Daily Archives: April 11, 2020

2020-04-11: News Headlines

Nozomi Hayase (2020-04-11). Assange's Extradition: Incarceration in the Time of Covid-19 Threatens His Life. commondreams.org Demonstrators protest outside Westminster Magistrates Court in London on October 21, 2019. (Photo: Isabel Infantes/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/assange_coronavirus.jpg

WSWS (2020-04-11). A year since the arrest of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. wsws.org Assange's arrest was an historic crime, setting a precedent for escalating attacks on press freedom and the democratic rights of the working class.

Labor Video Project (2020-04-11). COVID-19 SF DPH Healthcare Workers Under Attack, Health & Safety, Racism & Retaliation. indybay.org The COVID pandemic is being used to violate union contracts and retaliate against whistleblowers. This pandemic is also hitting Black workers and their families even more heavily. There is also no enforcement by Governor Newsom's Cal-OSHA which has fewer than 200 inspectors for 18 million workers.

sputniknews (2020-04-11). Trump Names Bush-Era Torture Advocate, Sanctions Freak as Arms Control Envoy. sputniknews.com With the US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002, and President Trump's scrapping of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty last August, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is now the last major nuclear arms treaty in force. Moscow has warned that a failure to renew the treaty could spark a new global arms race.

RT (2020-04-10). Belmarsh 'barely functioning': Assange tells friend Covid-19 is raging through British prison. rt.com Julian Assange has revealed to a friend the harrowing details of his life in Belmarsh. WikiLeaks founder is still confined at the UK maximum security prison, despite it being stricken with the novel coronavirus. | Covid-19 has spread around Belmarsh to such an extent that the prison is "barely functioning" any more at all, British freelance video journalist Vaughan Smith has As many as 150 prison staff member…

Binoy Kampmark (2020-04-08). Julian Assange and Lockdown Injustice. dissidentvoice.org Scribes of the Julian Assange case must surely gawk with a sense of horrified wonder at each proceeding unfolding at the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London. Assange is in a battle that can only be described as titanic, seeking to avoid the clutches of the US Justice Department, not to mention its legal system, and …

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Assange's Extradition: Incarceration in the Time of Covid-19 Threatens His Life
Nozomi Hayase | commondreams.org | 2020-04-11
Demonstrators protest outside Westminster Magistrates Court in London on October 21, 2019. (Photo: Isabel Infantes/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/assange_coronavirus.jpg
commondreams.org/views/2020/04/11/assanges-extradition-incarceration-time-covid-19-threatens-his-life?cd-origin=rss

A year since the arrest of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2020-04-11
Assange's arrest was an historic crime, setting a precedent for escalating attacks on press freedom and the democratic rights of the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/11/assa-a11.html

A year since the arrest of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2020-04-11
Assange's arrest was an historic crime, setting a precedent for escalating attacks on press freedom and the democratic rights of the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/11/assa-a11.html

COVID-19 SF DPH Healthcare Workers Under Attack, Health & Safety, Racism & Retaliation
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-04-11
The COVID pandemic is being used to violate union contracts and retaliate against whistleblowers. This pandemic is also hitting Black workers and their families even more heavily. There is also no enforcement by Governor Newsom's Cal-OSHA which has fewer than 200 inspectors for 18 million workers.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/09/18832221.php

Trump Names Bush-Era Torture Advocate, Sanctions Freak as Arms Control Envoy
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-11
With the US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002, and President Trump's scrapping of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty last August, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is now the last major nuclear arms treaty in force. Moscow has warned that a failure to renew the treaty could spark a new global arms race.
sputniknews.com/world/202004111078918527-trump-names-bush-era-torture-advocate-sanctions-freak-as-arms-control-envoy/

Belmarsh 'barely functioning': Assange tells friend Covid-19 is raging through British prison
rt.com | 2020-04-10
Julian Assange has revealed to a friend the harrowing details of his life in Belmarsh. WikiLeaks founder is still confined at the UK maximum security prison, despite it being stricken with the novel coronavirus. | Covid-19 has spread around Belmarsh to such an extent that the prison is "barely functioning" any more at all, British freelance video journalist Vaughan Smith has revealed in a Facebook post, after talking with Assange by phone. | As many as 150 prison staff member…
rt.com/news/485548-assange-belmarsh-prison-covid-19/

Julian Assange and Lockdown Injustice
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-08
Scribes of the Julian Assange case must surely gawk with a sense of horrified wonder at each proceeding unfolding at the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London. Assange is in a battle that can only be described as titanic, seeking to avoid the clutches of the US Justice Department, not to mention its legal system, and …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/julian-assange-and-lockdown-injustice/