WSWS (2022-08-06). Australian Prime Minister Albanese refuses to meet with Assange's family. wsws.org The Labor government is more and more open in its hostility to the courageous Australian journalist, who is being persecuted for exposing US-led war crimes.

Ted Hamilton (2022-08-06). History Will Condemn Us If We Keep Obeying the Supreme Court. zcomm.org If we sacrifice the planet to appease unelected judges, posterity will not forgive us…

WSWS (2022-08-06). The Gray Man: A CIA killer on the run. wsws.org The action thriller follows an assassin in a secret CIA program as he attempts to uncover high-level wrongdoing, rescue a young girl and preserve his own life.

DLI (2022-08-06). US acted as self-appointed Judge & Executioner in murder of al Qaeda chief. indybay.org In the latest drone killing of alleged al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, the US government acted as a self-appointed Judge and Executioner, without ever presenting any evidence to any international judicial body.

Labor Video Project (2022-08-06). Machine that Ate People: Tech, Spying Emotions, AI, Algorythms & Worker's Dystopia. indybay.org Professor Peter Mantello talks about the use of technology to spy on workers and increase exploitation through empathetic surveillance and bio metric technologies…

Cronkite News Arizona PBS (2022-08-05). Clean Energy Booming, Coal Plants Closing, despite Supreme Court ruling against EPA. juancole.com By Morgan Fischer | &#1 ; ( Cronkite News ) &#1 ; WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court ruled this summer that the EPA could not force power plants to move away from fossil fuels, advocates worried that the justices had removed the "most effective tool for regulating and reducing greenhouse gas emissions." They're still worried. But …

Deweylaura (2022-08-05). The Trumpist Supreme Court: Off the rails of democracy. cpusa.org Rage and confusion over the recent Supreme Court decisions is sweeping the nation. The Roe v. Wade decision (1973) establishing women's reproductive rights has been repealed. A New York State law prohibiting the carrying of concealed guns, passed in response to escalating shootings and deaths, has been declared unconstitutional. The court has sharply reduced …

____ (2022-08-05). Assange family urges Australia to do more. ecns.cn The family of Australian citizen Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder being extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States, has urged the Australian government to intervene in his case.

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-04). Taliban Investigating US Claim of Killing al-Qaeda Leader Zawahiri. news.antiwar.com The Taliban on Thursday announced it was Spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the Taliban-led government, known formally as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, has "no information about Ayman al-Zawahiri's arrival and stay in Kabul." | "The leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has instructed the investigative and intelligence agencies to conduct a comprehensive and serious inv…

Kevin Gosztola (2022-08-04). Justice Department: NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Must Wait To Apply For Pardon. thedissenter.org NSA whistleblower Reality Winner (Screen shot from This article was funded by paid subscribers of The Dissenter Newsletter. Become an The United States Justice Department will not grant a waiver to NSA whistleblower Reality Winner so she can apply for a pardon. | All individuals formerly incarcerated in federal prisons are typically required to wait five…

Kevin Gosztola (2022-08-04). Equifax Whistleblower Says He Was Fired After Exposing Fraud Related To Consumer Complaints. thedissenter.org Screen shot from Washington DC's government websiteStephen Leary, a whistleblower for the US credit reporting agency known as Equifax, says he was fired after he refused to submit fraudulent data about customer complaints to a US government agency. | He filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Atlanta, Georgia, where Equifax is headquartered. It alleges that Equifax violated a section of the Consumer Financial Protection Act, which protects employees of "consumer reporting agencies" from this type of retaliation. | "This case is about a company punishing a dedicated employee for refusing to 'play b…

Kathy Durkin (2022-08-04). Unite and fight abortion bans! workers.org Rally, Indiana Statehouse, Indianapolis, July 25. Protests continue countrywide against reactionary state abortion bans that have been implemented or will be realized any day in half the states. Right-wingers in state governments eagerly awaited the Supreme Court's overturn of the right to access abortions. The top court obliged them June . . . |