1 June 2019 — The New Dark Age
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How the persecution of Julian Assange by US could spectacularly backfire, explains lawyer
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Exposes Anti-Assange Smear Campaign
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/06/01/un-special-rapporteur-on-torture-exposes-anti-assange-smear-campaign/
1 June 2019 — Caitlin Johnson
Democracy Now has conducted a thorough interview with the UN Special Rapporteur who found that a collaboration between multiple governments in “a relentless and unrestrained campaign of public mobbing, intimidation and defamation” has placed such severe stress on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and done so much damage to his psychological well being that it can only be described as torture.
31 May 2019 — Black Agenda Report
– Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Poor people shouldn’t try to build their own party in the U.S. We just can’t afford It, and can’t be trusted.
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31 May 2019 — Off Guardian
The Labour Party have suspended Pete Willsman, a member of their National Executive Committee, for being “antisemitic”.
The charge is that Willsman was recorded claiming that the antisemitism charges against the Labour party were all lies, and that a member of the Israeli embassy staff had been caught covertly giving money to Labour Friends of Israel, as well as planning to “take down” anti Israeli MPs.
The recording was released to LBC radio. It sparked outrage in all the predictable places.
31 May 2019 — Caitlin Johnson
On the eighth of April, shortly before London police forcibly carried WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy, a doctor named Sondra S Crosby wrote a letter to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights requesting that the office look into Assange’s case. Today, following a scorching rebuke of multiple governments by UN Special Rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer, mass media outlets around the world are reporting that Julian Assange has been found to be the victim of brutal psychological torture.
31 May 2019 — Global Research
“There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me.’” ― Philip K. Dick
Red pill or blue pill? You decide.
Twenty years after the Wachowskis’ iconic 1999 film, The Matrix, introduced us to a futuristic world in which humans exist in a computer-simulated non-reality powered by authoritarian machines—a world where the choice between existing in a denial-ridden virtual dream-state or facing up to the harsh, difficult realities of life comes down to a red pill or a blue pill—we stand at the precipice of a technologically-dominated matrix of our own making.
22 May 2019 — The Conversation
As digital technologies facilitate the growth of both new and incumbent organisations, we have started to see the darker sides of the digital economy unravel. In recent years, many unethical business practices have been exposed, including the capture and use of consumers’ data, anticompetitive activities and covert social experiments.
31 May 2019 — The Ecologist
A significant overhaul of the current global food system is needed to meet the challenges of feeding a growing world population and many stress that this is only achievable by changing diets, food production and reducing food waste.
31 May 2019 — Defend Wikileaks
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzner, has published a scathing condemnation of the “deliberate and concerted abuse inflicted for years” on Julian Assange, calling on the UK government not to extradite him to the United States, where Melzner fears Assange “would be exposed to a real risk of serious violations of his human rights.”
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31 May 2019 • 20:15 — The New Dark Age
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The Noir Detective, Julian Assange and What Comes Next
https://ghionjournal.com/the-noir-detective-julian-assange-and-what-comes-next/
The UN Torture Report On Assange Is An Indictment Of Our Entire Society
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/05/31/the-un-torture-report-on-assange-is-an-indictment-of-our-entire-society/
31 May 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
If US President Donald Trump thinks that by merely saying he doesn’t want regime change in Iran, he can then inveigle the Iranians into talks, he is woefully mistaken.
31 May 2019 — Global Research
It’s not too often we get a behind-the-scenes look at “diplomacy” in all its ugliest of forms. Given the mess Ukraine is in – as witnessed by the election of a completely nonsensical presidential candidate – it may come as no surprise such a veil-uncovering look originated there.
31 May 2019 — The New Dark Age
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US Hints at Sanctions Against Venezuela CLAP Food Programme. Bolivarian Militia to Protect CLAP
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-hints-sanctions-against-venezuela-clap-food-programme-maduro-incorporates-militia/5679136
Communiqué: To Struggle with the People for Peace, Democracy, Sovereignty and Solidarity
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/05/30/communique-to-struggle-with-the-people-for-peace-democracy-sovereignty-and-solidarity/
31 May 2019 — The New Dark Age
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How the War Party Broke Trump
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/05/31/how-the-war-party-broke-trump/
Russia would welcome US-Iran talks, says top diplomat
http://tass.com/politics/1061072
31 May 2019 — RT
Jailed WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange shows clear signs of degrading and inhumane treatment which only adds to his deteriorating health, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer told RT.
31 May 2019 — Mint Press
Nearly 200 pages of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) contracts show how the agency exercises control over TV and film productions.
30 May 2019 — Global Research
The death of the 110-year old mining house Lonmin at a London shareholders meeting on May 28 occurred not through bankruptcy or nationalisation, as would have been logical at various points in time. It was the result of a takeover – generally understood as a rip-off of investors and workers – by an extremely jejune (7 year-old) South African corporation, Sibanye-Stillwater. The latter’s chief executive, Neil Froneman, is known for extreme aggression in both corporate takeovers and workplace cost-cutting, with by far the highest fatality rate in the mining industry.
31 May 2019 — WSWS
Joseph A. Farrell is a WikiLeaks ambassador and a Centre for Investigative Journalism board member. He spoke to the World Socialist Web Site outside Westminster Magistrates Court.
31 May 2019 — WSWS
The German government is preparing to provide military support for a US-planned “safe zone” in northern Syria. The zone is intended to protect the Kurdish militias, which fought against the Islamic State (IS) on the side of the US, from both Syrian and Turkish troops.
