2021-07-14: News Headlines

Staff (2021-07-14). Assange may never recover from 'torture' at Belmarsh, suicide becoming more likely the longer he stays in prison — doctor to RT. rt.com A doctor who has joined other medical professionals in calling for Julian Assange's release from prison told RT that the WikiLeaks co-founder's arbitrary and cruel detention continues to put him at risk of suicide. | The same concerns about Assange's mental health that led to the High Court in London blocking his extradition to the US in January are still relevant, perhaps even more so, today, Dr. William Hogan, a specialist in internal medicine and professor of biomedical informatics at the University of Florida's College of Medicine, said. | Hogan was among more than 200 medical experts who signed an open le…

cynthia papermaster (2021-07-14). Friday 7/16: Speaker Pelosi: "Help Free Julian Assange!" indybay.org Federal Building/Pelosi's office, 90 7th Street, San Francisco…

_____ (2021-07-14). U.S. Regime Hides Global Support for Assange. strategic-culture.org On July 11th, was published online by "Assange Helfen" or "Help Assange" a "Brief der 120 fàºr die Freiheit von Julian Assange" or "Letter from the 120 for Freedom of Julian Assange," and those 120 are prominent progressive Germans who are pleading with the U.S.-allied German regime, to demand that the U.S. regime cease its imprisonment of Assange in a British high-security prison for extradition of him to the United States in order for him to be to killed by the U.S. regime.

Norbert Haering, Paul Scheyer (2021-07-14). The "Great Reset" and the Deep State. indybay.org Taboo truths, about which the authorities remain shamefully silent, can indeed be kept under the carpet very well for decades. The course of history is massively influenced by these informal, unelected structures that operate in the interests of the old elites. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower warned his countrymen against the power of the Deep State. For him, this was still called the "military-industrial complex."

Anonymous007 (2021-07-14). Four Suspected Iranian Agents Charged In Absentia For Alleged "Movie-Like" Kidnapping Plot Of U.S. Citizen. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Four alleged Iranian intelligence agents were charged by US federal prosecutors for allegedly attempting to kidnap a journalist critical of the Tehran government. | The journalist is a U.S. citizen of Iranian origin. | The 43-page indictment

Cynthia Papermaster (2021-07-13). Sunday 7/11: Tell Pelosi: Stop Prosecutions of Assange & Hale; Stop Asian Hate. indybay.org Pelosi's residence, Broadway @ Normandie Terrace, Pacific Heights, San Francisco…

Stuart Rees (2021-07-13). Julian Assange and the culture of revenge. greenleft.org.au To lessen the macabre prospect of Julian Assange spending 175 years in a United States maximum security prison, the US Department of Justice has suggested that he could serve prison time in Australia. Stuart Rees writes that this latest development is part of a culture of revenge.

Branko Marcetic (2021-07-13). The Julian Assange Media Blackout Must End. zcomm.org Stunning revelations have emerged overseas about the reckless and duplicitous methods used by US law enforcement against Julian Assange – in the US, almost total media blackout…

_____ (2021-07-13). US Offer On Assange Is New Evidence, Should Have Been Rejected. popularresistance.org Writing on his blog two days after District Court Judge Vanessa Baraitser on Jan. 4 in London denied the U.S. request to extradite WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange (on the grounds of his health and U.S. prison conditions that put him at extreme risk of suicide), former British diplomat Craig Murray made a prescient remark in light of what we know now: | "I am not sure that at this stage the High Court would accept a new guarantee from the USA that Assange would not be kept in isolation or in a Supermax prison; that would be contrary to the affidavit from Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg and thus would pr…

_____ (2021-07-13). US Offer On Assange Is New Evidence & Should Have Been Rejected. popularresistance.org Writing on his blog two days after District Court Judge Vanessa Baraitser on Jan. 4 in London denied the U.S. request to extradite WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange (on the grounds of his health and U.S. prison conditions that put him at extreme risk of suicide), former British diplomat Craig Murray made a prescient remark in light of what we know now.

Staff (2021-07-13). Roe v. Wade Is Under Attack. Organizers Say We Must Take Action Beyond the Court. truthout.org Image Credit: Facebook: Center for Reproductive Rights | The Supreme Court is set to review a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy that intends to challenge Roe v. Wade, raising concern for advocates about how reproductive rights can be preserved without the landmark ruling. "I think it's very, very likely that the court will either eradicate the right to choose abortion as we now know it completely or so undermine it to make it meaningless for most of American women,"

Staff (2021-07-13). Controlling Women: With Roe v. Wade in Peril, Authors Say Move Past Court to Save Reproductive Rights. democracynow.org The Supreme Court is set to review a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy that intends to challenge Roe v. Wade, raising concern for advocates about how reproductive rights can be preserved without the landmark ruling. "I think it's very, very likely that the court will either eradicate the right to choose abortion as we now know it completely or so undermine it to make it meaningless for most of American women," says Kathryn Kolbert, longtime public interest attorney who argued the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey before the Supreme Court in 1992, which is credited with saving Roe v. W…

Anonymous765 (2021-07-13). Locations Of US Carrier Strike Groups — July 13, 2021. southfront.org This is the newest update of the 'U.S. Carrier Strike Groups Locations Map' exclusive series showing the approximate locations of U.S. Carrier Strike Groups. SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence tracks locations of U.S. aircraft carriers using the available open-source information. No classified information was used in production of the map. | click to see the full-size image | Carrier strike group (CSG) is an operational formation of the United States Navy. It is centered on an aircraft carrier and a carrier ai…

Abbasi J. (2021-07-13). Artificial Intelligence in COVID-19 Imaging Mismatched to the Clinic. jamanetwork.com A systematic review of studies on artificial intelligence (AI)—aided lung imaging for COVID-19 revealed a mismatch between what developers focus on and what clinicians need.

Bill Blum (2021-07-13). Unequal Justice: Don't Count on the Supreme Court to Curb Gun Violence. progressive.org Now that conservatives hold a solid majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, we can expect that they will extend gun rights under the Second Amendment in the court's upcoming term.

Olga Akselrod (2021-07-13). How Artificial Intelligence Can Deepen Racial and Economic Inequities. aclu.org Proponents of expanding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) often point to its potential to stimulate economic growth — increased

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