(2024-01-03). Pilger's Rap Sheet On The Criminal Elite. popularresistance.org John Pilger was always on the side of the oppressed. He denounced Empire and all its violent predations — war, genocide, exploitation — as well as its endless lies and propaganda. | Till his death on Saturday, he fought tirelessly for the freedom of Julian Assange, and his last article, "We are all Spartacus," published in Consortium News, was a call to stand with the imprisoned publisher. | Pilger gave voice to the invisible and the voiceless: the hungry, the poor, the handicapped, the conscripted, the sanctioned and bombed, the dispossessed, refugees, the chemically experimented on, the structurally…
(2024-01-03). Constitutional violations: Julian Assange, privacy and the CIA. greenleft.org.au 
(2024-01-02). From Prison, Assange Expresses Regret That WikiLeaks Can No Longer Expose War Crimes. thedissenter.org 
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(2024-01-02). Constitutional violations: Julian Assange, privacy and the CIA. greenleft.org.au
(2024-01-02). Health Workers Shut Down Headquarters Of A Gaza War Profiteer. popularresistance.org Last week, hundreds of UK health workers shut down the central London headquarters of US tech giant and spy firm Palantir to disrupt its business. Their mass picket aims to blockade entry to and exit from the building in protest against National Health Service (NHS) England awarding a £330 million contract to Palantir, a company that professes to be keeping the Israeli government "armed and ahead" in its ongoing bombardment of Gaza, including Israel's systematic targeting of health care facilities, health workers, and patients. | Palantir specializes in artificial intelligence—powered military and sur…
(2024-01-02). Booked Up: the 10 Best Books of 2023. counterpunch.org 
Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence James Bamford (Twelve) The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History Ned Blackhawk (Yale) Doing Harm: How the World's Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the War on Terror Roy J. Edelson (McGill-Queen's University Press) Crossings How Road Ecology is
(2024-01-02). Fake Intellectuals Working For Think Tanks Funded By the Arms Industry Are Driving Support For War After War After War. covertactionmagazine.com Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Russia, China, and Now Iran A few days after the October 7 attacks in northern Israel, The Atlantic Council ran an inflammatory article on its website by Jonathan Panikoff, a former deputy national intelligence officer, entitled "It doesn't matter whether Iran planned the Hamas attack—Tehran is still to blame."[1] The …
(2024-01-02). Peace in all lands: community of Sant'Egidio remembers victims of all wars. pressenza.com Today, Jan. 1, on the occasion of the 57th World Day of Peace, expressing its support for Pope Francis' message "Artificial Intelligence and Peace," the Community of Sant'Egidio invited people to start the new year by remembering all the lands in the North and South of the world that are waiting for an end to war and terrorism, starting with the painful conflict still open in Ukraine and the one between Israel and Hamas, which marked the last months of this year. | At St. Peter's Square, while waiting for the Angelus, placards were displayed with the names of countries and regions of the world where there are sti…
(2024-01-02). The New York Times Launches Legal War With Microsoft And ChatGPT Owner Over AI Training. moguldom.com The New York Times has taken legal action against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement related to the use of its articles in training artificial intelligence models. The lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court in Manhattan. The newspaper contends that millions of its articles were employed to train AI chatbots, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, …
(2024-01-02). Is Al Qaeda an "Existential Threat"? What is the Meaning of Al Qaeda in Arabic? globalresearch.ca Global Research Introduction : | Pierre-Henri Bunel, a former member of France's Military Intelligence, initially published by Global Research in 2005, sheds light on the nature of Al Qaeda, an intelligence construct used by Washington to destabilize and …
(2024-01-02). War, What is it Good For? — The Profits of the Military Industrial Complex. expose-news.com The business of war is booming due to the geopolitical tensions engineered in the last few years and global military spending rose to an all-time high of over $2.2 trillion last year …
(2024-01-03). Turkey Detains 33 People on Charge of Spying for Israel. themedialine.org 
(2024-01-02). Turkey: Police arrest 33 alleged Mossad spies in nationwide sweep. middleeasteye.net 
(2024-01-03). The Year US Empire Faced Great Difficulties In Organizing Another Foreign Intervention. popularresistance.org It took the U.S. government one year to push through the United Nations Security Council its project for a fourth foreign military invasion of Haiti, but even now it is not a sure thing. | Although, on Oct. 2, the UN body blessed the "Multinational Security Support" mission (MSS) which 1,000 Kenyan police will supposedly lead, the Kenyan Supreme Court has given itself until Jan. 26, 2024 to decide on whether the Kenyan police can constitutionally be deployed abroad. Many Kenyan lawyers and opposition leaders say they cannot. | Whatever the court decides, it is uncertain that Kenyan President William Ruto will res…
(2024-01-03). Griffiths v. TUI UK Limited: Evidence, Challenge and Fairness. ukhumanrightsblog.com Overview The central question facing the Supreme Court in Griffiths v TUI UK Limited [2023] UKSC 48 concerned the extent to which a party must put criticisms of a witness' evidence to him in cross-examination. The Supreme Court made clear that the general rule in civil cases is that a party is required to challenge …
(2024-01-02). Headlines for January 2, 2024. democracynow.org Death Toll in Gaza Tops 22,000 as Biden Bypasses Congress to Send More Munitions to Israel, Israel Kills Five Palestinians in West Bank; Seventh Palestinian Dies in Israeli Jail Since Oct. 7, South African Files Genocide Case Against Israel at International Court of Justice, Supreme Court Strikes Down Key Part of Netanyahu's Judicial Reform, Pro-Palestine Protests Disrupt Rose Bowl & JFK Airport, U.S. Kills 10 Houthi Fighters as Tensions Grows in Red Sea, Putin Vows to Intensify Strikes on Ukraine After 25 Die in Missile Attack on Russian City, Death Toll from Japanese Earthquake at 48 as Rescue Efforts Con…
(2024-01-02). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 88: Israeli army kills 4,000 students in Gaza, detains hundreds in torture camps. mondoweiss.net 
Israel's opposition welcomes Supreme Court ruling against Netanyahu's law restricting judicial powers. Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in a single West Bank village, and a seventh Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli prisons.
(2024-01-02). Gunman breaks into Colorado Supreme Court building. plenglish.com Washington, Jan 2 (Prensa Latina) A suspect has been arrested at the Colorado Supreme Court building after allegedly shooting out windows, holding an armed security guard at gunpoint and maneuvering about the building for nearly two hours until voluntarily surrendering early Tuesday, according to authorities.
(2024-01-02). Supreme Court overturns aspects of NSW's anti-protest laws. greenleft.org.au 
(2024-01-02). The Year the US Empire Faced Great Difficulties in Organizing Another Foreign Intervention Into Haiti. orinocotribune.com 
By Kim Ives -Dec 20, 2023 | It took the U.S. government one year to push through the United Nations Security Council its project for a fourth foreign military invasion of Haiti, but even now it is not a sure thing. | Although, on Oct. 2, the UN body blessed the "Multinational Security Support" mission (MSS) which 1,000 Kenyan police will supposedly lead, the Kenyan Supreme Court has
(2024-01-02). Raskin: Clarence Thomas Should "Absolutely" Recuse From Trump Ballot Cases. truthout.org The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee has called on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from upcoming cases on Donald Trump's eligibility on state ballots in the 2024 election. In an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) said that Thomas should "absolutely" recuse, citing Thomas's wife's involvement in the attempted coup… |
(2024-01-02). Supreme Court stalls on clarifying Trump claims of immunity from prosecution. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to sit back and let the court below it—the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia—decide whether former GOP Oval Office occupant Donald Trump can claim absolute and eternal immunity from criminal prosecution, due to once having held the presidency. Its decision to leave the explosive issue …
(2024-01-02). Israeli Supreme Court Rejects Law Restricting Judicial Review. themedialine.org 
(2024-01-02). CJI rejects allegations against collegium, refuses to respond to criticism over Article 370. muslimmirror.com New Delhi : Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Monday rubbished the allegation about lack of transparency in the collegium system where judges appoint judges to constitutional courts and desisted from responding to criticism of the Supreme Court judgement upholding the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution that bestowed special status on …