Charles Glass (2023-12-09). The US Condemned Stalin's Prosecution of Journalists. Now It Uses His Playbook. truthout.org Two of my colleagues — Evan Gershkovich in Moscow and Julian Assange in London — languish in prisons for doing their job: keeping you informed. Russia and the U.S., knowingly or not, are following Joseph Stalin's press playbook. A case in point: the Stalinist persecution of U.S. journalist William (Bill) Nathan Oatis in Cold War Czechoslovakia, which mirrors the contemporary prosecutions of my… |

The Dissenter (2023-12-09). TUNE IN: Second Belmarsh Tribunal For Assange In DC. thedissenter.org A second Belmarsh tribunal in Washington, DC, at the National Press Club will expand on the case for freeing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at 2pm ET. It was organized by 

Editor (2023-12-10). The US Condemned Stalin's Prosecution of Journalists. Now It Uses His Playbook. scheerpost.com

krish-rad_ind (2023-12-09). WATCH: DC Belmarsh Tribunal for Assange. consortiumnews.com

Staff (2023-12-09). Mahua's expulsion is a symptom of India drifting towards a 'Deep State'. muslimmirror.com By Syed Ali Mujtaba Finally, Mahua Moitra, the TMC MP is expelled from the Lok Sabha. This was on the expected lines. One pity is the BJP government's arrogance in taking such an action, when this Parliament is not left with even one or half session more. The damage that the BJP has done to …

Staff (2023-12-09). Mahua's expulsion is a symptom of India drifting towards a 'Deep State'. muslimmirror.com By Syed Ali Mujtaba Finally, Mahua Moitra, the TMC MP is expelled from the Lok Sabha. This was on the expected lines. One pity is the BJP government's arrogance in taking such an action, when this Parliament is not left with even one or half session more. The damage that the BJP has done to …

Julia Conley (2023-12-10). EU's AI Act Falls Short: No Ban on Live Facial Recognition Raises Concerns. truthout.org Privacy advocates on Saturday said the AI Act, a sweeping proposed law to regulate artificial intelligence in the European Union whose language was finalized Friday, appeared likely to fail at protecting the public from one of AI's greatest threats: live facial recognition. Representatives of the European Commission spent 37 hours this week negotiating provisions in the AI Act with the European… |

Editor (2023-12-09). The House Intelligence Committee's Surveillance 'Reform' Bill Is a Farce. scheerpost.com By India McKinney / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Earlier this week, both the House Committee on the Judiciary (HJC) and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) marked up two very different bills (H.R. 6570 — Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act in HJC, and HR 6611, the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of …

The Independent (2023-12-10). Security forces kill 5 terrorists in NW Pakistan. independent.co.ug ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN | Xinhua | Pakistani security forces have killed five terrorists during an operation in the country's northwest Tank district, the military said. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan army, said in a statement that the forces conducted an intelligence-based operation on Friday in the Mullazai area of the …

Edward Curtin (2023-12-09). President John F. Kennedy: His Life and Public Assassination by the CIA. globalresearch.ca From the day he was sworn in as President, JFK was relentlessly pressured by the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and by many of his own advisers to wage war — clandestine, conventional, and nuclear.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-12-09). Video: "Justified Vengeance" and The History of Israeli "False Flags"(2001-2023): Palestine Portrayed as "The Aggressor" globalresearch.ca The longer term objective of "Operation Justified Vengeance" (2001) was and remains the destruction of Palestine and the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland.

teleSUR (2023-12-09). EU Creates Law to Regulate Use of Artificial Intelligences. telesurenglish.net The EU institutions pacted the creation of a law that allows or ban the use of Artificial Intelligences which may be a risk for security, users and that seeks to boost European industry. | RELATED: | The objective of the law is to regulate the use of a technology with great possibilities for society, which at the same time generates doubts and some questions that the developers of artificial intelligence do not yet know how to a…

Dave Webb, Organizing Notes. (2023-12-10). Role Of US Menwith Hill NSA Base And The United Kingdom In Gaza. popularresistance.org Every Tuesday at 6pm, rain or shine, a small group of protestors stand outside a U.S. base in North Yorkshire with banners and flags. Members and supporters of the Menwith Hill Accountability Campaign (MHAC) are there to protest at the unaccountable and highly secret activities that go on inside the U.S. spy base nominally called 'RAF' Menwith Hill but run by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). In recent weeks the focus has been on the UK's role in events in Gaza. | Just how is the UK government involved in Gaza? According to the Campaign Against the Arms Trade, the UK has consistently sold arms to Israel si…

The Exposé (2023-12-10). NHS Under Fire: Whistleblower Claims Patients Were Unjustly Euthanized to Falsely Inflate COVID Pandemic Toll. expose-news.com An NHS whistleblower, who wishes to remain anonymous, has come forward with allegations that the NHS hospitals were not overwhelmed during the Covid-19 pandemic, as was reported by authorities and the mainstream …