Daily Archives: April 19, 2023

2023-04-19: News Headlines

Kerry Smith (2023-04-19). Irish-Australian activist arrested in Dublin while campaigning for Julian Assange. greenleft.org.au Irish-Australian anti-war activist Ciaron O'Reilly was arrested outside Dublin Castle on April 13, while attempting to deliver a giant prison key to United States president Joe Biden, reports Kerry Smith.

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-04-19). Wednesday 5/3: On World Press Freedom Day: A Day Of Action To Free Assange/ Mumia & Against Censorship. indybay.org KQED Television | 2601 Mariposa St. | San Francisco…

Anonymous103 (2023-04-18). Margarita Simonyan Offered To Exchange Whelan, Kara-Murza And Gershkovich For Assange. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Editor-in-chief of Russia Today Margarita Simonyan invited US authorities to exchange three prisoners in Russia for founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange. | The prisoners in question are spy and former U.S. Marine Paul Nicholas Whelan, American journalist Evan Gershkovich and opposition journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza who, in addition to Russian citizenship, has British citizenship and a residence permit in the United States. | Margarita Simonyan wrote in her telegram channel: "Swap Whelan, K…

Cody Bloomfield, Defending Rights, Dissent. (2023-04-18). Seven Members Of Congress Take A Stand For Assange. popularresistance.org April 11 – Four years ago today, six men dragged Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London into a van, where he was carted off to Belmarsh Prison, where he remains, fighting extradition to the U.S. On April 11, 2019, after seven years holed up in the embassy, Ecuador rescinded Assange's citizenship and turned him over to British authorities. The final extrication from the embassy followed years of CIA plotting against Assange, going so far as to draw up "options" for how to assassinate him and contracting with the security company charged with surveilling the Ecuadorian embassy. | The date marks near…

Elizabeth Vos, Consortium News. (2023-04-18). Corporate Media Are The Anti-Wikileaks. popularresistance.org It was impossible to imagine four years ago when WikiLeaks Editor Julian Assange was hauled out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London and thrown in Belmarsh Prison that corporate media, which had smeared Assange, could stoop to new lows of government servitude. | But it has now happened with the arrest of Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman, for allegedly leaking top secret government documents. The leaks exposed a number of significant lies told by both the U.S. government and corporate media about the ongoing war in Ukraine. | Among many items of interest, the documents revealed that U.S. Special…

Global Research News (2023-04-19). Selected Articles: More Unanswered Red Flags Regarding Jack Texeira and the Pentagon Leaks. globalresearch.ca By Several former military and intelligence professionals have contacted me and voiced similar doubts about the pat story being circulated regarding National Guard …

Kerry Smith (2023-04-19). Irish-Australian activist arrested in Dublin while campaigning for Julian Assange. greenleft.org.au Irish-Australian anti-war activist Ciaron O'Reilly was arrested outside Dublin Castle on April 13, while attempting to deliver a giant prison key to United States president Joe Biden, reports Kerry Smith.

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-04-19). Wednesday 5/3: On World Press Freedom Day: A Day Of Action To Free Assange/ Mumia & Against Censorship. indybay.org KQED Television | 2601 Mariposa St. | San Francisco…

Anonymous103 (2023-04-18). Margarita Simonyan Offered To Exchange Whelan, Kara-Murza And Gershkovich For Assange. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Editor-in-chief of Russia Today Margarita Simonyan invited US authorities to exchange three prisoners in Russia for founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange. | The prisoners in question are spy and former U.S. Marine Paul Nicholas Whelan, American journalist Evan Gershkovich and opposition journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza who, in addition to Russian citizenship, has British citizenship and a residence permit in the United States. | Margarita Simonyan wrote in her telegram channel: "Swap Whelan, K…

Cody Bloomfield, Defending Rights, Dissent. (2023-04-18). Seven Members Of Congress Take A Stand For Assange. popularresistance.org April 11 – Four years ago today, six men dragged Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London into a van, where he was carted off to Belmarsh Prison, where he remains, fighting extradition to the U.S. On April 11, 2019, after seven years holed up in the embassy, Ecuador rescinded Assange's citizenship and turned him over to British authorities. The final extrication from the embassy followed years of CIA plotting against Assange, going so far as to draw up "options" for how to assassinate him and contracting with the security company charged with surveilling the Ecuadorian embassy. | The date marks near…

Elizabeth Vos, Consortium News. (2023-04-18). Corporate Media Are The Anti-Wikileaks. popularresistance.org It was impossible to imagine four years ago when WikiLeaks Editor Julian Assange was hauled out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London and thrown in Belmarsh Prison that corporate media, which had smeared Assange, could stoop to new lows of government servitude. | But it has now happened with the arrest of Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman, for allegedly leaking top secret government documents. The leaks exposed a number of significant lies told by both the U.S. government and corporate media about the ongoing war in Ukraine. | Among many items of interest, the documents revealed that U.S. Special…

Global Research News (2023-04-19). Selected Articles: More Unanswered Red Flags Regarding Jack Texeira and the Pentagon Leaks. globalresearch.ca By Several former military and intelligence professionals have contacted me and voiced similar doubts about the pat story being circulated regarding National Guard …

Kit Klarenberg (2023-04-19). Bombshell filing: 9/11 hijackers were CIA recruits. thegrayzone.com At least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation that was covered up at the highest level, according to an explosive new court filing. A newly-released court filing raises grave questions about the relationship between Alec Station, a CIA unit set up to track Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and his associates, and two 9/11 hijackers leading up to the attacks, which was subject to a coverup at the highest levels of the FBI. …

Anand Naidoo (2023-04-18). The Heat: U.S. Intelligence Leaks. america.cgtn.com Washington is trying to contain another national security breach. Why were the documents leaked? And, what happens next? The U.S. government is dealing with the fallout of yet another major leak of classified papers. Among the revelations: U.S. skepticism about Ukraine's military abilities in the …

Anonymous765 (2023-04-18). Locations Of US Carrier Strike Groups — April 18, 2023. southfront.org This is the newest update of the 'U.S. Carrier Strike Groups Locations Map' exclusive series showing the approximate locations of U.S. Carrier Strike Groups. SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence tracks locations of U.S. aircraft carriers using the available open-source information. No classified information was used in production of the map. | click to see the full-size image | Carrier strike group (CSG) is an operational formation of the United States Navy. It is centered on an aircraft carrier and a carrier air w…

Editor (2023-04-18). George Carlin and the American Dream. scheerpost.com By SP Staff Last week's Scheer Intelligence podcast featured a headline inspired by the late comedian George Carlin. The headline serves as an excuse to revisit his 2005 HBO special "Life is Worth Losing," where Carlin includes one of his most iconic bits critiquing America's consumerism, education, politics and the myth of the American Dream. …

Michael Welch (2023-04-18). US War in Iraq based on Fake Intelligence. Exposed by Dr. David Kelly. Was He Assassinated? globalresearch.ca

Craig Murray (2023-04-19). Snowden and Texeira: Ten years of disaster. mronline.org Jack Texeira is at the centre of this puzzle but remains the missing piece. We have heard nothing from him. A rather unconvincing interview with a suspiciously fluent, pixeled out acquaintance grassing him up to the Washington Post stated that he was a right wing patriot.

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-04-18). Peru's Coup-plotting Congress Has 6% Approval, 91% Disapproval. popularresistance.org A study by a leading polling firm in Peru found that the country's coup-plotting congress has an approval rating of just 6%, with a staggering 91% disapproval. | The South American nation's unelected president, Dina Boluarte, has the approval of just 15% of Peruvians, with 78% disapproval. | In December 2022, Peru's democratically elected leftist President Pedro Castillo was overthrown in a congressional coup. The military arrested him, and he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, without due process. | The US ambassador in Peru, Lisa Kenna, is a CIA veteran who strongly supported the coup against Castillo, and h…

Ryan Cristián (2023-04-18). FDA "Emergency Authorizes" New Bivalent Jab, The CIA "Trans Agenda" Psyop & The #TwoPartyIllusion. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (4/18/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

Staff (2023-04-19). In 1969 Abe Fortas Became the First Justice Forced to Resign. Should Clarence Thomas Be Next? democracynow.org As pressure grows on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign over his decades-long relationship with a billionaire benefactor, we speak with legal journalist Adam Cohen, who says there is a precedent that should guide lawmakers in how to address the growing scandal. In 1969, Justice Abe Fortas was forced to resign after his financial relationship came to light with businessman Louis Wolfson, who paid Fortas to consult for his foundation. Fortas was a Democratic appointee, but the scandal led to a bipartisan call for his resignation — even though his replacement would be named by Republican President…

Staff (2023-04-19). The Justice & the Billionaire: Clarence Thomas Failed to Disclose Real Estate Deal with GOP Megadonor. democracynow.org Calls continue to grow for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to step down or to be impeached, after ProPublica uncovered more damning information about his relationship with Republican megadonor Harlan Crow. According to the new report, Thomas and his family sold a house and two vacant lots in Savannah, Georgia, to Crow for around $130,000 but never disclosed the sale, which appears to be a violation of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act. In addition to being a major benefactor to Thomas and the GOP, Crow is also an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia, including a copy of Mein Kampf signed by Hitler, paintings…

WSWS (2023-04-19). Democrats rush to prop up Supreme Court amidst new revelations of rampant corruption. wsws.org The Democrats have responded to the exposure of boundless personal corruption and political reaction on the high court with an effort to effect a cosmetic tightening of ethics rules, so as to shore up collapsing public confidence in the court and every other institution of the state.

The Associated Press (2023-04-19). Mexico Court: National Guard Shift to Army Unconstitutional. latinorebels.com Mexico's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that last year's transfer of the newly created National Guard from civilian to military control was unconstitutional, dealing a blow to President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador who created the security force in 2019.

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2023-04-18). Volunteers And Victims Of US Border Patrol Violence Demand Justice. popularresistance.org Hundreds of people die every year at the hands of US Border Patrol agents, either from being beaten, shot, car chases or being left stranded in the desert, simply for exercising their right to move. A US Supreme Court decision, Hernandez Vs Mesa, in February 2020 granted the US Border Patrol the ability to murder people on the Mexican side of the border without being held accountable. Clearing the FOG spoke with four women from the Border Patrol Victims Network – Ana Maria Vasquez and Tracye Peterson, who are volunteers, Marisol Garcia Alcantara, who was shot by border agents, and Yanelis Laurencia, whose 23-year…

Mark Gruenberg, John Wojcik (2023-04-18). Merrick Garland and Dick Durbin under pressure to act on SCOTUS scandal. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—More revelations about the corporate and right-wing ties of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, his lobbyist wife Ginni Thomas and his failure for almost two decades to disclose even minimal information about both have raised pressure on Attorney General Merrick Garland to name a special counsel and act in the case and on Senate Democratic …

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-04-18). The Case of Steven Donziger: Supreme Court Liberals Help Turn Judges Into Prosecutors. orinocotribune.com By Eve Ottenberg — Apr 14, 2023 | So the truth is out: the three so-called liberals on the supreme court are phonies. More precisely, they, like most of their conservative brethren, are corporate hacks. We learned this a couple of weeks ago, when the high court ruled against Steven Donziger, a climate-activist attorney, long persecuted and then literally prosecuted by Chevron. In a pro-corporate decision about as subtle as a heart attack, seven of the nine justices declined to hear Donziger's appeal of a criminal contempt decision involving his representation of Indigenous Ecuadorians against Chevron. Two fa…

Staff (2023-04-19). New York Times: Biden Admin Ignored Warnings About Migrant Child Labor, Punished Whistleblowers. democracynow.org Our guest Hannah Dreier, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at The New York Times, has published a bombshell new investigation headlined "As Migrant Children Were Put to Work, U.S. Ignored Warnings." It reports that the Biden administration has repeatedly ignored or missed warnings about a surge of migrant children as young as 12 working in factories across the United States under grueling and often dangerous working conditions in serious violation of child labor laws. "People were punished for bringing this to the attention of their supervisors," says Dreier.

Kevin Gosztola (2023-04-18). UK Police Arrest French Publisher For Refusing To Share Pass Codes For Phone. thedissenter.org The following article was made possible by paid subscribers. Support independent journalism on whistleblowers and press freedom and British police invoked terrorism law in the United Kingdom to question and later arrest a French publisher over his alleged involvement in protests in France. | Ernest Moret is the foreign rights manager for Editions La Fabrique. He arrived in London on April 17 to attend the London Book Fair. | Police detained Moret and demanded that he "give up his phone and pass codes to the officers, with no just…

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