Monthly Archives: March 2022

2022-03-16: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-03-16). Silence in the media and Labour "left" on Assange's extradition danger. wsws.org The Biden administration intends to prosecute Assange for charges under the Espionage Act with a potential sentence of 175 years in prison. This would be served in barbaric conditions, that previous judgements acknowledged could drive him to suicide.

WSWS (2022-03-16). CIA detainee Ammar al-Baluchi was used as a training prop to teach torture techniques. wsws.org A CIA document that has been declassified in the pretrial proceedings of five Guantanamo Bay defendants shows that one of the men, who was illegally rendered into US government custody in 2003, was used as a torture training prop while held in a black site in Afghanistan.

_____ (2022-03-15). UK Supreme Court Refuses Assange Appeal. popularresistance.org Julian Assange, the publisher of WikiLeaks, has been denied his petition to appeal the High Court's decision to extradite him to the United States, where he faces up to 175 years in prison for publishing U.S. state secrets that revealed evidence of American war crimes. The next possible step for Assange to forestall extradition is to ask the High Court to hear a cross appeal against the lower court's judgement. Assange's attorneys on Monday indicated that that would likely be their next step. Assange won in the magistrate's court in January 2021. That court decided not to extradite Assange based on his mental sta…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-15). UN warns of rising child casualties, worsening hunger in Yemen war and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at the severe hunger crisis and rising casualties in Yemen, the denial of Julian Assange's appeal against his extradition, and more…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-15). UK court rejects Assange's appeal against extradition, Home Office to have final say. peoplesdispatch.org Assange's lawyers are preparing to fight the case once again at the district court, on grounds that were previously raised by not considered. The Home Office decision will come after this…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-03-15). Assange's appeal against extradition rejected. peoplesdispatch.org If extradited Assange will face a federal grand jury in the US for 18 counts of charges, 17 of which are under the Espionage Act for a maximum prison sentence of 175 years.

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2022-03-15: News Headlines

Kevin Gosztola (2022-03-14). UK Supreme Court Slams Door On Assange Appeal, Extradition May Be Authorized. thedissenter.org Supreme Court in the United Kingdom (Photo:

Editor (2022-03-14). The Uyghur Podcast brought to you by a CIA torture propagandist. mronline.org On February 2nd, eagle-eyed pro-China activist Arnaud Bertrand revealed that WEghur Stories, a podcast "working to create a conversation within and about the global Uyghur diaspora" that has been aggressively promoted on Facebook and Spotify, is funded by Washington's French diplomatic mission—and that John Bair, its co-creator, co-host and producer, is a former CIA operative.

Editor (2022-03-14). Supreme Court says torture at CIA Black Site is a "State Secret" mronline.org Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo wrote in a declaration that although the enhanced interrogation techniques are no longer classified, the location of the CIA black site in question remains a state secret. Pompeo maintained that soliciting information about the involvement of Polish nationals in Zubaydah's treatment could compromise national security.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-14). Russophobia: NATO's Psychological Torture Manual and the Construction of a Single Perception. libya360.wordpress.com José Negrón Valera In Venezuela we have experience in dealing with psychological siege tactics. For 20 years, Chavismo has been subjected to a campaign of psychological torture that reached its paroxysm when, in 2017, news portals called for "hunting" and publishing the location of people the opposition identified as Chavistas.mind Today, a very dangerous strategy…

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