18 September 2020 — The Electronic Intifada
A group of leading British Palestinians have condemned what they say is a shrinking space in Labour to criticize Zionism and oppose Israeli policies.
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Racist to deny us right to oppose Zionism, British Palestinians tell Labour
British Palestinians condemn the “shrinking space” in Labour for their rights. PSC
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Deportation Union: revamped return policies and reckless forced removals
18 September 2020 — Statewatch
Join Statewatch and TNI on 28 September at 13:30 BST/14:30 CET for the first webinar of a three-part series accompanying the publication of the report Deportation Union: Rights, accountability and the EU’s push to increased forced removals.
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The West Killed and Displaced Muslim Multitudes, Becomes So Worried with the Plight of the Uighurs
17 September 2020 — Asia Times
Pepe Escobar
A Beijing-Brussels-Berlin special: that was quite the video-summit From Beijing, we had President Xi Jinping. From Berlin, Chancellor Angela Merkel. And from Brussels, President of the European Council Charles Michel and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. The Chinese billed it as the first summit “of its kind in history”.
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Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 12
18 September 2020 — Craig Murray
A less dramatic day, but marked by a brazen and persistent display of this US Government’s insistence that it has the right to prosecute any journalist and publication, anywhere in the world, for publication of US classified information. This explicitly underlay the entire line of questioning in the afternoon session.
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Assange’s Extradition Trial: Court Hears About History Of Political Prosecutions Under Espionage Act
17 September 2020 — The Dissenter
“I never thought based on history we’d see an indictment that looked like this,” attorney Carey Shenkman testified.
President Woodrow Wilson used the Espionage Act to repress opposition to World War I. (Photo: Library of Congress) “There has never, in the century-long history of the Espionage Act, been an indictment of a U.S. publisher under the law for the publication of secrets,” declared Carey Shenkman, an attorney who has co-authored a first-of-its-kind peer-reviewed book on the Espionage Act.
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WikiLeaks Revealed 15,000 Civilian Casualties
17 September 2020 — Assange Defense
It was another day of explosive testimony in Julian’s extradition hearing, with two witnesses taking the stand. Journalist John Slobada explained to the court the important journalistic contributions of WikiLeaks in revealing civilian casualties, while legal scholar Carey Shenkman stressed how the U.S. indictment of Julian is for a “political offense” and that Julian’s human rights are being violated.
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CIA Intercepts Suggest U.S. Lied About Biological Weapon Use During Its War On Korea
17 September 2020 — Moon of Alabama
During the early 1950s War on Korea the U.S. used biological weapons against North Korea and China. Bombs designed to spread leaflets were filled with plague infested rats and dropped on Korean towns. Various infecting insects were released. Leaflets were contaminated with small pox and then distributed. Several local epidemics were caused by these attacks.
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Spontaneous Initiative that Unites Scientists, Doctors, Lawyers and Free Citizens from All over the World
17 September, 2020 — International Free Choice
By Antonietta Gatti, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and Luc Montagnier
The independent studies of various scientists have highlighted several issues on the virus. Many inconsistencies have emerged from many points of view which are summarized in these two letters. The reflections start from two complementary approaches and ask for explanations by offering new approaches and protocols.
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The Novichoks story: chemical weapons programme or canary trap?
16 September 2020 — Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media
- 1 Summary
- 2 Introduction
- 3 Mirzayanov’s story from 1991 to 1995
- 4 The official Russian position
- 5 Uglev’s story: corroboration or rebuttal?
- 6 Fake corroboration: the 2003 Amazon book review
- 7 US studies of the phosphylated amidine compounds identified as Novichoks
- 8 Mirzayanov’s role as a Tatar separatist in 2008-09
- 9 Cases of poisoning with A-234
- 10 Chemical and toxicological properties of A-234 and other A-series compounds
- 11 Discussion
- 12 Acknowledgements
- 13 Conflicts of interest
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Open letter from medical doctors and health professionals to all Belgian authorities and all Belgian media
17 September 2020 — Docs 4 Open Debate
We, Belgian doctors and health professionals, wish to express our serious concern about the evolution of the situation in the recent months surrounding the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. We call on politicians to be independently and critically informed in the decision-making process and in the compulsory implementation of corona-measures. We ask for an open debate, where all experts are represented without any form of censorship. After the initial panic surrounding covid-19, the objective facts now show a completely different picture – there is no medical justification for any emergency policy anymore.
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Wise People Know That Winning a War Is No Better Than Losing One: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2020)
17 September 2020 — Tricontinental
Liu Bolin (China), Guernica, 2016Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Dedicated to Soni Prashad, 1929-2020, who spent her life looking for a better world.
US President Donald Trump and his ‘war council’ – led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – have amplified their aggression against China. What began as a trade dispute in the 1990s has now escalated into the United States making an existential challenge against China.
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Black Agenda Report 17 September 2020
17 September 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Freedom Rider: Democrats’ Climate Change Lies
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
The Republicans lie about the harm they do to the planet, and the Democrats lie and pretend they’re not doing the very same things.Tribute to Kevin Zeese: Life and Loss in the Struggle for Liberation
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Zeese never wavered in his opposition to the corporate duopoly, white supremacy, and the forces of militarism.
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Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 11
17 September 2020 — Craig Murray
Yet another shocking example of abuse of court procedure unfolded on Wednesday. James Lewis QC for the prosecution had been permitted gratuitously to read to two previous witnesses with zero connection to this claim, an extract from a book by Luke Harding and David Leigh in which Harding claims that at a dinner at El Moro Restaurant Julian Assange had stated he did not care if US informants were killed, because they were traitors who deserved what was coming to them.
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Good Ellsberg, Bad Assange: At Extradition Trial, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Dismantles False Narrative
17 September 2020 — The Dissenter
Ellsberg also said “Julian Assange could not get a remotely fair trial” in the United States.
Opponents of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange often hold up Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg as an example of someone who was responsible for a good leak. They insist WikiLeaks is not like the Pentagon Papers because supposedly Assange was reckless with sensitive documents.
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“A Disgrace”: Amnesty International Blocked From Monitoring Trial of Julian Assange
16 September 2020 — Mint Press
Amnesty International’s Europe Director described the hearings against Assange as an “assault on the right to freedom of expression” that would have a “chilling effect on media freedom.”
by Alan Macleod
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The Sino-Russian Alliance Comes of Age — Part 2
16 September 2020 — Indian Punchline
Signing ceremony of The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany: Foreign Ministers of USA, UK, USSR, France, GDR, FRG (from left to right) ; Moscow, September 12, 1990 “I look for the land of the Poles that is lost to the Germans, for the moment at least. Nowadays the Germans have started searching for Poland with credits, Leicas, and compasses, with radar, divining rods, delegations, and moth-eaten provincial students’ associations in costume. Some carry Chopin in their hearts, others thoughts of revenge. Condemning the first four partitions of Poland, they are busily planning a fifth; in the meantime flying to Warsaw via Air France in order to deposit, with appropriate remorse, a wreath on the spot that was once the ghetto. One of these days they will go searching for Poland with rockets. I, meanwhile, conjure up Poland on my drum. And this is what I drum: Poland’s lost, but not forever, all’s lost, but not forever, Poland’s not lost forever.” (The Tin Drum, Günter Grass)
(Part 1 of this three-part essay can be seen here.)
The Russian diplomacy, which has a glorious tradition in modern history, does not make its moves accidentally or impulsively. The historical consciousness is intense. Memories from the past and the present lie deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled in the collective consciousness. A little-noticed fact remains to be that the Russian-Chinese statement of September 11 was released on the eve of the thirtieth anniversary of The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany.
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The Great Scampede or The Iron Heel Revisited
16 September 2020 – Investigating Imperialism
By William Bowles
Source: https://twitter.com/JohnDStats
[T]he great majority of people will not die from this [virus] and I’ll just repeat something I said right at the beginning because I think it’s worth reinforcing:
Most people, a significant proportion of people, will not get this virus at all, at any point of the epidemic which is going to go on for a long period of time.
Of those who do, some of them will get the virus without even knowing it, they will have the virus with no symptoms at all, asymptomatic carriage, and we know that happens. – Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England, 11 May, 2020
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Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Gives Powerful Defense of Assange
16 September 2020 — Assange Defense
Julian’s extradition hearing in London today included powerful testimony from two key witnesses.The highlight of the day was the appearance of famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Dr. Daniel Ellsberg. You can read our full report on the day here, but here’s a brief recap:
Reporter John Goetz: WikiLeaks Had “Rigorous Redaction Process” — Disclosures Harmed No One
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Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 10
16 September 2020 — Craig Murray
The gloves were off on Tuesday as the US Government explicitly argued that all journalists are liable to prosecution under the Espionage Act (1917) for publishing classified information, citing the Rosen case. Counsel for the US government also argued that the famous Pentagon Papers supreme court judgement on the New York Times only referred to pre-publication injunction and specifically did not preclude prosecution under the Espionage Act. The US Government even surmised in court that such an Espionage Act prosecution of the New York Times may have been successful.
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Witnesses Slam Unfair “Political” Prosecution of Assange
15 September 2020 — Assange Defense
Two experts testified in Julian’s hearing today, making important arguments against extradition.
You can read a full recap of the day’s hearing at our blog. Let’s get right into today’s highlights:
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