(2022-02-21). UN special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer speaks on book, The Trial of Julian Assange. wsws.org Melzer provided a devastating indictment not only of the treatment of Assange, but of contemporary capitalist society and its claim to democratic rule based on "checks and balances".
(2022-02-21). At OAS, Nicaragua condemns US police brutality, racism, torture in Guantánamo prison. multipolarista.com Nicaragua condemned the hypocrisy of the OAS "Ministry of the Colonies" for obsessively demonizing his country while doing nothing about racist US police brutality and torture at Guantánamo or the mass graves of Indigenous children in Canada.
(2022-02-21). Credit Suisse Slams 'Concerted Effort to Discredit Bank' by Failed Due Diligence Claims in Data Leak. sputniknews.com The massive trove of data on more than 18,000 bank accounts, opened between the 1940s and the 2010s, was leaked by a self-described whistleblower to the German newspaper Sàºddeutsche Zeitung, which shared it with a nonprofit journalism group, the Organsed Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.