Daily Archives: February 14, 2024

2024-02-14: News Headlines

Consortium News (2024-02-14). Dear Mr. High Commissioner: Help Free Assange! indybay.org Mr. Assange is a defender of human rights; an innovative journalist and creative publisher; he is one of us. He should not be locked up but standing with us in our office. Is he not persecuted for doing what every serious investigative journalist, every serious human rights investigator should be doing every day: investigating allegations and promoting truth, accountability and justice?>

Consortium News (2024-02-13). Dear Mr. High Commissioner: Help Free Assange! indybay.org Mr. Assange is a defender of human rights; an innovative journalist and creative publisher; he is one of us. He should not be locked up but standing with us in our office. Is he not persecuted for doing what every serious investigative journalist, every serious human rights investigator should be doing every day: investigating allegations and promoting truth, accountability and justice?>

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2024-02-14). The Global Deep State. dissidentvoice.org The madmen are in power. — Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction. That's not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries in the form of military and economic assistance is insignificant. Even at less than 1% of the …

ecns.cn (2024-02-14). Insights丨Former official of WEF: China's economic shift promising through sustainable development. ecns.cn Claude Smadja, Former Managing Director of the World Economic Forum, noted during an exclusive interview with China News Network that China has achieved tremendous progress in many areas including artificial intelligence, e-commerce, and electric cars.

infobrics (2024-02-14). Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Medicine: Case Studies from China and India. infobrics.org Due to its continuous advancement and extensive utilization, artificial intelligence (AI) technology has permeated deeply into all aspects of life, particularly within the realm of medicine, while the prospects for its application continue to broaden. AI has emerged as a powerful tool with the potential to revolutionize healthcare delivery worldwide…

Dave DeCamp (2024-02-13). CIA Chief Burns Heads to Egypt for Israel-Hamas Hostage Deal Talks. news.antiwar.com CIA Director William Burns is headed to Egypt, where he will meet with Egyptian and Qatari intelligence officials to discuss work on a potential hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. Israel has been resisting the idea of more hostage negotiations since Hamas' latest proposal, which called for a 135-day truce to facilitate a permanent ceasefire. …

ecns.cn (2024-02-13). Insights丨Former official of WEF: China's economic shift promising through sustainable development. ecns.cn Claude Smadja, Former Managing Director of the World Economic Forum, noted during an exclusive interview with China News Network that China has achieved tremendous progress in many areas including artificial intelligence, e-commerce, and electric cars.

GRAIN, La Via Campesina (2024-02-13). A new wave of land grabs strikes Tanzania. cadtm.org

Lowkey (2024-02-12). How Britain is Helping Israel to Bomb Gaza, with Matt Kennard. mintpressnews.com Editor's Note: Dear Readers, MintPress News' YouTube channel was recently demonetized, and many of our videos made age-restricted. We would greatly appreciate your support by becoming a member of our The MintPress podcast, "The Watchdog," hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know — including intelligence, lobby and special inter…

Editor (2024-02-14). Feb 14, 2024. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ The video that broke Tiktok — Aurélien Froissart/piano, Ugne Liepa Zuklyte/violin Continuing To Support Israel At This Point Just Means You're A Garbage Human Being, by Caitlin Johnstone Intellectuals for Sale, by Jeffrey A. Tucker Vladimir Putin and Tucker Carlson: Interview for the History Books, by Aleks of Black Mt. Analysis The Military Industrial Complex: Lt. Col. William Astore (Video) Will NATO be dismantled? Interview on India's WION television channel, by Gilbert Doctorow The WEF's "Frankensteinization" of the World, by Peter Koenig The last American war, by Yoav Haifawi The R…

newarab (2024-02-13). Qatar frees 8 Indians months after dropping death sentences. newarab.com The men were charged with spying for Israel, according to sources, though India and Qatar did not confirm the charges. Their death sentence, handed down in October, was dropped in Dece…

albawaba (2024-02-14). Musk admits to owning Mossad merchandise. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Elon Musk is yet again under fire among pro-Palestine activists on X (formerly Twitter) amid making a post on his official account admitting that he owns merchandise for the Israeli government agency Mossad. X owner and the controversial individual took to his official account and said "I have actual Mossad merch btw. But the CIA has some really great merch," with the Jewish Lebanese-Canadian professor Gad Saad retweeting…

teleSUR, JCM (2024-02-14). Cancillería: EE.UU. es cómplice de actos de terrorismo contra Venezuela. telesurtv.net El canciller Yván Gil denunció que la CIA y la DEA han estado conspirando desde Miami y Colombia, junto a opositores de la extrema derecha venezolana.

Atilio Borón (2024-02-14). María Corina Machado and the Betrayal of Venezuela. orinocotribune.com Atilio Borón — 11 Feb, 2024 | Senility is not only a problem for President Joe Biden but for the empire as a whole. Days ago, the United States government announced new sanctions against Venezuela following the decision of Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice to ratify the disqualification of Mrs. María Corina Machado from running as a candidate in the next presidential elections. | It was enough for the news to be known for the media sewer—the one that completely silences the ongoing genocide in Gaza or the Dina Boluarte massacres in Peru—to immediately lose its temper and begin to launch all ki…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2024-02-14). GMOs Will Destroy Indian Agriculture, Which Is Non-GMO and Will Harm the Health of 1 Billion Indians and Their Animals. orinocotribune.com By Aruna Rodrigues — Feb 1, 2024 | Hybrid Bt cotton, the only commercialised GM crop in India, has failed conclusively. Based on this failure and the evidence on GM crops to date, the Union of India's proposal to commercialise herbicide-tolerant (HT) mustard will destroy not just Indian mustard agriculture but citizens' health. | There have been five days of intense hearings on this matter in the Supreme Court (SC) — the GMO Public Interest Writ filed almost 20 years ago in 2005 by the author, which ended on 18 January 2024. | In these last 20 years, piecemeal hearings have dealt with submissions relat…

Staff (2024-02-14). Bilkis Bano case: Gujarat govt files review plea in SC to delete remarks against it. muslimmirror.com New Delhi : The Gujarat government on Tuesday moved Supreme Court and filed a review petition seeking to expunge certain remarks made against the government for its conduct with regard to the premature release of the 11 convicts in Bilkis Bano case. The State said that the adverse remarks made against the government in the …

Staff (2024-02-14). UAPA case: Ex-JNU student Umar Khalid withdraws bail plea from SC. muslimmirror.com New Delhi : Former JNU student Umar Khalid on Wednesday withdrew his bail plea from the Supreme Court 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 Pankaj Mithal was told by senior …

Adriaan Alsema (2024-02-13). IACHR urges Colombia's Supreme Court to pick chief prosecutor. colombiareports.com The human rights office of the Organization of American States (OAS) pressured Colombia's Supreme Court to pick a chief prosecutor. In a statement, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)…

Chris Walker (2024-02-13). Tennessee State Legislature Passes Bill to Allow LGBTQ Marriage Discrimination. truthout.org Republican lawmakers in the Tennessee state legislature have advanced a bill to the governor which, if signed into law, would give public officials the ability to deny marriages to LGBTQ or interracial couples. The bill would invariably be challenged by LGBTQ groups as unconstitutional, in violation of standards that were enacted through Supreme Court rulings like Obergefell v. Hodges… |

Chris Walker (2024-02-13). Trump Files Request to Supreme Court for Stay on "Presidential Immunity" Ruling. truthout.org Lawyers for former President Donald Trump filed a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court asking for a stay of a recent appellate court ruling against his "presidential immunity" claims in his election subversion case. Trump faces four federal charges in the case relating to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and his actions on January 6, 2021, when a mob of his loyalists attacked the… |

WSWS (2024-02-14). CNN whistleblowers expose systematic bias in Gaza war reporting. wsws.org Top editorial officials effectively banned any coverage of the Palestinian side of the conflict, and particularly the long history of Israeli oppression.

Editor (2024-02-13). UK Steps Up War on Whistleblower Journalism With New National Security Act. scheerpost.com

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