Alina Ramos Martin (2023-08-18). Argentineans demand Julian Assange's release. plenglish.com Buenos Aires, Aug 18 (Prensa Latina) Intellectuals, politicians and human rights defenders in Argentina will arrive rally at the United Kingdom's Embassy in here on Saturday to demand the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Télam news agency reported on Friday.

Ford Fischer, News2Share. (2023-08-18). Randy Credico Leads Blockade Of DOJ Entrance For Julian Assange. popularresistance.org Randy Credico attempted a civil disobedience rally/blockade Wednesday of the Department of Justice in Washington DC along along with Kathy Boylan of Dorothy Day Catholic Worker demanding a meeting to request the release of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. | Kathy Boylan, protesting in front of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in DC, was wearing a Kennedy 2024 shirt. She tells News2Share that "when he is elected, Robert Kennedy Jr has promised to free Julian Assange, truth-tellers, and whistleblowers." | Ultimately, Credico allowed people past his blockade, and police didn't arrest him, instea…

Global Research News (2023-08-18). Selected Articles: The Day American Journalism Died. globalresearch.ca By Julian Assange sits in jail.

Editor (2023-08-18). Assange Be Weary: The Dangers of a US Plea Deal. scheerpost.com By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch At every stage of its proceedings against Julian Assange, the US Imperium has shown little by way of tempering its vengeful impulses. The WikiLeaks publisher, in uncovering the sordid, operational details of a global military power, would always have to pay. Given the 18 charges he faces, 17 fashioned from …

Prem Thakker (2023-08-17). U.S. Official Hints at Possible Plea Deal for Julian Assange. globalresearch.ca

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-08-18). Science Saturday: Confronting polycystic kidney disease, a silent killer. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Researchers at the Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Center at Mayo Clinic now use artificial intelligence (AI) to assess total kidney volume, generating results in a matter of seconds. The goal is to help diagnose PKD. When Fouad Chebib, M.D., was 16 years old, his father sat him and his sister down and told them he had polycystic kidney disease (PKD). The kidneys of people with the condition become jammed with dense, fluid-filled sacs, causing them to increase in size…

Ann Brown (2023-08-17). Co-Founder Of Wikipedia: CIA And FBI Manipulate Wikipedia, It's Part Of The Information Battlefield. moguldom.com The co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, is making some serious allegations about the manipulation of information on the platform by intelligence agencies, specifically the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In a Twitter video, Sanger claimed these agencies use Wikipedia as part of an "information battlefield." Internet project developer Sanger, 54, and …

infobrics (2023-08-17). UK about to send Ukrainian neo-Nazi mercenaries to Africa. infobrics.org British intelligence agency is allegedly involved in move to neutralize pro-Russian wave in African countries.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-08-17). Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Came to Power in Carefully Planned Operation Coordinated by Western Intelligence Services, Says Former U.S. Diplomat. globalresearch.ca

teleSUR (2023-08-17). Sweden Raises Terror Threat to Second Highest Level. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Sweden raised the terrorist threat level to the second-highest due to several factors, including protests from various Muslim countries over recent Quran burnings. | RELATED: | For the first time in seven years, the threat has shifted from the third to the fourth level on a five-point scale, now categorized as "high." However, intelligence services (Sà§po) rejected the existence of specific suspici…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-08-17). 'Problem Patients': How Dialysis Corporations Deal With Sick People Who Challenge Their Malpractice. thedissenter.org Tom Mueller, author of a book on monopolistic dialysis companies, describes how DaVita and Fresenius deny care to whistleblowing patients.

repost (2023-08-18). Tom Hayden: The CIA Student-Activism Phase & Ian Masters On KPFA. indybay.org The bringing on of pro-war propagandist propagandist Ian Masters raises question about who is running KPFA and "The Protectors"

Editor (2023-08-18). Bolsonaro's Butchery: CIA Fingerprints Are All Over Brazil's Indigenous Genocide. scheerpost.com

teleSUR (2023-08-18). Brasilia Police Officers Arrested for Omission in January Coup. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the Brazilian Federal Police carry out an operation against Brasilia's police authorities who failed to act properly during the coup attempt on January 8 when supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro attacked the buildings of the three branches. | RELATED: | The federal agents comply with seven arrest warrants issued by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) at the request of the Attorney General's Office (PG…

Sharon Zhang (2023-08-17). Supreme Court Rebuffed Democrats' Call for Thomas Probe With Just One Sentence. truthout.org Earlier this year, a group of Democrats urged Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to open a probe into Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito after journalists uncovered egregious corruption in the form of alleged violations of the court's ethics code and financial disclosure requirements. Chief Justice Roberts rebuffed their call, as new reporting reveals, with just one sentence… |

Staff (2023-08-17). Headlines for August 17, 2023. democracynow.org Hawaii Officials Defend Response to Wildfires; Gov. Calls for Moratorium on Lahaina Land Purchases, Yellowknife Orders Evacuation of 20,000 Residents as Record Wildfires Continue to Devastate Canada, Appeals Court Backs Restrictions on Abortion Pill, Sending Case to Supreme Court, 60 Asylum Seekers Feared Dead Near Cape Verde, ECOWAS Military Chiefs Meet over Niger Coup Amid Mounting Humanitarian Concerns, Libya Fighting Kills 55 People, U.N. Warns of "Spiralling" Humanitarian Situation in Sudan as Army Leader Says Talks Needed, NATO Official Apologizes for Saying Ukraine Could Give Up Territory in Ex…

Anonymous (2023-08-18). Update: LAVC Administrator Retaliated Against Student Whistleblowers She Stalked. indybay.org Update: New Documents. Students at Los Angeles Valley College serving Van Nuys, North Hollywood, Burbank, Toluca Lake, Sherman Oaks, etc . . . were targeted and stalked by School Administrator Annie Goldman-Reed after reporting payroll fraud, wage theft, academic fraud, grant fraud and more.

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2023-08-15). Assange be Wary: The Dangers of a US Plea Deal. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2023-08-15). Caroline Kennedy Says US Open to Assange Plea Deal. scheerpost.com

WSWS (2023-08-14). Committee For Public Education members advance independent perspective in defence of educators, Julian Assange. wsws.org "What was absolutely clear is that the union apparatus cannot tolerate one iota of criticism of its role and that of the Labor government," Sue Phillips explained, "This is an expression not of its strength but its weakness."

Kevin Gosztola (2023-08-14). About This Talk Of A Possible Plea Deal For Assange. thedissenter.org Support independent journalism on whistleblowers, secrecy, and press freedom-related issues.

Dave DeCamp (2023-08-14). US Ambassador to Australia Hints at Plea Deal for Julian Assange. news.antiwar.com US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy indicated in comments to the Sydney Morning Herald that Washington might be open to a plea deal for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that could keep him from being extradited and imprisoned in the United States for exposing US war crimes. When asked if the US and Australia could reach …

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2023-08-14). Caroline Kennedy Says United States Is Open To Assange Plea Deal. popularresistance.org The U.S. ambassador to Australia believes a plea bargain could free imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, allowing him to serve a shortened sentence for a lesser crime in his home country. | Caroline Kennedy told The Sydney Morning Herald in a front-page interview published Monday that the decision on a plea deal was up to the U.S. Justice Department. "So it's not really a diplomatic issue, but I think that there absolutely could be a resolution," she told the newspaper. | Kennedy noted the firm comments by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on July 31 in Brisbane.

imperial.ac.uk (2023-08-15). Government funding to 'revolutionise AI healthcare research'. imperial.ac.uk UKRI announces £13 million funding for artificial intelligence in health, with three projects launched at Imperial College London.

Anonymous103 (2023-08-15). Pro-Russian Hackers Claimed They Attacked Kiev's Strategic Electronic Intelligence System, Stole Secret Documents. southfront.org Illustrative Image | On August 15, pro-Russian hackers from the group called Solntsepek reported that they had attacked strategic electronic intelligence system of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR), inflicting heavy damage to the department an all Armed Forces of Ukraine. | Hackers claimed that they had destroyed the entire system of strategic electronic intelligence of the GUR. All radio monitoring posts in short and ultra short waves and channels of satellite commu…

Anonymous765 (2023-08-15). Locations Of US Carrier Strike Groups — August 15, 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…

WSWS (2023-08-14). New Zealand intelligence report targets China over "foreign interference" wsws.org New Zealand's state agencies and military are gearing up for war with China, coupled with an authoritarian crackdown on struggles by the working class over declining living standards.

infobrics (2023-08-14). UK intelligence insists greenery's 'collusion' with Russia is hampering Kiev regime's counteroffensive. infobrics.org In yet another futile attempt of belittling Moscow's power, the United Kingdom keeps claiming that trees, shrubs, grass and other greenery are effectively "helping" the Russian military by "slowing down" the Neo-Nazi junta forces.

José Luis Granados Ceja (2023-08-15). Communist Party of Venezuela Decries 'Usurpation' by Supreme Court. venezuelanalysis.com The PCV has claimed that the judicial ruling is part of a scheme orchestrated by the leadership of the PSUV to take over the party's credentials.

Marjorie Cohn (2023-08-15). Supreme Court Has an Originalist Roadmap to Disqualify Trump From the Presidency. truthout.org "[O]n the basis of the public record, former President Donald J. Trump is constitutionally disqualified from again being President (or holding any other covered office) because of his role in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 election and the events leading to the January 6 attack." Those words were written by two prominent conservative legal scholars in a comprehensive 126-page paper that will… |

Lucy Trieshmann (2023-08-14). Hotel Accessibility Reaches the Supreme Court. aclu.org As a wheelchair user with multiple disabilities, travel is unpredictable at best and completely inaccessible at worst. In order to book my trips, I have to trust the accuracy of the websites run by hotels, airlines, car rental companies, and more to learn whether I can use their services (i.e., have the honor of paying them my hard-earned money.) The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires hotels to include enough of their accessibility features on their website that a person with a disability can judge whether their hotel would be safe and usable. Unfortunately, the features they include are often inco…

Jake Johnson (2023-08-14). Wisconsin GOP Threatens to Impeach Justice Who May Reject Gerrymandered Maps. truthout.org The Republican leader of Wisconsin's Assembly late last week threatened impeachment proceedings against liberal state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz if she doesn't recuse herself from cases involving Wisconsin's legislative maps, which GOP lawmakers have aggressively gerrymandered to give themselves what experts say is an illegal electoral advantage. In a radio interview on Friday… |

Marjorie Cohn (2023-08-15). Supreme Court Has an Originalist Roadmap to Disqualify Trump From the Presidency. truthout.org "[O]n the basis of the public record, former President Donald J. Trump is constitutionally disqualified from again being President (or holding any other covered office) because of his role in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 election and the events leading to the January 6 attack." Those words were written by two prominent conservative legal scholars in a comprehensive 126-page paper that will… |

Lucy Trieshmann (2023-08-14). Hotel Accessibility Reaches the Supreme Court. aclu.org As a wheelchair user with multiple disabilities, travel is unpredictable at best and completely inaccessible at worst. In order to book my trips, I have to trust the accuracy of the websites run by hotels, airlines, car rental companies, and more to learn whether I can use their services (i.e., have the honor of paying them my hard-earned money.) The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires hotels to include enough of their accessibility features on their website that a person with a disability can judge whether their hotel would be safe and usable. Unfortunately, the features they include are often inco…

Jake Johnson (2023-08-14). Wisconsin GOP Threatens to Impeach Justice Who May Reject Gerrymandered Maps. truthout.org The Republican leader of Wisconsin's Assembly late last week threatened impeachment proceedings against liberal state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz if she doesn't recuse herself from cases involving Wisconsin's legislative maps, which GOP lawmakers have aggressively gerrymandered to give themselves what experts say is an illegal electoral advantage. In a radio interview on Friday… |