(2023-05-21). 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…
(2023-05-21). Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Covid Pandemic: A "Truth Bomb" Explodes to Illuminate the War on Humanity. globalresearch.ca
(2023-05-21). Durham Report Reveals The Real Threat To 'Democracy'. popularresistance.org Six years and millions of dollars later, the "Durham report" released on May 15th confirmed once again what a few of us had the nerve to argue before all of the reports and stories that subsequently emerged — that "Russiagate" was the most massive fraud ever perpetrated on the U.S. public by a section of the capitalist rulers and represented a maturing of a form of U.S. neofascism unique to this historical moment. | The public may have forgotten that during the Trump Administration U.S. Attorney General Bob Barr assigned John H. Durham as special counsel to review the FBI's counterintelligence investigation…
(2023-05-21). Mayo Clinic study suggests improved time efficiency, accuracy with AI-automated head and neck radiotherapy model. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — A study conducted by Mayo Clinic suggests artificial intelligence could potentially improve time efficiency and standardization for radiation therapy planning in patients with head and neck cancers. The validation study, published in Frontiers in Oncology, evaluated the efficiency of an algorithm trained by Mayo Clinic and developed in collaboration with Google Health. Radiation therapy planning for head and neck cancers requires a heavy time investment from multiple specialty areas due to the…
(2023-05-21). The Ukraine Refugee Question. popularresistance.org Last Saturday the Washington Post published an exposé of classified American intelligence documents showing that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, working behind the back of the Biden White House, pushed hard earlier this year for an expanded series of missile attacks inside Russia. The documents were part of a large cache of classified materials posted online by an Air Force enlisted man now in custody. A senior official of the Biden administration, asked by…
(2023-05-20). Weekly news round-up — highlights — President Assad at Arab League Summit, G7 hypocrisy and more. thealtworld.com The weekly news round-up at UKC with Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson, Vanessa Beeley. Below are the topics I covered: | Syria back at the Arab League Summit — President Assad speech. | The monstrous US Embassy in Beirut — 43 acres of prime land overlooking Beirut in a country where 80% of the 6 million population can't afford to eat. This project was budgeted to need $ 1 billion in 2015 and will far exceed this expectation. This is not about diplomacy, it is a military, intelligence complex bordering Syria. | Secret talks between US and Damascus to ascertain whereabouts of so-called US journalist Austin Ti…
(2023-05-20). Durham report shows Democrats fabricated anti-Russia intelligence during 2016 elections. wsws.org The long-awaited report by Special Counsel John Durham demonstrates that the Democratic Party, the 2016 election campaign of Hillary Clinton and the FBI collaborated in concocting intelligence that Donald Trump was colluding with the Russian government.
(2023-05-20). Washington D.C. police lieutenant indicted for tipping off, obstructing investigation into convicted Proud Boys leader. wsws.org Shane Lamond, the former supervisor of the MPD intelligence division during the January 6 coup, exemplifies the support Trump's coup had and still retains within the police-intelligence apparatus.
(2023-05-20). 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.
(2023-05-21). Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis. tomdispatch.com He appointed three conservative Supreme Court justices who shocked the nation with rulings that dramatically took away rights. He sided with the racists who used "states' rights" to push through undemocratic policies locally. And he's the only American president who lost a reelection bid but returned to office in the following election. Yes, I'm thinking of former New York governor and Democrat Grover Cleveland who first won the presidency in 1884, lost his reelection bid in 1888, only to successfully regain the presidency in 1892 against then-incumbent Benjamin Harrison. In 2024, Donald Trump hopes to repeat tha…
(2023-05-20). Chair of Ukraine's Supreme Court arrested in bribery scandal. wsws.org The arrest of the highest judicial official in the country signals an intensifying struggle within the Ukrainian ruling class and a deepening crisis of the Zelensky regime.
(2023-05-20). FBI Whistleblowers Testify Before Congress About Organization's Political Bias. thealtworld.com On this episode of Fault Lines, hosts Jamarl Thomas and Melik Abdul discussed several domestic and international topics, including the FBI whistleblowers testifying before Congress about an apparent bias against conservatives. | Elijah Magnier — Veteran War Correspondent | Ted Harvey — Former Colorado State Senator | John Kiriakou — Co-host of Political Misfits on Radio Sputnik | Jeremy Kuzmarov — Author & Managing editor of CovertAction Magazine | In the first hour, veteran war correspondent Elijah Magnier spoke with the Fault Lines team about the Arab League summit currently taking place in…