Daily Archives: July 8, 2021

2021-07-08: News Headlines

Juanita Ramos Ardila (2021-07-08). Whistleblowers Say Contractors Not Trained to Care for Migrant Children in Fort Bliss Detention Camp. latinorebels.com This was revealed in a July 7 Government Accountability Project report based on accounts from Laurie Elkin and Justin Mulaire, who monitored the Fort Bliss site from May 12 through June 2.

Binoy Kampmark (2021-07-08). The US Appeals the Assange Ruling. dissidentvoice.org It took over half a year, but the US government's case against Julian Assange continues its draining grind. Even the Biden administration, which claims to tolerate a free press and truthful dialogue with the fourth estate, has decided to exhaust its legal options in seeking the publisher's scalp. On July 7, the UK High Court …

Editor (2021-07-08). A Remarkable Silence: Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying. mronline.org As we have pointed out since Media Lens began in 2001, a fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission. Over the past week, a stunning example has highlighted this core property once again. | July 8, 2021…

Marlee Kokotovic (2021-07-08). UK High Court grants US permission to appeal ban on Assange extradition. nationofchange.org "The U.S. government should have accepted the Magistrates' Court's decision —instead, it keeps this case going."

_____ (2021-07-08). Will This Revelation Free Julian Assange? strategic-culture.org Key Witness In Julian Assange Case ADMITS TO LYING provides a quick overview of the case against Assange whose "crime" was being a world-class journalist and reporting the egregious war crimes of the United States that were revealed to him. However, the case has fallen apart because the primary witness (a convicted criminal) recently admitted that his testimony against Assange was entirely false.

Labor Video Projecct (2021-07-08). "Free Assange Now! On Assange's 50th Birthday Rally At UK Consulate To Demand His Freedom. indybay.org On the 50th birthday of Julian Assange, a solidarity rally was held at the UK consulate in San Francisco. Participants spoke out on the issues and also celebrated his birthday with a cake.

BayAction2FreeAssange dot com (2021-07-08). Wednesday 7/7: Corporate Media Independent Media & Investigative Journalism. indybay.org ONLINE EVENT: The monopolization of the media and the effect of corporate control of social media is a growing threat to freedom.

Sam Wainwright (2021-07-08). Why the warmongers hate Assange. greenleft.org.au The US Department of Justice's claim that the Wikileaks founder directed a complex hacking operation has exploded. Sam Wainwright argues we must continue to demand justice for Assange.

Anonymous103 (2021-07-08). The US Appeals the Assange Ruling. southfront.org Illustrative image | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark. | It took over half a year, but the US government's case against Julian Assange continues its draining grind. Even the Biden administration, which claims to tolerate a free press and truthful dialogue with the fourth estate, has decided to exhaust its legal options in seeking the publisher's scalp. | On July 7, the UK High Court of Justice agreed to hear the appeal from the US government on narrow grounds, though no date has been set for those proceedings. The Crown Pro…

Andy Kroll (2021-07-08). America's Accountability Problem. tomdispatch.com America has an accountability problem. In fact, if the Covid-19 disaster, the January 6th Capitol attack, and the Trump years are any indication, the American lexicon has essentially dispensed with the term "accountability." This should come as no surprise. After all, there's nothing particularly new about this. In the Bush years, those who created a system of indefinite offshore detention at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, those who implemented a CIA global torture program and the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance policy, not to mention those who purposely took us to war based on lies about nonexistent I…

Henry Giroux (2021-07-08). Resistance is Not Futile: Fighting Back in an Age of Manufactured Ignorance. counterpunch.org The genocide inflicted on Native Americans, slavery, the horrors of Jim Crow, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, the rise of the carceral state, the My Lai massacre and George W. Bush's torture chambers and black sites, among other historical events, now disappear into a disavowal of past events made even more unethical with the emergence of a right-wing political and pedagogical language of erasure. For example, the Republican Party's attack on the teaching of "critical race theory" — labeled as "ideological or faddish" — denies both the history of racism as well as the ways in which it is enfo…

Henry Giroux (2021-07-08). Resistance is Not Futile: Fighting Back in an Age of Manufactured Ignorance. counterpunch.org The genocide inflicted on Native Americans, slavery, the horrors of Jim Crow, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, the rise of the carceral state, the My Lai massacre and George W. Bush's torture chambers and black sites, among other historical events, now disappear into a disavowal of past events made even more unethical with the emergence of

Ramzy Baroud (2021-07-08). The People vs. Mahmoud Abbas: Are the Palestinian Authority's Days Numbered? dissidentvoice.org "The Palestinian Authority's days are numbered". This assertion has been oft repeated recently, especially after the torture to death on June 24 of a popular Palestinian activist, Nizar Banat, 42, at the hands of PA security goons in Hebron (Al-Khalil). The killing — or 'assassination' as some Palestinian rights groups describe it — of Banat, however, …

Anonymous669 (2021-07-08). Russia Tested Modern Target Acquisition System With Orion Combat Drones In Syria. southfront.org Source: mk.ru | The advanced Strelets KRUS intelligence, control and communications system provided targets for the Orion combat drone during a recent successful test in Syria, an unnamed source in the Russian military-industrial complex told the According to the source, Orion combat drones struck terrorist targets which were located with the Strelets system. The source didn't reveal when exactly the test took place. | "Compare…

Kathy Kelly (2021-07-07). Why Daniel Hale Deserves Gratitude, Not Prison. dissidentvoice.org "Pardon Daniel Hale." These words hung in the air on a recent Saturday evening, projected onto several Washington, D.C. buildings, above the face of a courageous whistleblower facing ten years in prison. The artists aimed to inform the U.S. public about Daniel E. Hale, a former Air Force analyst who blew the whistle on the …

_____ (2021-07-07). The Strange Virus Attacking Republican Governors. commondreams.org The whistleblower acted on behalf of the public's right to know what is being done in its name.

_____ (2021-07-07). Whistleblowers Allege Kids Mistreated by ServePro Contractors Hired to Oversee Detention Camp. commondreams.org It is imperative that the G20 finance ministers' meeting in Venice this week act to provide the COVID-19 vaccines needed to achieve worldwide comprehensive adult immunization by early 2022. Given current production, this should not be a problem, so long as a global plan is quickly implemented.

Saheli Chowdhury (2021-07-07). Activists Demand Assange's Freedom as Journalist and Whistleblower Turns 50 in Belmarsh Prison. orinocotribune.com July 6, 2021 (special for OrinocoTribune.com)—On Saturday, July 3, Julian Assange, the most decorated journalist of the present times, who is being persecuted by the United States for exposing its war crimes, turned 50 in Belmarsh Prison in London, United Kingdom, facing possible extradition to the US. Despite an almost complete blackout by mainstream media, which has maligned and smeared Assange over the past ten years, protests and demands for his freedom have never stopped. On his birthday this year, activists and supporters in the US and the UK as well as in his home country Australia and across countri…

Kathy Kelly (2021-07-07). Why Daniel Hale Deserves Gratitude, Not Prison. zcomm.org The whistleblower acted on behalf of the public's right to know what is being done in its name…

sputniknews (2021-07-07). WikiLeaks: US Receives 'Limited Permission' to Appeal UK Judge Decision Not to Extradite Assange. sputniknews.com In January 2021, a UK district judge rejected a US request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The decision was based on a determination that the publisher was at too high a risk of suicide or self-harm if he were to be extradited to the US.

_____ (2021-07-07). UK High Court Allows US To Appeal Ban On Assange Extradition. popularresistance.org Baraitser had ruled that Assange's physical and mental health put him at high risk of suicide if he should be sent to a U.S. prison to stand trial on charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion and of espionage in his work as a journalist publishing government secrets revealing evidence of state crimes.

Ricardo Carnevali (2021-07-07). øQué pasará con Assange tras una década de persecución y con pruebas que se caen? globalizacion.ca La veracidad de la información en la que se basa la acusación formal estadounidense contra Assange ha sido desmentida por el testigo principal. Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, testigo clave en el proceso del Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos contra Julian…

_____ (2021-07-07). Amid Record Heat, Footage Shows GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Dismissing Climate Change as 'Bullsh*t'. commondreams.org The partner of the Wikileaks founder warned Assange "is certain to lose his life if he is extradited."

_____ (2021-07-07). UK High Court Grants US Permission for Appeal in Assange Extradition Case. commondreams.org The frenzied herd of Republican governors are stampeding behind the scaremongering scheme of Abbott to use the personal suffering of Latin American migrants and asylum seekers as a political pawn.

Binoy Kampmark (2021-07-07). Thordarson's Fabrications: Another Hole in the Julian Assange Prosecution. counterpunch.org The tyrannical, brutal cynicism of keeping Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison remains one of the more inglorious marks of the British legal system and, it should be said, its sponsors and colluders. Having won his case against extradition to the US, if only in deeply qualified terms, the UK keeps the WikiLeaks publisher banged up

teleSUR (2021-07-07). UK High Court Allows US Limited Appeal on Assange Extradition. telesurenglish.net The London High Court accepted on Monday the U.S. appeal against a British judge's decision to deny the extradition of journalist Julian Assange. | RELATED: | According to Wikileaks "the US has been granted limited permission to appeal January's decision that Julian Assange should not be extradited." The extradition refusal was ruled in January on the basis that if extradited, Assange could commit suicide. The Australian journalist rema…

Labor Video Projecct (2021-07-07). "Free Assange Now! On Assange's 50th Birthday Rally At UK Consulate To Demand His Freedom. indybay.org On the 50th birthday of Julian Assange, a solidarity rally was held at the UK consulate in San Francisco. Participants spoke out on the issues and also celebrated his birthday with a cake.

BayAction2FreeAssange dot com (2021-07-07). Wednesday 7/7: Corporate Media Independent Media & Investigative Journalism. indybay.org ONLINE EVENT: The monopolization of the media and the effect of corporate control of social media is a growing threat to freedom.

Marjorie Cohn (2021-07-07). Free Press Advocates Call on Biden to Dismiss Trump's Appeal Against Assange. zcomm.org The factual basis for this case has completely fallen apart"

Nick Mottern (2021-07-07). Biden Acknowledges 'Over the Horizon' Air Attacks Planned Against Taliban. towardfreedom.org On July 2, fleeing questions from reporters about U.S. plans in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden sought refuge behind the July 4 Independence Day holiday. Yet, he obliquely acknowledged that the United States will use some level of "over the horizon" air attacks to prevent the Taliban from taking power, attacks that will include drones and manned aircraft, possibly even B-52s.

Editor (2021-07-07). G7/OTAN: Diplomacia entre ladrones. workers.org Para comprender la esencia de las reuniones en Europa, en las que Joe Biden ha estado hablando amablemente con los aliados imperialistas depredadores de Washington, debemos examinar su precedente histórico: la Conferencia de Berlín de 1884-1885 para dividir y saquear el continente africano. Reclamaciones europeas en àÅfrica, 1913. Se muestran . . . |

Anonymous669 (2021-07-07). Unidentified Drones Attacked US-Occupied Al-Omar Oil Fields In Northeastern Syria. southfront.org Illustrative image. | On July 7, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced that it had thwarted an "attack with drones" on the al-Omar oil fields in southeastern Deir Ezzor in cooperation with the US-led coalition. | Farhad Shami, head of the SDF's Office of Media and Information, claimed that the drone attack did not result in any losses. | "Initial reports confirm that the attack was thwarted and no damage was recorded," Shami said on Twitter. "Further detailed information will be published once it's received." | Local…

Anonymous007 (2021-07-07). Military Situation In Iraq On July 7, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On July 6, the Iraqi groups attacked Erbil Airport with 20 rockets and 3 suicide drones | On July 6, a logistical convoy of the US military was targeted by an IED attack in the Dhi Qar area | On July 6, two logistical convoys of the US military were targeted by IEDs in the Diwaniyah area | On July 6, a logistical convoy of the US military was targeted by an IED attack in the Fallujah area | On July 6, North Gas Company south of Kirkuk was targeted with a Katyusha rocket…

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