Monthly Archives: June 2023

2023-06-24: News Headlines

Bay Action To Free Julian Assange (2023-06-24). Monday 7/3: Rally On Julian's Birthday To Free Julian Assange & IFJ Journalist Mumia Abu-jamal. indybay.org Harry Bridges Plaza | Across The Street From Ferry Building | San Francisco…

Stansfield Smith (2023-06-24). Liberal and Left Silence on National Security Police State When Used Against Trump and His Supporters. orinocotribune.com By Stansfield Smith — Jun 21, 2023 | The National Security police state now regards the Democratic Party as a more useful tool to criminalize opposition to US wars and maintain their control over the US government. We see this in the attack on the Uhuru Movement as being in the pay of Russia, in the imprisonment and torture of Julian Assange, in the jailing of numerous whistleblowers, in the censoring of hundreds of anti-war websites, claiming they spread Russian "disinformation." Unfortunately, not a few who consider themselves on the left or liberals acquiesce to these attacks. Many actually repeat them.

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-06-23). The Truth Will Set All Of Us Free. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | "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 talk…

Editor (2023-06-23). Biden Would Need His Pound of Flesh From Assange. scheerpost.com The U.S. president would not likely move on the case without some face-saving measure to ward off pressure from the C.I.A. and his own party, writes Joe Lauria.

Staff (2023-06-24). The CIA, NATO and the US Empire with Aaron Good. youtube.com This week on the MintCast from MintPress News, Alan MacLeod is joined by historian Aaron Good to discuss his book, "American Exception: Empire and the Deep State". Aaron discusses how the CIA shaped American history and politics, how it and NATO intervened around the world, causing conflicts in its wake. Later, he describes the US/NATO …

Anonymous669 (2023-06-24). Hezbollah Infiltrated Lebanese Army, Intelligence — Report. southfront.org File image. | Hezbollah has infiltrated the Lebanese army and intelligence, Al-Arabiya reported on June 24, citing Western sources with knowledge on the matter. | The source told the Saudi-owned news channel that Hezbollah had recruited "agents" within Lebanon's intelligence services and took advantage of military aid recently supplied to the Lebanese army by the West."Over the past year, the group [Hezbollah] has infiltrated intelligence equipment for the Lebanese army through an agent," the sourc…

Eric Zuesse (2023-06-24). Now the Pay-off Comes from Blowing Up the Nord Stream Pipeline. dissidentvoice.org On June 23, Jamison Cocklin headlined at Natural Gas Intelligence, "Venture Global Set to Become Germany's Biggest Long-Term LNG Supplier" and reported: "Venture Global LNG Inc. has agreed to supply a state-owned German company with the super-chilled fuel for two decades as European offtakers continue to line up deals to replace Russian natural gas imports." …

Ping-Tao Tseng, Bing-Syuan Zeng, Chih-Sung Liang (2023-06-24). Correspondence] We are human, not artificial intelligence—medical teaching innovation in Taiwan. thelancet.com We appreciated Sandro Vento's Correspondence addressing the merit of a conducive environment in medical learning.1 With artificial intelligence development booming in recent years, there is a lot of interest in applying artificial intelligence to medical education to quickly produce many new doctors to resolve the problems of insufficient medical resources. However, lots of arguments have emerged about whether quickly produced new doctors have sufficient humanity in clinical practice. Here, we provide alternative experiences of medical education in Taiwan, which might be helpful for medical education providers ar…

Anonymous103 (2023-06-23). High Price For Counter Offensive: More Than 13,000 Servicemen Lost Since June 4. southfront.org Illustrative Image | On June 22, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council commented on the Ukrainian losses during the ongoing counter offensive on the Zaporozhie frontlines. | According to the data provided by various Russian military and security departments, including the Ministry of Defence, the Russian National Guard corps, the military intelligence sources, losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) from June 4 to June 21 included: | 246 tanks, including 13 units provided by the West; | 595 armored…

Chris Hedges (2023-06-23). 'Twitter Files' journalist Matt Taibbi claims IRS and FBI retaliation. therealnews.com On March 9th, 2023, Matt Taibbi appeared before Congress regarding the revelations uncovered by the "Twitter Files," which demonstrated the US federal government and social media companies worked together to censor information and accounts unfavorable to US interests. The same day, an IRS agent visited Taibbi's home in New Jersey. Matt Taibbi joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the case opened against him, as well as the role of the FBI and multiple law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the Foreign Influence Task Force which identified accounts and stories for censorship from Twitter. | Matt Tai…

unitedEditor (2023-06-23). UWI discloses the Ukrainian intelligence report: Kyiv's psychological warfare operation against Crimean Tatars. uwidata.com By I≈üƒ±kgàºn Akfƒ±rat The documents from the Ukrainian Security Service reveal the extent of intelligence operations against the Crimean Tatar National Assembly. The Kiev regime not only infiltrated the movement with spies to divide it, but also conducted a campaign of defamation on social media. Ukraine's intelligence agency has labeled the Crimean Tatars as a …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-23). Iran in America's Backyard: Raisi's Defiant Latin America Tour. libya360.wordpress.com Zafar Mehdi The Iranian president's visit to Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba sought to challenge Washington's global hegemony, by stripping it bare in its own backyard. On 21 June, the US House Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence Subcommittee conducted a hearing on "countering threats posed by nation-state actors" in Latin America to US homeland security. Congressman and subcommittee…

Larry Johnson (2023-06-24). U.S. Military Shackled to China because of Rare Earth Minerals And Prigozhin Has a Psychotic Break. sonar21.com I want to touch on three issues. First, the dependence of the U.S. military industrial complex on rare earth minerals supplied by China and what that portends for war in…

Labor Video Project (2023-06-24). Ian Masters CIA Operative Protested At KPFA In Berkeley. indybay.org

Ron Ridenour (2023-06-24). Journalist Randy Credico Has Been Placed on Ukrainian Terrorist "Kill-List" via CIA Project Website. covertactionmagazine.com Friends Are Urging Credico to Go Underground Advisers are suggesting Randy Credico to lie low—keep out of sight—because too many journalists, activists, academics and dissidents placed on this hit-list coincidentally wind up dead, sometimes only days after being listed. Once killed, the Ukrainian word –õ–ò–ö–í–ò–î–ò– –û–í–ê–ù ("LIQUIDATED") is plastered across their pictures in big red letters—as in the …

Will Hodgkinson (2023-06-24). Issues behind the Indian Child Welfare Act. workers.org Bulletin: In a major victory for Native nations and Tribal Sovereignty, the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in a June 15, 2023, decision. Had SCOTUS failed to uphold ICWA, the results would have been disastrous. The article below was . . . |

WSWS (2023-06-24). One year since the US Supreme Court's abolition of the constitutional right to abortion. wsws.org The Dobbs ruling is the illegitimate outcome of a far-right conspiracy backed by billionaire fascists to pack the courts with bigots and ideologues who are totally hostile to democratic rights.

Chris Walker (2023-06-23). Biden Issues Executive Order Seeking to Improve Access to Birth Control. truthout.org President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order on Friday directing various departments in his administration to consider new rules to bolster protections for reproductive rights, specifically access to contraception. The order comes nearly a year after the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health to overturn abortion protections previously established in Roe v. Wade… |

Lyric Aquino (2023-06-23). The Supreme Court Deals a Blow to the Navajo Nation's Water Rights Claim. truthout.org In a major blow to the Navajo Nation, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the federal government had no obligation to supply water to the tribe. In a 5-4 vote, the court ruled that water security for the Nation did not fall to the judiciary branch, but rather Congress and the President. "The burden now is on tribal nations to advocate for themselves and intervene whenever water rights… |

Tatyana Tandanpolie (2023-06-23). Amy Coney Barrett Faces Watchdog Scrutiny Over Real Estate Deal. truthout.org Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has personal ties to a leader of the legal clinic under the Notre Dame initiative that funded Justice Samuel Alito's July 2022 speaking trip to Rome, CNN reports. Just months after she was sworn in at the Supreme Court in 2020, Barrett, who had left her judgeship and job as a Notre Dame law professor, sold her private home in South Bend, Indiana… |

krish-rad_ind (2023-06-23). How Corrupt America Is: U.S. Supreme Court 'Justice' Alito as an Example. theduran.com

Pavel López Lazo (2023-06-23). Joe Biden to sign executive order to expand birth control access. plenglish.com The order is part of the administration's efforts to promote reproductive health care and comes one day ahead of the first anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. | It will also be the administration's only policy response to mark the anniversary, according to The Hill. | The order directs the secretaries of the Treasury and Labor Departments, as well as Health and Human Services (HHS), to consider new steps related to birth control, such as ensuring private health insurance covers all contraceptives either approved, cleared or granted by the Food and Drug Administration. | In all 50…

splcenter (2023-06-23). Advocates register voters after Supreme Court victory over gerrymandering. splcenter.org

Staff (2023-06-23). Headlines for June 23, 2023. democracynow.org Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Receives Lavish Welcome in U.S. State Visit, Activists ID Hundreds Killed by Paramilitaries and Arab Militias in Sudan's Darfur Region, Greek Authorities Rescue 145 Migrants Stranded on Turkey-Greece Border, Search for Missing Tourists Ends as Debris from Sub Is Found Near Wreckage of Titanic, Beijing Suffers Warmest June Day on Record; Southern U.S. and Mexico Bake Under Heat Wave, Mexican Environmentalists àÅlvaro Arvizu and Cuauhtémoc Márquez Found Murdered, French Government Bans "Earth Uprising" Direct-Action Climate Group, Supreme Court Rules Again…

Editor (2023-06-23). IRS Whistleblowers Allege Misconduct of Biden Investigation in Congressional Testimony. scheerpost.com

Editor (2023-06-23). John Kiriakou: The Godfather of Whistleblowers. scheerpost.com When the author blew the whistle on the C.I.A.'s torture program in 2007, Daniel Ellsberg called to congratulate him and say he had friends at his side. Years later, at a red-carpet event in Hollywood, the "most dangerous man in America" showed what he meant.

Anonymous103 (2023-06-23). IRS Whistleblowers Release New Bombshell Evidence Against Bidens, DOJ And AG Garland. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Originally published on Several bombshells dropped by two IRS whistleblowers on Thursday reveal, among other things, that Joe Biden's DOJ buried evidence of Hunter Biden's tax crimes — and stopped US Attorney David Weiss from bringing charges against Hunter in two different jurisdictions last year. | According to Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO)…

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2023-06-23: News Headlines

Bay Action To Free Julian Assange (2023-06-23). Monday 7/3: Rally On Julian's Birthday To Free Julian Assange & IFJ Journalist Mumia Abu-jamal. indybay.org Harry Bridges Plaza | Across The Street From Ferry Building | San Francisco…

Editor (2023-06-23). Biden Would Need His Pound of Flesh From Assange. scheerpost.com The U.S. president would not likely move on the case without some face-saving measure to ward off pressure from the C.I.A. and his own party, writes Joe Lauria.

Jonathan Cook (2023-06-22). Daniel Ellsberg is lauded in death by the same media that lets Assange rot in jail. mronline.org The stark difference in treatment of the two truth-tellers is a measure of how state criminality is now completely unchecked.

Stansfield Smith (2023-06-22). Liberal and "Left" Silence on National Security Police State When Used against Trump and His Supporters. dissidentvoice.org The National Security police state now regards the Democratic Party as a more useful tool to criminalize opposition to US wars and maintain their control over the US government. We see this in the attack on the Uhuru Movement as being in the pay of Russia, in the imprisonment and torture of Julian Assange, in …

krish-rad_ind (2023-06-22). Julian Assange's Imprisonment Is The Intellectual Imprisonment of Us All. theduran.com


Karsten Riise (2023-06-22). "Deep State" Abuse of AI: The Biggest Danger of AI and Yet Nobody Talks About It! globalresearch.ca

Ping-Tao Tseng, Bing-Syuan Zeng, Chih-Sung Liang (2023-06-24). Correspondence] We are human, not artificial intelligence—medical teaching innovation in Taiwan. thelancet.com We appreciated Sandro Vento's Correspondence addressing the merit of a conducive environment in medical learning.1 With artificial intelligence development booming in recent years, there is a lot of interest in applying artificial intelligence to medical education to quickly produce many new doctors to resolve the problems of insufficient medical resources. However, lots of arguments have emerged about whether quickly produced new doctors have sufficient humanity in clinical practice. Here, we provide alternative experiences of medical education in Taiwan, which might be helpful for medical education providers ar…

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-06-23). FSB stops smuggling of radioactive substances by Ukrainian agents. plenglish.com Moscow, Jun 23 (Prensa Latina) The Russian Security Service (FSB) detained Ukrainian intelligence agents who sought to plant radioactive substances in the area of the military operation to blame Russia for it.

Anonymous103 (2023-06-23). High Price For Counter Offensive: More Than 13,000 Servicemen Lost Since June 4. southfront.org Illustrative Image | On June 22, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council commented on the Ukrainian losses during the ongoing counter offensive on the Zaporozhie frontlines. | According to the data provided by various Russian military and security departments, including the Ministry of Defence, the Russian National Guard corps, the military intelligence sources, losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) from June 4 to June 21 included: | 246 tanks, including 13 units provided by the West; | 595 armored…

Amy Goodman (2023-06-22). Expert Who Met With Biden Explains How AI Is Enabling Racism and Sexism. truthout.org We speak with Dr. Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, who met this week with President Biden in a closed-door discussion with other artificial intelligence experts and critics about the need to explore the promise and risk of AI. The computer scientist and coding expert has long raised alarm about how AI and algorithms are enabling racist and sexist bias. We discuss examples… |


Orisanmi Burton (2023-06-22). New Docs Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigenous Children and Black Prisoners. truthout.org 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 head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ordered… |

Staff (2023-06-22). How AI Is Enabling Racism & Sexism: Algorithmic Justice League's Joy Buolamwini on Meeting with Biden. democracynow.org We speak with Dr. Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, who met this week with President Biden in a closed-door discussion with other artificial intelligence experts and critics about the need to explore the promise and risk of AI. The computer scientist and coding expert has long raised alarm about how AI and algorithms are enabling racist and sexist bias. We discuss examples, and she lays out what should be included in the White House's "Vision for Protecting Our Civil Rights in the Algorithmic Age."…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-06-22). The Media Delusion That Daniel Ellsberg Blew The Whistle The 'Right Way'. thedissenter.org The following independent journalism was made possible by paid subscribers. Take advantage of this discount offer and *Below is a written version of the above video.Pentagon Papers whistleblower and longtime peace activist Daniel Ellsberg died at the age of 92 on June 16. | Several U.S. media segments on Ellsberg's life were very familiar to anyone who followed Ellsberg's in the last ten years as he spoke in defense of whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. Only this time media outlets did not have to w…

Eric Stoner, Waging Nonviolence. (2023-06-23). How Students Jumpstarted A Bold New Campaign For Debt Abolition. popularresistance.org The historic movement victory to forgive student debt won last summer is under relentless attack. At the beginning of June, the Senate passed a bill blocking President Biden's debt cancellation plan, which he subsequently vetoed. However, the plan remains on hold as the Supreme Court considers dubious challenges to it. Another blow came with the signing of the bipartisan debt ceiling deal that will restart student loan payments at the end of August. | In response to these ongoing threats, students are once again taking action — rallying outside the Supreme Court in February and organizing a sit-in at House…

Chris Walker (2023-06-22). 1 Year After "Roe" Overturn, Most Americans Say Ruling Has Been Bad for Country. truthout.org Nearly one year to the day that the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights protections by upending precedent established in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, new polling shows that most Americans are opposed to the anti-abortion ruling. The survey, a CBS News/YouGov poll conducted on June 14-17, was published just days before the first anniversary of the Dobbs v. |

Orisanmi Burton (2023-06-22). New Docs Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigenous Children and Black Prisoners. truthout.org 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 head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ordered… |

Staff (2023-06-22). How AI Is Enabling Racism & Sexism: Algorithmic Justice League's Joy Buolamwini on Meeting with Biden. democracynow.org We speak with Dr. Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, who met this week with President Biden in a closed-door discussion with other artificial intelligence experts and critics about the need to explore the promise and risk of AI. The computer scientist and coding expert has long raised alarm about how AI and algorithms are enabling racist and sexist bias. We discuss examples, and she lays out what should be included in the White House's "Vision for Protecting Our Civil Rights in the Algorithmic Age."…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-06-22). The Media Delusion That Daniel Ellsberg Blew The Whistle The 'Right Way'. thedissenter.org The following independent journalism was made possible by paid subscribers. Take advantage of this discount offer and *Below is a written version of the above video.Pentagon Papers whistleblower and longtime peace activist Daniel Ellsberg died at the age of 92 on June 16. | Several U.S. media segments on Ellsberg's life were very familiar to anyone who followed Ellsberg's in the last ten years as he spoke in defense of whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. Only this time media outlets did not have to w…

Eric Stoner, Waging Nonviolence. (2023-06-23). How Students Jumpstarted A Bold New Campaign For Debt Abolition. popularresistance.org The historic movement victory to forgive student debt won last summer is under relentless attack. At the beginning of June, the Senate passed a bill blocking President Biden's debt cancellation plan, which he subsequently vetoed. However, the plan remains on hold as the Supreme Court considers dubious challenges to it. Another blow came with the signing of the bipartisan debt ceiling deal that will restart student loan payments at the end of August. | In response to these ongoing threats, students are once again taking action — rallying outside the Supreme Court in February and organizing a sit-in at House…

Chris Walker (2023-06-22). 1 Year After "Roe" Overturn, Most Americans Say Ruling Has Been Bad for Country. truthout.org Nearly one year to the day that the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights protections by upending precedent established in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, new polling shows that most Americans are opposed to the anti-abortion ruling. The survey, a CBS News/YouGov poll conducted on June 14-17, was published just days before the first anniversary of the Dobbs v. |

Chris Walker (2023-06-22). FL Org Gathers Signatures for Ballot Measure to Undo State's 6-Week Abortion Ban. truthout.org An effort to enshrine abortion rights in the Florida state constitution is gaining steam, and will likely be included on the 2024 general election ballot if current trends hold steady. However, the proposed amendment faces some hurdles before it can be accepted on the ballot, including passing muster in the state's conservative Supreme Court. For the petition to be considered… |

Sharon Zhang (2023-06-22). Fight for Student Debt Relief Won't End With Supreme Court Ruling, AOC Vows. truthout.org With the Supreme Court expected to hand down its ruling on student debt forgiveness any week now, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) is vowing to continue fighting for relief for borrowers even if the Supreme Court strikes it down. In a press conference with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez said that lawmakers in the caucus, as well as the Congressional Black… |

Tanya Wadhwa (2023-06-22). Peru's former prime minister Betssy Chávez arrested on rebellion and conspiracy charges. peoplesdispatch.org On Tuesday, June 20, the Peruvian National Police arrested former Prime Minister Betssy Chávez for the alleged crimes of rebellion and conspiracy against the state. Chávez was arrested at her home in the southern city of Tacna after the Supreme Court ordered 18 months of pre-trial detention for her. The charges against Chávez stem from

Anonymous103 (2023-06-23). IRS Whistleblowers Release New Bombshell Evidence Against Bidens, DOJ And AG Garland. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Originally published on Several bombshells dropped by two IRS whistleblowers on Thursday reveal, among other things, that Joe Biden's DOJ buried evidence of Hunter Biden's tax crimes — and stopped US Attorney David Weiss from bringing charges against Hunter in two different jurisdictions last year. | According to Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO)…

The Exposé (2023-06-23). NHS Whistleblower: 'We were ordered to "Euthanise" Patients to falsely increase COVID Death Counts while Hospitals were Empty'… expose-news.com An NHS whistleblower, who wishes to remain anonymous, has come forward with allegations that the NHS hospitals were not overwhelmed during the Covid-19 pandemic, as was reported by authorities and the mainstream …

Editor (2023-06-23). John Kiriakou: The Godfather of Whistleblowers. scheerpost.com When the author blew the whistle on the C.I.A.'s torture program in 2007, Daniel Ellsberg called to congratulate him and say he had friends at his side. Years later, at a red-carpet event in Hollywood, the "most dangerous man in America" showed what he meant.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-06-22). "If You Challenge the FBI, they Will Crush You," Says Whistleblower at Congressional Hearing. covertactionmagazine.com Being an FBI agent was Stephen Friend's dream job. For eight and a half years working there, the Notre Dame graduate and Iraq War veteran investigated around 200 violent crimes, including human and sex-trafficking cases, and served five years as part of an FBI SWAT team. Friend did his job so well that he won …

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