Monthly Archives: February 2024

2024-02-10: News Headlines

Editor (2024-02-10). Much like Prison Visiting Rules, The Use of the Espionage Act is Arbitrary and Punitive. scheerpost.com By Jeffrey Sterling / Progressive Hub In Mid-December 2023, Charles Glass, the esteemed writer, journalist, broadcaster, and publisher visited with Julian Assange, an inmate at Belmarsh Prison in the U.K. Assange has been confined there since April, 2019. He is awaiting his final appeal to quash U.S. efforts to extradite him to face some of …

Kevin Gosztola (2024-02-10). Countdown To Day X: CIA Reportedly Plotted To Kill Assange. thedissenter.org Editor's Note: Ahead of a major hearing before the British High Court of Justice on February 20 and 21, the "Countdown To Day X" series will highlight key aspects of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's request to appeal his extradition to the United States. Extradition should be blocked because the CIA allegedly plotted to kidnap, poison, or kill WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was living under political asylum in the Ecuador embassy in London. | According to Assange's legal team, extradition would undermine his right to life and right to be free from "torture or inhuman or degrading tr…

krish-rad_ind (2024-02-10). Dear Mr High Commissioner: Help Free Assange. consortiumnews.com

Isaac Nellist (2024-02-09). Green Left News Podcast Ep 31: The war on wages, Assange's final appeal & French farmers take action. greenleft.org.au Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist goes through the latest news from across the continent and around the world.

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2024-02-09). CIA Director Calls China Biggest 'Threat', Says Ukraine War Benefits US. popularresistance.org The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William J. Burns, published an article in which he referred to "the United States' principal rivals—China and Russia", while emphasizing that "China is the bigger long-term threat". | Strongly implying that we are in the early stages of a new cold war, he wrote that "China and Russia consume much of the CIA's attention". | Burns revealed that "the CIA has been reorganizing itself" in order to counter China. The notorious US spy agency has created a special "mission center" focusing exclusively on Beijing, and has doubled its budget for anti-China operations.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-02-09). Israeli Intelligence Threatening, Harassing South Africa's FM. libya360.wordpress.com Al Mayadeen South Africa's Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor addresses reporters after a session of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, January 26, 2024. (AP) "The people of the world and Palestine didn't draw back when the apartheid state [in South Africa] was at its worst. They stood with us in the…

Martin Edwin Andersen (2024-02-09). "An Intelligence Disclosure & the Merit System Protection Board's Cathy A. Harris" indybay.org The following was published exactly one year after the 2001 national security recipient of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel's "Public Servant Award' made a pro se request asking the OSC to accept an Intelligence Disclosure on the failure of Cathy A. Harris, acting U.S. Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) chair, to uphold the duties of her office. The Petitioner remains unwavering in his belief that the remedy can be found in U.S. law, the Constitution, and in legitimate OSC functions.

newarab (2024-02-09). Hamas officials return to Cairo in renewed ceasefire bid. newarab.com A Hamas delegation Led by Hamas deputy head Khalil al-Hayaa, the delegation is meeting officials from the Egyptian intelligence service and…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-02-09). A "False Flag" Operation to Justify The Israel-U.S. Genocide against the People of Palestine. globalresearch.ca Israel's "false flag" is a complex military-intelligence undertaking, carefully planned, in liaison with the US. "Israeli officials obtained Hamas's battle plan for the Oct. 7 … more than a year before it happened" (NYT).

The Independent (2024-02-09). RDCs tasked to increase Museveni's 2026 support in Central. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Resident District Commissioners-RDCs/RCC's and Intelligence Officers in the Central Region have been asked to work harder to increase the number of votes for incumbent President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni so as to extend his leadership beyond 2026 elections. According to the Permanent Secretary in the office of the President …

Martin Edwin Andersen (2024-02-10). "An Intelligence Disclosure & the Merit System Protection Board's Cathy A. Harris" indybay.org The following was published exactly one year after the 2001 national security recipient of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel's "Public Servant Award' made a pro se request asking the OSC to accept an Intelligence Disclosure on the failure of Cathy A. Harris, acting U.S. Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) chair, to uphold the duties of her office. The Petitioner remains unwavering in his belief that the remedy can be found in U.S. law, the Constitution, and in legitimate OSC functions.

Ben Norton (2024-02-10). Putin debunks Tucker Carlson's warmongering anti-China propaganda, mocks his CIA ties. geopoliticaleconomy.com Russia's President Vladimir Putin condemned the "boogeyman" anti-China propaganda that Trump ally Tucker Carlson spewed in his interview in Moscow, while mocking the ex Fox News host for applying to join the CIA.

Staff (2024-02-10). Putin debunks Tucker Carlson's warmongering anti-China propaganda, mocks his CIA ties. geopoliticaleconomy.substack.com Subscribe now The US TV host Tucker Carlson set off a political scandal by traveling to Moscow this February to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin. This provoked a debate in the media, which — as is so often the case in partisan US politics — completely missed the forest for the trees. Liberal war hawks …

Ben Rosenfeld (2024-02-09). The Supreme Court's Political Hack of the Colorado Ballot. counterpunch.org On Thursday, the oligarchy known as the U.S. Supreme Court—many of whose justices pretend to be guided in all analyses and decisions by a textualist constitutional legal philosophy, social consequences be damned—signaled that if they uphold Colorado's decision to exclude Trump from the 2024 ballot, chaos will ensue in the form of disparate and potentially

Rhoda Wilson (2024-02-09). Crotty Judgement: If the Irish government ratifies WHO's Pandemic Treaty without holding a referendum, "all hell will break loose" expose-news.com In 1987, the Irish Supreme Court ruled that the Irish government, as guardians of the Irish Constitution, could not enter into certain international agreements without a majority approval of Irish citizens through …

Staff (2024-02-09). Liberals Feckless, Conservatives Reckless: Elie Mystal on SCOTUS Trump Ballot Ban Case. democracynow.org The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a historic case Thursday to determine if Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is eligible to remain on the ballot for the 2024 election. The justices are reviewing a decision by Colorado's high court that found Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution makes Trump ineligible to run for office because he engaged in an insurrection on January 6, 2021. The Nation's justice correspondent Elie Mystal responds to the first day of proceedings, saying he was disappointed to hear both liberal and conservative justices casting doubt on the…

WSWS (2024-02-09). Supreme Court lines up with Trump at hearing on Colorado ballot exclusion ruling. wsws.org Virtually every justice indicated they were prepared to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that the January 6, 2021 insurrection makes Trump ineligible for the presidency.

Staff (2024-02-09). Muslim boy slapping row: SC slams UP govt for not counselling victim's classmates. muslimmirror.com New Delhi : The Supreme Court slammed the Uttar Pradesh government on Friday for not counselling students who were allegedly instructed by their school teacher to slap a Muslim boy for not doing his homework. Observing that there has been a complete breach of its directions by the Uttar Pradesh government, a bench of Justices …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-02-09). UK Steps Up War on Whistleblower Journalism with New National Security Act. libya360.wordpress.com Kit Klarenberg Under a repressive new act, British nationals could face prison for undermining London's national security line. Intended to destroy WikiLeaks and others exposing war crimes, the law is a direct threat to critical national security journalism. It was the afternoon of May 17 2023 and I had just arrived at London's Luton Airport. I was…

Kit Klarenberg (2024-02-09). UK steps up war on whistleblower journalism with new National Security Act. thegrayzone.com Under a repressive new act, British nationals could face prison for undermining London's national security line. Intended to destroy WikiLeaks and others exposing war crimes, the law is a direct threat to critical national security journalism. It was the afternoon of May 17 2023 and I had just arrived at London's Luton Airport. I was on my way to the city of my birth to visit my family. Before landing, the pilot instructed all passengers to have their passports ready …

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2024-02-09: News Headlines

Isaac Nellist (2024-02-09). Green Left News Podcast Ep 31: The war on wages, Assange's final appeal & French farmers take action. greenleft.org.au Green Left journalist Isaac Nellist goes through the latest news from across the continent and around the world.

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2024-02-09). CIA Director Calls China Biggest 'Threat', Says Ukraine War Benefits US. popularresistance.org The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William J. Burns, published an article in which he referred to "the United States' principal rivals—China and Russia", while emphasizing that "China is the bigger long-term threat". | Strongly implying that we are in the early stages of a new cold war, he wrote that "China and Russia consume much of the CIA's attention". | Burns revealed that "the CIA has been reorganizing itself" in order to counter China. The notorious US spy agency has created a special "mission center" focusing exclusively on Beijing, and has doubled its budget for anti-China operations.

Martin Edwin Andersen (2024-02-09). "An Intelligence Disclosure & the Merit System Protection Board's Cathy A. Harris" indybay.org The following was published exactly one year after the 2001 national security recipient of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel's "Public Servant Award' made a pro se request asking the OSC to accept an Intelligence Disclosure on the failure of Cathy A. Harris, acting U.S. Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) chair, to uphold the duties of her office. The Petitioner remains unwavering in his belief that the remedy can be found in U.S. law, the Constitution, and in legitimate OSC functions.

newarab (2024-02-09). Hamas officials return to Cairo in renewed ceasefire bid. newarab.com A Hamas delegation Led by Hamas deputy head Khalil al-Hayaa, the delegation is meeting officials from the Egyptian intelligence service and…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-02-09). A "False Flag" Operation to Justify The Israel-U.S. Genocide against the People of Palestine. globalresearch.ca Israel's "false flag" is a complex military-intelligence undertaking, carefully planned, in liaison with the US. "Israeli officials obtained Hamas's battle plan for the Oct. 7 … more than a year before it happened" (NYT).

The Independent (2024-02-09). RDCs tasked to increase Museveni's 2026 support in Central. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Resident District Commissioners-RDCs/RCC's and Intelligence Officers in the Central Region have been asked to work harder to increase the number of votes for incumbent President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni so as to extend his leadership beyond 2026 elections. According to the Permanent Secretary in the office of the President …

Gideon Polya (2024-02-08). Western Media and Politician Complicity in US-Israeli Massacre of Palestinian Children. dissidentvoice.org The 2023-2024 Gaza Massacre has continued now for nearly 4 months while the World looks on. The Zionist-subverted and US lackey Australian Labor Government has fervently assisted Apartheid Israel diplomatically, with key arms supplies, intelligence, weapons targeting and now with cessation of support for UNRWA — racist Labor is complicit in the US-Israeli massacre of …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-02-08). The US and UK Send Ukrainian Special Forces to Sudan. libya360.wordpress.com United World International Information has appeared in the African media that the United States and the United Kingdom have been transferring special forces of the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate to Sudan for several months for the war against the Rapid Support Forces. The United States is concerned about the civil war in Sudan and, against the…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-02-08). A "False Flag" Operation to Justify The Israel-U.S. Genocide against the People of Palestine. globalresearch.ca Israel's "false flag" is a complex military-intelligence undertaking, carefully planned, in liaison with the US. "Israeli officials obtained Hamas's battle plan for the Oct. 7 … more than a year before it happened" (NYT).

Ben Norton (2024-02-08). CIA director calls China biggest 'threat', says Ukraine war benefits US geopolitically and economically. geopoliticaleconomy.com CIA Director William J. Burns published an article demonizing China as the "bigge[st] long-term threat", boasting that the spy agency has doubled its budget for anti-China ops. He also said the Ukraine war helps the US economically and geopolitically, and warned Taiwan could be next.

Ben Rosenfeld (2024-02-09). The Supreme Court's Political Hack of the Colorado Ballot. counterpunch.org On Thursday, the oligarchy known as the U.S. Supreme Court—many of whose justices pretend to be guided in all analyses and decisions by a textualist constitutional legal philosophy, social consequences be damned—signaled that if they uphold Colorado's decision to exclude Trump from the 2024 ballot, chaos will ensue in the form of disparate and potentially

WSWS (2024-02-09). Supreme Court lines up with Trump at hearing on Colorado ballot exclusion ruling. wsws.org Virtually every justice indicated they were prepared to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that the January 6, 2021 insurrection makes Trump ineligible for the presidency.

Adriaan Alsema (2024-02-08). Unrest in Bogota after Colombia's Supreme Court fails to pick new chief prosecutor. colombiareports.com Protesters who had been mobilized by President Gustavo Petro blocked entrances of Colombia's Palace of Justice to demand a new chief prosecutor. The unrest in the capital broke out after…

Chris Walker (2024-02-08). Expect Justices to Allow Trump on All Ballots, Legal Experts Say. truthout.org Supreme Court justices have expressed skepticism over Colorado's recent decision to bar former President Donald Trump from the ballot, with some claiming that the precedent could allow for an unmanageable situation in the future. The Colorado state Supreme Court deemed Trump, currently the frontrunner for the Republican Party nomination for president, an insurrectionist in December… |

teleSUR (2024-02-08). Colombian Teachers March in Support of President Petro. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Colombian Federation of Education Workers (FECODE) called on citizens to mobilize in support of President Gustavo Petro. | RELATED: | In Bogota, teachers will hold a protest near the Attorney General's Office, an institution that, along with the Supreme Court, is investigating alleged irregularities in the donation of funds for Petro's presidential campaign. | People are rallying under the slogan "

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