15 April 2019 — James Petras
For almost a decade Washington has sought to silence, jail and eliminate the world’s most prominent investigative journalist, Julian Assange (JA) and his team of co- workers at Wilkileaks (WL).
Never has the mass media been so thoroughly discredited by official documents which directly contradict the official propaganda, mouthed by political leaders and parroted by ‘leading’ journalists.
16 April 2019 — Moon of Alabama
An ass kissing portrait of Gina Haspel, torture queen and director of the CIA, reveals that she lied to Trump to push for more aggression against Russia.
In March 2018 the British government asserted, without providing any evidence, that the alleged ‘Novichok’ poisoning of Sergej and Yulia Skripal was the fault of Russia. It urged its allies to expel Russian officials from their countries.
16 April 2019 — Voltaire Network
During an official ceremony, President Omar el-Bechir (right) in the company of General Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf (left), who overthrew him.
Certain pockets of Sudan are still at war, and the Khartoum government is still military. Nothing has changed despite the fact that President Omar el-Bechir has been toppled. For Thierry Meyssan, Sudan’s problem, after 30 years of dictatorship by the Muslim Brotherhood, is above all cultural. Current events have no relation with an aspiration for liberty, but only with freedom from starvation.
15 April 2019 — Novara Media
It’s been almost a week since Julian Assange had his asylum revoked by the Ecuadorian government. As a result, he was arrested by the Metropolitan policefor his failure to appear in court in June 2012 regarding allegations made by two Swedish women in which they accused him of sexual molestation, coercion and rape.
15 April 2019 — Media Lens
If ‘journalism’ meant what it is supposed to mean– acting as the proverbial ‘fourth estate’ to challenge power and to keep the public informed – then Julian Assange and WikiLeaks would be universally lauded as paragons. So would Chelsea Manning, the brave former US Army whistleblower who passed on to WikiLeaks more than 700,000 confidential US State Department and Pentagon documents, videos and diplomatic cables about the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
13 April 2019 — Socialist Project
Bob Dylan once said, “Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.” February 23rd, 2019, was the day that Juan Guaidó, the self-proclaimed President of Venezuela, had “authorized” “humanitarian aid” to enter Venezuela, an attempt to force the Maduro government, and thus the Venezuelan people, to their knees. There is great urgency as an ever-increasing escalation of violence is being perpetuated by those who would destroy Venezuela, including several attacks on Venezuela’s electrical grid over the last few weeks. But let me be clear: the Venezuelan poor are resilient, and any change will be on their terms. Most importantly, Venezuelan politics is collective, and there is a deep form of solidarity across communities along with an abiding interest in building a different form of politics. In short, if one does not unearth this collective politics, one cannot understand what is happening in Venezuela.
16 April 2019 — Open Rights Group
Last week the Government unveiled ambitious new plans to protect UK Internet users from digital threats including “behaviours which are harmful but not necessarily illegal.”
Open Rights Group agrees that companies deal with material that is illegal or breaks their own community guidelines, but the way the White Paper on Online Harms is pushing is a huge step beyond that.
16 April 2019 — MROnline
Originally published: Socialist Appeal by Helena Nicholson & LSE Marxists (April 12, 2019) |
16 April 2019 20:50 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting
Julian Assange’s Victory
https://journal-neo.org/2019/04/16/julian-assange-s-victory/
From Tribe, to King, to ‘Democracy’ to Mafia. The Criminalization of US Politics
https://www.globalresearch.ca/tribe-king-democracy-mafia/5674526
16 April 2019 20:50 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting
What I saw in Venezuela revealed a horrifying gap between reporting and reality
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/lW5aNCyB1g4/
Humanitarian Crisis in Venezuela? What Crisis?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/humanitarian-crisis-venezuela-what-crisis/5674525
16 April 2019 — extinction/rebellion
In 25 countries around the world, rebels of all kinds and backgrounds have begun taking non-violent direct action in a bid to save our planet from catastrophe. From today onwards we will be writing history.
15 April 2019 — RT
NATO has reverted to Cold War behavior and virtually no cooperation between the bloc and Moscow exists, the Russian deputy FM says. There are no signs the situation will improve, since the alliance is craving a new arms race.
15 April 2019 — Consortium News
The WikiLeaks publisher is in a maximum-security prison that has been called the UK’s Guantanamo Bay, Elizabeth Vos reports.
Aerial view of Belmarsh Prison. (Wikimedia Commons)
By Elizabeth Vos
Special to Consortium News
The New Dark Age 