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

Andy Kroll (2023-12-10). Trump, the Second Time Around? tomdispatch.com Recently, on a commuter train, I ran into an acquaintance who works for a government agency here in Washington, D.C. Soon after we started chatting, he indicated a desire to switch jobs in case Donald Trump was reelected president in 2024. "I'd like to be somewhere that Trump wouldn't be able to politicize," my buddy said. I listened as he mused about which government institutions would remain well-funded despite Trump's desire to destroy "the deep state." "Maybe I'll work for the Department of Defense," my companion finally suggested all too logically. I can see just where he's coming from since, during Trump's…

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2023-12-11). The Weapons Israel Tests On Palestinians Will Be Used Against All Of Us. popularresistance.org The Palestinians are human laboratory rats to the Israeli military intelligence services and arms and technology industries. Israel's drones, surveillance technology including spyware, facial recognition software, and biometric gathering infrastructure, along with smart fences, experimental bombs, and AI-controlled machine guns are all tried out on the captive population in Gaza, often with lethal results. These weapons and technologies are then certified as "battle-tested" and sold around the world. | Israel is the tenth largest arms dealer on the planet and sells its technology and weapons to an estimated 130 n…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-12-11). Yuval Noah Harari discusses the creation of a massive class of useless people and what should be done with them. expose-news.com In 2015 and 2017, historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari discussed how a massive class of useless people was being created. The artificial intelligence revolution is beginning to create "the useless class," …

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… |

Manlio Dinucci (2023-12-10). Piano di Hamas: Noto a Israele da Oltre un Anno. globalresearch.ca "Israele conosceva il piano d'attacco di Hamas da oltre un anno", rivela il New York Times. | Lo prova un documento di 40 pagine denominato in codice dall'intelligence israeliana "Mura di Gerico": esso delinea punto per punto, …

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 …

Xinhua (2023-12-10). EU reaches agreement on landmark artificial intelligence law. pressenza.com European Union (EU) lawmakers and member states reached an agreement on rules governing artificial intelligence (AI). | "Historic! The EU becomes the first continent to set clear rules for the use of AI," European internal market commissioner Thierry Breton said on Friday night after the conclusion of talks that began on Wednesday. | Breton added on social networking site X, formerly Twitter, that "the AI law is much more than a rulebook, it is a launch pad for EU start-ups and researchers to lead the global AI race". | The European Commission said in a statement in the early hours of Saturday morning that it wel…

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2023-12-11). Weapons Israel Tests On Palestinians Will Be Used Against All Of Us. popularresistance.org The Palestinians are human laboratory rats to the Israeli military intelligence services and arms and technology industries. Israel's drones, surveillance technology including spyware, facial recognition software, and biometric gathering infrastructure, along with smart fences, experimental bombs, and AI-controlled machine guns are all tried out on the captive population in Gaza, often with lethal results. These weapons and technologies are then certified as "battle-tested" and sold around the world. | Israel is the tenth largest arms dealer on the planet and sells its technology and weapons to an estimated 130 n…

_____ (2023-12-11). EU Reaches Agreement on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Law. transcend.org 10 Dec 2023 – European Union lawmakers and member states reached an agreement on rules governing artificial intelligence. "Historic! The EU becomes the first continent to set clear rules for the use of AI."

Global Research News (2023-12-11). Declassified 1947 CIA Document: The Consequences of the Partition of Palestine. globalresearch.ca

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…

Staff (2023-12-11). Headlines for December 11, 2023. democracynow.org Displacement, Disease and Death Plague Gazans as Israel Continues Its Genocidal Assault, UNGA to Convene on Gaza Ceasefire After U.S. Vetoes Security Council Resolution, UPenn President Steps Down Amid Right-Wing Firestorm over Pro-Palestinian Movement on Campuses, COP28 Seeks Agreement on Fossil Fuel Phaseout Amid OPEC Pushback, TX Supreme Court Blocks Emergency Abortion; Kentucky Patient Challenges Abortion Ban, Oxford High School Shooter Sentenced to a Life Behind Bars, "There Is No Alternative to Shock": Far-Right Javier Milei Sworn In as President of Argentina, Children of Jailed Iranian Activist…

Staff (2023-12-11). Article 370: Supreme Court upholds removal of Jammu and Kashmir's 'special status'. muslimmirror.com The Supreme Court on Monday held that Article 370 is a temporary provision considering the historical context in which it was included. Pronouncing the verdict on a batch of pleas challenging the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud said that Article 370 was introduced to serve two …

Staff (2023-12-11). State Dept. Whistleblower Blasts Blinken for Bypassing Congress to Send 14K Tank Munitions to Israel. democracynow.org The Biden administration has bypassed Congress to approve an "emergency" sale of over $100 million of tank ammunition to Israel. Congress was notified just hours after the United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a Gaza ceasefire. We get response from Josh Paul, former director of congressional and public affairs for the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, which oversees arms transfers to Israel and other nations. Paul resigned from the State Department in October to protest the Biden administration's push to increase arms sales to Israel amid its ongoing siege on Ga…

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 …

_____ (2023-12-11). How Israel Uses an AI Genocide Program to Obliterate Gaza. transcend.org 6 Dec 2023 – According to whistleblowers, Israel's AI system is generating targets so fast, based on inputs so broad, that everyone in Gaza is in the crosshairs.

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 …