Daily Archives: October 4, 2021

2021-10-04: News Headlines

Staff (2021-10-04). Headlines for October 4, 2021. democracynow.org Rallies Across U.S. Call for Reproductive Justice Amid GOP Assault on Abortion, U.S. Tops 700K COVID Deaths; CA Announces Student Vaccine Mandate as NYC Educator Mandate Starts, Major Orange County Oil Spill Blankets Beaches, Kills Wildlife, Pandora Papers Expose Secret Financial Dealings of World Leaders, Billionaires and Other Elites, Facebook Whistleblower Says Co. Repeatedly Put Profit Over Safety, Calls for Regulations, Kabul Blast Kills Five People as Afghan Humanitarian Crisis Grows, 8 Killed at Indian Farmworker Protest, 4,000 Refugees, Including Children, Arrested in Raids by Libyan Authorities, 3 Millio…

WSWS (2021-10-04). Fifteen years since Assange established WikiLeaks. wsws.org The anniversary is being marked by Assange's continuing imprisonment and a media blackout of revelations that the American government plotted to assassinate the WikiLeaks founder.

Mirko C. Trudeau (2021-10-04). Pompeo admitió que la CIA conspiró para secuestrar y matar a Julian Assange. globalizacion.ca Mike Pompeo, exdirector de la CIA y exsecretario de Estado del gobierno de Donald Trump reconoció que cuando la agencia de inteligencia estaba a su cargo, conspiró para secuestrar y matar al fundador de Wikileaks, el australiano Julian Assange, y…

Jonathan Cook (2021-10-04). The CIA Plan to Poison Assange Wasn't Needed. The US Found a 'Lawful' Way to Disappear Him. counterpunch.org Assange has not been deprived of his freedom for more than a decade because of an unimplemented rogue operation by the CIA. Rather, he has been held in various forms of captivity — disappeared — through the collaborations of various national governments and their intelligence agencies, aided by legal systems and the media, that have systematically violated his rights and legal due process.

Dr. T. P. Wilkinson (2021-10-04). The Military and Intelligence Origins of Public Health. The Pharmaceutical Branch of the Military Industrial Complex. globalresearch.ca

Sundance (2021-10-04). Video: Attorney Thomas Renz Releases Medicare and Pfizer Whistleblower Data: Vaccine Related Injuries and Deaths Far More Widespread Than Reported. globalresearch.ca

sputniknews (2021-10-04). Facebook Whistleblower Reveals Identity, Details How Platform Prioritizes Profit Over Public Safety. sputniknews.com Frances Haugen, a former product manager hired to combat election interference on Facebook, appeared on CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday, outing herself as the whistleblower who supplied the Wall Street Journal with internal Facebook documents that became the framework for a wide-ranging investigative series.

_____ (2021-10-03). What The Yahoo! Assange Report Got Wrong. popularresistance.org The Yahoo! News report that is mistakenly being credited for breaking the story of a CIA plot to assassinate or kidnap WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is filled with crucial errors, while at the same time providing important new details about inside-Washington deliberations on how the plot came about.

Caitlin Johnstone (2021-10-03). Pompeo Effectively Admits to Assange Allegations. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — Sep 29, 2021 | In the process of issuing another not-really-a-denial about a Here are some quotes from th…

_____ (2021-10-03). The Legacy Of Corporate Democrats. popularresistance.org "The election of Donald Trump to the presidency can be directly tied to the policies implemented by Barack Obama and Joe Biden during their eight years in office. Rather than confront Wall Street and the bankers who were responsible for the global financial crash of 2007 and 2008, they bailed them out. Rather than halt the military adventurism that led to the debacles in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya, they backed and expanded the wars, including the use of military drones."

Anonymous669 (2021-10-03). Iranian-Backed Forces Are Training On Drones In Eastern Syria — Report. southfront.org illustrative image. | The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is training pro-government fighters in the eastern Syrian governorate of Deir Ezzor on the use of drones, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on October 3. | According to the London-based monitoring group, 25 fighters are taking part in the training course which is being held at a farm located in the outskirts of the town of al-Mayadin in southern Deir Ezzor. | Iranian officers are reportedly training pro-government fighters on fiv…

Abdul Rahman (2021-10-03). Guantanamo bay and the legacy of global "War on Terror" peoplesdispatch.org The failure of the successive governments in the US to shut Gitmo in which the majority of the detainees, past and present, were never charged with any crime formally, even after spending years in prison and suffering inhuman acts of torture, exposes their complete disregard to human rights.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-10-03). Guantanamo Bay and the Legacy of the Global "War on Terror" libya360.wordpress.com Abdul Rahman Detainees upon arrival at Camp X-Ray, January 2002. Photo: Shane T. McCoy, U.S. Navy The failure of the successive governments in the US to shut Gitmo in which the majority of the detainees, past and present, were never charged with any crime formally, even after spending years in prison and suffering inhuman acts…

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