bini is innocent. The three-judge that followed Bini's case declared so in a unanimous verdict," his lawyer Carlos Soria said and criticized that the case took so long to be resolved. | "Bini has not been able to leave this country for the judicial process open agai…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-02-03). Swedish Prosecutors Destroyed Assange Documents. thedissenter.org Swedish prosecutors destroyed copies of email correspondence related to the extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi. The documents were destroyed while Maurizi was litigating her freedom of information request, making it "highly suspicious." | Maurizi

Anonymous669 (2023-02-03). Car Bomb Targets Pro-Government Faction In Syria's Daraa, Leaves Five Wounded. southfront.org File image. | Late on February 2, at least five people were wounded when an explosive-laden car blew up in the southern Syrian city of Daraa. | The attack occurred in the western part of Daraa, near the al-Sahafah building. The target was reportedly the headquarters of a pro-government armed faction led by Mustafa Al-Masalma "al-Kasm". The faction is said to be working under the command of the Military Intelligence Directorate. | According to the Syrian Arab News Agency, two of the wounded were moved to Daraa National Hospital…

Lowkey (2023-02-03). Elon Musk's Cozy Ties With The Military Industrial Complex, With Alan MacLeod. mintpressnews.com On this episode of The Watchdog, Alan Macleod exposes Elon Musk's ties to intelligence agencies and special interest groups, highlighting SpaceX's ties to the CIA and the use of Starlink in advancing US foreign policy.

Atilio A. Boron (2023-02-04). Mike Pompeo se confiesa en un libro. globalizacion.ca Al leer las memorias de Mike Pompeo &#1 ;Never give an inch (Nunca cedas un milímetro)&#1 ; el ex Director de la CIA y Secretario de Estado en la Administración Trump, no pude evitar la comparación con la figura y los rasgos…

Andrew Korybko (2023-02-03). Why'd The CIA Chief Unexpectedly Tell The Truth About Russian-Chinese Ties? thealtworld.com William Burns' surprisingly accurate assessment of Russian-Chinese ties coincides with Secretary of State Antony Blinken's upcoming trip to Beijing, which is aimed at advancing the incipient Sino-American New Détente. The CIA chief is thus tempering expectations about how far their discussions over far-reaching mutual compromises will go so that nobody gets the false expectation that China will dump Russia as a quid pro quo for comparatively "normalizing" ties with the US. | An Unexpected Narrative Development | The US is simultaneously waging information warfare campaigns against Russia and China, including thos…

Kyle Anzalone (2023-02-03). Report: Biden Pushed Peace Plan that Recognized Russia's Control Over 20% of Ukraine. news.antiwar.com President Joe Biden dispatched his CIA Director to Kiev with a proposal to end the war in Ukraine last month, according to the Swiss outlet Neue Zürcher Zeitung. The peace plan was offered at the same time the White House was preparing significant escalations in military support for Kiev, including announcing that it will send …

Rageshri Dhairyawan (2023-02-04). [Perspectives] A space to grow. thelancet.com A woman's right to choose what happens to her body is an issue that often makes headlines. In 2022, the US Supreme Court made the controversial decision to overturn Roe v Wade, the 1973 law which made access to safe abortion a constitutional right. Concerns were also raised by human rights groups in July, 2022, when the UK Government took out references to protect sexual and reproductive health and rights in a multinational statement about gender equality. In her debut novel, Diary of a Void, Japanese writer Emi Yagi tackles the issue of bodily autonomy from an unusual angle—that of a single woman choosing…

Ryan Black (2023-02-03). How The Supreme Court Could Finally Force Big Oil To Face Trial. progressivehub.net KATE YODER | GRIST…

americanthinker (2023-02-03). Republicans shouldn't forget the leak that wrecked the Supreme Court's reputation. americanthinker.com Perhaps the new Congress should consider subpoenas to get to the bottom of the unprecedented leak of the Dobbs v. Jackson abortion decision.

Editor (2023-02-03). John Kiriakou: Silencing Another Jailed Whistleblower. scheerpost.com The U.S. prison system has put Marty Gottesfeld in one of their modern-day dungeons and cut off his email. But this whistleblower is a fierce fighter for his rights and one day he'll be doing the same for others.

Labor Video Project (2023-02-03). Union Busting War On Apple Workers & NLRB Ruling For Fired Apple Worker Ashley M. Gjà∏vik. indybay.org Apple manager and whistleblower Ashley M. Gjà∏vik ann Monday January 31, 2023 won an NLRB ruling that she had been illegally retaliated against for speaking out publicly about health and safety issues at her office which was built on a superfund toxic site in Silicon Valley.

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