2022-06-07: News Headlines

Anonymous103 (2022-06-07). Military Situation In Ukraine On June 7, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Russia attacked military assets of the AFU near Vrubovka with high-precision missiles; | Russia attacked military assets of the AFU near Yakovlevka with high-precision missiles; | On June 6, 170 AFU members were killed and 20 armored vehicles were destroyed by the Russian Armed Forces, according to the Russian MOD; | Russian air defense systems shot down 12 Ukrainian drones near Liptsy, Streleche, Dement'evka, Borodoyarskoe, Mar'ino, Petrovskoe, Grakovo, Malye Prokhody in th…

Mike Ludwig (2022-06-07). Angela Davis Says Black Activist Anthony Gay Is Jailed on False Charges. truthout.org Famed activist and scholar Angela Davis along with anti-racist activists across the country say prominent jailhouse lawyer and Black liberation activist Anthony Gay was falsely convicted for a gun crime in order to send Gay back to prison, where Gay and his supporters say he was tortured in solitary confinement for living with untreated mental illness. | In 2018, Gay was released from an Illinois prison, where he spent 22 years in solitary confinement. To secure his release, he convinced a local state's attorney that he had been wrongly condemned to serve consecutive rather than concurrent sentences for the rest…

WSWS (2022-06-06). Spanish court summons Mike Pompeo to testify on CIA plot to kidnap or assassinate Assange. wsws.org The summons again exposes the imprisonment and planned extradition of Assange as the pseudo-legal cover for a criminal rendition operation.

Brett Wilkins (2022-06-06). Spain's High Court Demands Pompeo Testify on Alleged Plot to Kidnap or Kill Assange. commondreams.org The former U.S. secretary of state and CIA director was summoned to give testimony related to alleged spying on the jailed WikiLeaks founder by a Spanish security firm.

_____ (2022-06-05). Gina Haspel Watched Waterboarding At CIA 'Black Site'. popularresistance.org It was very difficult to watch some of my former colleagues file into the front rows in full support of the nomination of a torturer to head the CIA. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California), who had published a damning report on CIA torture in Dec. 2014, lost her nerve and let Haspel off the hook when she asked her if she had overseen the interrogation of al-Nashiri. Haspel: it's classified. And, in fact, the answer was successfully kept out of the media until now, with Mitchell's testimony. | Intelligence Committee Chair, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) waxed eloquent, telling Haspel: | "You are without a doubt the most q…

_____ (2022-06-05). Palestine Action Scotland Occupy Thales Weapons Factory In Glasgow. popularresistance.org This morning, Palestine Action Scotland made its debut — as activists took to the roof of weapons company Thales' Glasgow factory. A team of six activists scaled the site in the early hours of the morning and are currently occupying the building, rendering it unusable and forcing workers to evacuate. Inside the factory they have dismantled and destroyed factory equipment and facilities. | Thales is one of the world's largest arms companies — producing armored vehicles, missile systems and military UAVs (drones) — in particular, the Watchkeeper drone, used for surveillance and combat on captive p…

Editor (2022-06-05). John Kiriakou: The Steele Dossier and Lying to the FBI — Not Guilty as Charged. scheerpost.com By John Kiriakou / Original to ScheerPost | Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Salon was the recipient of a Clinton campaign leak about the Trump-Alpha Bank rumors in 2016. That story appeared in Slate. | Michael Sussmann, an A-list attorney who was a senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, was acquitted by a jury in the federal District Court of the District of Columbia on Tuesday. Sussmann had been accused of lying to the FBI, a crime widely considered to be a "process felony" or a "throwaway felony," something the Justice Department charges you wi…

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