2023-02-23: News Headlines

INDYRADIO (2023-02-23). Friend of Assange Found Innocent of False Charges in Ecuador. indybay.org Privacy advocate Ola Bini was finally found innocent of nebulous charges that kept him under control of the legal system for 3 years. Today we share his story as he told it on social media at the end of last month. This morning, he clarified the status of his case. Though the verdict will be appealed, Ola is still smiling, now certain he will prevail.

Tom-Oliver Regenauer (2023-02-23). A terribly powerful family. indybay.org The unbelievable to outrageous story of the Bush clan not only illustrates the neo-feudalistic beliefs and networks we are dealing with in the ruling caste, it also proves that the power structures often referred to as the "Deep State" are real behind the faàßade of official government business and are mostly the actual political force in the country.

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-23). Report: Israel's Netanyahu Held Meetings With Top Brass on Attacking Iran. news.antiwar.com According to a report from Israeli TV, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a series of meetings over the past few weeks with his top military and intelligence officials on the possibility of attacking Iran. Israel's Channel 12 reported that Netanyahu held five meetings with his defense minister, the military intelligence chief, the head of …

_____ (2023-02-22). How Canada Plays Into the Hands of Radical Islamists. strategic-culture.org The Canadian government is capable of determining whether the U.S. foreign policy and never-ending wars abroad are in the best interest of Canada. | This is part two of a two-part study on the Canadian role in the U.S.-NATO attack on Syria for regime change. You can read part one The Canadian government had understood from U.S. intelligence that the Obama plan to destroy Syria was based on using the Muslim Brotherhood, and the political ideology known as Radical Islam…

Ann Brown (2023-02-22). Ilyasah Shabazz Launches Lawsuit Against American Intelligence Agencies, NYPD, Over Murder Of Malcolm X. moguldom.com One of the daughters of Malcolm X is now suing the CIA, FBI, and New York City Police Department over the murder of her father. On Feb. 21, the 58th anniversary of Malcolm X's death, Ilyasah Shabazz and her attorney, well-known civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, had a press conference at the site of her …

Anonymous669 (2023-02-22). Israeli Army Says It Arrested Syrian Man Involved In Hezbollah's 'Golan File'. southfront.org File image. | On February 20, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that a suspect who had been detained after crossing from Syria into the occupied Golan Heights last month was involved in efforts by the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group to gather intelligence. | The military said that the suspect, Ghaith Abdullah, was part of the so-called "Golan File," or "Project Golan," a network of armed cells that Hezbollah is allegedly building in Syria' southern region to gather intelligence and even launch attacks against Israel…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-02-22). Corrupt Mexican Drug Czar "Had a Very Close Relationship For Many Years with U.S. Intelligence," Says Mexican Security Analyst. covertactionmagazine.com CIA has a 15-20,000-page dossier on Genaro García Luna that, if ever released, would cause a political scandal bigger than Watergate, according to former CIA contract pilot. Former Mexican drug czar Genaro García Luna, the highest ranking Mexican official ever to be tried in the U.S., was found guilty in a Brooklyn federal court on …

Monet Bailey (2023-02-22). Is ChatGPT the future of antibiotic prescribing? healtheuropa.com Researchers from the University of Liverpool have tested whether ChatGPT, an Artificial Intelligence-based chatbot, could be used for antibiotic prescribing. ChatGPT is a chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. It uses an approach to transfer learning using both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. It quickly became popular as it provides detailed responses …

teleSUR (2023-02-22). Malcolm X's Daughter To Sue New York Police, FBI, and CIA. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Ilyasah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, announced that she will sue the New York Police Department (NYPD), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for conspiring to assassinate her father in 1965. | RELATED: | "For years, our family has struggled to bring to light the truth about the murder, which these institutions planned," Shabazz said, stressing that NY…

Staff (2023-02-22). Who Killed Malcolm X? Family to File $100M Suit v. FBI, CIA, NYPD & Others to Find the Truth. democracynow.org On the 58th anniversary of Malcolm X's assassination, civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump announced a new lawsuit from Malcolm X's surviving family seeking compensation from the NYPD, CIA and FBI for its role in concealing evidence in his murder case. This lawsuit comes more than a year after it was confirmed that federal and local agencies had a role in the wrongful conviction of Muhammad Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam for the murder. Aziz and Islam's convictions were overturned in 2021, and they were awarded a $36 million settlement for wrongful imprisonment by the state and city of New York. We a…

Staff (2023-02-22). China report excoriates 'US hegemony', war crimes, CIA coups, 400 foreign interventions. geopoliticaleconomy.com The Chinese government has published a lengthy report condemning "US hegemony" and its destructive effects on the world. The document analyzed the ways in which the United States has "abused" its hegemony politically, militarily, economically, financially, technologically, and culturally. China's Foreign Ministry noted that Washington has roughly 800 foreign military bases all around the world …

Jennifer Stisa Granick (2023-02-22). Is This the End of the Internet As We Know It? aclu.org Two pending Supreme Court cases interpreting a 1996 law could drastically alter the way we interact online. That law, Under Section 230, platforms generally may not be held liable for the content posted by users. Without this protection, important speech such as commun…

Matthew Flinn (2023-02-22). Supreme Court finally weighs in on the Tate's viewing platform. ukhumanrightsblog.com In a headline-grabbing decision, the Supreme Court has decided that an observation platform at the Tate Modern Art Gallery ("the Tate"), which overlooks a number of nearby luxury apartments, gives rise to the tort of nuisance &#1 ; read judgment In 2017 a group of apartment owners from the Neo Bankside building issued proceedings complaining that …

Staff (2023-02-22). Ketanji Brown Jackson Rebukes Colleagues for Rejecting Case on 162-Year Sentence. truthout.org Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has penned a scathing rebuke of the court's decision not to hear a case involving a Florida man who was sentenced to 162 years in prison. A writ of certiorari — the court's decision to hear a case — requires at least four justices to be in agreement. Jackson was joined in her dissent by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, another member of the court's liberal bloc… |

Staff (2023-02-22). WI Supreme Court Election Candidate Is Trump Loyalist Involved in Electors Plot. truthout.org One of the two candidates who advanced to the next round of Wisconsin's state Supreme Court race on Tuesday allegedly sought to help former President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election results in the state through a fake electors scheme. Two of the four candidates who took part in the primary election will face off in the April 4 general election, having secured the two highest vote totals in… |

Kevin Gosztola (2023-02-22). LuxLeaks Whistleblower Wins Case Before Europe's Top Human Rights Court. thedissenter.org This article was funded by paid subscribers of The Dissenter Newsletter. Become a The grand chamber of the European Court of Human Rights recently ruled in favor of a whistleblower who worked for the multinational accounting conglomerate PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and exposed tax evasion schemes in Luxembourg. | French national Raphaël Halet, a former auditor for PwC, alleged that his criminal conviction had disproportionately interfered with his right to freedom of expressi…

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