17 July 2019 — True Publica
A year on from BigBrotherWatch’s investigation into Durham Police’s use of Experian’s ‘Mosaic’ big data profiling tool for AI custody decisions, BigBrotherWatch discovered through a long Freedom of Information battle that Durham Police heeded calls to drop the discriminatory tool less than three weeks after their exposé.
17 July 2019 — WSWS
CNN published a scurrilous attack against Julian Assange on Monday. Its sole purpose was to revive the discredited claim that the WikiLeaks founder functioned as an “agent” of the Russian government, in order to undermine growing opposition to the US attempts to prosecute Assange for exposing American war crimes and diplomatic conspiracies.
17 July 2019 — WSWS
A report in the New York Times on Sunday revealed that millions of facial photos have been scraped from online sources and taken by hidden surveillance cameras and then shared in databases for artificial intelligence (AI) research and development purposes for more than a decade. Created in secret by universities and tech companies, the photo data sets have been mined for the R&D of facial recognition and biometric technologies that are now used ubiquitously by police and state intelligence agencies around the world.
17 July 2019 — MROnline
The extended heat wave afflicting India has surpassed 50⁰C (122 degrees Fahrenheit), even worse than the terrible scorcher that was assessed “the 5th deadliest on record” and claimed thousands of lives in 2015.1 Matters could get even worse, the city of Chennai has almost run out of water, putting 10 million lives at risk. 2 South-eastern Africa has been hit by an unprecedented series of devastating cyclones, affecting millions of people.3 The global North is beginning to feel the crisis too. Forest fires are increasing across North America and Australia. The late June heat wave across continental Europe pushed temperatures in France over 45⁰C, and triggered a wildfire in Catalonia, which authorities believe started when a pile of manure self-ignited.4 The **** really has hit the fan.
17 July 2019 — Off Guardian
In case you missed the kickoff, there is an unprecedented ‘must win’ wireless race for the US to cross the 5G finish line before China as alluded to during the recent Senate Commerce Committee oversight hearing on the Federal Commerce Commission.
16 July 2019 — The New Dark Age
Venezuelan government, opposition resume talks in Barbados
The Venezuelan government and the opposition are resuming talks aimed at ending the political crisis in their country, the country’s information …
EU is Preparing for More Venezuela Sanctions | Voice of America – English
BRUSSELS – The European Union is preparing to impose more sanctions on Venezuela targeting officials who are accused of being involved in …
16 July 2019 — Off Guardian
OffGuardian already covered the Global Media Freedom Conference, our article Hypocrisy Taints UK’s Media Freedom Conference, was meant to be all there was to say. A quick note on the obvious hypocrisy of this event. But, in the writing, I started to see more than that. This event is actually…creepy.
16 July 2019 — 21st Century Wire
Since 2012, western political and media establishments have been aggressively propping-up cutout organizations like Bellingcat, portraying them as the ‘unlikely amateur’ sleuth-heroes, running their world-beating ‘open source’ (OSINT) investigations from their laptops in the UK and the Netherlands. In every instance, their OSINT ‘findings’ will implicate the geopolitical adversaries of the US and its allies.
15 July 2019 — The Electronic Intifada
Nasser al-Buhaisi had just graduated from college.
The 22-year-old obtained a degree in religious law from Gaza’s Al-Azhar University during June. One day later, he died.
13 July, 2019 — Global Research
Turkey is taking delivery of Russia’s S 400 missile defence system. What this signifies is that Turkey and Russia are now “officially” allies. The first shipment of the S-400 landed in Ankara on July 12, according to Turkey’s Ministry of Defense. (see image below)
16 July 2019 — WSWS
London’s Metropolitan Police threatened journalists with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act last Friday in an unprecedented attack on media freedom.
16 July 2019 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back
President Manuel Zelaya: The US-backed Coup d’etat Turned Honduras Into Hell + Honduras Now Ruled By A Criminal Gang
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2019/07/15/president-manuel-zelaya-the-us-backed-coup-detat-turned-honduras-into-hell-honduras-now-ruled-by-a-criminal-gang/
War by Other Means: Understanding and Challenging U.S. Sanctions Policies
https://williambowles.info/2019/07/15/war-by-other-means-understanding-and-challenging-u-s-sanctions-policies/
16 July 2019 — True Publica
By TruePublica: There is a lot going wrong in the world today and big tech is driving much of it in its indomitable thirst for ever greater global influence and markets to profit from. In the meantime, the British government is already making many moves to ‘Americanise’ society and continues towards its unpopular privatisation model in healthcare. These are not the musings of TruePublica’s editor. Professionals at the heart of the artificial intelligence community, privacy, civil liberty and healthcare are alarmed the NHS has teamed up with certain tech firms with scant care for patient outcomes especially with the latest announcement of American behemoth Amazon giving health advice.
16 July 2019 — WSWS
The tirades by President Donald Trump over the past three days have no precedent in the history of the US presidency. Trump, backed by a cabal of advisors in the White House, speaks openly as a fascist, demonizing people of different races and national origins, vilifying socialism, and declaring that those who oppose his administration’s policies are disloyal to the country and should leave it.
15 July, 2019 — RT
The British government is planning a new initiative which will aim to help schoolchildren distinguish real information from ‘fake news’ — in an eyebrow-raising move which could be described as a little bit Orwellian.
15 July 2019 • 19:00 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back
Europe scrambles to save Iran deal, warning it’s ‘very close’ to unraveling
BRUSSELS — European diplomats gathering Monday to try to save the Iran nuclear deal warned that the agreement was close to unraveling, but …
Inside Iran: What Iranians think of stand-off with US?
As tensions rise between Iran, the US and its allies, the BBC has been given rare access to Iran. Iranians remain furious that US President Donald …
15 July 2019 — RT
Sanctions are often presented as a diplomatic and peaceful alternative to direct military engagement, sanctions ironically can have just as devastating outcomes. Addressing the situations of Cuba, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela, this 2019 Left Forum panel addresses the origins, implementation, and impact of US-imposed sanctions.
15 July, 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
First of all, everyone should read this:
“The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing US Media Failures on the Trump-Russia Story”.
It is important background for understanding what follows, because the following helps to explain what is displayed in that brilliant prior article:
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News has slowly been getting out that the British Government’s account of the poisoning of the Skripals is a fabrication which had been done in order to escalate hostilities against Russia, and that when information from Democratic Party and Clinton campaign computers subsequently became either leaked or hacked to Wikileaks, the Democratic National Committee hired, in order to investigate that, British contractors who were also involved in the Skripal fraud, and Skripal himself might have been a crucial part of the Russiagate-Trump operation.
