Monthly Archives: July 2023

2023-07-23: News Headlines

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-23). 'Free Julian Assange' letter delivered to PM Anthony Albanese. greenleft.org.au

Vanessa Beeley (2023-07-22). BBC Normalizes a Terrorist Organization to Frame Syrian President — Updated. orinocotribune.com By Vanessa Beely — Jul 15, 2023 | The BBC appears to work in lockstep with US and UK deep state to facilitate new raft of sanctions against Syria. | Finally, could I get a comment from the BBC please about why a BBC documentary failed to inform their audience that the organisation interviewed in Idlib, Syria are, in reality. the intelligence arm of Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) a UK and US proscribed terrorist organisation formerly Jabhat Al Nusra (Al Qaeda) and that the individuals interviewed are responsible for war crimes in Syria including the murder of children in Idlib? | The above is taken from an email…

Anonymous834 (2023-07-22). How CIA-Linked Companies Make Money On Military Aid To Ukraine. southfront.org Written by Today, we are going to show how the fraud scheme involving U.S. supplies of UAVs to Ukraine is organized. Moreover, we are to name personalities in the American intelligence community, who stay behind this money theft. | They are CIA-lin…

Connor Freeman (2023-07-22). FBI's Unapproved Snooping on US Lawmakers Fuels Debate Over Surveillance Powers. news.antiwar.com A newly declassified court document has revealed the FBI improperly searched a surveillance database seeking information about a US senator, a state senator, and a state judge. The disclosure comes during a heated Congressional debate over intelligence agencies' ability to conduct warrantless spying on American citizens and their communications. Released by the Office of the …

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-07-22). House Judiciary Committee Report Reveals How FBI Schemed with Ukrainian Intelligence Services to Censor Social Media Accounts of American Journalists and Even State Department Officials. covertactionmagazine.com Among the corrupting aspects of the Ukraine War has been the further erosion of democratic standards in the U.S. On July 10, the House Committee on the Judiciary and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government issued an interim staff report detailing how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) worked with the Security …

WSWS (2023-07-22). Statement from Brazil opposes censorship of IYSSE at Sydney's Macquarie University. wsws.org "Macquarie's management sees the IYSSE anti-war campaign as a risk to its multiple connections with the military industrial sector, and has felt emboldened amid the establishment's militaristic campaign."

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…

Keerti Gopal (2023-07-22). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Illinois Abolishes The Cash-Bail Trap. levernews.com Good things are happening! Illinois takes the lead on curbing pretrial discrimination, the EPA gets serious about lead poisoning, incarcerated students regain access to federal aid, and another college ends legacy admissions.When You Land On Illinois, Get Out Of Jail Free: Illinois is the first state to abolish cash bail, with its supreme court determining it's unconstitutional to hold defendants in jail based on their inability to pay.Cash bail allows people to put up a sum of money in exchange for leaving jail and awaiting trial at home. It's entirely contradictory to the principle of "innocent until pr…

Meredith Reiches (2023-07-22). Perspectives] What we get wrong about patriarchy. thelancet.com In June, 2022, when the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the 1973 case protecting the right to abortion at the federal level, Senator Susan Collins, a Republican legislator from Maine, criticised the decision in a statement in a press release. The Supreme Court, she wrote, had "abandoned a fifty-year precedent at a time that the country is desperate for stability" and she drew attention to "the importance of supporting long-standing precedents". It is noteworthy that, in her statement, Collins did not reach for the language of freedom, equality, or progress to express dismay at the abrogation of a right th…

WSWS (2023-07-22). Oklahoma and Alabama carry out back-to-back executions by lethal injection. wsws.org Lethal injection was used to execute Jemaine Cannon on Thursday morning in Oklahoma and James Barber on Friday morning in Alabama, after last-minute legal challenges were struck down by an appeals court and the US Supreme Court.

Sarah Cords (2023-07-22). The Interrogation of Reality Winner. progressive.org HBO's "Reality" painstakingly adapts the official FBI transcript of the whistleblower's questioning inside her home.

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2023-07-22: News Headlines

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-22). 'Free Julian Assange' letter delivered to PM Anthony Albanese. greenleft.org.au

Lowkey (2023-07-21). The True Cost of Julian Assange's Persecution: An Exclusive Interview with Stella Assange. mintpressnews.com Lowkey catches up with legal expert and human rights defender Stella Assange to talk about her battle to free her husband Julian, the world's most famous political prisoner.

Kevin Gosztola (2023-07-21). What's Next In Julian Assange's Case?>. thedissenter.org WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his legal team believe that Assange may be extradited to the United States before the end of summer.It is unfortunately time for us to prepare for court proceedings, and so far, you came through for us marvelously.I am so grateful to our readers for exceeding our goal of raising $1,000 to support my coverage of Assange's U.S. court proceedings. You raised over $3,000. | Now that we have plenty to cover the costs of traveling to Alexandria, Virginia, if Assange is arraigned, let's build on this momentum and raise our goal to support our coverage going forward.Donate $50 to help…

WSWS (2023-07-22). Statement from Brazil opposes censorship of IYSSE at Sydney's Macquarie University. wsws.org "Macquarie's management sees the IYSSE anti-war campaign as a risk to its multiple connections with the military industrial sector, and has felt emboldened amid the establishment's militaristic campaign."

Staff (2023-07-21). US Government Creates MORE Online Spying Agencies. trofire.com The federal government keeps creating new offices to allegedly combat misinformation in the US and abroad, but are any of these agencies actually doing anything good? The answer to that question is fairly obvious, and it is clear what these government agencies are actually doing. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a …


Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-21). Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa was spied on by Spanish company for CIA. peoplesdispatch.org According to El País, private security company UC Global SL spied on Rafael Correa after he left office and passed information about his private meetings to the CIA as well as to his successor Lenín Moreno…

Meredith Reiches (2023-07-22). Perspectives] What we get wrong about patriarchy. thelancet.com In June, 2022, when the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the 1973 case protecting the right to abortion at the federal level, Senator Susan Collins, a Republican legislator from Maine, criticised the decision in a statement in a press release. The Supreme Court, she wrote, had "abandoned a fifty-year precedent at a time that the country is desperate for stability" and she drew attention to "the importance of supporting long-standing precedents". It is noteworthy that, in her statement, Collins did not reach for the language of freedom, equality, or progress to express dismay at the abrogation of a right th…

WSWS (2023-07-22). Oklahoma and Alabama carry out back-to-back executions by lethal injection. wsws.org Lethal injection was used to execute Jemaine Cannon on Thursday morning in Oklahoma and James Barber on Friday morning in Alabama, after last-minute legal challenges were struck down by an appeals court and the US Supreme Court.

Chris Walker (2023-07-21). Alabama GOP Defies Supreme Court Order to Pass Maps Empowering Black Voters. truthout.org The Republican-controlled Alabama state legislature is set to defy a mandate from the U.S. Supreme Court and other appellate courts by passing a new congressional map that will only include one majority-Black district. After the last census, Alabama passed new maps that "packed" Black voters in the state within a single district. A federal court ruled last year that the map in question was unfair… |

Robert Reich (2023-07-21). How to fix a broken Supreme Court. nationofchange.org The Supreme Court derives its strength not from the use of force or political power, but from the trust of the people.


Sharon Zhang (2023-07-21). Senate Democrats Advance Bill to Force Supreme Court to Adopt Ethics Code. truthout.org Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced legislation on Thursday that would force the Supreme Court to adopt an ethics code for the first time in history. The committee voted along party lines to approve Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's (D-Rhode Island) Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act, which is aimed at reining in corruption among justices in a time when new… |

Trisha Trigilio (2023-07-21). The Illinois Supreme Court Cash Bail Ruling, Explained. aclu.org Under a Why was there a lawsuit over it?: | Despite broad support for this law, including support from victims' rights advocates, law enforcement officials filed multiple lawsu…

Keerti Gopal (2023-07-22). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Illinois Abolishes The Cash-Bail Trap. levernews.com Good things are happening! Illinois takes the lead on curbing pretrial discrimination, the EPA gets serious about lead poisoning, incarcerated students regain access to federal aid, and another college ends legacy admissions.When You Land On Illinois, Get Out Of Jail Free: Illinois is the first state to abolish cash bail, with its supreme court determining it's unconstitutional to hold defendants in jail based on their inability to pay.Cash bail allows people to put up a sum of money in exchange for leaving jail and awaiting trial at home. It's entirely contradictory to the principle of "innocent until pr…

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-07-21). Explosive FBI Whistleblower Information Released by Congress. thealtworld.com Will the whore media succeed in covering it up by labeling it "misinformation"? | Here Is yesterday's Letter from the House Judiciary Committee to FBI Director Christopher Wray Setting Out the Hard Evidence that the FBI Under Wray's Leadership Is a Criminal Agency: | The FBI has brought knowingly f…

Sharon Zhang (2023-07-21). Senate Democrats Advance Bill to Force Supreme Court to Adopt Ethics Code. truthout.org Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced legislation on Thursday that would force the Supreme Court to adopt an ethics code for the first time in history. The committee voted along party lines to approve Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's (D-Rhode Island) Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act, which is aimed at reining in corruption among justices in a time when new… |

Trisha Trigilio (2023-07-21). The Illinois Supreme Court Cash Bail Ruling, Explained. aclu.org Under a Why was there a lawsuit over it?: | Despite broad support for this law, including support from victims' rights advocates, law enforcement officials filed multiple lawsu…

Keerti Gopal (2023-07-22). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Illinois Abolishes The Cash-Bail Trap. levernews.com Good things are happening! Illinois takes the lead on curbing pretrial discrimination, the EPA gets serious about lead poisoning, incarcerated students regain access to federal aid, and another college ends legacy admissions.When You Land On Illinois, Get Out Of Jail Free: Illinois is the first state to abolish cash bail, with its supreme court determining it's unconstitutional to hold defendants in jail based on their inability to pay.Cash bail allows people to put up a sum of money in exchange for leaving jail and awaiting trial at home. It's entirely contradictory to the principle of "innocent until pr…

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-07-21). Explosive FBI Whistleblower Information Released by Congress. thealtworld.com Will the whore media succeed in covering it up by labeling it "misinformation"? | Here Is yesterday's Letter from the House Judiciary Committee to FBI Director Christopher Wray Setting Out the Hard Evidence that the FBI Under Wray's Leadership Is a Criminal Agency: | The FBI has brought knowingly f…

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