2018-11-22: News Headlines

Ann Garrison (2018-11-22). U.S. intel will bring Assange to the U.S. in Chains. mronline.org Julian Assange, a hero in the struggle against imperial wars and the lies that states tell to justify them, is in mortal danger. | Source

Whitney Webb (2018-11-22). Trump Claims He Knows "Nothing" About the Julian Assange He Cited Hundreds of Times in His Campaign. globalresearch.ca President Donald Trump told a reporter outside the White House on Tuesday that he doesn't "know anything" about WikiLeaks founder and former editor Julian Assange, whose political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London is believed to be under threat …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2018-11-22). Who Killed Jamal Khashoggi? Did US Intelligence have Prior Knowledge? globalresearch.ca Who ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi? "The CIA and the White House are at odds over who's responsible for what happened." (See Stephen Lendman, GR, November 21, 2018). | According to media reports, Langley is pointing its finger at Crown …

wsws (2018-11-22). Trump lashes out at judiciary over immigration ruling. wsws.org The public conflict between the president and the chief justice of the Supreme Court has no parallel in American history.

Middle East Monitor (2018-11-22). US Intelligence Being Sued for Failing to Warn Khashoggi of Threat. globalresearch.ca US spy agencies are being sued for failing to warn slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi that he was facing threat and danger. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, which "defends the freedoms of speech and the press in …

Philip Giraldi (2018-11-22). Assange's Persecution Highlights Dangers to Freedom of Speech and Free Media. globalresearch.ca If you are a journalist and you discover something that is clearly unethical, and possibly even illegal, and you choose to report it what happens next? Well, you could win a Pulitzer Prize or, on the other hand, you might …

Heather Wokusch (2018-11-22). The Case Against WikiLeaks is a Threat to All Journalists. counterpunch.org The Justice Department has prepared criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and is working behind the scenes to have him extradited to the United States. Press freedom and the right to dissent may hang in the balance. The criminal charges were accidentally revealed last week when Assange's name was found on the court filing More

Heather Wokusch (2018-11-22). The Case Against WikiLeaks Is a Crisis for the First Amendment. zcomm.org The Trump administration once celebrated WikiLeaks. Now it wants to prosecute Julian Assange simply for publishing things it doesn't like. That's a threat to all journalists…

RT (2018-11-22). Killers, drinkers & traumatized for life: What it means to be a US drone operator in 'war on terror'. rt.com They sit in rooms resembling hi-tech shipping containers. Joysticks in hand, they spend hours watching grainy screens, displaying people in faraway lands going about their daily lives — and they hold life and death in their hands.

Whitney Webb (2018-11-21). Trump Claims He Knows "Nothing" About the Julian Assange He Cited Hundreds of During in His Campaign. mintpressnews.com Footage of Trump mentioning WikiLeaks and its releases over 140 times in October 2016 alone has since resurfaced, suggesting that Trump's recent claims of ignorance in regard to Assange and WikiLeaks are insincere at best.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2018-11-21). America's "War on Terrorism": Dispelling the Fiction. globalresearch.ca Amply documented but rarely mentioned in mainstream news, ISIS is a creation of US intelligence, recruited, trained and financed by the US and its allies including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Israel and Jordan. Those who ordered the bombing campaign are …

Staff (2018-11-21). Daniel Ellsberg: The Cold War Was Based on a Lie. truthdig.com What follows is a conversation between "The Doomsday Machine" author and whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and Paul Jay of the Real News Network. Read a transcript of their conversation below or watch the video at the bottom of the post. | PAUL JAY: Welcome back to Reality Asserts Itself. I'm Paul Jay. We're continuing our discussion with Daniel Ellsberg. | Daniel, in 1959, 1960, there is a race because we understand, we the population understood, that there was a missile gap. We were told. That the Russians had something between 40 and 60 intercontinental ballistic missiles which they could either first strike or se…

Associated Press, John Wojcik (2018-11-21). U.S. weapons in hands of Trump's Saudi pals create humanitarian disaster. peoplesworld.org Despite reports from intelligence agencies around the world, including his own CIA, President Trump insisted yesterday that it is not clear whether Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman was behind the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist. The president said that, in any case, he operates on the basis of the interests of "America …

RT (2018-11-21). Duty to warn: US spies pressed to tell if they knew of Saudi plot against journalist Khashoggi. rt.com A US group promoting press freedom has sued US intelligence agencies to find out whether they failed to warn Jamal Khashoggi about an impending Saudi plot against him.

Democracy Now! (2018-11-21). Did Israel Kill Yasser Arafat? Stunning Investigation Exposes Israel's Secretive Assassination Program. democracynow.org Israeli intelligence officials desperately tried to prevent Ronen Bergman from writing "Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations," a stunning book exposing the details of Israel's extrajudicial killing program. Israel even changed and extended secrecy laws to prevent Bergman from gaining access to historical documents. Despite this, Bergman gained unprecedented access while writing the book, scouring thousands of documents and meeting with some 1,000 sources. The result is a stunning investigation that dives deep into the targeted killing programs of Israel, which has assassinat…

Middle East Monitor (2018-11-21). US Spy Agencies Sued for Failing To Warn Khashoggi of Threat. mintpressnews.com The agencies are being sued under what is known as Directive 191, a government policy that requires American institutions to warn individuals of "impending threats of intentional killing, serious bodily injury or kidnapping"

DPCR (2018-11-21). Revenge Is Mine Saith Washington. Kafka Police State, Julian Assange's ongoing Eight Year Ordeal. globalresearch.ca Justice has disappeared in the West. In Justice's place stands Revenge. This fact is conclusively illustrated by Julian Assange's ongoing eight year ordeal. | For eight years Julian Assange's life has been lived in a Kafka Police State. He has …

Middle East Eye (2018-11-20). Pompeo Handed Riyadh A Plan To Shield MBS From Khashoggi Fallout. iranian.com US secretary of state gave Mohammed bin Salman a roadmap to insulate himself from the scandal, a senior Saudi source tells MEE Saudi Arabia's king and crown prince are shielding themselves from the Jamal Khashoggi murder scandal by using a roadmap drawn up by the US secretary of state, a senior Saudi source has told […]

Tyler Durden (2018-11-20). Amazon Collects and Stores Everything You Say to Alexa — Here's How to Delete. theantimedia.com (ZHE) — If you're one of the millions of people who own a device with Amazon Alexa, the company's mobile spying device helpful personal assistant, whatever you say may be recorded — especially if someone in the house is named Alexis, Alex, or Lexi. According to Amazon's Alexa terms of use, the company collects and stores most of what you say to Alexa — …

Bruce Shapiro (2018-11-20). The Indictment of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Press Freedom. thenation.com The Indictment of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Press Freedom…

Shared by Hezvo Mpunga (2018-11-20). Why Did CIA Turn Against Saudi Crown Prince MBS? It's More than Khashoggi. therealnews.com CIA officials are signaling Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman must be replaced. Is this all about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi? Professor Asad AbuKhalil says there are other political reasons

Caitlin Johnstone (2018-11-19). The 'Resistance' Struggles to Justify Support for Trump's Prosecution of Assange. theantimedia.com (CJ Opinion) — Ever since suspicions were confirmed that the Trump administration is indeed working to prosecute and imprison WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing authentic documents, the so-called "Resistance" has been struggling to explain exactly why it is so enthusiastically supportive of that agenda. And when I say struggling, I am being very, very generous. When news broke …

Jason Ditz (2018-11-19). Trump Calls CIA Conclusion on Khashoggi Murder "Premature," Promises Full Report. theantimedia.com (ANTIWAR.COM) — President Trump says he will be releasing a "very full report" on the Saudi murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Istanbul consulate within the next two days. Trump promised the report will include "who did it." The odds are this official report won't implicate the Saudi crown prince, as the CIA already did that in …

Democracy Now! (2018-11-19). Headlines for November 19, 2018. democracynow.org NorCal Wildfires Death Toll Soars to 77 as Trump Tours Devastation, Trump Claims Finland Prevents Fires by "Raking and Cleaning" Forests, Florida Democrats Concede Senate & Gubernatorial Races After Recounts, Abrams Ends Her Georgia Governor Bid, Vows to Fight Voter Suppression, Orange County Flips to Democrats After Cisneros Wins House Race, CIA Says Crown Prince Ordered Khashoggi Murder, Yemen: Houthi Rebels Call for Ceasefire, Turkey: Government Arrests 14 in Crackdown on Academics and Activists, Trump to Nominate Acting EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler as Permanent Leader, Trump Attacks Admiral McRaven, Who Led Osama…

Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski (2018-11-17). Mueller Panic Overshadows Jeff Sessions' Final Attack on Police Oversight, People of Color. therealnews.com Amid concern over what Jeff Sessions' ouster could mean for the Mueller probe, there is very little outcry over Sessions' last-minute move to gut federal oversight of police forces accused of abuses. We speak to ProPublica's Ian MacDougall and veteran Baltimore attorney Billy Murphy. "This emboldens police brutality," Murphy warns

Democracy Now! (2018-11-16). Headlines for November 16, 2018. democracynow.org Deadly NorCal Wildfire Kills At Least 63; 631 Reported Missing, Wildfire Smoke Creates Hazardous Air Quality in NorCal, DOJ Accidentally Reveals Indictments Against WikiLeaks' Assange, Florida Senate Race Heads to Manual Recount, Democrats Score House Wins in Maine, California, U.S. Sanctions 17 Saudis over Khashoggi Murder, White House Weighing Extradition of Exiled Turkish Cleric, Central American LGBTQ Migrants Face Additional Hurdles on Journey to U.S. Border, North Korea Deports U.S. Citizen as Kim Jong-un Oversees Weapon Test, Bangladesh Delays Plans to Repatriate Rohingya to Burma Amid Uproar, Renowned Ban…

Democracy Now! (2018-11-16). Exclusive: WikiLeaks Lawyer Warns U.S. Charges Against Assange Endanger Press Freedom Worldwide. democracynow.org The Justice Department has inadvertently revealed that it has prepared an indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. In an unusual development, language about the charges against Assange was copied and pasted into an unrelated court filing that was recently unsealed. In the document, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kellen S. Dwyer wrote, "Due to the sophistication of the defendant and the publicity surrounding the case, no other procedure is likely to keep confidential the fact that Assange has been charged." The news broke on Thursday night just hours after The Wall Street Journal reported the Justice Departme…

Consortiumnews (2018-11-14). COMMENTARY: US Intel Will Bring Assange to US in Chains. consortiumnews.com It appears increasingly likely Wikileaks founder and publisher Julian Assange will wind up in the clutches of the U.S. government, says Ann Garrison. United States Will Bring Assange to US in Chains By Ann Garrison It appears increasingly likely Wikileaks… Read more →