2024-01-25: News Headlines

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-25). The last flurry: US Congress and Australian MPs seek Julian Assange's release. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-24). The last flurry: US Congress and Australian MPs seek Julian Assange's release. greenleft.org.au

Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. (2024-01-24). In Assange's Darkest Hour, Committee To Protect Journalists Excludes Him. popularresistance.org The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released its census report for 2023. Three hundred and twenty detained or imprisoned journalists were counted by the press freedom organization, as of December 1, 2023. | As indicated, that number is not far from the record high of 360 jailed journalists that was set in 2022. | The 2023 census takes on greater significance given the Israeli government's war on Gaza and the military attacks and crackdown on Palestinian journalists. Seventeen journalists were jailed by Israel, the "highest number of arrests" since CPJ began tracking arrests in 1992. It is the first time th…

Guillermo Garcia (2024-01-25). Julian Assange and his possible extradition to the US: on the legal and procedural situation. cadtm.org

ecns.cn (2024-01-24). Chinese execs more upbeat on AI contributions. ecns.cn About 80 percent of Chinese business leaders expect the pace of technological disruption to accelerate even further in 2024, while 92 percent regard fast-developing generative artificial intelligence.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-01-25). Mayo Clinic engages Cerebras to deliver potent computing power, scale AI transformation. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic, the world's No. 1 hospital and a global leader in advancing trusted generative artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare applications, has announced a multi-year strategic collaboration with Cerebras Systems to develop multimodal large language models (LLMs) to improve patient outcomes and diagnoses. The collaboration combines Mayo Clinic's expansive repository of decades of deidentified clinical data with generative AI capabilities developed by Cerebras to train models to complement physicians' expertise. The…

Staff (2024-01-25). Washington Announces Increased Presence of Military & Intelligence in Ecuador (+Interference). orinocotribune.com

Washington's Blog (2024-01-25). The Caliphate Project, Made in America. Declassified U.S. Government Documents Confirm the US Supported the Creation of ISIS. globalresearch.ca Global Research Editor's Note: : | First published in May 2015, this article reveals not only that the ISIS is a creation of US intelligence, it also confirms that the Caliphate Project was designed in Washington. | More broadly, it suggests that "the …

Andrew Korybko (2024-01-24). The IL-76 Shootdown By A US Patriot Missile Could Lead To Zaluzhny's Replacement With Budanov. thealtworld.com All things considered, blaming Zaluzhny — perhaps by claiming that he should have verified alleged intelligence about the IL-76's cargo before shooting it down in order to make this seem like an unfortunate accident — is the most politically convenient option at Zelensky and his US patron's disposal. It could shift the blame from them to him and facilitate Zaluzhny's replacement with the much more politically reliable Budanov without much resistance from the armed forces or civil society. | Kiev

infobrics (2024-01-24). CIA's openly declared spy war on Russia not going so well. infobrics.org Somewhat schizophrenically, the CIA calls for Russians to "end betrayal" by actually committing it, all for "family values" and "the future of Russia", which is quite strange given the fact that Washington DC ideologues are obsessed with every anti-family idea in the book. The so-called "woke" extremist, ultra-liberal ideology is at an all-time high in the US, while solid evidence suggests that the troubled Biden administration is even involved in the massive child trafficking in Ukraine and elsewhere. So much for America's "focus on family values".

Editor (2024-01-25). US Supreme Court Refuses to Stop Alabama Nitrogen Gas Execution. scheerpost.com

Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams. (2024-01-24). US Supreme Court Rejects Bid To Silence Palestinian Rights Advocacy. popularresistance.org Free speech defenders welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to take up a lawsuit that outlandishly claimed a civil society group provided "material support" for terrorism by advocating for Palestinian human rights. | The Supreme Court's punting of Jewish National Fund v. U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights—which comes over three months into Israel's war on the Gaza Strip—marks the third consecutive time a federal court has dismissed the case, which USCPR said casts "collective activism and expression of solidarity as unlawful." | In the case's first dismissal in March 2021, a federal judge said t…

Editor (2024-01-24). US Supreme Court Defends Free Speech on Palestine. scheerpost.com

Global Research News (2024-01-24). U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Silence Palestinian Human Rights Advocacy. globalresearch.ca January 22, 2024, Washington, D.C. — Today, a U.S.-based Palestinian rights organization prevailed when the Supreme Court refused to take up a lawsuit brought by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and several U.S. citizens who live in Israel. Citing the …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-01-24). A Silent Continental Coup Carried Out by the U.S. is Underway. libya360.wordpress.com Eduardo Vasco Anti-government protesters confront police to protest the economic reforms of Argentine President Javier Milei outside the Supreme Court as labor unions legally challenge the measures in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 27, 2023. The steps taken by the Argentine government's foreign policy show that it will not stop at internal devastation. As if the…

Staff (2024-01-24). Hearing on Umar Khalid's bail plea in UAPA case adjourned to Jan 31 by SC. muslimmirror.com New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned till January 31 the hearing on the bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid in a case lodged under anti-terror law UAPA over his alleged involvement in the conspiracy behind the northeast Delhi riots of February 2020. A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and …

WSWS (2024-01-24). Supreme Court narrowly upholds federal immigration authority against Texas measures. wsws.org By a narrow 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that the US Border Patrol can cut through razor wire installed by Texas on the banks of the Rio Grande.

krish-rad_ind (2024-01-25). One State Is Asking Supreme Court To Stop Them From Executing Someone. youtu.be

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