(2019-07-26). Activists Confront 2020 Candidates in Iowa About Drones and War. truthout.org | | In late July, the MQ-9 Reaper drone, the U.S.'s foremost killer drone, will enter the Iowa presidential primary contest in a cable TV ad that challenges 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to pledge to end all U.S. drone attacks, close U.S. drone bases and work for a global ban on weaponized drones. | The ad, due to appear on MSNBC, CNN and Fox News, will urge support for the End Drone War Pledge campaign plann…
(2019-07-25). Johnson reveals where he got the idea for a cabinet of treacherous numbskulls. thecanary.co Despite stiff competition from May and Cameron, Boris Johnson has formed what may be the worst cabinet of all time: | Boris Johnson — Prime Minister | Sajid Javid — Chancellor | Priti Patel — Home Secretary | Dominic Raab — Foreign Secretary | Gavin Williamson — Education Secretary | Theresa Villiers — Environment Secretary | This isn't a cabinet. It's a medieval torture chamber. #cabinetreshuffle | — Chuka Umunna's Flip Flops (@Wa…
(2019-07-25). 'Algorithms don't write themselves': Google whistleblower on Big Tech merging with politics. rt.com 
A senior Google software engineer has dismissed the idea that Big Tech can be politically neutral and called out his company as "very biased," joining Project Veritas' growing stable of whistleblowers.
(2019-07-25). US Secretary of State Pompeo announces "new era" of US-Latin America reaction. wsws.org Pompeo boasted about extraditing Assange, while demanding greater spying, anti-immigrant crackdowns and alignment with the US drive against its geopolitical rivals.
(2019-07-25). Chelsea Manning's lawyer refutes conspiracy allegation against Julian Assange. wsws.org "I don't think Chelsea was played at all," Nancy Hollander told Australian television.
(2019-07-24). Joe Biden's New Foreign Policy Adviser Supported Iraq War and Dubbed Edward Snowden a "Traitor" theintercept.com Nicholas Burns worked under presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush before leaving public service and becoming a lobbyist.
(2019-07-24). There is no such thing as a 'green' war. greenleft.org.au The military industrial complex is a major contributor to climate change. This calls for a merger of anti-war, climate and refugee solidarity movements, writes Eleanor Goldfield.
(2019-07-23). Google Continues Investments in Military and Police AI Technology Through Venture Capital Arm. theintercept.com Last year,Google faced internal revolt from many employees over its handling of Project Maven, a secretive contract between the company and the Department of Defense to use artificial intelligence to improve the military's drone targeting capabilities. After a series of internal, worker-led protests and resignations following reporting by The Intercept and Gizmodo, the company said it would wi…
(2019-07-22). WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and Decoding the National Security Commentariat. dissidentvoice.org The Fourth Estate, that historical unelected grouping of society's scrutineers, has become something of a rabble, and, as a confederacy of strewn dunces and the ongoing compromised, is ripe for analysis. An essential premise in the work of WikiLeaks was demonstrating, to a good, stone-throwing degree, how media figures and practitioners had been bought by …
(2019-07-19). In 2003, This U.K. Whistleblower Almost Stopped the Iraq Invasion. A New Film Tells Her Story. democracynow.org 
In 2003, Katharine Gun, a young specialist working for Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, exposed a highly confidential memo that revealed the United States' collaboration with Britain in collecting sensitive information on United Nations Security Council members in order to pressure them into supporting the Iraq invasion. Gun leaked the memo to the press, setting off a chain of events that jeopardized her freedom and safety, but also opened the door to putting the entire legality of the Iraq invasion on trial. ‚Ä®‚Ä®Acclaimed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsb…
(2019-07-12). Then CIA is Invoking Wikileaks to Push for the Expansion of a Cold War Era Secrecy Law. mintpressnews.com 
Three decades ago, the CIA mobilized to protect itself from radical acts of transparency, and now, with the internet and organizations like WikiLeaks, it hopes to be able to further isolate and criminalize those who challenge it.