Daily Archives: April 27, 2023

2023-04-27: News Headlines

Editor (2023-04-27). Joe Lauria: State Dept. & Senate Leaders Troll Assange. scheerpost.com Increasing pressure is being brought by politicians and the public on the DOJ to drop the charges against Julian Assange. Despite some progress, the political obstacles are formidable.

Collin P. Poirot, Azadeh Shahshahani (2023-04-27). The DOJ is using "foreign agents" accusations to repress Black liberation organizers. therealnews.com This piece was originally published in On July 29, 2022, Omali Yeshitela and his wife, Ona Zene, awoke at 5 o'clock in the morning to the sound of flash grenades and drones, as heavily armed FBI agents stormed into their home searching for evidence of organizational ties to the Russian government. Yeshitela is the 80-year-old chair of the African People's Socialist Party, a Pan-Africanist political party f…

Editor (2023-04-26). The US and War Crimes in the War on Terror. scheerpost.com By Melvin Goodman / CounterPunch "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." — Thucydides, 5th Century BC. For the past two decades, the International Criminal Court has concentrated on the war crimes and criminals who have operated in Africa. Over the past month, however, the court has issued an …

WSWS (2023-04-27). UK: University of Sheffield paid private investigators £40,000 to spy on anti-war students. wsws.org As NATO's war against Russia in Ukraine escalates, Britain's ruling class is stepping up the militarisation of higher education and research institutions, already deeply integrated with the armed forces and private military contractors.

Kevin Gosztola (2023-04-27). The Myth Of Daniel Ellsberg As The 'Good Leaker'. thedissenter.org The following article was made possible by paid subscribers. Support independent journalism on whistleblowers and press freedom and Even as Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg closes in on the end of an incredible and impactful life, the Washington Post and the pundit class still cannot resist using Ellsberg as a prop to misleadingly assert that he is history's best example of a "Good Leaker." | Devlin Barrett, a national security correspondent who covers the FBI and the United States Justice Department for…

Ashley Gjà∏vik (2023-04-26). Whistleblowers Are the Conscience of Society, Yet Suffer Gravely For Trying to Hold the Rich and Powerful Accountable For Their Sins. covertactionmagazine.com Why Don't More People Support Whistleblowers? …Legislatures Should Provide the Protections They Deserve [Author's Note: I blew the whistle and was met with an experience so destructive that I did not have the words to describe what happened to me. I set out to learn if what happened to me is a known phenomenon and, …

ecns.cn (2023-04-27). China revises Counter-Espionage Law, defining cyber-attacks against state organs as spy activities. ecns.cn The revised law refines the definition of espionage activities, explicitly categorizing "collaborating with spy organizations and their agents" and "conducting cyber-attacks against state organs, confidential-related units, or critical information infrastructure and etc." as espionage activitie…

ecns.cn (2023-04-26). Counter-Espionage Law revised to better safeguard national security. ecns.cn A revision to the Counter-Espionage Law was adopted by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, on Wednesday as it wrapped up its latest session in Beijing.

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