(2022-10-10). The Military Industrial Media Complex Wants You to Be More Media (I)Literate! transcend.org 4 Oct 2022 – A true media literacy education empowers students to be autonomous and sophisticated media users, who ask their own questions about who controls media messaging and interrogate the power structures behind them. When a student is left dependent on the military industrial complex to analyze content for them, it is not education, it is indoctrination.
(2022-10-10). The Call Heard Around The World. popularresistance.org On Saturday, October 8, thousands of people in the UK gathered for a massive act of solidarity with political prisoner and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Protestors formed a human chain around the Parliament in London to demand that the government cancel Assange's looming extradition to the US, and for him to finally be freed. Stella Morris, Assange's partner, told The Independent that the action had been organized because Parliament was the "seat of democracy" and that Assange represented "democracy at its strongest— government accountability and democratic movement…It is to remind people that this is…
(2022-10-10). Assange Supporters Surround UK Parliament. dissidentvoice.org Julian Assange supporters hold 'Free Assange' placards during the protest. © Vuk Valcic / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Supporters of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange gathered outside the UK Parliament in London on Saturday to protest his impending extradition to the US, where he faces espionage charges that carry a prison sentence …
(2022-10-10). Putin Grants Russian Citizenship to US Whistleblower Edward Snowden. transcend.org 26 Sep 2022 – Vladimir Putin signed a decree today granting Russian citizenship to the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, 39, a former intelligence contractor who has been living in Russia since 2013 after leaking secret files that revealed vast domestic and international surveillance operations by the NSA.
(2022-10-10). U.S.' new chip export curbs seen as tech hegemony. ecns.cn The US' politicization and weaponization of technology, economic and trade issues will not stop China's development, and will only hurt the US itself, Mao added.The latest US export controls include restrictions on the export of some types of chips used in artificial intelligence and supercomputing, and tightened rules on the sale of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to any Chinese company that produces advanced logic chips.
(2022-10-10). 'End the War on Journalism and Free Assange': Thousands Demand Release of WikiLeaks Founder. transcend.org 9 Oct 2022 – Supporters of Julian Assange held a massive transatlantic protest yesterday to demand his freedom. In London, thousands formed a giant human chain around Britain's parliament; in Washington D.C., people gathered outside the Department of Justice demanding that Attorney General Merrick Garland end U.S. attempts to extradite Assange.
(2022-10-10). Is the CIA Supporting Another Color Revolution in Iran—Like the One that Installed the Shah in 1953? covertactionmagazine.com CIA offshoot, National Endowment for Democracy, spent $631,500 in Iran in 2021. [This is the first of two CAM original articles on the Iraninan protests and potential CIA role behind them.—Editors] In late September, protests erupted in Iran following the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, after she had been arrested by morality …
(2022-10-10). The Puppets and the Puppet Masters. commondreams.org The judicial proceedings against Julian Assange give a faux legality to the state persecution of the most important and courageous journalist of our generation.
(2022-10-10). Free Julian Assange! Global Day Of Action In San Francisco At Harry Bridges Plaza. indybay.org
(2022-10-10). [rewind] Benjamin Madley: CANCEL COLUMBUS! scheerpost.com [Editors note: This edition of the Scheer Intelligence podcast was first broadcast in September, 2016 on KCRW. We are reposting here for Indigenous Peoples Day.] UCLA history professor Benjamin Madley's book An American Genocide: The United States and the California Catastrophe 1846-1873 details the killing of tens of thousands of Native Americans as the state was being settled …
(2022-10-10). World Socialist Web Site interviews CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou about Julian Assange's extradition. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site spoke with Mr. Kiriakou at a recent rally in Washington D.C. about the implications of the US attempt to extradite Assange, the defense of democratic rights, as well as the importance of Assange's plight for working people…
(2022-10-10). Julian Assange tests positive for COVID-19. wsws.org Assange's wife, Stella, told the press, "I am obviously worried about him and the next few days will be crucial for his general health. He is now locked in his cell for 24 hours a day."
(2022-10-09). Melbourne: Thousands March For Julian Assange's Release. popularresistance.org Thousands have marched through Melbourne's city centre calling for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. | The 51-year-old Australian has been in London's Belmarsh prison since he was removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in 2019. | Melbourne protesters marched through the city streets and formed a human chain across a Southbank bridge on Saturday morning as they called on the Australian government to intervene. | "There's an expectation in the electorate that the prime minister and this government is going to get Julian out of jail," Mr Assange's brother Gabriel Shipton told AAP. | "The prime minister's…
(2022-10-09). O ªahu Water Protectors, Shut Down Red Hill Coalition Commemorate Red Hill 'Lie-aversary'. popularresistance.org Pu ªuloa, O ªahu — Environmental groups along with the Honolulu Board of Water Supply today commemorated the anniversary of a reported whistleblower revelation that Navy officials failed to disclose a months-long active fuel leak in Pu ªuloa (Pearl Harbor). | Standing outside of the Pearl Harbor National Memorial Visitor Center, dressed in formal funeral attire and wearing black armbands, participants reflected on what they described as "one year of ªimplausible deniability'" surrounding the Red Hill water crisis, and the impacts that a lack of transparency and truth has had on the peopl…
(2022-10-09). Manifestación en Reino Unido exige liberar a Julian Assange. telesurtv.net Miles de simpatizantes del fundador de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, formaron una cadena humana frente al Parlamento británico.
(2022-10-08). Report: US Special Operations Forces are on the Ground in Ukraine. popularresistance.org US special operations forces are on the ground in Ukraine as part of a broad covert operation that includes CIA personnel, *The Intercept* reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed US intelligence and military officials. | The report said that the US withdrew its CIA and special operations assets from Ukraine shortly before Russia's invasion, although one US official said the CIA "never completely left." | The CIA initially predicted that Kyiv would fall quickly to Russia, but after it became clear that wouldn't happen, the Biden administration sent its covert assets back into Ukraine.