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2023-06-19: News Headlines

Editor (2023-06-19). Judge Who Ruled Against Assange Built Career as Barrister Defending UK Government. scheerpost.com Jonathan Swift, the High Court judge who has just rejected Julian Assange's attempt to halt his extradition to the US, is the government's former top lawyer and previously defended the Defence and Home Secretaries.

Editor (2023-06-19). Chris Hedges: The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism. scheerpost.com Julian Assange's legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted in the U.S., any reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime.

WSWS (2023-06-19). Daniel Ellsberg and Julian Assange. wsws.org If the courageous Vietnam-era whistleblower carried out his actions today, he would undoubtedly face the same fate as Julian Assange: imprisonment and media vilification.

_____ (2023-06-19). The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism. transcend.org 17 Jun 2023 – Julian Assange's legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted in the U.S., any reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime. Julian may be imprisoned for journalism, but he won't be the only one.

teleSUR (2023-06-19). Russia Continues to Inflict Casualties on NATO-Trained Soldiers. telesurenglish.net In an interview published in the newspaper Rossíiskaya Gazeta on Monday, Sergei Naryshkin, the director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), claimed that the defensive capabilities of Ukraine are being severely diminished by the Russian army. | RELATED: | "The death of a considerable number of NATO-trained soldiers and the destruction of foreign military equipment will undermine the Ukrainian…

ecns.cn (2023-06-19). Computing power offers new chances for tech firms. ecns.cn China's computing power industry will usher in new development opportunities, as major Chinese tech companies have rolled out ChatGPT-like artificial intelligence chatbots.


Global Research News (2023-06-19). Selected Articles: Despite the Hype, Artificial Intelligence Remains Inferior to the Human Brain. globalresearch.ca By The global infoscape is currently abuzz with

Kit Klarenberg (2023-06-19). Declassified files expose British role in NATO's Gladio terror armies. thegrayzone.com Newly declassified British files may be one of the most valuable sources revealing the origins and internal workings of Operation Gladio, a covert NATO plot deploying fascist terror militias across Italy. Has UK intelligence applied these lessons in Ukraine? Newly declassified British Foreign Office files have added disturbing details to the history of Operation Gladio. The covert operation was uncovered in 1990, when the public learned that the CIA, MI6 and NATO trained and directed an underground army of fascist …

Dana Sanchez (2023-06-19). Bubble Trouble: Top Analyst Says A Speculative Bubble Is Forming With Artificial Intelligence Companies. moguldom.com A bubble is developing in the overhyped field of artificial intelligence, said Satori Fund founder Dan Niles, although he believes AI is actually not getting enough attention, given its long-term potential. In the early stages of a powerful new technology such as AI, "the hype is too much because every company is trying to claim …

Dr. Mathew Maavak (2023-06-18). Despite the Hype, Artificial Intelligence Remains Inferior to the Human Brain. globalresearch.ca

Prof. Anthony J. Hall (2023-06-18). Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Covid Pandemic: A "Truth Bomb" Explodes to Illuminate the War on Humanity. globalresearch.ca

Johana Bhuiyan, The Guardian. (2023-06-18). The Google Employee Who Helped Edward Snowden In Hong Kong. popularresistance.org Early on the morning of 10 June 2013, Hong Kong time, the journalist Glenn Greenwald and film-maker Laura Poitras published on the Guardian site a video revealing the identity of the NSA whistleblower behind one of the most damning leaks in modern history. It began: "My name is Ed Snowden." | William Fitzgerald, then a 27-year-old policy employee at Google, knew he wanted to help. But he didn't yet know how. | Snowden was arguably the most wanted man in the world. The confidential documents he shared with Greenwald, Poitras and the Guardian's Ewen MacAskill detailed a sweeping US government surveillance program t…


thelastheretik (2023-06-19). CIA Memo 1967: CIA Coined and Weaponized the Label "Conspiracy Theory" globalresearch.ca

Bennan Center for Justice (2023-06-19). Wednesday 6/21: How the Supreme Court's Hard-Right Turn Is Wreaking Havoc on Democracy. indybay.org Online event…

Chip Gibbons, Jacobin. (2023-06-19). Daniel Ellsberg, American Hero. popularresistance.org Few people can say their actions helped to strengthen press freedom, end a war, and bring down a presidency. Daniel Ellsberg, who died today at the age of ninety-two, did just that. | Ellsberg came to public prominence in 1971 when he photocopied a secret history of US involvement in the Vietnam War, what became known as the "Pentagon Papers," and gave a copy to the New York Times. The New York Times' decision to publish the papers set off a landmark press freedom battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court. | Ellsberg became the first whistleblower indicted under the Espionage Act.

krish-rad_ind (2023-06-19). ICWA Stands! Supreme Court Affirms Indian Child Welfare Act. popularresistance.org

Anonymous103 (2023-06-19). Video: Ukraine Is Harvesting Children's Organs in Adrenochrome Labs. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Peter Koenig. Originally published by A whistleblower from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) which has itself a shady reputation mainly for its biased reporting, always in favor of the western wannabe empire and its vassals, has revealed the discovery of Ukrainian Nazi Groups harvesting children's organs in underground…

via Common Dreams (2023-06-19). Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Dead at 92. indybay.org Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst-turned-peace activist who revealed that the U.S. government had been lying about its devastating war on Vietnam, died Friday (June 16), four months after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was 92.

thelastheretik (2023-06-19). CIA Memo 1967: CIA Coined and Weaponized the Label "Conspiracy Theory" globalresearch.ca

Bennan Center for Justice (2023-06-19). Wednesday 6/21: How the Supreme Court's Hard-Right Turn Is Wreaking Havoc on Democracy. indybay.org Online event…

Chip Gibbons, Jacobin. (2023-06-19). Daniel Ellsberg, American Hero. popularresistance.org Few people can say their actions helped to strengthen press freedom, end a war, and bring down a presidency. Daniel Ellsberg, who died today at the age of ninety-two, did just that. | Ellsberg came to public prominence in 1971 when he photocopied a secret history of US involvement in the Vietnam War, what became known as the "Pentagon Papers," and gave a copy to the New York Times. The New York Times' decision to publish the papers set off a landmark press freedom battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court. | Ellsberg became the first whistleblower indicted under the Espionage Act.

krish-rad_ind (2023-06-19). ICWA Stands! Supreme Court Affirms Indian Child Welfare Act. popularresistance.org

Anonymous103 (2023-06-19). Video: Ukraine Is Harvesting Children's Organs in Adrenochrome Labs. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Peter Koenig. Originally published by A whistleblower from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) which has itself a shady reputation mainly for its biased reporting, always in favor of the western wannabe empire and its vassals, has revealed the discovery of Ukrainian Nazi Groups harvesting children's organs in underground…

via Common Dreams (2023-06-19). Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Dead at 92. indybay.org Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst-turned-peace activist who revealed that the U.S. government had been lying about its devastating war on Vietnam, died Friday (June 16), four months after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was 92.

Editor (2023-06-18). The Greatness of Daniel Ellsberg, From Heroic Vietnam War Whistleblower to Fearless Free Press Activist. scheerpost.com

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2023-06-18: News Headlines

Craig Murray (2023-06-17). Assange: An unholy masquerade of tyranny disguised as justice. mronline.org Julian's persecution has nothing to do with the law. It is a simple demonstration of the crushing power of the state.

Kit Klarenberg, MintPress News. (2023-06-18). Exposing The CIA Connection In The 'Chinese Police Station' Narrative. popularresistance.org For months, mainstream media across the Western world — in particular English-language outlets based in the constituent members of the 'Five Eyes' global spying network — have been rabidly awash with terrifying news of secret "Chinese police stations" operating the world over. | It is claimed these "stations" are unofficial, covert Chinese Communist Party (CPC) security and intelligence cells concealed in private businesses run by Chinese émigrés, such as restaurants. From behind benign facades, they surveil and harass pro-democracy ex-pats, among other nefarious activities.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-06-17). What is Urgent and Necessary in Haiti. orinocotribune.com By Jean Saint-Vil — Jun 6, 2023 | I greet you in the name of each common ancestor whose bones remain restless at the bottom of the Caribbean and Atlantic Oceans. I hope this brief note finds you in excellent health as it deals with an urgent crisis which requires that we summon superior collective wisdom, intelligence, and above all, courage. | As you read this note, in the town of Jeremi (South-West Haiti/ Grandans), corpses are being pulled from under collapsed rubble. The region was hit by a 4.9 magnitude quake early this morning. This occurred a few hours after floods had devastated large parts of the No…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-06-17). Robot "companions" is a betrayal of the elderly. expose-news.com Artificial intelligence is bringing robots a step nearer to the public consciousness as we question the myriad uses of machines that can deliver our food, drive our cars, and maybe even do …

WSWS (2023-06-17). Striking film and television writers rally in New York's Times Square. wsws.org Broadway artists, actors and singers showed their support for the writers, who face wage cuts, the casualization of their labor and the threat of artificial intelligence.

Bennan Center for Justice (2023-06-18). Wednesday 6/21: How the Supreme Court's Hard-Right Turn Is Wreaking Havoc on Democracy. indybay.org Online event…

Kaili Berg, Elyse Wild,, Brian Edwards, Native News Online. (2023-06-18). ICWA Stands! Supreme Court Affirms Indian Child Welfare Act. popularresistance.org The court's opinion in the case Haaland v. Brackeen upheld the federal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), a 1978 law that gives tribal governments exclusive jurisdiction over Native children who live on reservations. Considered to be the "gold standard" of child welfare policy, ICWA has protected the continued existence of Indian tribes and their most vital resource — Indian children — for 45 years. | By a 7-2 margin, the court today reinforced ICWA by affirming an appellate court en banc ruling that challenged some aspects of the law's constitutionality. | The nation's highest court found that ICWA doe…

Evan Vorpahl (2023-06-17). New Details From Leonard Leo's Trust Fund Expose the Inner Workings of the Right. truthout.org Newly obtained documents show that the billion-dollar trust fund given to Leonard Leo — the right-wing attorney and longtime leader the Federalist Society who orchestrated Donald Trump's Supreme Court picks — has dumped at least $411 million into fueling right-wing infrastructure in the U.S. since mid-2020. The latest IRS filing of the new nonprofit, Marble Freedom Trust — obtained by Accountable. |

_____ (2023-06-17). Rest in Peace Daniel Ellsberg. strategic-culture.org One of America's most courageous men, who took on the most powerful government in the world to expose its lies about the Vietnam war, has died at 92. | Daniel Ellsberg died at 92 on Friday in hospice care after a battle with pancreatic cancer. | Ellsberg was considered the greatest whistleblower of certainly his generation if not in U.S. history. His decision to leak the top-secret government study of the Vietnam war to the press was clearly one of the most courageous acts in the nation's history. | The decision by the Nixon administration's Department of Justice to order the press to stop publishing the Pentagon…

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