Daily Archives: May 10, 2023

2023-05-10: News Headlines

Rachel Hu, Chris Garaffa (2023-05-10). CovertAction Bulletin: Assange Writes Letter to King Charles Before £100 Million Coronation. covertactionmagazine.com To mark the occasion of the coronation of King Charles the III, Julian Assange wrote a scathing public letter to the new monarch from his cell at Belmarsh prison, where he's been held for over four years. The coronation cost £100 million of tax-payer funds, and many across the country have been outraged that public funds are being spent on such pomp and circumstance during a cost of living crisis…

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2023-05-10). Australian MPS Meet US Envoy Caroline Kennedy On Assange. popularresistance.org A cross party delegation of Australian legislators met on Tuesday morning in Canberra with Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador, to discuss the continued U.S. prosecution of imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. | U.S. President Joe Biden is due in Australia in two weeks as the pressure continues to mount on him from presidents, parliaments, the public and human rights and press freedom groups to free Assange. | The Sydney Morning Herald quoted Senator Andrew Wilkie, who took part in the meeting with Kennedy, as saying: | "This is an intensely important time with the US President about to visit. It woul…

Mark Taylor-Canfield, Truthout. (2023-05-10). Monopolies, Prosecution Of Assange Drive Drop In US Press Freedom Rank. popularresistance.org CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin interrupted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a Washington Post-sponsored World Press Freedom Day event on May 3, taking the stage where a Post journalist was interviewing Blinken. Benjamin demanded that the U.S. and United Kingdom free imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. | A group of men in suits, presumably Secret Service agents, immediately charged onto the stage and forcibly removed Benjamin and another activist who joined her. Blinken, however, failed to address either Assange's persecution or the U.S.'s continued decline in press freedom after the disruptio…

Dave DeCamp (2023-05-09). Australian Lawmakers Urge US to Drop Case Against Assange. news.antiwar.com A cross-party group of Australian members of parliament met with the US ambassador to Australia on Tuesday and called for Washington to drop the charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, an Australian citizen. The delegation of lawmakers, known as the Bring Julian Assange Home Parliamentary Group, told US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy that there was broad …

Editor (2023-05-09). Media Monopolies and Prosecution of Assange Drive Drop in US Press Freedom Rank. scheerpost.com

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-05-09). A Kingly Proposal: Letter From Julian Assange To King Charles III. orinocotribune.com By Julian Assange — May 5, 2023 | To His Majesty King Charles III, | On the coronation of my liege, I thought it only fitting to extend a heartfelt invitation to you to commemorate this momentous occasion by visiting your very own kingdom within a kingdom: His Majesty's Prison Belmarsh. | You will no doubt recall the wise words of a renowned playwright: "The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath." | Ah, but what would that bard know of mercy faced with the reckoning at the dawn of your historic reign? After all, one can truly know the measure of a…


Dana Sanchez (2023-05-10). The Fake Promise Of AI: Here's Why Some Experts And Gurus Don't Buy The AI Hype. moguldom.com Artificial intelligence is everywhere. It makes automated product recommendations on sites like Amazon, it resides in email spam filters and it's in the software that chats with you on airline websites. People didn't necessarily consider all of that stuff to be AI, a Pew survey found. However, the launch of the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT …

Ann Brown (2023-05-10). ChatGPT And AI Could Usher In A Golden Age Of Crime And Hacking. moguldom.com As with any new digital tool, there comes a threat of hackers using it to defraud consumers. The same holds true for ChatGPT. A natural language processing tool driven by artificial intelligence technology, ChatGPT allows users to have much more human-like interaction with the chatbot, which is a software that simulates conversations with users via …

Editor (2023-05-10). New report unveils how CIA schemes color revolutions around the world. mronline.org For a long time, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plotted "peaceful evolution" and "color revolutions" as well as spying activities around the world.

Yuan Hong, Orinoco Tribune. (2023-05-10). New Report: How CIA Schemes Color Revolutions Around The World. popularresistance.org For a long time, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plotted "peaceful evolution" and "color revolutions" as well as spying activities around the world. Although details about these operations have always been murky, a new report released by China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center and Chinese cybersecurity company 360 on Thursday unveiled the main technical means the CIA has used to scheme and promote unrest around the world. | According to the report, since the beginning of the 21st century, the rapid development of the internet offered a "new opportunity" for CIA's infiltration activities…

Editor (2023-05-09). The Nord Stream Explosions: New Revelations About Motive, Means and Opportunity. scheerpost.com As new details emerge about the pipeline blasts, they also prompt questions: What did US intelligence know about the biggest whodunit of the century, when did they know it, and how did they know it?

Editor (2023-05-09). Talk World Radio: James Bamford on Israelgate and Nordstream. scheerpost.com By David Swanson / Let's Try Democracy This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing Israelgate and Nordstream. Our guest, journalist James Bamford, has a new book called Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence, and recent articles in The Nation, one called "The Candidate and the Spy," another "The Nord Stream Explosions: …




Ann Brown (2023-05-09). What Is A Harriet Tubman Statue Doing At The CIA? 3 Things To Know. moguldom.com Harriet Tubman was a freedom fighter who helped hundreds of slaves escape. She was also a spy who gathered intelligence for the Union Army. In 2022, the CIA erected a statue depicting Tubman at its headquarters in Langley, Va. Here are three things to know. 1. Tubman, the spy or intelligence collector Tubman was one …

Matthew Ehret (2023-05-09). The Anglo-American Hand Behind the Rise of Fascism Then and Now. thelastamericanvagabond.com This May 9th, the world will celebrate Victory Day. For those who have not closed their eyes to the integration of leading unreconstructed Nazis, Italian Fascist, and Japanese fascists into the Anglo-American intelligence complex after World War Two this celebration is bitter sweet to say the least. In West Germany, the head of Nazi intelligence,

Kit Klarenberg (2023-05-09). Did Intel-Linked Dataminr Play Sinister Role in Hunter Biden Laptop Suppression? mintpressnews.com How a CIA-linked social media spying tool may have been used to monitor, censor, suppress, and even ban anyone who liked, linked, or commented on the Biden Hunter laptop story.

Kit Klarenberg (2023-05-09). Neo-Nazi terror threat grows as Ukraine fighters jailed in France. thegrayzone.com The arrest of two heavily armed French neo-Nazis returning from Ukraine highlights a looming problem for NATO states sponsoring the proxy war, and their conspiracy of silence on the nature of the threat. On April 24th 2023, two French neo-Nazis were jailed for 15 months, nine of which were suspended, for possessing assault rifle ammunition. The pair had returned to Paris from Ukraine two days earlier, and were arrested at customs. Both were on the radar of French domestic spying …

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-05-09). The Final Folly of the Western World. thealtworld.com The victory over President Trump of the military/security complex has condemned the United States and its European, Canadian, Australian, and Japanese empire to irreversible decline. Trump's intention to "normalize relations with Russia" was perceived by the powerful military/security complex, about which both President Eisenhower and President John F. Kennedy warned, as a threat to its budget, power, and primacy. Thus was launched by the CIA and FBI the long and ongoing era of false charges against an American President, both in office and out, by the security services of the United States. | The consequence is…

Jim Hightower (2023-05-10). The Supreme Court is Corrupt. Let's Fix It. otherwords.org When public officials get themselves mired in the muck of corruption, they can always count on Senator Ted Cruz to issue a moral judgment: If the offender is a Democrat, he pronounces the corruption inexcusably grotesque; if it's a Republican, he wails that the offender is the victim. | For example, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was recently caught (yet again) butt-deep in judicial immorality, taking hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of freebies from a Texas real estate baron who has both a partisan and corporate interest in Thomas' court rulings. | So, Cruz to the rescue! No judicial impropriety he…

Ann Brown (2023-05-09). What Is A Harriet Tubman Statue Doing At The CIA? 3 Things To Know. moguldom.com Harriet Tubman was a freedom fighter who helped hundreds of slaves escape. She was also a spy who gathered intelligence for the Union Army. In 2022, the CIA erected a statue depicting Tubman at its headquarters in Langley, Va. Here are three things to know. 1. Tubman, the spy or intelligence collector Tubman was one …

Matthew Ehret (2023-05-09). The Anglo-American Hand Behind the Rise of Fascism Then and Now. thelastamericanvagabond.com This May 9th, the world will celebrate Victory Day. For those who have not closed their eyes to the integration of leading unreconstructed Nazis, Italian Fascist, and Japanese fascists into the Anglo-American intelligence complex after World War Two this celebration is bitter sweet to say the least. In West Germany, the head of Nazi intelligence,

Kit Klarenberg (2023-05-09). Did Intel-Linked Dataminr Play Sinister Role in Hunter Biden Laptop Suppression? mintpressnews.com How a CIA-linked social media spying tool may have been used to monitor, censor, suppress, and even ban anyone who liked, linked, or commented on the Biden Hunter laptop story.

Kit Klarenberg (2023-05-09). Neo-Nazi terror threat grows as Ukraine fighters jailed in France. thegrayzone.com The arrest of two heavily armed French neo-Nazis returning from Ukraine highlights a looming problem for NATO states sponsoring the proxy war, and their conspiracy of silence on the nature of the threat. On April 24th 2023, two French neo-Nazis were jailed for 15 months, nine of which were suspended, for possessing assault rifle ammunition. The pair had returned to Paris from Ukraine two days earlier, and were arrested at customs. Both were on the radar of French domestic spying …

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-05-09). The Final Folly of the Western World. thealtworld.com The victory over President Trump of the military/security complex has condemned the United States and its European, Canadian, Australian, and Japanese empire to irreversible decline. Trump's intention to "normalize relations with Russia" was perceived by the powerful military/security complex, about which both President Eisenhower and President John F. Kennedy warned, as a threat to its budget, power, and primacy. Thus was launched by the CIA and FBI the long and ongoing era of false charges against an American President, both in office and out, by the security services of the United States. | The consequence is…

Jim Hightower (2023-05-10). The Supreme Court is Corrupt. Let's Fix It. otherwords.org When public officials get themselves mired in the muck of corruption, they can always count on Senator Ted Cruz to issue a moral judgment: If the offender is a Democrat, he pronounces the corruption inexcusably grotesque; if it's a Republican, he wails that the offender is the victim. | For example, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was recently caught (yet again) butt-deep in judicial immorality, taking hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of freebies from a Texas real estate baron who has both a partisan and corporate interest in Thomas' court rulings. | So, Cruz to the rescue! No judicial impropriety he…

Rachel Evans (2023-05-10). Knitting Nannas challenge anti-protest laws in NSW Supreme Court. greenleft.org.au Knitting Nannas and supporters were at the NSW Supreme Court to support Dominique Jacobs and Helen Kvelde challenge the undemocratic anti-protest laws. Rachel Evans reports.

Julia Rock, The Lever. (2023-05-10). New Documents Undermine Supreme Court Student Debt Case. popularresistance.org Newly unearthed documents show a major student loan servicer is projecting revenue increases even under President Joe Biden's debt cancellation plan — directly undermining the argument Republican officials are making in their lawsuit to block the measure. But conservative justices on the Supreme Court appear prepared to strike down the debt relief program anyways, disregarding the evidence and their own legal theories to fulfill the wishes of the dark money network that helped build their Supreme Court supermajority. | At issue is the concept of "standing" — a legal term for who is allowed to bring a…

Chris Walker (2023-05-10). The Supreme Court Could Soon Stop States From Being Able to Ban Assault Weapons. truthout.org The U.S. Supreme Court could soon issue a decision on whether state and local governments can legally impose bans on assault weapons within their jurisdictions. Ten states in total have bans on assault weapons and/or high capacity magazines. But a Supreme Court ruling on a case challenging Illinois's ban — which could, legal observers say, be handed down any day now — has the potential to render… |

teleSUR (2023-05-10). Argentine President Accuses Judges of Meddling in Elections. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez accused the Supreme Court of meddling in the gubernatorial elections in the provinces of San Juan and Tucuman, which were scheduled for Sunday. | RELATED: | Latin America Celebrates International Workers' Day | "In a clear interference in the democratic process and in the autonomy of the provinces, the Supreme Court aligned itself with the opposition to anticipate what was foreseen as possible triumphs of Peronism," the Argentine Presidency said. | Previously, the Supreme Court suspended the elections in Tucuman and San Juan after accepting unconstitutionali…

Ann Brown (2023-05-09). Rymir Satterthwaite Files Supreme Court Motion to Force Paternity Test: Jay-Z Is My Daddy. moguldom.com For more than 10 years, Rymir Satterthwaite has been trying to prove that hip-hop billionaire Jay-Z is his father. Now he's taking his fight to the Supreme Court. Satterthwaite, 30, has filed a motion to force Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, to take a paternity test. Satterthwaite filed a motion to unseal court …

Sharon Zhang (2023-05-09). Government Ethics Watchdog Demands Clarence Thomas Resign Amidst Scandals. truthout.org A government ethics watchdog is demanding that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas resign in the wake of numerous accounts of corruption and seeming right-wing conspiracies involving the justice unveiled by investigative reports in recent weeks. In a letter sent to Thomas on Tuesday, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) wrote that the "truly shocking" reports that Thomas… |

Sharon Zhang (2023-05-09). Republicans Defending Clarence Thomas Have Gotten Nearly $500K From Harlan Crow. truthout.org Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have spent recent weeks fiercely defending the deep corruption on the Supreme Court in the wake of major scandals involving several conservative justices, saying that reining in the Court is "unnecessary." A new report finds, however, that these lawmakers may be protecting their own interests as much as they're protecting the Supreme Court. |

Chris Walker (2023-05-09). Study: Without Reforms, Conservative Justices Will Run Supreme Court Until 2065. truthout.org A new analysis from a number of law and political science professors finds that, if current trends continue, the liberal bloc of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court will remain in the minority until at least 2065, barring any immediate reforms. The study sought to examine the potential outcomes of "court packing," or increasing the number of Supreme Court justices beyond the current nine in order… |

David Sirota (2023-05-09). Here's The Real Goal Of Supreme Court Corruption. levernews.com

teleSUR (2023-05-09). Let the Mexicans Choose Supreme Court Judges!: AMLO. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) announced that he will send a constitutional reform initiative so that citizens directly elect the members of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ). | RELATED: | During his morning press conference, he recalled that this proposal is not new since the Mexican people directly elected the judges in the time of President Benito Juarez, when the liberal Constitution of 1857 was in for…

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