Daily Archives: May 1, 2023

2023-05-01: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-05-01). "Journalism is not a crime," says Biden—except for Julian Assange. wsws.org Biden's remarks at the White House Correspondents Association dinner embraced freedom of the press, but only for journalists working in countries where Washington is seeking to overthrow the government.

Marjorie Cohn (2023-04-30). Biden Hypocritically Slams Arrest of US Journalist in Russia But Pursues Assange. truthout.org May 3, 2023, will mark the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day, which the United Nations established to remind governments about the need to respect their commitment to freedom of the press. But as the Biden administration proclaims the centrality of press freedom globally, its hypocrisy in pursuing journalist and publisher Julian Assange is stunning. The Biden administration recently… |

Binoy Kampmark (2023-04-30). Foiled Escape: UC Global, the CIA, and Julian Assange. dissidentvoice.org However described, the shabby treatment of Julian Assange never ceases to startle. While he continues to suffer in Belmarsh prison awaiting the torments of an interminable legal process, more material is coming out showing the way he was spied upon while staying at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Of late, the Spanish daily El País …

Anonymous103 (2023-04-30). Foiled Escape: UC Global, the CIA and Julian Assange. southfront.org

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-05-01). Bombshell Filing: 9/11 Hijackers Were CIA Recruits. transcend.org 18 Apr 2023 – 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.

Brandon Smith (2023-05-01). Global Governance by Artificial Intelligence: The Ultimate Unaccountable Tyranny. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-05-01). "Journalism is not a crime," says Biden—except for Julian Assange. wsws.org Biden's remarks at the White House Correspondents Association dinner embraced freedom of the press, but only for journalists working in countries where Washington is seeking to overthrow the government.

Marjorie Cohn (2023-04-30). Biden Hypocritically Slams Arrest of US Journalist in Russia But Pursues Assange. truthout.org May 3, 2023, will mark the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day, which the United Nations established to remind governments about the need to respect their commitment to freedom of the press. But as the Biden administration proclaims the centrality of press freedom globally, its hypocrisy in pursuing journalist and publisher Julian Assange is stunning. The Biden administration recently… |

Binoy Kampmark (2023-04-30). Foiled Escape: UC Global, the CIA, and Julian Assange. dissidentvoice.org However described, the shabby treatment of Julian Assange never ceases to startle. While he continues to suffer in Belmarsh prison awaiting the torments of an interminable legal process, more material is coming out showing the way he was spied upon while staying at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Of late, the Spanish daily El País …

Anonymous103 (2023-04-30). Foiled Escape: UC Global, the CIA and Julian Assange. southfront.org

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-05-01). Bombshell Filing: 9/11 Hijackers Were CIA Recruits. transcend.org 18 Apr 2023 – 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.

Brandon Smith (2023-05-01). Global Governance by Artificial Intelligence: The Ultimate Unaccountable Tyranny. globalresearch.ca

Dana Sanchez (2023-05-01). Private Calendar Of Jeffrey Epstein Shows Multiple Meetings With CIA Director William Burns. moguldom.com William Burns, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021, is one of a growing list of famous people who met with Jeffrey Epstein years after he became a convicted sex offender, according to thousands of pages of emails and schedules from 2013 to 2017 that were not previously reported. According to The Wall Street …

channelnewsasia (2023-05-01). Islamic State leader killed in Syria by Turkish intelligence services: Erdogan. channelnewsasia.com

_____ (2023-04-30). Waiting for the launch of North Korea's first military intelligence satellite. journal-neo.org

John Quelch (2023-04-30). Anti-war protesters keep up the pressure on Richard Marles. greenleft.org.au Retired Lt Col Lance Collins, a former second in charge of the Australian Army Intelligence Division, said Australia's military integration into the US war machine had grown in recent years. John Quelch reports.

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-30). Key Nations Don't Want to Follow the US on Russia, China Policies. news.antiwar.com Leaked intelligence documents show that key nations, including some of the most populous in the world, don't want to follow along with President Biden's policies toward Russia and China, The Washington Post reported Saturday. The report cited intelligence assessments allegedly leaked by Jack Teixeira that show the private thinking of several major countries, including India, Brazil, …

Anonymous669 (2023-04-30). Turkish Intelligence Was Behind Recent Drone Strike On Kurdish Syrian Commander. southfront.org

Rania Khalek (2023-05-01). New Report On The US Military Industrial Complex's Revolving Door. thealtworld.com In this free clip from the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast, Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola discuss a report on the U.S. military industrial-complex, particularly the revolving door between the government and military contractors. | As of 2021, 672 former government officials, military officers, members of Congress, and senior legislative staff were working for major military contractors like Boeing, Raytheon, or Lockheed Martin.

Rick Sterling (2023-05-02). CIA May Be Regarded Around World as a Rogue Elephant, But Operatives Can Still Churn Out Books that Make Themselves Look Like Heroes. covertactionmagazine.com And the Washington foreign policy establishment still eats them up In 1975, Philip Agee published his book Inside the Company: CIA Diary. In the introduction, he wrote: "When I joined the CIA, I believed in the need for its existence. After twelve years with the agency I finally understood how much suffering it was causing, …

LEPAIO (2023-05-01). Saturday 4/29: Panel On The CIA AFL-CIO Murderous Attack On Mexico City Ford Assembly Worker In 1980. indybay.org Join us on Zoom with Spanish Text Narration | us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpf-yvpzwtHtUuLoNGYKEWxySYgK5gLnOr

Kate Yoder (2023-04-30). The Supreme Court Just Unleashed a Flood of Lawsuits Against Big Oil. truthout.org Nearly two dozen lawsuits filed by cities and states aim to put fossil fuel companies on trial for deceiving the public about climate change. But they've been stuck in legal limbo for half a decade, with companies deploying several maneuvers to block them. Now a surprising source has unleashed those lawsuits: the conservative-dominated Supreme Court. On Monday, the justices rejected petitions from… |

Jennifer Berry Hawes (2023-04-30). How South Carolina Ended Up With an All-Male Supreme Court. truthout.org When attorneys arrived for oral arguments in South Carolina's high-profile abortion case last fall, state Supreme Court Justice Kaye Hearn took her seat up front, a ruffly white shirt beneath her black robe, the only woman on the dais. With piercing green eyes, she scanned the courtroom. A sea of white men jammed one side of the room. Before them, at a wooden table, sat three male attorneys there… |

Staff (2023-05-01). Daniel Ellsberg Warns Risk of Nuclear War Is Rising as Tension Mounts over Ukraine & Taiwan. democracynow.org As we continue our in-depth conversation with Daniel Ellsberg, the famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower talks about his lifelong antiwar activism and responds to the more recent leak of Pentagon documents about the war in Ukraine. Ellsberg also reflects on the many people who inspired him and says others who look up to his example should know that the sacrifices for building a better world are worth it. "It can work," he says. Ellsberg, who was recently diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer and given just months to live, spoke to Democracy Now! last week from his home in Berkeley, California.

Staff (2023-05-01). After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Daniel Ellsberg Reflects on Leaking Pentagon Papers & His Legacy. democracynow.org We spend the hour with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who recently announced that he has been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer with only months left to live. Ellsberg, who turned 92 on April 7, may be the world's most famous whistleblower. In 1971, The New York Times began publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers — 7,000 pages of top-secret documents outlining the secret history of the Vietnam War. The Times exposé was based on documents secretly photocopied by Ellsberg and Anthony Russo while they worked as Pentagon consultants at the RAND Corporation. The leak ultimately…

Scott Ritter (2023-05-01). What Would Daniel Ellsberg Do? dissidentvoice.org Illustration by Sam Poling Daniel Ellsberg — the Pentagon Papers whistleblower who has been an inspiring activist for peace since the early 1970s — recently wrote a public letter disclosing that he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, with a prognosis that he has only three to six months to live. Join us for "Daniel …

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