Guillermo Garcia (2024-01-30). Julian Assange and his possible extradition to the US: on the legal and procedural situation. cadtm.org

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-29). The last flurry: US Congress and Australian MPs seek Julian Assange's release. greenleft.org.au

Phil Mattera (2024-01-29). Koch Industries and the Attack on Regulation. counterpunch.org Donald Trump's rants about the deep state are designed to deflect attention away from his own transgressions. An even more sinister attack on the legitimacy of the federal executive branch is taking place in the U.S. Supreme Court, and the result could strike a serious blow against corporate accountability. The Court just heard oral arguments

ecns.cn (2024-01-29). Ruling sparks debate on AI technology. ecns.cn A court ruling that recognized the copyright of an image generated via artificial intelligence, together with other recent cases involving AI, has highlighted the need to regulate the application of the fast-developing technology and triggered public discussion.

EDWIN (2024-01-30). Gauteng police recover over 400 firearms. sanews.gov.za Gauteng police recover over 400 firearms | The South African Police Service (SAPS) in Gauteng, together with other law enforcement agencies, has recovered over 400 firearms and 6 000 live rounds of ammunition during the month of January. | All these firearms and ammunition were recovered through different crime prevention actions, including Operation Shanela intelligence-driven operations, daily patrols, stop and searches, and vehicle checkpoints. | On 9 January, an intelligence-driven operation was conducted by members of Springs Crime Prevention at Everest informal settlement after receiving a tip-off from mem…

newarab (2024-01-30). Has Israel changed its line on the 'evidence' against UNRWA?>. newarab.com Israeli intelligence services now claim that The New York Times on Sunday said its reporters had reviewed intelligence documents on Israel's allegations against UNRWA, which included a list of implicated individuals and their alleged involvement in the 7 October attack. | "The dossier said that Israeli intelligence officers had…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-01-30). 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…

Janine (2024-01-29). Government activities for the week 29 January to 2 February 2024. sanews.gov.za Government activities for the week 29 January to 2 February 2024 | On Monday, 29 January, the National School of Government is hosting a webinar on artificial intelligence (AI) from 11: 00 to 13: 00. | On Tuesday, 30 January, is the opening ceremony of the AfCFTA Council of Ministers (COM) responsible for Trade. | On Tuesday, 30 January, Deputy Minister in The Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Pinky Kenana will conduct a frontline monitoring and Back to School Campaign at Vukuhambe Special School in Mdantsane under the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality in the Eastern Cape. | On Wednesday, 31 J…

newarab (2024-01-29). Has Israel changed its line on the 'evidence' against UNRWA?>. newarab.com Israeli intelligence services now claim that The New York Times on Sunday said its reporters had reviewed intelligence documents on Israel's allegations against UNRWA, which included a list of implicated individuals and their alleged involvement in the 7 October attack. | "The dossier said that Israeli intelligence officers had…

newarab (2024-01-30). Iran executes four men convicted of 'spying for Israel'. newarab.com The four defendants, identified as Mohammad Faramarzi, Mohsen Mazloum, Wafa Azarbar, Pejman Fatehi, were arrested in July 2022 and accused of plotting to carry out out an operation against a Ministry of Defense centre in t…

newarab (2024-01-29). Iran executes four men convicted of 'spying for Israel'. newarab.com The four defendants, identified as Mohammad Faramarzi, Mohsen Mazloum, Wafa Azarbar, Pejman Fatehi, were arrested in July 2022 and accused of plotting to carry out out an operation against a Ministry of Defense centre in t…

Alexandra Jacobo (2024-01-29). GOP governors rally behind Texas in Supreme Court border dispute. nationofchange.org Texas Governor Greg Abbott, backed by 25 GOP governors, maintains razor wire barriers at Eagle Pass, igniting a national debate on border security and state sovereignty.

Chris Walker (2024-01-29). PA Supreme Court Expresses Doubts Over State's Anti-Abortion Medicaid Law. truthout.org The Pennsylvania State Supreme Court issued a ruling on Monday that may pave the way to undoing a 42-year-old state law that forbids the state's Medicaid program from funding abortion care. In a 3-2 decision by the court, the justices ruled that a lower court had to re-examine the legality of the 1982 Abortion Control Act, which only allows state Medicaid funds to pay for abortions in cases of… |

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2024-01-29). Kenyan court ruled as unconstitutional sending forces to Haiti. plenglish.com Port-au-Prince, Jan 29 (Prensa Latina) The Supreme Court of Kenya ruled against a plan to send military forces to Haiti, considering it illegal, after Kenyan president had made the announcement.

Staff (2024-01-29). SC adjourns hearing on batch of pleas pertaining to Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah Masjid dispute. muslimmirror.com New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned hearing on a clutch of petitions pertaining to Mathura's Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah Masjid dispute. "At the joint request of parties, re-list in the first half of April, 2024. In the meantime, parties will complete the pleadings," said a bench presided by Justice Sanjiv Khanna. The bench, …

Victoria Torres (2024-01-29). Venezuela: US Balks At Electoral Disqualifications, VP Rodriguez Calls for More Economic Recovery Efforts. orinocotribune.com Last Friday, Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) ruled against some far-right figures in national politics, all of whom are opposed to the revolutionary government and openly anti-Chavista. These far-right figures include Henrique Capriles and María Corina Machado, As a result of the ruling, the US State Department, in a new interventionist attack, t…

Amy Goodman (2024-01-30). Will Death Row Prisoner Richard Glossip Be Freed After Supreme Court Hears Case? truthout.org In an extraordinary development, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip will now get the chance to argue for a new trial, after maintaining his innocence for three decades. Glossip has faced nine separate execution dates and been given his final meal three times. In 2015, he was saved from death just hours before his execution only after prison officials… |

Chris Walker (2024-01-30). Supreme Court Sets March Date for Arguments on Abortion Drug Mifepristone. truthout.org The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear oral arguments about the legality of the approval process for abortion medication this spring. The medication mifepristone was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2000. In April 2023, a conservative federal judge in Texas sided with plaintiffs who said the drug was improperly approved, even though it took several years of… |

Ellen Ormesher, DeSmog. (2024-01-30). Havas London Targeted By Climate Activists Over Relationship With Shell. popularresistance.org For the second time in four months, climate activists have gathered at the headquarters of Havas London to protest the ad agency's relationship with Shell. | According to the group, Extinction Rebellion or XR, Thursday's protest was spurred by a whistleblower's tip-off that Havas would be meeting with Shell to discuss new work for the fossil fuel giant. | The trade publication Campaign recently reported that Shell's global PR account is up for review this quarter. | Caroline from Scientists for XR said that the group received a positive reception from Havas employees, "who are by and large young creatives."

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-01-26). The War On Journalism In Belmarsh, The War On Journalism In Gaza. caitlinjohnstone.com.au The fight to free Assange is a fight to protect press freedoms around the world, since the US is using the case in an attempt to set a legal precedent for extraditing and imprisoning any journalist or publisher anywhere in the world who shares information with the public that the US doesn't want shared.

Guillermo Garcia (2024-01-26). Julian Assange and his possible extradition to the US: on the legal and procedural situation. cadtm.org

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-26). The last flurry: US Congress and Australian MPs seek Julian Assange's release. greenleft.org.au

Ann Brown (2024-01-26). DeepMind Co-Founder Mustafa Suleyman Warns: Artificial Intelligence Tools Are Fundamental 'Labor Replacing'. moguldom.com In a recent video, Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, issued a stark warning about the nature of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, characterizing them as fundamentally "labor replacing." Suleyman, speaking at the World AI Forum meeting in Davos, which took place Jan. 15-19 in Davos-Knosters, Switzerland, emphasized that despite being in its …

Brian Berletic (2024-01-26). FPV Drones & Artificial Intelligence: How Russia is Transforming Drone Warfare. thealtworld.com — FPV drones transform cheap, easy-to-produce drones into precision guided weapons; | — FPV drones have several disadvantages including loss-of-signal as it begins its attack dive or encounters electronic warfare; | — AI targeting allows an operator to designate a target while still in signal line-of-sight and before entering an area defended by electronic warfare, for the AI to then automatically guide the drone to its target without any external signal; | — Russia's large military industrial base lends its an advantage in both quantity and quality over Ukraine and its Western sponsors;…

Melvin Goodman (2024-01-26). The Costly Failures of Intelligence. counterpunch.org "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." — Yogi Berra The investment in intelligence collection and analysis continues to grow, and the failures of intelligence grow as well. In some of the most costly failures, the intelligence collection was adequate, occasionally spot on, but the analysis was inadequate. For example, Pearl Harbor in

Melvin Goodman (2024-01-26). The Costly Failures of Intelligence. counterpunch.org "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." — Yogi Berra The investment in intelligence collection and analysis continues to grow, and the failures of intelligence grow as well. In some of the most costly failures, the intelligence collection was adequate, occasionally spot on, but the analysis was inadequate. For example, Pearl Harbor in

Staff (2024-01-26). Headlines for January 26, 2024. democracynow.org ICJ Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide But Stops Short of Calling for Ceasefire, Israel Pounds Khan Younis, Targets Hospitals as Death Toll Tops 26,000, CIA Dir. Burns to Travel to France for Truce Talks with Qatar, Egypt and Israel, Minneapolis and Somerville, MA, Pass Gaza Ceasefire Resolutions, U.S. and Iraq to Start Talks on Phased Withdrawal of U.S. Coalition Forces, "Humanity Takes a Step Backwards": Alabama Executes Kenneth Smith Via Nitrogen Asphyxiation, Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Sentenced to 4 Months for Defying Congressional Subpoena, 65,000 Pregnancies a Result of Rape Since End of Roe in…

krish-rad_ind (2024-01-26). LIVE: CIA Assassination Help Revealed + Cornel West Lets Loose! rumble.com

Antonio Sempere (2024-01-26). Spain condemned for illegally returning migrant minors. pressenza.com The Administrative Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court has condemned Spain for the return of eight unaccompanied migrant minors in August 2021. This followed the migration crisis in May of the same year, in which approximately 12,000 people, including more than 1,500 minors, swam to Ceuta. In the explanatory memorandum, the magistrates of the Spanish high court argue that "this situation lasted for three months, during which there is no evidence that the Spanish authorities, whether state or regional, initiated individualised proceedings to determine the circumstances and needs of each of the minors. | In August…

Larry Johnson (2024-01-26). Biden Domestic and Foreign Policy Implosion. sonar21.com Do you know what an implosion is? Let me show you. | That is what is happening to Joe Biden. Let's start with the domestic implosion taking place because of the flood of illegal immigrants. Texas has deployed the National Guard to its border and is preventing the Federal Government from cutting the barb wire walls the Guard has erected. The Biden Administration sought judicial relief with the Supreme Court, which decided by a 5 to 4 majority to back the Biden Administration. Governor Abbot of Texas responded, "Fuck you." | Texas is relying on the Constitution, which gives States the right to defend thems…

Jake Johnson (2024-01-26). After SCOTUS Rejected His Final Appeal, Alabama Executes Man With Nitrogen Gas. truthout.org Alabama on Thursday night became the first U.S. state to execute a person using nitrogen gas, killing 58-year-old Kenneth Smith by depriving his body of oxygen after the nation's Supreme Court rejected his legal team's last-ditch appeal. The state's notoriously incompetent executioners, who tried and failed to kill Smith via lethal injection in 2022, strapped the condemned man to a gurney and… |

Olivia Rosane (2024-01-26). 25 GOP Governors "Stand With Texas" in Defying Supreme Court at Border. truthout.org Twenty-five Republican governors have lent their support to GOP Gov. Greg Abbott as he doubles down on his defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court order to allow the federal government to remove the razor wire that the state had put up along a stretch of the United States-Mexico border with Mexico at Eagle Pass. Abbott first posted on social media on Tuesday that the Texas National Guard would "continue… |

Luis Linares Petrov (2024-01-26). Supreme Court of Brazil to judge those involved in coup. plenglish.com Brasilia, Jan 26 (Prensa Latina) The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil (STF), until April, will try 146 defendants for the coup acts of January 8th, 2023, against the Three Powers in Brasilia.