Daily Archives: September 7, 2023

2023-09-07: News Headlines

Binoy Kampmark (2023-09-06). Educating the US Imperium: Australia's Mission for Assange. dissidentvoice.org An odder political bunch you could not find, at least when it comes to pursuing a single goal. Given that the goal is the release of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange makes it all the more striking. Six Australian parliamentarians of various stripes will be heading to Washington ahead of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's October visit …

Joe Lauria (2023-09-06). Australian Parliamentarians Head to Washington to Lobby for Julian Assange. orinocotribune.com Six members of the Australian parliament will land in Washington DC on September 20 armed with a bi-partisan agenda and the backing of an entire nation as they try to convince Congresspeople and US State and Justice Department officials that the American pursuit of Australian publisher Julian Assange is wrong and must be stopped. | The cross-party delegation will spend two days in the US capital arguing Assange's case ahead of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's state visit to the White House at the end of October, where it is expected that Assange will be brought up (as well as Australia being used to t…

Murray Horton (2023-09-06). In the U.S., Investigative Journalists Are Blacklisted, Ostracized and Even Jailed; in New Zealand, They are Honored. covertactionmagazine.com Nicky Hager received major national award in New Zealand after having written a book exposing a secret spy base in New Zealand and exposing other state crimes Julian Assange has, thus far, spent years in a British prison, awaiting extradition to the U.S., where he faces charges under the Espionage Act, for which he could …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2023-09-06). Educating the US Imperium: Australia's Mission for Assange. globalresearch.ca

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2023-09-06). Australian Parliamentarians Head To Washington To Lobby For Assange. popularresistance.org Six members of the Australian parliament will land in Washington D.C. on Sept. 20 armed with a bi-partisan agenda and the backing of an entire nation as they try to convince Congressmen and State and Justice Department officials that the American pursuit of Australian publisher Julian Assange is wrong and must be stopped. | The cross-party delegation will spend two days in the U.S. capital arguing Assange's case ahead of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's state visit to the White House at the end of October, where it is expected that Assange will be brought up (as well as Australia being used to test U.

Murray Horton (2023-09-06). In the U.S., Investigative Journalists Are Blacklisted, Ostracized and Even Jailed; in New Zealand, They are Honored. covertactionmagazine.com Nicky Hager received major national award in New Zealand after having written a book exposing a secret spy base in New Zealand and exposing other state crimes Julian Assange has, thus far, spent years in a British prison, awaiting extradition to the U.S., where he faces charges under the Espionage Act, for which he could …

Joe Lauria (2023-09-06). Australian Parliamentarians Head to Washington to Lobby for Julian Assange. orinocotribune.com Six members of the Australian parliament will land in Washington DC on September 20 armed with a bi-partisan agenda and the backing of an entire nation as they try to convince Congresspeople and US State and Justice Department officials that the American pursuit of Australian publisher Julian Assange is wrong and must be stopped. | The cross-party delegation will spend two days in the US capital arguing Assange's case ahead of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's state visit to the White House at the end of October, where it is expected that Assange will be brought up (as well as Australia being used to t…

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2023-09-06). Educating the US Imperium: Australia's Mission for Assange. globalresearch.ca

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2023-09-06). Australian Parliamentarians Head To Washington To Lobby For Assange. popularresistance.org Six members of the Australian parliament will land in Washington D.C. on Sept. 20 armed with a bi-partisan agenda and the backing of an entire nation as they try to convince Congressmen and State and Justice Department officials that the American pursuit of Australian publisher Julian Assange is wrong and must be stopped. | The cross-party delegation will spend two days in the U.S. capital arguing Assange's case ahead of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's state visit to the White House at the end of October, where it is expected that Assange will be brought up (as well as Australia being used to test U.

sputnikglobe (2023-09-06). French Court Reportedly Rejects Request for Julian Assange to Apply for Asylum in France. sputnikglobe.com PARIS (Sputnik) – A French court has reportedly rejected a request to allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to apply for asylum in France, serving his prison sentence in a facility in the United Kingdom.

Kit Klarenberg (2023-09-07). Transparency International's Covert Agenda: A Pawn in Western Intelligence's Game. mintpressnews.com Founded by World Bank apparatchiks in 1993, Transparency International has relentlessly exposed public sector corruption in the Global South while leaving government-enabled criminality in rich nations unexamined.

Kit Klarenberg (2023-09-06). Leaked: CIA Front Preparing Color Revolution in Indonesia. mintpressnews.com Documents passed anonymously to MintPress News reveal the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a notorious CIA front, is laying the foundations for a color revolution in Indonesia. | In February 2024, citizens will elect their President, Vice President, and both legislative chambers. Current maverick leader Joko Widodo, widely beloved by Indonesians, is ineligible for a third term, and NED is preparing to seize power in the wake of his departure. This operation is conducted despite the leaks indicating Jakarta's foremost intelligence agency has expressly warned U.S. officials to stay put. | The paper trail is…

John Kendall Hawkins (2023-09-07). Chile: The Aussie Connection, An Interview with Clinton Fernandes. counterpunch.org Clinton Fernandes is Professor of International and Political Studies at the University of New South Wales. He has published on the relationship between science, diplomacy and international law, intelligence operations in foreign policy, the political and regulatory implications of new technology and Australia's external relations more generally. His research in the Future Operations Research Group

Mehul Reuben Das (2023-09-07). Music's Digital Nightmare: AI-generated song feat. Drake, The Weeknd in race to win a Grammy. firstpost.com It seems that this year, there is a very good possibility that AI will be deemed the Best Rap Artist or the Rap Artist of the year at music awards across the world | A song generated by artificial intelligence, aptly named "Heart on My Sleeve," skillfully mimicking the vocals and style of artists like Drake and The Weeknd, has now found itself in contention for the prestigious Grammy Awards. | In the midst of the ongoing surge in sometimes eccentric AI-driven innovations, the realm of music has become a battleground of sorts. | Can AI be a legitimate music artist? | The AI-generated track was crafted by a somewha…

Connor Freeman (2023-09-06). Report: Ukraine's Growing Assassination Program. news.antiwar.com Ukraine's domestic security service (SBU) has an elite ancillary known as the fifth counter-intelligence directorate, which has taken a central role in "counter-Russia operations" specializing in "wet work" or assassinations, according to a report in The Economist. The report discusses the killing of Yevhen Yunakov, the former mayor of Velykyi Burluk in the Khariv region, …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-06). Britain Secretly Helped Chile's Military Intelligence after Pinochet Coup. libya360.wordpress.com John McEvoy General Augusto Pinochet. (Photo: Greg Smith / Corbis via Getty) As the Pinochet regime rounded up and murdered its political opponents after the 1973 coup, a UK Foreign Office propaganda unit passed material to Chile's military intelligence and MI6 connived with a key orchestrator of the coup, newly declassified files show. Foreign Office…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-06). From Ukraine to the United Nations: Orlando Boronat's Operation against Cuba. libya360.wordpress.com Kato Arkonada According to State Department sources, there is an operation underway against the Cuban Revolution executed by Orlando Gutierrez Boronat, an ultra-right-winger linked to the U.S. intelligence services and who has just recently traveled to Ukraine. The objective here is to complicate the G77+China summit to be held in Havana to be held in…

Staff (2023-09-07). Transparency International's Covert Agenda: A Pawn in Western Intelligence's Game. mintpressnews.com On July 24, it was revealed that Transparency International's New Zealand wing had enlisted the specialist advice of some of the country's biggest, most notorious lobbying firms on improving ethical standards in the political and corporate lobbying industry. A local businessman, who'd independently offered to assist TINZ in cleaning up the sector, blew the whistle. …

Kit Klarenberg (2023-09-07). Transparency International's Covert Agenda: A Pawn in Western Intelligence's Game. mintpressnews.com Founded by World Bank apparatchiks in 1993, Transparency International has relentlessly exposed public sector corruption in the Global South while leaving government-enabled criminality in rich nations unexamined.

John Kendall Hawkins (2023-09-07). Chile: The Aussie Connection: An Interview with Clinton Fernandes. counterpunch.org Clinton Fernandes is Professor of International and Political Studies at the University of New South Wales. He has published on the relationship between science, diplomacy and international law, intelligence operations in foreign policy, the political and regulatory implications of new technology and Australia's external relations more generally. His research in the Future Operations Research Group

Connor Freeman (2023-09-06). Report: Ukraine's Growing Assassination Program. news.antiwar.com Ukraine's domestic security service (SBU) has an elite ancillary known as the fifth counter-intelligence directorate, which has taken a central role in "counter-Russia operations" specializing in "wet work" or assassinations, according to a report in The Economist. The report discusses the killing of Yevhen Yunakov, the former mayor of Velykyi Burluk in the Khariv region, …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-06). From Ukraine to the United Nations: Orlando Boronat's Operation against Cuba. libya360.wordpress.com Kato Arkonada According to State Department sources, there is an operation underway against the Cuban Revolution executed by Orlando Gutierrez Boronat, an ultra-right-winger linked to the U.S. intelligence services and who has just recently traveled to Ukraine. The objective here is to complicate the G77+China summit to be held in Havana to be held in…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-06). Britain Secretly Helped Chile's Military Intelligence after Pinochet Coup. libya360.wordpress.com John McEvoy General Augusto Pinochet. (Photo: Greg Smith / Corbis via Getty) As the Pinochet regime rounded up and murdered its political opponents after the 1973 coup, a UK Foreign Office propaganda unit passed material to Chile's military intelligence and MI6 connived with a key orchestrator of the coup, newly declassified files show. Foreign Office…

sputnikglobe (2023-09-07). Google Will Require Election Advertisers to Disclose AI-Generated Content. sputnikglobe.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Google will require election advertisers to disclose data on artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content that may inauthentically depict real or realistic-looking people and events from mid-November, the company announced.

MEE staff (2023-09-07). Daniel Khalife: Terror suspect who escaped UK prison accused of spying for Iran, says BBC. middleeasteye.net

Editor (2023-09-07). LEAKED: CIA Front Preparing Color Revolution In Indonesia. scheerpost.com By Kit Klarenberg / MintPress News Documents passed anonymously to MintPress News reveal the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a notorious CIA front, is laying the foundations for a color revolution in Indonesia. In February 2024, citizens will elect their President, Vice President, and both legislative chambers. Current maverick leader Joko Widodo, widely beloved by Indonesians, is …

Editor (2023-09-07). LEAKED: CIA Front Preparing Color Revolution In Indonesia. scheerpost.com By Kit Klarenberg / MintPress News Documents passed anonymously to MintPress News reveal the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a notorious CIA front, is laying the foundations for a color revolution in Indonesia. In February 2024, citizens will elect their President, Vice President, and both legislative chambers. Current maverick leader Joko Widodo, widely beloved by Indonesians, is …

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies (2023-09-06). Is CIA director Bill Burns a Biden yes-man, a Putin apologist or a peacemaker? nationofchange.org The insight on Russia that he provided to his government during many years as a diplomat and then ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow will answer some critical questions regarding his current role in the Biden administration.

sputnikglobe (2023-09-07). Netanyahu Implies He Will Not Accept Israeli Supreme Court's Repeal of Judicial Reform. sputnikglobe.com TEL AVIV (Sputnik) – Benjamin Netanyahu gave a tacit support to parliamentary speaker Amir Ohana's warning to the country's Supreme Court against interfering with Israel's fundamental laws, in an indication that he would not accept a possible court ruling to repeal one of the clauses of the controversial judicial reform during a hearing next week.

Staff (2023-09-07). México Decriminalizes Abortion in Historic Ruling. orinocotribune.com México's Supreme Court of Justice recently decriminalized abortion throughout the state, in a historic ruling that is another step in the fight for reproductive rights. | According to the AP news agency, the Court's justices unanimously approved this Wednesday, September 6, an injunction that nullifies the section of the Federal Criminal Code that criminalized abortion in the country. | As a fundamental part of this ruling, federal public health institutions, such as the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) and the Institute of Security and Social Services for State Workers (ISSSTE), are obliged to offer the…

Zane McNeill (2023-09-07). Mexico's Supreme Court Rules to Federally Decriminalize Abortion. truthout.org On Wednesday, Mexico's Supreme Court ruled to decriminalize abortion at the federal level, holding that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional. The ruling not only orders that abortion be removed from penal codes, but requires that federal public health institutions offer abortion procedures. "Today is a day of victory and justice for Mexican women! |

Adriaan Alsema (2023-09-06). Court orders arrest of Colombia's former Congress president. colombiareports.com Colombia's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of former Senator Arturo Char, a member of the powerful Char Clan from Barranquilla, on election fraud charges. The high court also requested international…

Ming Hsu Chen (2023-09-06). What the Supreme Court Got Wrong About Affirmative Action. progressive.org As an Asian American graduate of Harvard and a Constitutional law professor, I've been asked about my thoughts on the recent affirmative action case. I think the justices got race wrong in a fundamental way.

Zane McNeill (2023-09-05). Texas Goes After Out-of-State Abortions, Forces Prosecutions of Abortions. truthout.org After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections last summer, some district attorneys in Texas vowed not to prosecute residents who seek, facilitate or provide abortions — but last Friday, a state law went into effect that could result in prosecutors being removed from office if they refuse to pursue abortion cases. The law forbids prosecutorial discretion… |

infobrics (2023-09-08). Blinken makes a promise to Kiev that he cannot keep. infobrics.org Kuleba proudly boasts that no American lives are at risk as Ukrainian casualties mount.

Staff (2023-09-07). México Decriminalizes Abortion in Historic Ruling. orinocotribune.com México's Supreme Court of Justice recently decriminalized abortion throughout the state, in a historic ruling that is another step in the fight for reproductive rights. | According to the AP news agency, the Court's justices unanimously approved this Wednesday, September 6, an injunction that nullifies the section of the Federal Criminal Code that criminalized abortion in the country. | As a fundamental part of this ruling, federal public health institutions, such as the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) and the Institute of Security and Social Services for State Workers (ISSSTE), are obliged to offer the…

Adriaan Alsema (2023-09-06). Court orders arrest of Colombia's former Congress president. colombiareports.com Colombia's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of former Senator Arturo Char, a member of the powerful Char Clan from Barranquilla, on election fraud charges. The high court also requested international…

Ming Hsu Chen (2023-09-06). What the Supreme Court Got Wrong About Affirmative Action. progressive.org As an Asian American graduate of Harvard and a Constitutional law professor, I've been asked about my thoughts on the recent affirmative action case. I think the justices got race wrong in a fundamental way.

Mark Gruenberg (2023-09-06). Court tosses Alabama Republicans' racist re-districting map — again. peoplesworld.org BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Yet another federal court win where Black voters successfully contested a Republican white majority-rigged congressional remap, this time in Alabama, shows the Voting Rights Act still has some clout. But the court's ruling itself, in U.S. District Court for Northern Alabama, also sheds a light on what was lost when the U.S. Supreme Court …

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