2023-11-19: News Headlines

Kevin Gosztola (2023-11-19). Lawsuit Against Alleged CIA Spying On Assange Visitors: A Rare Court Hearing. thedissenter.org Support independent journalism on press freedom, whistleblowers, and government secrecy.  A United States court held an extraordinary hearing on November 16, where a judge carefully considered a lawsuit against the CIA and former CIA director Mike Pompeo for their alleged role in spying on American attorneys and journalists who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.Judge John Koeltl of the Southern District of New York pushed back when Assistant U.S. Attorney Jean-David Barnea refused to c…

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-11-19). Israel Is Shutting Down Its Human Laboratory In Gaza. popularresistance.org Cairo, Egypt – The Palestinians are human laboratory rats to the Israeli military, intelligence services and arms and technology industries. Israel's drones, surveillance technology — including spyware, facial recognition software and biometric gathering infrastructure — along with smart fences, experimental bombs and AI-controlled machine guns, are tried out on the captive population in Gaza, often with lethal results. These weapons and technologies are then certified as "battle tested" and sold around the world. | Israel is the 10th biggest arms dealer on the planet and sells its technology and weap…

Pete Dolack (2023-11-19). Rational Thinking Versus Conspiracy Theories. counterpunch.org Image by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona. | I am writing an article I'd rather not write but feel compelled to do so. Amidst all the horror of Israel's massacres and desire to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza in response to Hamas' terror attack inside Israel, yet another conspiracy theory seems to have taken root among some people. Specifically, that Hamas' attack was an "inside job." | Shades of the 9-11 "truther" movement. The conspiracy theory here is that Israel's Mossad intelligence agency could not possibly have been unaware of what Hamas was plotting and either knew the attack was coming and intenti…

Yuval Abraham (2023-11-18). Official "Secret" Israeli Document Revealed: Expel All Palestinians from Gaza, Israeli Intelligence Ministry. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2023-11-19). Biden Admin Justifies Israel's Assault on Gaza Hospitals With Recycled Israeli 'Intelligence'. scheerpost.com

Rhoda Wilson (2023-11-19). Surveillance State Exposed: The chilling echo of Snowden's warning. expose-news.com This article unravels the chilling revelations of the documentary 'CITIZENFOUR,' spotlighting Edward Snowden's courageous stand against mass surveillance and the evolving landscape of state power versus individual freedoms. "CITIZENFOUR" is a documentary …

Binoy Kampmark (2023-11-19). A Duty to Obey: David McBride, Whistleblowing and Following Orders. dissidentvoice.org The unpardonable, outrageous trial of Australian whistleblower David McBride was a brief affair. On November 13, it did not take long for the brutal power of the Commonwealth to become evident. McBride, having disclosed material that formed the Australian public about alleged war crimes by special forces in Afghanistan, was going to be made an …

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