Vindictive court rulings prove British state wants Assange dead
wsws.org | 2020-04-08
Judge Vanessa Baraitser has decreed that Assange will remain behind bars and that his extradition show-trial will proceed in May, even as the coronavirus pandemic spreads rapidly in British prisons.
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Prisons: Breeding Grounds for Disease. Julian Assange's Life in Danger
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
The US gulag prison system is the world's largest by far, the largely unreported in the mainstream shame of the nation. | Official numbers significantly understate the true number of incarcerated inmates annually. | According to a Prison Policy Initiative analysis, nearly …
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Julian Assange and Lockdown Injustice
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
Scribes covering the Julian Assange case must surely gawk with a sense of horrified wonder at each proceeding unfolding at the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London. Assange is in a battle that can only be described as titanic, seeking to …
globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-lockdown-injustice/5709059

Julian Assange and Lockdown Injustice
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-08
Scribes of the Julian Assange case must surely gawk with a sense of horrified wonder at each proceeding unfolding at the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London. Assange is in a battle that can only be described as titanic, seeking to avoid the clutches of the US Justice Department, not to mention its legal system, and …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/julian-assange-and-lockdown-injustice/

Montana Ballot Access Decision Suppresses Green Party Voters
Steve Kelly | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-08
In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court held that unequal distribution requirements for statewide petitions violate the Fourteenth Amendment. Again in 1970, citing the 1969 Illinois case, the SCOTUS struck down New York's distribution requirements. Distribution requirements give voters in some geographical areas more power than voters residing in other areas in blatant disregard for a…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/08/montana-ballot-access-decision-suppresses-green-party-voters/

The Cruel Truth Behind Wisconsin's Uncancelled Election
Bill Lueders | progressive.org | 2020-04-08
State Republicans exploited the coronavirus crisis in an effort to elect a state Supreme Court candidate who objects to the idea of government helping people in need.
progressive.org/dispatches/cruel-truth-wisconsin-uncancelled-election-lueders-200408/

UK school unleashes smartphones to seek virus treatment
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-08
A new project will use the power of smartphones to search for COVID-19 treatments, Imperial College London announced on Wednesday.Collaborating with the Vodafone Foundation, the Corona-AI (artificial intelligence) project will use the free DreamLab app, which crunches calculations using a smartphone's computing power while its user sleeps."The app has already helped find potential new cancer drugs and is now aiming to help in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic," according to the college's website.DreamLab uses machine learning on a mobile supercomputing network to analyze billions of combinations of exist…
yenisafak.com/en/world/uk-school-unleashes-smartphones-to-seek-virus-treatment-3516342

Assange's Life in Constant Danger as Belmarsh Prison Confirms First COVID-19 Death – WikiLeaks
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-08
WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson stressed that Assange, quarantined on the grounds of the max security London facility, is "in very bad shape", specifically bringing up the latter's chronic lung condition which makes him particularly susceptible to the raging virus.
sputniknews.com/society/202004081078880516-assanges-life-in-constant-danger-as-belmarsh-prison-confirms-first-covid-19-death—wikileaks/

Video: Collateral Murder 10 Years On
Kristinn Hrafnsson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-07
Today April 05, 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the WikiLeaks publication of the Collateral Murder video. | The video shows how two Apache helicopters murdered 11 Iraqi people including two Reuters journalists. | This is one of the publications Julian Assange…
globalresearch.ca/video-collateral-murder-10-years/5708923

Silicon Valley's Workplace Problem
Clio Chang | thenation.com | 2020-04-07
Silicon Valley's Workplace Problem…
thenation.com/article/culture/susan-fowler-whistleblower-review/

Stir Crazy! Episode #8: How awful is Covid-19?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-07
Stir Crazy Episode #8 on The Real News Network. Journalist Baynard Woods just recovered from COVID-19 and talks with writer/organizer Jesse A. Myerson and TRNN's Kim Brown, Leandro Lagera, and Lisa Snowden-McCray about how to prepare for self-quarantine. Today's Show: Cuomo is not a hero; Amazon fights its own workers; Wisconsin Republicans conspire to kill…
therealnews.com/stories/how-awful-is-covid-19

Outrage as Wisconsin Forces Residents to Vote in Person During COVID Pandemic
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-07
In spite of coronavirus fears gripping the country, Wisconsin is ultimately moving forward with in-person voting on Tuesday. | Democratic Gov. Tony Evers made several attempts over the last several days to delay the spring elections in order to find an alternative to in-person voting during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Instead, Republican lawmakers, the conservative state Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court itself have all acted in ways that will either cause the virus to spread or disenfra…
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'A Day That Will Live in Infamy': This Is What It Looked Like When Wisconsin Forced In-Person Voting During a Pandemic
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-04-07
As footage of Wisconsin's crowded polling stations flooded the internet Tuesday, public health officials and civil rights advocates condemned the state's Supreme Court and Republican legislative leaders for allowing in-person voting during the coronavirus pandemic and thwarting Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' last-minute efforts to address voter safety concerns. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-12173910311.jpg …
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[Department of Error] Department of Error
thelancet.com | 2020-04-04
Mease PJ, Rahman P, Gottlieb AB, et al. Guselkumab in biologic-naive patients with active psoriatic arthritis (DISCOVER-2): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial. Lancet 2020; 395: 1126–36–In this Article, the following sentence from the Participants section has been corrected as follows: "Patients were permitted, but not required, to continue stable use of selected standard treatments, including NSAIDs or other analgesics up to the regional marketed dose approved; oral corticosteroids (‚â§10 mg/day of prednisone or equivalent dose); or non-biologic DMARDs (limi…
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Iran Develops Its Own AI Software to Swiftly Detect COVID-19
The Iranian | iranian.com | 2020-04-04
Head of Coronavirus Management Center in Tehran Alireza Zali said that Iranian researchers have launched a new system based on artificial intelligence which can diagnose infection to COVID-19 virus in patients without access to a specialized physician. "The system is used in regions where there is no (specialized) doctor or radiologist and it gives precise …
iranian.com/2020/04/04/iran-using-artificial-intelligence-to-diagnose-coronavirus-infection/

You Don't Need to Believe China About China's Coronavirus Success
Jim Naureckas | fair.org | 2020-04-02
Accusing China of deception provides a ready excuse for the Trump administration's failures: "The reality is that we could have been better off if China had been more forthcoming," says Vice President Mike Pence (Bloomberg, 4/1/20). | Bloomberg News ( 4/1/20) reported that anonymous US officials say that a secret US intelligence report says that China's statist…
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Pompeo's 'transition' plan tells Venezuela to suffer into submission
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-01
Declaring that "Nicolas Maduro will never again govern Venezuela," Mike Pompeo unveils a so-called "transition" plan that tells Venezuelans to…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/01/pompeos-transition-plan-tells-venezuela-to-suffer-into-submission/

The Added Importance of the Census, in Light of COVID-19
Steven K. Choi | aclu.org | 2020-04-01
Last year around this time, my biggest worry was how the inclusion of the Trump administration's proposed citizenship question would depress participation in the decennial census. Thankfully, our Supreme Court victory means there is no citizenship question on the census. Now, I have a new worry: a global pandemic and the health of my loved ones. As it turns out, the 2020 Census plays a role here too, as it will have enormous implications on our health care for decades to come. | Specifically, the census will determine the allocation of $300 billion dollars of federal aid for the states' health care

Arbitrary & excessive: Marijuana trafficking sentences in Alabama
Kathryn Casteel and Will Tucker | splcenter.org | 2020-03-24
Alabama resident Lee Carroll Brooker garnered national attention in 2016 when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the marijuana trafficking case that put Brooker, in his 70s at the time, in prison for life.
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/28/arbitrary-excessive-marijuana-trafficking-sentences-alabama

Senator Dumped Up to $1.7 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-03-20
Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the coronavirus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $628,000 and $1.72 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 33 separate transactions. As the head of the intelligence …
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