A Surprising Plea on Behalf of Julian Assange
repost | indybay.org | 2020-04-14
In a recent video, attorney Stella Morris surprises the world by revealing that she has a partnership and children with whistleblower Julian Assange.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/13/18832338.php

A Surprising Plea on Behalf of Julian Assange
repost | indybay.org | 2020-04-14
In a recent video, attorney Stella Morris surprises the world by revealing that she has a partnership and children with whistleblower Julian Assange.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/13/18832338.php

Iran's $1.6bn blocked assets not yet released: Luxembourg court
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-14
TEHRAN, Apr. 14 (MNA)

These US intel reports ACCURATELY PREDICTED pandemic years ago. Why was NOTHING done?
rt.com | 2020-04-14
A "highly transmissible" and "virulent respiratory illness" for which there is no cure may incite a global pandemic. That was the assessment of a 2008 US intelligence report. The prediction was accurate

Skin Cancer Detection Apps Unreliable
Abbasi J. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-04-14
Smartphone apps that use artificial intelligence to assess skin cancer risk based on images of suspicious moles aren't ready for prime time, a recent systematic review in the BMJ suggests. The 9 studies included in the review "showed variable and unreliable test accuracy" for 6 such apps, 2 of which are approved by European regulators as medical devices.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764438

Republican Supreme Court justice defeated in Wisconsin vote
wsws.org | 2020-04-14
Appointed incumbent Daniel Kelly lost to Democrat Jill Karofsky despite Republican Party efforts to rig the voting in last week's election, whose results were released April 13.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/14/wisc-a14.html

Exactly 18 Years After US Coup Against Venezuela, Pompeo and Abrams Warn Another is Coming
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-13
US regime change cheerleaders Mike Pompeo and Elliot Abrams warned Venezuala's government not to resist the upcoming implementation of a "transitional government."
mintpressnews.com/18-years-after-us-coup-against-venezuela-us-warns-another-attempt/266598/

Proposed Federal "Distance Learning" Rules Help Big Tech Shut Down Brick-and-Mortar Public Schools, Replace Human Teachers with AI
John Klyczek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-13
The DeVos Department of Education's new "Proposed Rules" for federal regulations of "Distance Education and Innovation" (85 FR 18638) will effectively open the floodgates for online education corporations to put public brick-and-mortar schools out of business by streamlining "adaptive-learning and other artificial intelligence" technologies that replace "human instructors" with "competency-based education (CBE)" software which provide …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/proposed-federal-distance-learning-rules-help-big-tech-shut-down-brick-and-mortar-public-schools-replace-human-teachers-with-ai/

The President and His Mob: the Autopsy of Governance
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-13
The mainstream media have insufficiently explained the fundamental importance of the role of the Inspector General, particularly in the national security bureaucracy that dominates discretionary spending and can resort to secret funding. National security institutions, such as the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency, are reluctant to admit that they have made mistakes, let alone allow the lifting of the veil on illegal practices. There are institutional concerns that drive this reluctance: vulnerability to legal action; reduced budgets, setbacks to programs considered important; and the possibility of ho…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/13/the-president-and-his-mob-the-autopsy-of-governance/

Julian Assange: One Year In Belmarsh
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-12
It should not be a matter of distinction, but Julian Assange is a figure who is becoming the apotheosis of political imprisonment. This seems laughable to those convinced he is an agent without scruple, a compromiser of the Fourth Estate, a figure best packed off to a prison system that will, in all assuredness, kill …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/julian-assange-one-year-in-belmarsh/

How the 'West Point Mafia' Runs Washington
Danny Sjursen | thenation.com | 2020-04-10
How the 'West Point Mafia' Runs Washington…
thenation.com/article/politics/esper-pompeo-west-point/

Journalist on Wisconsin Election: Republicans Are Letting People Die in Order to Hang On to Power
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-08
Lines stretching city blocks, hours-long waits and polling officials in hazmat suits. That's the scene voters in Wisconsin encountered as they braved the polls Tuesday amid the coronavirus pandemic. Despite growing outcry about the risks to public health and safety that in-person voting would pose, on Monday the state Supreme Court blocked Democratic Governor Tony Evers's ruling to delay the election until June. At least 92 people in Wisconsin have died from exposure to COVID-19. In Milwaukee

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/