Daily Archives: April 13, 2023

2023-04-13: News Headlines

Morning Star (2023-04-13). 35 MPs and Lords Demand US Attorney General Drops Charges Against Assange on Fourth Anniversary of His Imprisonment. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2023-04-13). Politicians Around the World Demand US Drop Charges Against Assange. scheerpost.com By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter Elected politicians in Australia, Brazil, Mexico, and the United Kingdom signed on to letters to United States Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding that the Justice Department drop the charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. A letter of opposition signed by four members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including …

Staff (2023-04-12). Headlines for April 12, 2023. democracynow.org Kentucky and Tennessee Officials, Incl. GOP Gov., Call for More Gun Control After Mass Shootings, EPA Moves to Accelerate Transition to All-Electric Vehicles, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Sues Jim Jordan for "Brazen and Unconstitutional Attack" on His Office, U.N. Staff in Afghanistan Unable to Go to Work Due to Taliban Ban on Working Women, IDF Kill 2 More Palestinians in West Bank as Israel Bars Jews from Al-Aqsa for Rest of Ramadan, U.K. Doctors Continue Strike Actions, Say They Are at Breaking Point, Rep. Tlaib and Other Progressives Call on DOJ to Drop Charges Against Julian Assange, Democratic Gover…

Anonymous669 (2023-04-12). Russian Air Defenses Shot Down More Than 100 Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 Combat Drones. southfront.org Illustrative image. Source: the Russian Ministry of Defense. | Russian air defenses have shot down more than 100 Bayraktar TB2 combat drones supplied by Turkey since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, Lieutenant General Andrey Demin, the commander of the Air Defense Force, deputy commander-in-chief of the Aerospace Forces, revealed in an interview with the Russian army daily newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda that was published on April 10. "There are practically no fundamental distinctions between fi…

Anonymous669 (2023-04-12). Russian Lancet Drones Takes Out Ukrainian Howitzers, Rocket Launchers & Air Defense System (Videos). southfront.org ZALA Lancet attack drone. © Marina Lystseva/TASS | The Russian military has destroyed more high-value military equipment of Kiev forces in the special operation zone with Lancet loitering munitions. | Between April 10 and 12, videos documenting several recent strikes surfaced online. The pinpoint strikes destroyed two American-made M777 towed 155 mm howitzers, a Soviet-made BM-21 Grad multiple launchers, a Czechoslovakian-made RM-70 multiple rocket launcher, a Polish-made Krab self-propelled 155…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-04-12). Senate Foreign Relations Committee cravenly rubber stamps CIA plan for more coups, assassinations, drone strikes, kidnappings and torture to save America from fabricated foreign enemies. mronline.org March 28 Hearings Provided a Platform for the CIA's "Nice Guy" Public Face, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and the Violent Coup Plotters and Regime Changers That it Supports.

Morning Star (2023-04-13). 35 MPs and Lords Demand US Attorney General Drops Charges Against Assange on Fourth Anniversary of His Imprisonment. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2023-04-13). Politicians Around the World Demand US Drop Charges Against Assange. scheerpost.com By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter Elected politicians in Australia, Brazil, Mexico, and the United Kingdom signed on to letters to United States Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding that the Justice Department drop the charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. A letter of opposition signed by four members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including …

Staff (2023-04-12). Headlines for April 12, 2023. democracynow.org Kentucky and Tennessee Officials, Incl. GOP Gov., Call for More Gun Control After Mass Shootings, EPA Moves to Accelerate Transition to All-Electric Vehicles, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Sues Jim Jordan for "Brazen and Unconstitutional Attack" on His Office, U.N. Staff in Afghanistan Unable to Go to Work Due to Taliban Ban on Working Women, IDF Kill 2 More Palestinians in West Bank as Israel Bars Jews from Al-Aqsa for Rest of Ramadan, U.K. Doctors Continue Strike Actions, Say They Are at Breaking Point, Rep. Tlaib and Other Progressives Call on DOJ to Drop Charges Against Julian Assange, Democratic Gover…

Anonymous669 (2023-04-12). Russian Air Defenses Shot Down More Than 100 Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 Combat Drones. southfront.org Illustrative image. Source: the Russian Ministry of Defense. | Russian air defenses have shot down more than 100 Bayraktar TB2 combat drones supplied by Turkey since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, Lieutenant General Andrey Demin, the commander of the Air Defense Force, deputy commander-in-chief of the Aerospace Forces, revealed in an interview with the Russian army daily newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda that was published on April 10. "There are practically no fundamental distinctions between fi…

Anonymous669 (2023-04-12). Russian Lancet Drones Takes Out Ukrainian Howitzers, Rocket Launchers & Air Defense System (Videos). southfront.org ZALA Lancet attack drone. © Marina Lystseva/TASS | The Russian military has destroyed more high-value military equipment of Kiev forces in the special operation zone with Lancet loitering munitions. | Between April 10 and 12, videos documenting several recent strikes surfaced online. The pinpoint strikes destroyed two American-made M777 towed 155 mm howitzers, a Soviet-made BM-21 Grad multiple launchers, a Czechoslovakian-made RM-70 multiple rocket launcher, a Polish-made Krab self-propelled 155…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-04-12). Senate Foreign Relations Committee cravenly rubber stamps CIA plan for more coups, assassinations, drone strikes, kidnappings and torture to save America from fabricated foreign enemies. mronline.org March 28 Hearings Provided a Platform for the CIA's "Nice Guy" Public Face, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and the Violent Coup Plotters and Regime Changers That it Supports.

Staff (2023-04-12). "Terrorism from the Sky": Burmese Junta Bombs Civilians, Killing 100, Escalating Attack on Resistance. democracynow.org Burma's military junta carried out its deadliest attack yet on civilians in rebel-held areas when it bombed a meeting of community leaders Tuesday in the Sagaing region, killing an estimated 100 people, including 30 children. The military junta has increasingly used airstrikes to crush the resistance since it seized power in 2021, often targeting schools and clinics run by the opposition. The United Nations has warned of worsening humanitarian and human rights crises in Burma, with mass arrests, torture of prisoners, the killing of civilians, and media repression. To discuss this latest attack and the ongoi…

Martin Edwin Andersen (2023-04-12). The 1st Amendment, Defense Security Cooperation Agency & the Henry A. Kissinger Connection. indybay.org Attached please find the article, "Kissinger's Culpability," published this month in The Progressive magazine. The story admirably fleshes out the already decorated U.S. federal national security and human rights whistleblower's arguably most important disclosures regarding a far-right and/or neo-Nazi cabal and a systemic pattern of self-protecting reprisal running through National Defense University (NDU) and Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) decisions against an already decorated national security whistleblower; efforts sustained by collaborationist kapos of the U.S. Merit System Protection Board (MSPB…

Staff (2023-04-12). Filipino Activist Condemns U.S. Military Drills, Warns That War with China Would Devastate Philippines. democracynow.org Protesters in the Philippines have been speaking out against the growing U.S. military presence in the country as nearly 18,000 troops from both countries take part in a massive military drill in the South China Sea. This comes as tension is escalating between the United States and China over espionage, economic competition and the war in Ukraine. The Philippines, a former U.S. colony, recently agreed to give the Pentagon access to four more of its military bases, including two located in the northern province of Cagayan about 250 miles from Taiwan. Ties between Washington and Manila have been growing closer sinc…

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