greenleft.org.au (2023-07-27). 'Free Julian Assange' letter delivered to PM Anthony Albanese. greenleft.org.au

Mark Niu (2023-07-27). Imagry introduces AI-powered mapless self-driving system. america.cgtn.com Remember all those predictions about everyone owning self-driving cars around now? It hasn't happened. But as Mark Niu reports, artificial intelligence may be giving new momentum to finally making autonomous driving economical and reliable.

Mark Niu (2023-07-27). Gaming adapts to growing popularity of AI. america.cgtn.com The gaming industry has benefited from cutting-edge technology, including advanced motion tracking, virtual reality and augmented reality. But many believe artificial intelligence has the potential to bring about even greater change in how games are played and developed. CGTN's Mark Niu reports.

Mark Niu (2023-07-27). Legal profession most at risk for AI mistakes. america.cgtn.com Generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, are known for their stunning ability to write and translate, but also for a downside called hallucinating, where the AI simply makes things up that aren't true. A recent study from Princeton University cited the legal profession as the industry most exposed to the risks of artificial intelligence. …

Mark Niu (2023-07-27). AI system creates restaurant recipes for precision. america.cgtn.com Coming up with new recipes and preparing old favorites is the job of millions of chefs and kitchens around the world. But one place in Silicon Valley is adding a new cutting-edge ingredient — artificial intelligence. CGTN's Mark Niu has more on how AI is …

infobrics (2023-07-27). Ending military aid to Ukraine would surpass Afghanistan debacle, says former US Ambassador. infobrics.org With former US intelligence agents and military chiefs acknowledging that the war is over for Ukraine, Biden finds himself in a predicament where he can be remembered as the president who made the greatest geopolitical blunder in modern US history.

WSWS (2023-07-27). Film and television strikers in Los Angeles are determined to fight: "It's theft. That's what capitalism comes down to." wsws.org Major concerns are being raised by actors and writers on the picket lines pertaining to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential to replace tens of thousands of entertainment workers.

imperial.ac.uk (2023-07-27). Public participants help navigate AI and data science. imperial.ac.uk Members of the public co-create educational guide demystifying the role of artificial intelligence and data science in healthcare.

teleSUR (2023-07-26). Kiev Officially Claims Responsibility for Crimean Bridge Blast. telesurenglish.net The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on Wednesday claimed responsibility for the deadly terrorist attack on the Russia's Crimean bridge last October. | RELATED: | The head of Ukraine's main intelligence and security agency, Vasiliy Malyuk, said SBU was behind the sabotage operation. "The destruction of the Crimean bridge is one of our achievements," Malyuk stated. | His comments came during a televised ceremony to unveil a new pos…

Mnar Adley (2023-07-26). 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.

Drago Bosnic (2023-07-27). Beijing Will Respond to CIA Threats of Expanding Spy Network in China. globalresearch.ca

Prof Rodrigue Tremblay (2023-07-27). President Biden Makes the CIA Director Member of His Cabinet: Message and Consequence. globalresearch.ca

M. K. Bhadrakumar, People's Dispatch. (2023-07-27). Glimpses Of An Endgame In Ukraine. popularresistance.org The problem with the war in Ukraine is that it has been all smoke and mirrors. The Russian objectives of "demilitarization" and "de-Nazification" of Ukraine wore a surreal look. The Western narrative that the war is between Russia and Ukraine, where central issue is the Westphalian principle of national sovereignty, wore thin progressively leaving a void. | There is a realization today that the war is actually between Russia and NATO and that Ukraine had ceased to be a sovereign country since 2014 when the CIA and sister Western agencies — Germany, the UK, France, Sweden, etc.— installed a puppet regi…

Editor (2023-07-26). New Files Reveal MKUltra's Terrifying Reach: Ethnic Bioweapons, Mind Control and Disturbing Experiments. scheerpost.com By Kit Klarenberg / MintPress News In a groundbreaking investigation, renowned anthropologist Orisanmi Burton has blown the lid off a dark chapter in CIA history. Classified Agency files, recently obtained through Freedom of Information laws, expose shocking ties between the infamous MKULTRA program and nightmarish experiments on prisoners of color within the United States. Burton's findings expose MKULTRA's …

Editor (2023-07-26). Beijing Vows Countermeasures After CIA Says It's Rebuilding Spy Networks in China. scheerpost.com

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-07-26). Anderson Cooper Is a Disgusting CIA Goon. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — Jul 20, 2023 | In a Pushing back against West's claim that NATO provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine and his call for ceasefire ne…

Jake Johnson (2023-07-27). Mountain Valley Pipeline Construction Moves Forward Thanks to Supreme Court. truthout.org The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a pair of lower court orders that temporarily halted construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 300-mile fracked gas project that has long been a top priority of Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, a close ally of the fossil fuel industry. The high court's brief order, which does not mention any dissents, sides with pipeline backers and vacates stays issued… |

Chris Walker (2023-07-26). New Evidence Surfaces That 303 Creative Owner Misled SCOTUS. truthout.org A petitioner in the recent U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people in Colorado appears to have misled the Court regarding key facts in the case. Lorie Smith, who owns the website production company 303 Creative, was represented in the case by the far right legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). In their filing to the Court… |

Mark Gruenberg (2023-07-26). Mass Israel chaos over Netanyahu court coup draws mostly silence in U.S. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Mass chaos in Israel over the far-rightist Netanyahu government's legislative coup against the one roadblock—the Supreme Court—to its seizure of total government control drew, surprisingly, mostly silence in the U.S., Israel's closest ally. And those who spoke out split along partisan lines: Democratic union leaders, but not lawmakers, denounced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coup attempt; …

teleSUR (2023-07-26). Israel's Supreme Court to Hear Petitions Against Judicial Law. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Israel's Supreme Court announced that it will hear petitions against a new law that limits some of its powers, potentially setting up a confrontation between the court and the government. | RELATED: | A new law that cancels the Supreme Court's power to overrule government decisions by deeming them "unreasonable" was passed by Israeli parliament on Monday, sparking stormy demonstrations across the count…

Aaron Mendelson (2023-07-26). How Republicans flipped America's state supreme courts. nationofchange.org State supreme courts were once dominated by Democrats, but not anymore.

Editor (2023-07-24). CIA-Linked Security Company Targeted Former Ecuador President Who Granted Assange Asylum. scheerpost.com By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter In addition to targeting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a CIA-linked private security company based in Spain allegedly spied on former Ecuador president Rafael Correa. Spanish newspaper El País reported that UC Global director David Morales instructed his employees to collect information from Correa's 2018 meetings with Latin American leaders that included …

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-24). 'Free Julian Assange' letter delivered to PM Anthony Albanese. greenleft.org.au

ecns.cn (2023-07-24). Internet economy on cusp of expansion. ecns.cn China's sprawling internet economy is entering a new stage of development, as the country takes strides toward building world-leading digital infrastructure and exploring various applications of cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence.

thecommunists (2023-07-24). Seven decades of US imperialist interference in Ukraine. thecommunists.org This short video gives a quick run-down of the divide in Ukraine between the east and the west that has been fuelled in order to lay the groundwork for today's war against Russia on Ukrainian soil. A divide known to, studied, and exploited by the USA and its Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since at least …

_____ (2023-07-24). Goodness Gracious, David Ignatius: The Light at the End of the Tunnel. strategic-culture.org By Melvin GOODMAN"The thing about tunnels is that if you keep moving through them, darkness eventually gives way to light." | — David Ignatius, Washington Post, July 19, 2023 | "The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train." | — Robert Lowell | The Washington Post's senior international affairs columnist, David Ignatius, is one of the leading stenographers in the mainstream media. He has excellent sources in the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency because he reliably and accurately reports their briefings and so-called leaks to influence public perceptions. His mo…

Anonymous669 (2023-07-23). Iraqi Intelligence Uncover Armored Vehicle-Borne Improvised Device In Nineveh (Video). southfront.org The official coat of arms of the Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate. | On July 22, the Iraqi official Security Media Cell announced that the military intelligence directorate had uncovered an armored vehicle-borne improvised device (VBIED) in the northern province of Nineveh . | In a statement, the cell said that the VBIED was uncovered at the village of Sahel Abbas in the Mohalabiya district by the 11th and 15th divisions of the intelligence service. | Four containers each fil…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-07-24). CIA Has Been Working to Overthrow the People's Republic of China (PRC) Since Its Inception in 1949. covertactionmagazine.com New book details saga of two CIA officers, Jack Downey and Richard Fecteau, who were imprisoned for 19 years in China following a botched covert operation in the "Asian Bay of Pigs." Six years ago, The New York Times reported that the Chinese government systematically dismantled CIA spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing …

Sharon Zhang (2023-07-24). Study: Affirmative Action for the Richest 1 Percent Is Common at Elite Colleges. truthout.org Just weeks after the Supreme Court ruled to end race-based affirmative action in college admissions, a new study suggests that "affirmative action" for the rich is very much alive when wealthy Americans seek acceptance to the most elite colleges in the U.S. According to a study released Monday by Opportunity Insights, a Harvard University-based research group, students from families within the… |

Jake Johnson (2023-07-24). Israeli Parliament Passes Part of Reforms Popularly Opposed as "Judicial Coup" truthout.org Israeli lawmakers on Monday approved part of a proposed judicial overhaul that would limit the Supreme Court's power to check government action, a key priority of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government. The vote took place as protests raged outside the Israeli Knesset and across the country. Polling has shown that a majority of Israelis oppose the sweeping overhaul… |

Melissa Price Kromm (2023-07-24). North Carolina GOP's Plan to Hijack Elections Should Concern Voters Everywhere. truthout.org The Supreme Court recently prevented Republicans from hijacking state and county election boards in its 6-3 ruling against North Carolina Republicans in Moore v. Harper. If the state GOP had been successful, they would've been able to run federal-level elections in North Carolina and across the country without any pathway for citizens to challenge unfair election laws. But voting rights are still… |

teleSUR (2023-07-23). Israeli Lawmakers Debate Judicial Overhaul Bill Amid Protests. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Israeli lawmakers began a marathon debate on the first major bill of a contentious plan to overhaul the judiciary ahead of a final vote on Monday, as massive crowds rally across the country to protest against the plan. | RELATED: | The bill would cancel the Supreme Court's power to override decisions by the ministers that it deems "unreasonable." The two final rounds of votes at the Knesset, the Israeli pa…

Staff (2023-07-24). DOJ Threatens to Sue Texas Gov. Abbott for Installing Barrels Wrapped in Razor Wire in Rio Grande. democracynow.org The U.S. Justice Department is threatening to sue the state of Texas after Republican Governor Greg Abbott installed barrels wrapped in razor wire in the Rio Grande in an attempt to block migrants from crossing the river. This comes just after a whistleblower state trooper at the Texas Department of Public Safety recently protested the state's inhumane policies in a letter to superiors. "What's happening at the border in Texas right now is criminal," says Democratic Texas Senator Roland Gutierrez. "There's state crimes, there's federal crimes, and there's internatio…