(2021-07-28). Drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months in prison. wsws.org Hale, who exposed the murderous nature of the US government drone warfare program during the Obama administration, was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for violating the Espionage Act.
(2021-07-28). Mindful Intelligence: Alan Clements on his new book "Extinction X-Rated" and film "Spiritually Incorrect" indybay.org Print and audio podcast interview with former Buddhist monk, author, journalist and activist performer Alan Clements.
(2021-07-27). US Iraq & Afghanistan Wars Wasted Trillions, Achieved Nothing. telesurenglish.net The U.S. Government has squandered trillions of dollars on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq while failing to achieve any objectives, according to former U.S. counter-terrorism specialist and CIA military intelligence officer Philip Giraldi, who wrote an op-ed article for Strategic Culture Foundation. | RELATED: | In the article, Giraldi made the remarks as U.S. soldiers leave Afghanistan after an almost twenty-year war…
(2021-07-27). Snowden skewers Big Tech, 'amoral' capital firms for enabling 'Insecurity Industry' & calls for urgent action before it's too late. rt.com 
Warning that companies that claim to protect national security are the "greatest danger" to it, Edward Snowden has urged the dismantling of this 'Insecurity Industry' by banning trade in intrusive software and penalizing enablers. | In a searing
(2021-07-27). The Collective Suicide Machine. popularresistance.org The debacle in Afghanistan, which will unravel into chaos with lightning speed over the next few weeks and ensure the return of the Taliban to power, is one more signpost of the end of the American empire. The two decades of combat, the one trillion dollars we spent, the 100,000 troops deployed to subdue Afghanistan, the high-tech gadgets, artificial intelligence, cyberwarfare, Reaper drones armed with Hellfire missiles and GBU-30 bombs and the Global Hawk drones with high-resolution cameras, Special Operations Command composed of elite rangers, SEALs and air commandos, black sites, torture, electronic surveillan…
(2021-07-27). Diners Beware: That Meal May Cost You Your Privacy and Security. aclu.org If you've been to a restaurant lately and scanned a QR code rather than order from a physical menu, you likely paid for that meal with not just your money, but your privacy and security too. Businesses are taking advantage of the rise of touchless services during the pandemic to harvest massive amounts of sensitive information about who we are, where we go, and what we do, including our eating and drinking habits — when all we want to do is just eat a meal. | In the past decade, technology companies and the advertising industry have created a vast and extremely lucrative online spying apparatus. They try…
(2021-07-27). UNVACCINATED diners only: California restaurant says it's having fun watching 'heads explode' over mandatory no-vax policy. rt.com 
A California restaurant has refused to back down after being bombarded with negative press and customer reviews for posting a sign demanding that all diners provide proof that they have not been vaccinated against Covid-19. | With vaccination status increasingly becoming a prerequisite to participate in many ordinary activities, one Huntington Beach eatery has decided to take a slightly different approach to granting privileges based on personal medical decisions. | On its storefront window, Basilico's Pasta e Vino taped a sign reading: "PROOF OF BEING UNVACCINATED REQUIRED. We have zero tolerance for treasono…
(2021-07-27). Biden says US 'combat mission' in Iraq will be over by year's end, but won't say how many troops to remain deployed. rt.com 
President Joe Biden said the US combat mission in Iraq will end this December, when Washington's role will shift to training local forces, but declined to say what will come of the 2,500 American troops still in the country | Speaking during a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Monday, Biden
(2021-07-27). Intelligence forces arrest Mossad terrorist network in W Iran. en.mehrnews.com Iran's Intelligence Ministry announced on Tuesday that a network of the members of the Zionist regime's Spy Organization (Mossad) was arrested on the western border of the country.
(2021-07-27). Delta variant is one of the most infectious respiratory diseases known, U.S. CDC director says. ecns.cn "The delta variant is more aggressive and much more transmissible than previously circulating strains," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on Thursday.
(2021-07-27). U.S. rocked by more than 900 shooting incidents last week: media. ecns.cn More than 900 shooting incidents took place across the United States last week, according to ABC News.
(2021-07-27). Americans' optimism about country's direction drops nearly 20 points: poll. ecns.cn Americans' optimism about the direction of the country has dropped nearly 20 points, according to the latest ABC News/Ipsos poll.
(2021-07-27). Comicomment: U.S. 'cannot fool all the people all the time' over Fort Detrick. ecns.cn You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
(2021-07-27). US drone whistleblower Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months in prison. rt.com 
Daniel Hale, a former US Air Force intelligence analyst who leaked information about civilian deaths caused by drone strikes overseas, has been sentenced to almost four years in prison under the Espionage Act. | US District Judge Liam O'Grady passed the sentence on Tuesday in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, saying that the 45-month sentence was needed as a deterrent to others from disclosing government secrets. O'Grady told Hale he had other options than to share classified documents with a reporter. | Whistleblower Daniel Hale faces sentencing today for revealing the widespread murder of civilians by…
(2021-07-27). Daniel Hale Receives 45-Month Sentence For Releasing Drone Documents. thedissenter.org 
Daniel Hale (Photo: Bob Hayes) | Drone whistleblower Daniel Hale was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison. It was a severe sentence but not the harshest sentence ever issued in an Espionage Act prosecution against a former United States government employee or contractor for the "unauthorized disclosure" of information. | The sentence was not what U.S. prosecutors demanded. They wanted Hale to go to prison for nine years, but it is likely Judge Liam O'Grady issued a lower sentence after considering his mental health problems. | This case is the first major Espionage Act conviction under President J…
(2021-07-27). In Pre-Sentencing Letter, Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Says Crisis of Conscience Motivated Leak. orinocotribune.com 
By Brett Wilkins — Jul 23, 2021 | "I came to believe that the policy of drone assassination was being used to mislead the public that it keeps us safe… I began to speak out, believing my participation in the drone program to have been deeply wrong." | Attorneys for drone whistleblower Daniel Hale—who faces sentencing next week after
(2021-07-27). Hedges: The Price of Conscience. scheerpost.com By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force who as a private contractor in 2013 leaked some 17 classified documents about drone strikes to the press, was sentenced today to 45 months in prison. The documents, published by The Intercept on October 15, 2015, exposed that between January 2012 and February 2013… |
(2021-07-27). Read drone whistleblower Daniel Hale's riveting letter to judge describing why he 'came to violate the espionage act'. thegrayzone.com "The truest truism that I've come to understand about the nature of war is that war is trauma," Daniel Hale wrote. This article was originally published at The Dissenter. Subscribe here. As the President Joe Biden winds down United States military involvement in Afghanistan, a conflict spanning nearly 20 years, the U.S. Justice Department seeks the harshest sentence ever for the unauthorized disclosure of information in a case against an Afghanistan War veteran. Daniel Hale, who "accepted responsibility" for violating …
(2021-07-27). US: Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Given 45 Months in Prison. telesurenglish.net U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady handed down the sentence on Tuesday in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, stating that the 45-month sentence was needed as a deterrent to others from revealing government secrets. O'Grady told Hale he had other possible options than to share classified documents with a reporter. | Hale, 33, pleaded guilty in March to one count of violating the Espionage Act of 1917, admitting to "retention and transmission of national security information" as well as leaking 11 classified documents to a journalist. The documents were leaked to the Intercept, which published them in Octobe…
(2021-07-27). Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Sentenced to 45 Months in Prison 'For Exposing US War Crimes'. commondreams.org More successful strikes help the entire labor movement. We should pay for them together.
(2021-07-27). Military Situation In Iraq On July 27, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On July 26, unknown aircraft reportedly attacked PMU's Imam Ali Brigades storages north of Najaf city. Three people reportedly injured | On July 27, US OIR Spokesman Col. Wayne Marotto denied any US attacks on Iraq in the last 48 hours | Iraq-US security relations will be fully transformed into training, advisory, support and intelligence roles, and by December 31, 2021, there will be no US troops in combat in Iraq, according to the US-Iraq talks statement | On July 26,…
(2021-07-27). U.S. And Iraq Agree On Withdrawal By Year's End, As Peshmerga Forces Received Military Hardware. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On July 26th, US President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi agreed to a formal end of the United States' combat mission in Iraq by the end of 2021. | The mission has been going on for longer than 18 years. | In a joint statement issued by the United States and Iraq following technical meetings, the two countries said: "The security relationship will fully transition to a training, advising, assisting, and intelligence-sharing role, and that there…
(2021-07-27). The Continuing Horror of CIA's Torture and Abuse. counterpunch.org Nearly two decades ago, the Central Intelligence Agency began its sadistic program of torture and abuse, and the Department of Defense created a prison at Guantanamo to evade U.S. law. We are still learning about the horrors of the Global War on Terror. On July 16, military prosecutors finally asked to erase information obtained through
(2021-07-27). Legendary Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Salutes Ex-CIA Whistleblower Philip Agee As His Mentor—"A Man of Moral Courage" covertactionmagazine.com In a new CovertAction webinar famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg slams the author of new book alleging that Agee was a traitor when, ironically, everything in the book virtually screams out the opposite.
(2021-07-27). Iran's Intelligence Ministry Says It Has Shattered Mossad Sleeper Cell Plotting Mass Unrest. sputniknews.com Iran and Israel have no relations to speak of, and have waged a decades-long covert war involving cyberattacks, sabotage strikes against one another's commercial shipping, the assassination of nearly a dozen Iranian nuclear scientists by Israeli agents, and more.
(2021-07-27). Reversing Earlier Guidance Amid Delta Fears, CDC Advises Vaccinated People to Wear Masks Indoors in Public. commondreams.org "His crime was telling this truth: 90% of those killed by U.S. drones are bystanders, not the intended targets," said Edward Snowden. "He should have been given a medal."
(2021-07-27). By acknowledging America can't stop the pipeline, Biden's Nord Stream 2 deal seals the end of the Washington-centric world order. rt.com 
The new agreement between the US and Germany was supposed to show the West was united behind American leadership across the globe. Instead, the deal lays bare the emerging fault lines in a rapidly changing multi-polar world. | Clothed in the usual unifying language of upholding common values and confronting Russia, the pact was published last week to great fanfare and harsh criticism at the same time. The US agreed to give its "permission" for the gas pipeline, in exchange for concessions from Germany. Berlin has committed to a one-off payment of $175 million to fund Ukraine's transition to greener energy, and…
(2021-07-27). Locations Of US Carrier Strike Groups — July 27, 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…