2023-03-11: News Headlines

John Pilger (2023-03-10). The Betrayers of Julian Assange. globalresearch.ca

John Pilger (2023-03-10). John Pilger: The Betrayers of Julian Assange. mintpressnews.com I have known Julian Assange since I first interviewed him in London in 2010. I immediately liked his dry, dark sense of humour, often dispensed with an infectious giggle. He is a proud outsider: sharp and thoughtful. We have become friends, and I have sat in many courtrooms listening to the tribunes of the state …

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-11). Ukraine demands "incredible amount" of new Turkish combat drones — DM. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Daily SabahMarch 6, 2023 Ukraine needs 'incredible amount of drones,' defense chief says Ukraine's defense chief said on Monday that his country needed "an incredible amount of drones," as Moscow's war with Kyiv rages on into its second year. "This is also a game changer. Both drones for reconnaissance and adjustment, shock drones from 3 …

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-03-10). Six War Mongering Think Tanks and the Military Contractors That Fund Them. orinocotribune.com

Martin Edwin Andersen (2023-03-11). Torture, Murder and Security Clearances at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. indybay.org The news out of the democratic republic of Chile this week is that the conviction of Jaime Garcia Covarrubias—the former National Defense University / Defense Security Cooperation Agency professor who was since 2008 the target of the Petitioner's disclosures through the NDU/DSCA chain of command—for the torture and murder of an unarmed detainee was upheld by that country's Supreme Court. | Garcia Covarrubias has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his authorship of that crime, one of two involving the torture and clandestine murder of unarmed detainees for which he has already been convicted a…

americanthinker (2023-03-10). Bernie Sanders breathes new life into the Communist Manifesto. americanthinker.com A review of Bernie Sanders's new book, so you don't have to torture yourself reading it.

John Pilger (2023-03-10). The Betrayers of Julian Assange. globalresearch.ca

John Pilger (2023-03-10). John Pilger: The Betrayers of Julian Assange. mintpressnews.com I have known Julian Assange since I first interviewed him in London in 2010. I immediately liked his dry, dark sense of humour, often dispensed with an infectious giggle. He is a proud outsider: sharp and thoughtful. We have become friends, and I have sat in many courtrooms listening to the tribunes of the state …

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-11). Ukraine demands "incredible amount" of new Turkish combat drones — DM. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Daily SabahMarch 6, 2023 Ukraine needs 'incredible amount of drones,' defense chief says Ukraine's defense chief said on Monday that his country needed "an incredible amount of drones," as Moscow's war with Kyiv rages on into its second year. "This is also a game changer. Both drones for reconnaissance and adjustment, shock drones from 3 …

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-03-10). Six War Mongering Think Tanks and the Military Contractors That Fund Them. orinocotribune.com

Martin Edwin Andersen (2023-03-11). Torture, Murder and Security Clearances at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. indybay.org The news out of the democratic republic of Chile this week is that the conviction of Jaime Garcia Covarrubias—the former National Defense University / Defense Security Cooperation Agency professor who was since 2008 the target of the Petitioner's disclosures through the NDU/DSCA chain of command—for the torture and murder of an unarmed detainee was upheld by that country's Supreme Court. | Garcia Covarrubias has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his authorship of that crime, one of two involving the torture and clandestine murder of unarmed detainees for which he has already been convicted a…

americanthinker (2023-03-10). Bernie Sanders breathes new life into the Communist Manifesto. americanthinker.com A review of Bernie Sanders's new book, so you don't have to torture yourself reading it.

Makaelah Walters (2023-03-10). Moms Urge IL Leaders to Pardon Survivors of Police Torture, Wrongful Convictions. truthout.org Ten parents (nine mothers and one father) make up Mothers of the Kidnapped (MOK), the feminist abolitionist collective partnering with the United Nations to demand Illinois officials pardon all survivors of police torture and wrongful convictions. Their sons are 10 of more than 500 people whose cases have piled up on the desks of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Cook County State's Attorney Kim… |

Pavan Kulkarni (2023-03-10). Shot and tortured by police, Communist Party of Swaziland's Mvuselelo Mkhabela escapes, calls for continued anti-monarchist resistance. peoplesdispatch.org Speaking to Peoples Dispatch from his hideout, the 21-year-old narrated how he escaped from the police and made it to safety with the help of his comrades, following hours of torture, after being shot by the King's police while leading a pro-democracy protest…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-03-11). Unauthorized Disclosure: Brian Becker. thedissenter.org Brian Becker, antiwar activist and national director for the ANSWER Coalition, reflects on the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War.

Kevin Gosztola (2023-03-10). Hearing Brings Attention To US Agency's Effort To Compel Twitter To Identify Journalists Working On 'Twitter Files'. thedissenter.org A hearing convened by a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee brought further attention to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) effort to compel Twitter to identify "all journalists and other members of the media" who have had access to any files from Twitter. | Matt Taibbi, the most prominent journalist who has spent several months combing through hundreds of thousands of files, said he found the FTC's request to be "scary.""I think it's none of the government's business which journalists a private company talks to and why," Taibbi declared. "I think every journa…

Kevin Gosztola (2023-03-10). March To Iraq War, 20 Years Later: March 10, 2003. thedissenter.org The Dissenter Newsletter recalls each day in the timeline of events that led up to the US invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003, twenty years ago…

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