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…

Staff (2023-07-21). Stella Assange & Lowkey Discuss The War On Julian Assange. youtube.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. Please support independent media and join the new MintPress campaign on Indiegogo here: www.indiegogo.com/projects/say-no-to-censorship-support-mintpress#/ Support independent watchdog journalism! www.patreon.com/MintPressNews MintPress News: www.mintpressnews.com/ Twitter: twitter.com/MintPressNews Instagram: www.instagram.com/mintpress/ Telegram …

Staff (2023-07-21). What's Next In The Julian Assange Case. shadowproof.com 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 …

U.S. House of Representatives (2023-07-20). "The Weaponization of the Federal Government": The FBI's Collaboration with a Compromised Ukrainian Intelligence Agency to Censor American Speech. globalresearch.ca

Chris Walker (2023-07-20). DeSantis-Aligned Super PAC Uses AI to Imitate Trump's Voice. truthout.org A political action committee aligned with GOP presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) has used Artificial Intelligence in an attack ad against former President Donald Trump. A voice that sounds a lot like Trump's (who is also running for president next year) is featured in the ad, which was produced by Never Back Down, a super PAC that supports DeSantis for president. |

Ann Brown (2023-07-20). Prompt Engineer: How To Ride The AI Wave and Level Up Your Career. moguldom.com Many people are worried about losing their jobs to AI, or artificial intelligence. But there are jobs within the field that are now thriving, say some experts. One job is prompt engineering (also known as in-context learning). According to reports, prompt engineering pays six-figure salaries and doesn't require a degree in computer engineering or even …

Dave DeCamp (2023-07-20). UK's MI6 Spy Chief Urges Russians to Spy. news.antiwar.com The head of Britain's MI6 spy agency has called for Russians opposed to the war in Ukraine to collaborate with the intelligence service. "I invite them to do what others have done this past 18 months and join hands with us. Our door is always open," MI6 chief Richard Moore told POLITICO in an interview …

Mnar Adley (2023-07-20). 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.

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…

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…

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… |

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… |

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.

Maximillian Alvarez (2023-07-19). He tried to raise the alarm about railroad safety. Then he got fired. therealnews.com When we hear the term "whistleblower," we tend to think of names like Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange—people who have risked their freedom, even their lives, to expose government lies, abuses of power, and state secrets that the public needs to know about. But there are a range of federal statutes designed to protect those who blow the whistle on their employers, too, especially when those employers are breaking the law and/or endangering their workers and the public. | Michael Paul Lindsey II is a military veteran who has worked for Union Pacific as a trained locomoti…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-07-19). CIA-Linked Security Company Targeted Former Ecuador President Who Granted Assange Asylum. thedissenter.org

Ann Brown (2023-07-20). Prompt Engineer: How To Ride The AI Wave and Level Up Your Career. moguldom.com Many people are worried about losing their jobs to AI, or artificial intelligence. But there are jobs within the field that are now thriving, say some experts. One job is prompt engineering (also known as in-context learning). According to reports, prompt engineering pays six-figure salaries and doesn't require a degree in computer engineering or even …

U.S. House of Representatives (2023-07-20). "The Weaponization of the Federal Government": The FBI's Collaboration with a Compromised Ukrainian Intelligence Agency to Censor American Speech. globalresearch.ca

Larry Johnson (2023-07-20). The Art of Deception in the Era of ISR. sonar21.com Deception is an essential tool for any military or intelligence operation. Prior to the arrival of satellites, manned fixed-wing surveillance aircraft and drones, military planners had an easier time of…

Editor (2023-07-19). Scott Ritter: Agent Zelensky. scheerpost.com By Scott Ritter / Substack As a former intelligence officer, I've been wondering why has no one done an investigation about Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine? His rise to power, in my opinion, represents an incredible manipulation of world opinion that will go down in history as a classic case study in social psychological …

Kit Klarenberg (2023-07-19). Leaked files suggest hidden British hand in latest Kerch Bridge strike. thegrayzone.com The Grayzone has exposed British intelligence freelancers for collaborating with Ukraine's Security Service to destroy Kerch Bridge. Leaked documents suggest they played a role in the latest attack on the bridge, and may be helping Kiev hunt down accused collaborators. On July 16, a predawn assault on the Kerch Bridge connecting Crimea with mainland Russia left two civilians dead and a 14-year-old injured. As advisors to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hinted at Ukraine's culpability, Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed his …

Mark Niu (2023-07-19). Generative AI lawsuits pile up. america.cgtn.com The lawsuits are stacking up against Artificial Intelligence. Over the past year, numerous cases, some involving celebrities, have involved claims that tech companies inappropriately used unauthorized data to train their AI systems. CGTN's Mark Niu shares more.

Nathan King (2023-07-19). UN Security Council weighs in on AI and global security. america.cgtn.com Artificial Intelligence could hold the key to the solutions that mankind needs but also potentially contains the seed of humanity's destruction. That was the message from the United Nations Security Council Wednesday as the world body held its first ever meeting on the challenges of …

Mnar Adley (2023-07-20). 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.

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-07-20). Anderson Cooper Is A Disgusting CIA Goon. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | In a Pushing back against West's claim that NATO provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine and his call for ceasefire negotiations, Cooper a…

Staff (2023-07-19). William Arkin: CIA Is Playing "Outsize Role" in Ukraine Despite Biden Pledge Not to Send U.S. Forces. democracynow.org A new investigation reveals the extent of the CIA's involvement in the war in Ukraine, where the agency operates clandestinely in what, under a formal declaration of war, would be the domain of the military. We're joined on the show by the author of the investigation, William Arkin, a national security reporter and senior editor at Newsweek, who says that the CIA has "got its hand in a little bit of everything" in Ukraine. According to various sources, the CIA is shuttling weapons into Ukraine using a "gray fleet" of commercial aircraft that crisscrosses Central and Eastern Eur…

Amy Goodman (2023-07-19). Investigative Reporter: "The CIA Is Playing an Outsize Role" in Ukraine. truthout.org A new investigation reveals the extent of the CIA's involvement in the war in Ukraine, where the agency operates clandestinely in what, under a formal declaration of war, would be the domain of the military. We're joined on the show by the author of the investigation, William Arkin, a national security reporter and senior editor at Newsweek, who says that the CIA has "got its hand in a little bit… |

Editor (2023-07-20). Hornet's nest of misogynist enablers. workers.org This time even the Supreme Court of the United States "liberals" got it wrong. On June 27, in a 7-to-2 ruling reversing a lower court's decision in Counterman v. Colorado, SCOTUS prioritized so-called "free speech" over protecting millions of victims of stalking — primarily women and gender-oppressed people. According to . . . |

Editor (2023-07-19). Everybody should see "Every Body" mronline.org A wave of exclusion is sweeping the nation, in state legislatures and federal courts, including the Supreme Court.

Staff (2023-07-19). Headlines for July 19, 2023. democracynow.org Trump Says He's the Target of Federal Criminal Probe of Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election, Michigan Attorney General Charges 16 GOP "Fake Electors" with Felonies, Chinese Coal Consumption Hits Record High as Temperatures Soar, Floodwaters Lap Walls of India's Taj Mahal; Heat Index in Iran Tops 150 ∞F, Wildfires Erupt in Greece as Europe Swelters in Record Heat, ACLU Asks Court to Release Children from Angola Prison as Heat Index Tops 130 ∞, Whistleblower Says Texas Officers Were Ordered to Push Migrant Children into Rio Grande, ICC to Probe Reports of Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur…