(2020-04-22). Car caravan to free Gerald Reed, prisoners facing pandemic. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – 100 cars surrounded the Thompson Center in Chicago's Loop, April 20, during Governor J.B. Pritzker's daily press briefing on COVID-19. The caravan protest was held to demand Pritzker free police torture survivor Gerald Reed and all vulnerable prisoners at Cook County Jail, Illinois Department of Corrections prisons and ICE detention centers in Illinois – especially those over 60, those with medical conditions, and those who the governor's own Torture Commission has already confirmed are victims of police torture and therefore wrongfully convicted. | In the lead car of the caravan, Frank Chapman of t…
(2020-04-22). Mike Pompeo, Devourer Of Worlds. thealtworld.com Om nom nom nom nom nom nom, | nom nom nom nom nom, | om nom nom nom nom nom nom, | belch. | That is the sound that Mike Pompeo makes | when he devours Venezuelan civilians, | when he devours Yemeni war orphans, | when he devours Iranian Covid victims, | when he devours oil and user data, | when he devours Julian Assange, | when he devours nuclear fallout, | when he devours truth and morality, | when he devours your mind, | when he devours everyone's mind, | when he devours the light of consciousness, | when he devours everything sacred about our species, | when he devours the ecosystem, | when he devours the worl…
(2020-04-23). German court opens first Syria torture trial. yenisafak.com Two suspected members of President Bashar al-Assad's security services had charges of torture and sexual assault read out against them on Thursday in a German court, in what lawyers say is the first trial for war crimes by Syrian government agents.Anwar R., a former intelligence officer who applied for asylum in Germany six years ago after leaving Syria, is charged with 58 murders in a Damascus prison where prosecutors say at least 4,000 opposition activists were tortured in 2011 and 2012.Grey haired, with a bald patch and wearing a moustache, glasses and a dark sweater, he sat calmly behind a glass cubicle erect…
(2020-04-23). Turkey's | cutting-edge drones rock military power dynamics in Libya. yenisafak.com Turkey's cutting-edge drones have shifted the strategic balance of military power since the beginning of 2020 in Libya, weakening the eastern-based forces of warlord Khalifa Haftar, French newspaper Le Monde reported.Speaking to the newspaper's correspondent Frédéric Bobin, experts pointed out that Turkish-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and advanced technology have had a crucial impact on the military power dynamics in the region."The reason is that Turkish drones and anti-aircraft defense systems installed by Ankara in Tripoli have had an impact on preventing Emirati flights from reaching Tripoli or Misrata…