Daily Archives: May 19, 2023

2023-05-19: News Headlines

Meg Sherman (2023-05-19). WikiLeaks as Scapegoat for the Political Establishment. dissidentvoice.org Julian Assange is in prison, indefinitely and in blatant contravention of humanitarian norms. The US national security state has spoken and put its foot down, in a show of power which has subverted the true course of democracy. Sadly, the political will to sustain the persecution counteracts the political will to terminate it, though in …

WorkWeek (2023-05-19). WorkWeek OEA Teachers Strike & Public Ed, WGAW Comedian Writers Speak Out, Mumia/Assange. indybay.org WorkWeek covers the Oakland Teachers Strike & Public Ed, WGAW Comedian Writers Speak Out, World Press Freedom Day Assange & Mumia & WGAW Battles Capitalists On AI…

Editor (2023-05-19). Exceptionism in U.S. Empire. mronline.org Aaron Good, who received his PhD in political science at Temple University, has written an exceptional book: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State (Skyhorse, 2022). The title of the first chapter broadly lays out the thesis of the book: "Empire, Hegemony, and the State."

teleSUR (2023-05-19). AI To Replace 10,000 BT Group Telecom Workers by 2030. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, British multinational telecommunications holding company BT announced its plan to cut up to 55,000 jobs by 2030, about 40 percent of its global workforce. Such layoffs are partly due to BT's adaptation to new technologies including artificial intelligence. | RELATED: | "There is a sort of 10,000 reduction from that sort of automated digitisation – we will be a huge beneficiary of AI. I believe generative AI is a huge leap forw…

ecns.cn (2023-05-19). Xiaodu rolls out AI-powered education smartphone, targeting niche market. ecns.cn Xiaodu Technology, the smart speaker unit of Chinese tech heavyweight Baidu Inc, has officially released its education-oriented smartphone equipped with an artificial intelligence-powered large language model that is targeted at students, in a bid to carve out a niche in the world's largest smartphone market.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-05-19). The Bilderbergers meet in secret for the 69th time. expose-news.com The 69th Bilderberg Meeting, a secretive conclave of global power brokers, kicked off yesterday in Lisbon, Portugal, with issues on the agenda including transnational threats, artificial intelligence, and America's leadership in world …


Dana Sanchez (2023-05-18). Google Testing Suggests Artificial Intelligence Experiences To Accelerate Decline Of Website Traffic And Monetization. moguldom.com Google's demonstration of its new artificial intelligence-fueled search engine suggests that less traffic will go to publishers, hastening the decline and fall of web pages, where publishers made most of their money and which are now long out of date, according to an article in The Rebooting, Brian Morrissey's newsletter about what's next in the …

Staff (2023-05-18). AI Expert: We Urgently Need Ethical Guidelines & Safeguards to Limit Risks of Artificial Intelligence. democracynow.org In a dramatic hearing Tuesday, the CEO of the startup behind ChatGPT warned Congress about the dangers of artificial intelligence — his company's own product. We discuss how to regulate AI and establish ethical guidelines with Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Center for AI and Digital Policy. "We don't have the expertise in government for the rapid technological change that's now taking place," says Rotenberg.

Alberto López Girondo (2023-05-19). Robert Kennedy Junior remueve el pasado y acusa a la CIA del crimen de JFK. globalizacion.ca El hijo del asesinado procurador de Justicia y sobrino del expresidente quiere ser presidente y avisó hace tiempo que entre sus objetivos están los organismos de inteligencia. | Robert Kennedy Junior está lanzado a disputar la candidatura presidencial por los demócratas…

Larry Johnson (2023-05-18). Ukraine's Suicidal Offensive is Bleeding Out While the CIA Loses Its Mind. sonar21.com Over the last week Ukrainian officials have been insisting that the long-promised counter offensive is delayed until the West can pony up more tanks, ammunition, artillery and other weapons. But,…

Staff (2023-05-18). From Waterboarding to Rape, Abu Zubaydah Depicts Torture at Black Sites & Gitmo in Graphic Sketches. democracynow.org The Center for Policy and Research has just published a new report titled "American Torturers: FBI and CIA Abuses at Dark Sites and Guantánamo," which compiles a series of 40 drawings by Guantánamo Bay prisoner Abu Zubaydah that chronicle the horrific torture he endured since 2002 in CIA dark sites and at Guantánamo Bay, where he has been detained without charge since 2006. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has issued a new call for the United States to release him immediately. We speak with one of his attorneys, Mark Denbeaux, and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, who exposed the…

Bill Blum (2023-05-19). Unequal Justice: It's Time to Get Tough With John Roberts. progressive.org Facing a mountain of ethics concerns, the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court has rebuffed Senate investigators, again.


WSWS (2023-05-19). Pakistan lurches to dictatorial rule as authorities launch vendetta against Imran Khan and supporters of his Islamic populist PTI. wsws.org Protesters the authorities allege were involved in attacks on military installations or personnel will be tried in military courts that are closed to the media and public and whose rulings cannot be appealed, even to Pakistan's Supreme Court.

infobrics (2023-05-18). Yet another high-profile corruption scandal shakes up Kiev regime. infobrics.org The scandal is yet another huge embarrassment for the Neo-Nazi junta, particularly as the head of the Supreme Court himself was arrested in connection to taking bribes to the tune of several million dollars. This means that the highest authority responsible for upholding the law is breaking it in the most blatant way imaginable.

Jim Hightower (2023-05-18). The Supreme Court is corrupt. Let's fix it. nationofchange.org And they wonder why their public approval rating—and legitimacy—are in the ditch!

Sharon Zhang (2023-05-18). Americans Have Less Trust in Supreme Court Than Ever, Poll Finds. truthout.org As the public deals with the consequences of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn 50 years of precedent protecting abortion rights across the country, trust in the Supreme Court has hit an all-time low, new polling by Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Chicago finds. The latest installment of the General Social Survey, which NORC has conducted since… |

Kevin Gosztola (2023-05-18). India Accuses Reporter For Defense News Of 'Espionage'. thedissenter.org The following article was made possible by paid subscribers. Support independent journalism on secrecy, whistleblowers, and press freedom. Subscribe and get a A correspondent for Defense News was arrested in a raid by India's Central Bureau of Investigation and accused of "collecting confidential information" about the country's military in violation of the Official Secrets Act. | CBI claimed that Vivek Raghuvanshi had been investigating India's Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO), the research and development arm…

Amy Goodman (2023-05-18). CIA Whistleblower Says Giuliani's Aide Told Him Pardon Would Cost $2 Million. truthout.org Calls are growing for the Justice Department to investigate Donald Trump's attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for allegedly plotting to sell presidential pardons during the Trump administration, after his former employee Noelle Dunphy filed a $10 million lawsuit against Giuliani accusing him of sexual assault and other misconduct. The complaint alleges Giuliani "asked Ms. |

WSWS (2023-05-19). Pakistan lurches to dictatorial rule as authorities launch vendetta against Imran Khan and supporters of his Islamic populist PTI. wsws.org Protesters the authorities allege were involved in attacks on military installations or personnel will be tried in military courts that are closed to the media and public and whose rulings cannot be appealed, even to Pakistan's Supreme Court.

infobrics (2023-05-18). Yet another high-profile corruption scandal shakes up Kiev regime. infobrics.org The scandal is yet another huge embarrassment for the Neo-Nazi junta, particularly as the head of the Supreme Court himself was arrested in connection to taking bribes to the tune of several million dollars. This means that the highest authority responsible for upholding the law is breaking it in the most blatant way imaginable.

Jim Hightower (2023-05-18). The Supreme Court is corrupt. Let's fix it. nationofchange.org And they wonder why their public approval rating—and legitimacy—are in the ditch!

Sharon Zhang (2023-05-18). Americans Have Less Trust in Supreme Court Than Ever, Poll Finds. truthout.org As the public deals with the consequences of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn 50 years of precedent protecting abortion rights across the country, trust in the Supreme Court has hit an all-time low, new polling by Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Chicago finds. The latest installment of the General Social Survey, which NORC has conducted since… |

Kevin Gosztola (2023-05-18). India Accuses Reporter For Defense News Of 'Espionage'. thedissenter.org The following article was made possible by paid subscribers. Support independent journalism on secrecy, whistleblowers, and press freedom. Subscribe and get a A correspondent for Defense News was arrested in a raid by India's Central Bureau of Investigation and accused of "collecting confidential information" about the country's military in violation of the Official Secrets Act. | CBI claimed that Vivek Raghuvanshi had been investigating India's Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO), the research and development arm…

Amy Goodman (2023-05-18). CIA Whistleblower Says Giuliani's Aide Told Him Pardon Would Cost $2 Million. truthout.org Calls are growing for the Justice Department to investigate Donald Trump's attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for allegedly plotting to sell presidential pardons during the Trump administration, after his former employee Noelle Dunphy filed a $10 million lawsuit against Giuliani accusing him of sexual assault and other misconduct. The complaint alleges Giuliani "asked Ms. |

Staff (2023-05-18). CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Giuliani Aide Told Me Presidential Pardon Would Cost Me $2 Million. democracynow.org Calls are growing for the Justice Department to investigate Donald Trump's attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for allegedly plotting to sell presidential pardons during the Trump administration, after his former employee Noelle Dunphy filed a $10 million lawsuit against Giuliani accusing him of sexual assault and other misconduct. The complaint alleges Giuliani "asked Ms. Dunphy if she knew anyone in need of a pardon, telling her that he was selling pardons for $2 million, which he and President Trump would split." Dunphy is not the first person to publicly reveal this scheme;…

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