Month: June 2019

From 9/11 to Shoplifting: Assange in the Context of the European Arrest Warrant By Nina Cross

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27 June 2019 — 21st Century Wire


Nina Cross
21st Century Wire

It is astonishing to think that the many coordinated attacks leveled against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by the governments of the Britain, Sweden, Ecuador and the US, have all been stacked, in their colossal forms, on the tiny European Arrest Warrant (EAW).  This little manhunt-widget gifted the US and its allies the power to corner Assange like a chess piece.  They have used the EAW in a way that suggests their motto always has been ‘mighty oaks from little acorns grow.’

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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides Editors’ picks

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27 June 2019 — Sustainable Pulse

Glyphosate Use Will Eventually End, Merkel Says

Use of Bayer’s contested weedkiller glyphosate, the subject of more than 10,000 lawsuits in the US over claims it causes cancer, will eventually die out, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the country’s lower house on Wednesday (Jun 26). Source: Reuters Merkel’s view is seemingly at odds with that of Bayer, which acquired the pesticide along with […]

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CIA Finances Another Group of Fraudsters: the Venezuelan ‘Opposition’ By Wayne Madsen

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27 June 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Once again, the Central Intelligence Agency has been caught financing a group of grifters and fraudsters at the expense of the American taxpayers. In the latest case, just another in the agency’s 72-year history, the Trump administration-appointed ad hoc board of CITGO, the US subsidiary of the state-owned Venezuelan oil company, PDVSA, stands accused of steering $70 million of escrowed funds, earmarked for PDVSA’s fiscal year 2020 bond, to the pockets of CIA-supported officials of the Venezuelan opposition “Popular Will” party headed by the so-called “interim president” of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó.

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Monsters Walk the Earth. Why These Three Countries Are the Real Troika of Evil By Philip Giraldi

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27 June 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation

There are monsters among us. Every day I read about an American “plan” to either invade some place new or to otherwise inflict pain to convince a “non-compliant” foreign government how to behave. Last week it was Iran but next week it could just as easily again be Lebanon, Syria or Venezuela. Or even Russia or China, both of whom are seen as “threats” even though American soldiers, sailors and marines sit on their borders and not vice versa. The United States is perhaps unique in the history of the world in that it sees threats everywhere even though it is not, in fact, threatened by anyone.

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Too hot to touch? MSM outlets stand united in rejecting op-ed on Assange by UN expert on torture

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27 June 2019 — RT

Too hot to touch? MSM outlets stand united in rejecting op-ed on Assange by UN expert on torture

Demonstrators protest outside of Westminster Magistrates Court in support of Julian Assange. ©REUTERS / Hannah Mckay

The UN rapporteur on torture has written a scalding op-ed in support of Julian Assange, in which he says the publisher was the victim of a smear campaign. Now he claims many leading MSM outlets are snubbing the piece.

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Black Agenda Report 27 June 2019: Great Reparations Debate, Black Misleaders and Biden, Encircling Sanders

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27 June 2019 — Black Agenda Report

We are Already Late to the Great Black Reparations Debate

Glen Ford, BAR executive editor
Questions about the meaning and scope of reparations can only be answered collectively by Black people in what should be the most profound political discussion in our history on this continent.
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How to fend off automated censorship

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27 June 2019 — Open Rights Group

You have until Monday 1 July to make you views known!

The Internet in general and social media in particular play a central role in protecting free expression in society. But the Government’s new plan to make social media safer could change that by ushering in a new era of automated censorship.

The window to comment on the Government’s Online Harms White Paper closes on Monday.  William can you take a minute to tell the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) that social media regulation must protect the right to free expression?
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Facial recognition technology and the US military-intelligence apparatus By Kevin Reed

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27 June 2019 — WSWS

On Tuesday, the Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee unanimously approved a resolution banning the use of facial recognition (FR) technology by the city, including by the police department. A full vote of the city council on the resolution is planned for July 16.

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Iran Newslinks 26-27 June 2019

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27 June 2019 • 14:20  — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day

How European Powers Have Sold Iran Out
https://journal-neo.org/2019/06/27/how-european-powers-have-sold-iran-out/

Foreign Ministry doubts meeting on Iran nuclear deal may yield breakthrough solution
https://tass.com/politics/1065859

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Life Expectancy Falters in the UK: Slow Death but Fast Profits for the Agrochemical Sector By Colin Todhunter

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26 June, 2019 —Global Research

A special report in the Observer newspaper in the UK on 23 June 2019 asked the question: Why is life expectancy faltering? The piece noted that for the first time in 100 years, Britons are dying earlier. The UK now has the worst health trends in Western Europe.

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Russia tamps down US-Iran tensions By M.K. Bhadrakumar

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27 June 2019 — Indian Punchline

(Donald Trump signed an executive order for new sanctions against Iran on June 24, 2019)

The US President Donald Trump is learning that Persian is a tricky language and does not easily yield its hidden charms to westerners. The western media attributed to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani a remark during his televised speech on June in Tehran 25 to the effect that the White House is “mentally retarded.” But now folks with grounding in the intricacies of Persian language — who else but the BBC Monitoring in London — interpret differently.

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Britain and Oman: Will their growing special relationship survive succession? By Mark Curtis

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19 June 2019 — Mark Curtis

Published in Middle East Eye, 17 June 2019

Sixty years ago, Britain won a long-forgotten war in Oman, setting the special relationship between the two countries that is still being boosted today.

The anniversary falls as the head of the British army recently visited Oman, and as the two countries signed a “Comprehensive Joint Declaration on Enduring Friendship” and a new Joint Defence Agreement. Last year, the two cooperated on the UK’s largest military exercise in the Middle East in 20 years.

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New Flyer and Website All About The Bees Being Harmed by 5G

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26 June 2019 — Activist Post

By B.N. Frank

In February, telecom industry representatives gave congressional testimony that they have no scientific evidence that 5G is safe.  Many studies say it’s not.  Regardless, 5G is being installed everywhere despite worldwide opposition and warnings from doctors, scientists, environmentalists and many other credible sources.  (see also 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).  Where 5G has already been installed, few seem interested in subscribing to it.

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Western News Agencies Mistranslate Iran’s President Speech – It Is Not The First Time Such ‘Error’ Happens

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26 June 2019 — Moon of Alabama

Yesterday the news agencies Associated Press and Reuters mistranslated a speech by Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani. They made it sound as if Rouhani insulted U.S. President Donald Trump as ‘mentally retarded’. Rouhani never said that.

The agencies previously made a similar ‘mistake’.

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“5G Ready”? UK Government’s “5G Rural First”: “Dangerously High” Levels of Electromagnetic Field Radiation (EMF) in Southern England

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26 June 2019 — Global Research

Glastonbury Festival-goers Are Walking into an EMF Minefield

By Annie Dieu-Le-Veut

5G Rural First also has testbeds on the Orkney Islands and Shropshire and it claims its technology will help dairy cows perform better.

But they are ignoring the evidence of 230 scientists and doctors who are appealing to the World Health Organisation to move the 5G wireless signal from a Group 2B carcinogen to a Group 1, the same as asbestos and arsenic.

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