Monthly Archives: June 2023

2023-06-28: News Headlines

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-06-28). The Truth Will Set All of Us Free. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — Jun 23, 2023 | "You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion." | ~ Julian Assange | 'The truth will set you free' is an aphorism we've all heard so many times it's lost a lot of its meaning and doesn't sound especially profound when we hear it again, but it really does contain the answer to humanity's most difficult problems. A truth-based relationship with reality is the only way to move into peace and harmony, whether you're talking about the inner…

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-06-28). I'm Auctioning My Portrait Of Assange's Father As Part Of An Assange Benefit Event. thealtworld.com I'm going to be All around the world there have been events organized for Julian Assange's 52nd birthday, coming up July 3. Assange's brother Gabriel Shipton, along with the Melbourne for Wikileaks people and the Assange Defense fund, are putting on a party at a bar in Melbourne. I'm going to be displaying some of my series of Assange oil paintings, which are part…

Cynthia Papermaster (2023-06-28). Monday 7/3: Julian Assange Birthday Banner Drop. indybay.org Pedestrian Overpass at Hwy. 880 in Berkeley, at the foot of University Avenue.

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-28). World Whistleblower Day protest calls for Assange's release. greenleft.org.au

Ben Bartee (2023-06-27). Deep State Groomers Recruit Mentally Handicapped Teenager to Become a Jihadist. globalresearch.ca


Ann Brown (2023-06-28). Declassified Report Released By US Government On Covid Origin: FBI Concludes It Likely Came From Wuhan Lab. moguldom.com After years of speculation and accusations, a declassified report released by the U.S. government finds that the covid-19 virus originated from the Wuhan lab in China. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence on June 16 released its in-depth report examining potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of the …

Orisanmi Burton (2023-06-27). New docs link CIA to medical torture of Indigenous children and Black prisoners. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in The documentary record of "mind control" experiments conducted by the United States and other governments during the Cold War is just the tip of the iceberg, and our collective ignorance is by design. In early 1973, as the fallout from the Watergate scandal exposed the need for greater congressional oversight of U.S. intelligence agencies, the he…

teleSUR (2023-06-27). Russian President Lays Out Options for Wagner Soldiers. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Wagner forces to relocate to Belarus if they wanted, sign a contract with Russia's Defence Ministry, or return to their families. | RELATED: | Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Russian intelligence services were investigating whether Western spy agencies played a role in the aborted mutiny. | OPTIONS FOR WAGNER SOLDIERS: | "We knew that the…

Amy Goodman (2023-06-27). Church Committee Had Dramatic Impact on NSA, CIA and FBI Abuses, New Book Shows. truthout.org Veteran national security reporter James Risen joins us for an in-depth look at his new book, The Last Honest Man, about the work of Senator Frank Church to rein in the FBI, CIA and other agencies after the Vietnam War, Watergate and other fiascos had shaken the public's trust in the U.S. government. Church, a Democrat, chaired a Senate committee that in 1975 began investigating the intelligence… |

Jacob Andrewartha, Aishik Saha (2023-06-27). Podcast: Artificial Intelligence and capitalism. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Jacob Andrewartha spoke to Aishik Saha, an activist with All India Students Association and a researcher on digital and algorithmic labour, about the development of artificial intelligence under capitalism.


Larry Johnson (2023-06-27). Was Prigozhin's Mutiny a Western Intelligence Op Derailed by Russia's Spies? sonar21.com There is still no consensus about the motive for Yevgeny Prigozhin's and there is a lot of speculation. Some have posed the false dichotomy of having to choose "real coup"…

Labor Video Project (2023-06-28). Ian Masters CIA Operative Protested At KPFA In Berkeley. indybay.org

Editor (2023-06-27). Journalist Randy Credico has been placed on Ukrainian terrorist "kill-list" via CIA project website. mronline.org Friends are urging Credico to go underground.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-27). Suicidal Attacks, Horrendous Losses and Insubordination Plague Kiev Regime Forces. libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic Worn-out artillery pieces that they have received from the US as part of Washington's military aid to Kiev Back in mid-January, retired United States Army Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, who previously led the US Army Europe Command and still holds several high-ranking positions within NATO, gave an interview to the CIA front Radio Free…

Laurie Efrein Kahalas (2023-06-27). What in the World Happened at Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978? covertactionmagazine.com Evidence Suggests that the CIA Murdered One of Its Staunchest Critics in the mid-1970s and then Covered It Up by Blaming Jim Jones's Peoples Temple Cult [CAM has undertaken previous reporting on the infamous 1978 Jonestown massacre and explored CIA involvement—largely to cover up clandestine drug testing and other illicit operations that were being carried …

Larry Johnson (2023-06-27). Was Prigozhin's Mutiny a Western Intelligence Op Derailed by Russia's Spies? sonar21.com There is still no consensus about the motive for Yevgeny Prigozhin's and there is a lot of speculation. Some have posed the false dichotomy of having to choose "real coup"…

Labor Video Project (2023-06-28). Ian Masters CIA Operative Protested At KPFA In Berkeley. indybay.org

Editor (2023-06-27). Journalist Randy Credico has been placed on Ukrainian terrorist "kill-list" via CIA project website. mronline.org Friends are urging Credico to go underground.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-27). Suicidal Attacks, Horrendous Losses and Insubordination Plague Kiev Regime Forces. libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic Worn-out artillery pieces that they have received from the US as part of Washington's military aid to Kiev Back in mid-January, retired United States Army Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, who previously led the US Army Europe Command and still holds several high-ranking positions within NATO, gave an interview to the CIA front Radio Free…

Laurie Efrein Kahalas (2023-06-27). What in the World Happened at Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978? covertactionmagazine.com Evidence Suggests that the CIA Murdered One of Its Staunchest Critics in the mid-1970s and then Covered It Up by Blaming Jim Jones's Peoples Temple Cult [CAM has undertaken previous reporting on the infamous 1978 Jonestown massacre and explored CIA involvement—largely to cover up clandestine drug testing and other illicit operations that were being carried …

Liberation Staff (2023-06-28). PSL Editorial — Moore v. Harper: Why the Court felt compelled to reject far-right elections theory. liberationnews.org This ruling is not the result of some miraculous change of heart on the part of the hardline reactionary justices. The Supreme Court makes decisions based on political calculations…

Peter Skelton KC (2023-06-28). The Supreme Court provides authoritative guidance on the application of Article 2 to Coronial investigations and inquests. ukhumanrightsblog.com Introduction The advent of the Human Rights Act 1998, and the incorporation into domestic law of the Article 2 right to life, has transformed coronial investigations and inquests over the last two decades. Lord Bingham's magisterial creation of the 'enhanced' investigation and conclusion in R (Middleton) v West Somerset Coroner [2004] UKHL 10, [2004] 2 AC …

Jake Johnson (2023-06-28). Progressives Prepare to Mobilize If Supreme Court Blocks Student Debt Relief. truthout.org A White House spokesperson on Tuesday would not say whether the Biden administration has an alternative plan to cancel student debt as borrowers and campaigners across the U.S. braced for — and prepared to mobilize in response to — a Supreme Court ruling on the Education Department's pending relief program. Asked during a briefing if the White House has any contingency plans in place for a… |

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-06-28). Over two thousand prisoners to be released in Afghanistan. plenglish.com Kabul, Jun 28 (Prensa Latina) The Supreme Court announced today that Mullah Hebatullah Ajundzada, leader of the Taliban, ordered the release of nearly 2,200 prisoners in Afghanistan, on the occasion of the celebration of Eid al Adha.

Jews United for Democracy & JCA (2023-06-28). Wednesday 7/5: Voting Rights, Election Laws, Supreme Court & More w/ Rick Hasen, UCLA Law Scholar. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Staff (2023-06-28). Headlines for June 28, 2023. democracynow.org Supreme Court Rejects GOP's Radical "Independent State Legislature Theory", Canadian Wildfire Smoke Brings Hazy Skies to Europe, "Very Unhealthy" Air Alerts in U.S. Cities, Russian Missile Strikes Restaurant in Ukraine's Kramatorsk, Killing 9 and Wounding Dozens, Belarusian President Says He Convinced Wagner Chief to Call Off Mutiny in Russia, U.S. Sanctions Companies Profiting from Wagner Group Mining Concessions in Africa, Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio Wins Reelection, Nurses in Texas and Kansas Hold One-Day Strike to Demand Safe Staffing Levels, DOJ Report Finds Mi…

Staff (2023-06-28). SCOTUS Rejects Radical GOP Vote-Rigging "Theory," Could Still End Affirmative Action & Debt Relief. democracynow.org The Supreme Court's term is ending this week with rulings on several blockbuster cases. On Tuesday, voting rights advocates welcomed a decision in a major election law case that preserved checks and balances in elections. In a 6-3 decision, the justices dismissed the so-called independent state legislature theory that state lawmakers have nearly unlimited power to make rules for federal elections. This ruling will "empower state courts around the country to block gerrymanders, to police the legislatures and to keep legislators from trying to entrench themselves or advance their party with these egregi…

WSWS (2023-06-28). US Supreme Court rejects far-right "independent state legislature" theory. wsws.org While the Democrats are hailing the ruling as the salvation of democracy, workers would make a fatal error if they placed any confidence in the Supreme Court or looked to it to defend their basic rights.

Chris Walker (2023-06-27). Supreme Court Rejects Novel Theory That Could Have Upended US Elections. truthout.org The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a novel legal theory that would have limited the ability of courts to be a check on state legislatures' redrawing of state and congressional districts. On Tuesday, the High Court ruled, in Moore v. Harper, against the independent state legislature theory, a fringe idea that there is a constitutional separation between state courts and state legislatures that… |

Editor (2023-06-27). Supreme Court Keeps Navajo Nation Waiting for Water. scheerpost.com Decades of negotiations between the tribe and Arizona over water rights have proven fruitless. The court case was the Navajo Nation's bid to accelerate the process and secure water for its reservation.

Evan Milligan (2023-06-27). SCOTUS Ruled in Favor of Voting Rights. Southern Black Voters Made That Happen. truthout.org The Supreme Court this week allowed Louisiana to redraw its congressional districts to fairly represent Black voters. This action comes on the heels of the court's decision earlier this month in Allen v. Milligan, in which one of us was a key plaintiff, finding that Alabama's new congressional maps dilute the power of Black voters in the state. These developments deliver a much-needed victory for… |

Kevin Gosztola (2023-06-27). Clarence Thomas Encourages Constitutional Challenge To Whistleblower Law. thedissenter.org United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas effectively invited corporations accused of fraud to bring a constitutional challenge against the False Claims Act, which could dismantle a law that whistleblowers have depended on for over a century. | On June 16, Thomas issued a dissenting opinion in a case that involved the U.S. government's authority to dismiss False Claims lawsuits. Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett joined Thomas in his dissent, with Kavanaugh declaring that it was his view that the Supreme Court should consider what Thomas raised in an "appropriate case."The False…

Mark Gruenberg (2023-06-27). Thousands turn out nationwide in marches for abortion rights. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Thousands of women and their supporters, including 2,500 who marched on the U.S. Supreme Court, hit the streets on June 24 to again march for abortion rights, marking the full year since the court's right-wing Republican-named five-justice majority eliminated that right nationwide. Mobilized by the Women's March, the campaigners not only denounced last year's ruling …

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2023-06-27: News Headlines

greenleft.org.au (2023-06-27). World Whistleblower Day protest calls for Assange's release. greenleft.org.au

Ben Bartee (2023-06-27). Deep State Groomers Recruit Mentally Handicapped Teenager to Become a Jihadist. globalresearch.ca

Anonymous765 (2023-06-27). Locations Of US Carrier Strike Groups — June 27, 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. | | 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…

Larry Johnson (2023-06-27). Was Prigozhin's Mutiny a Western Intelligence Op Derailed by Russia's Spies? sonar21.com There is still no consensus about the motive for Yevgeny Prigozhin's and there is a lot of speculation. Some have posed the false dichotomy of having to choose "real coup"…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-27). Did Putin anticipate the coup bid by Wagner's Prigozhin? peoplesdispatch.org Former Indian diplomat M.K. Bhadrakumar analyzes the coup attempt by Yevgeny Prigozhin of the Wagner group. He maintains that Russian intelligence was aware of the possibility of this insurrection attempt and Prigozhin's likely ties to western spy agencies…

Amy Goodman (2023-06-27). Church Committee Had Dramatic Impact on NSA, CIA and FBI Abuses, New Book Shows. truthout.org Veteran national security reporter James Risen joins us for an in-depth look at his new book, The Last Honest Man, about the work of Senator Frank Church to rein in the FBI, CIA and other agencies after the Vietnam War, Watergate and other fiascos had shaken the public's trust in the U.S. government. Church, a Democrat, chaired a Senate committee that in 1975 began investigating the intelligence… |


ecns.cn (2023-06-26). Building secure, trusted AI: Insights from WIC Nishan Dialogue. ecns.cn Tech heavyweights, scholars and government officials gathered at Nishan, Shandong province, to spark insightful discussions on ensuring the security and trustworthiness of artificial intelligence.

Jacob Andrewartha, Aishik Saha (2023-06-27). Podcast: Artificial Intelligence and capitalism. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Jacob Andrewartha spoke to Aishik Saha, an activist with All India Students Association and a researcher on digital and algorithmic labour, about the development of artificial intelligence under capitalism.

Orisanmi Burton (2023-06-27). New docs link CIA to medical torture of Indigenous children and Black prisoners. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in The documentary record of "mind control" experiments conducted by the United States and other governments during the Cold War is just the tip of the iceberg, and our collective ignorance is by design. In early 1973, as the fallout from the Watergate scandal exposed the need for greater congressional oversight of U.S. intelligence agencies, the he…

Rebecca Burns (2023-06-27). Artificial Intelligence Is Making The Housing Crisis Worse. levernews.com

Staff (2023-06-27). "The Last Honest Man": James Risen on How Frank Church Exposed CIA, FBI & NSA Assassinations, Abuse. democracynow.org Veteran national security reporter James Risen joins us for an in-depth look at his new book, The Last Honest Man, about the work of Senator Frank Church to rein in the FBI, CIA and other agencies after the Vietnam War, Watergate and other fiascos had shaken the public's trust in the U.S. government. Church, a Democrat, chaired a Senate committee that in 1975 began investigating the intelligence community and uncovered numerous abuses, including assassination plots and widespread domestic surveillance. Risen's book also includes new details about Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg's p…

teleSUR (2023-06-27). Russian President Lays Out Options for Wagner Soldiers. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Wagner forces to relocate to Belarus if they wanted, sign a contract with Russia's Defence Ministry, or return to their families. | RELATED: | Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Russian intelligence services were investigating whether Western spy agencies played a role in the aborted mutiny. | OPTIONS FOR WAGNER SOLDIERS: | "We knew that the…


Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-26). FSB Spooked the CIA on Prigozhin Coup. libya360.wordpress.com M. K. Bhadrakumar The CNN, followed by the New York Times, broke the story on Sunday that the US and western intelligence were indeed aware of the failed coup attempt on Friday night by Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group of Russian military contractors, "for quite some time and making preparations for such a move, including…

Dave DeCamp (2023-06-26). Lavrov Says Russia Investigating If Western Intelligence Agencies Played a Role in Prigozhin Mutiny. news.antiwar.com

Mnar Adley (2023-06-26). MintPress News Is Being Targeted: Join Us in Standing up to the War Machine. mintpressnews.com Stand up for truth. Stand up against war. Today, we invite you to join us in empowering MintPress News, the vanguard of fearless investigative journalism that unearths the hidden web of the military industrial complex.

Labor Video Project (2023-06-27). Ian Masters CIA Operative Protested At KPFA In Berkeley. indybay.org

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-27). Suicidal Attacks, Horrendous Losses and Insubordination Plague Kiev Regime Forces. libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic Worn-out artillery pieces that they have received from the US as part of Washington's military aid to Kiev Back in mid-January, retired United States Army Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, who previously led the US Army Europe Command and still holds several high-ranking positions within NATO, gave an interview to the CIA front Radio Free…

Editor (2023-06-27). Journalist Randy Credico has been placed on Ukrainian terrorist "kill-list" via CIA project website. mronline.org Friends are urging Credico to go underground.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-26). FSB Spooked the CIA on Prigozhin Coup. libya360.wordpress.com M. K. Bhadrakumar The CNN, followed by the New York Times, broke the story on Sunday that the US and western intelligence were indeed aware of the failed coup attempt on Friday night by Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group of Russian military contractors, "for quite some time and making preparations for such a move, including…

Dave DeCamp (2023-06-26). Lavrov Says Russia Investigating If Western Intelligence Agencies Played a Role in Prigozhin Mutiny. news.antiwar.com

Mnar Adley (2023-06-26). MintPress News Is Being Targeted: Join Us in Standing up to the War Machine. mintpressnews.com Stand up for truth. Stand up against war. Today, we invite you to join us in empowering MintPress News, the vanguard of fearless investigative journalism that unearths the hidden web of the military industrial complex.

Labor Video Project (2023-06-27). Ian Masters CIA Operative Protested At KPFA In Berkeley. indybay.org

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-27). Suicidal Attacks, Horrendous Losses and Insubordination Plague Kiev Regime Forces. libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic Worn-out artillery pieces that they have received from the US as part of Washington's military aid to Kiev Back in mid-January, retired United States Army Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, who previously led the US Army Europe Command and still holds several high-ranking positions within NATO, gave an interview to the CIA front Radio Free…

Editor (2023-06-27). Journalist Randy Credico has been placed on Ukrainian terrorist "kill-list" via CIA project website. mronline.org Friends are urging Credico to go underground.

Alan Macleod (2023-06-26). The CIA, NATO and the US Empire with Aaron Good. mintpressnews.com Uncover the hidden truths behind America's empire as historian Aaron Good delves into the history of US dominance, the role of the CIA and NATO, and the looming challenge posed by China, revealing the fragile nature of America's military might and the power dynamics shaping our world.

Jews United for Democracy & JCA (2023-06-27). Wednesday 7/5: Voting Rights, Election Laws, Supreme Court & More w/ Rick Hasen, UCLA Law Scholar. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Editor (2023-06-27). Supreme Court Keeps Navajo Nation Waiting for Water. scheerpost.com Decades of negotiations between the tribe and Arizona over water rights have proven fruitless. The court case was the Navajo Nation's bid to accelerate the process and secure water for its reservation.

Chris Walker (2023-06-27). Supreme Court Rejects Novel Theory That Could Have Upended US Elections. truthout.org The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a novel legal theory that would have limited the ability of courts to be a check on state legislatures' redrawing of state and congressional districts. On Tuesday, the High Court ruled, in Moore v. Harper, against the independent state legislature theory, a fringe idea that there is a constitutional separation between state courts and state legislatures that… |

Evan Milligan (2023-06-27). SCOTUS Ruled in Favor of Voting Rights. Southern Black Voters Made That Happen. truthout.org The Supreme Court this week allowed Louisiana to redraw its congressional districts to fairly represent Black voters. This action comes on the heels of the court's decision earlier this month in Allen v. Milligan, in which one of us was a key plaintiff, finding that Alabama's new congressional maps dilute the power of Black voters in the state. These developments deliver a much-needed victory for… |

Kevin Gosztola (2023-06-27). Clarence Thomas Encourages Constitutional Challenge To Whistleblower Law. thedissenter.org United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas effectively invited corporations accused of fraud to bring a constitutional challenge against the False Claims Act, which could dismantle a law that whistleblowers have depended on for over a century. | On June 16, Thomas issued a dissenting opinion in a case that involved the U.S. government's authority to dismiss False Claims lawsuits. Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett joined Thomas in his dissent, with Kavanaugh declaring that it was his view that the Supreme Court should consider what Thomas raised in an "appropriate case."The False…

Mark Gruenberg (2023-06-27). Thousands turn out nationwide in marches for abortion rights. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Thousands of women and their supporters, including 2,500 who marched on the U.S. Supreme Court, hit the streets on June 24 to again march for abortion rights, marking the full year since the court's right-wing Republican-named five-justice majority eliminated that right nationwide. Mobilized by the Women's March, the campaigners not only denounced last year's ruling …

Staff (2023-06-27). Headlines for June 27, 2023. democracynow.org Putin Tells Wagner Mercenaries to Join Russian Military or Face Exile in Belarus, Zelensky Visits Frontline Troops; Biden Administration Announces New Arms for Ukraine, UNICEF Warns 100,000 Sudanese Child Refugees in Chad Face New Dangers, Israeli Settlers Storm Palestinian Village in West Bank, Torching Homes and Firing Guns, Supreme Court Orders Louisiana to Redraw Racially Gerrymandered Congressional Map, Supreme Court to Allow Sexual Assault Survivors to Sue Ohio State University, Supreme Court Sides with Biden on ICE Deportations, Audio Reveals Trump Showed "Highly Confidential" Document to Publi…

Orry Moore (2023-06-26). The Weekly Round-Up: Greek Migrant Boat Tragedy, Italian pushback against Surrogacy, and Downstream Emissions in the Supreme Court. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news Further details of the sinking of a Greek fishing boat carrying up to 800 people — including up to 100 children — have come out, placing the Greek authorities under intense scrutiny. The tragedy, which occurred on Wednesday 14th June, has seen the confirmed deaths of at least 78 people and only …

Staff (2023-06-27). James Risen on Why Trump's Charges Are Different Than for Whistleblowers Targeted Under Espionage Act. democracynow.org As former President Donald Trump faces Espionage Act charges, newly leaked audio reveals he showed a classified Pentagon document to multiple people in 2021 detailing a plan to attack Iran, contradicting Trump's recent claim that he did not have classified documents. We speak with veteran national security reporter James Risen, who says Trump is a thief and should not be compared to whistleblower Reality Winner or others, but also notes, "I am no fan of the Espionage Act. I don't think that it should be on the books."…

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