Mick Hall, Consortium News. (2023-10-08). New Zealand's 'Russian Edits Scandal'. popularresistance.org In this tumultuous time of war and global conflict, where pervasive propaganda campaigns mask geopolitical machinations of the powerful and serve their interests, mainstream journalists' ability to counter these campaigns have never been more limited. | Gone are the days when John Pilger was able to have a story attacking George W. Bush and Tony Blair's invasion of Iraq on the front page of the British tabloid, the Daily Mirror. | We live in a time of state surveillance and creeping restrictions on freedom of speech, where whistleblowers are criminalised and publishers like Julian Assange face persecution and lif…

teleSUR, lfb, JDO (2023-10-07). Liga àÅrabe condena ataque terrorista contra Siria. telesurtv.net El ataque contra el Colegio Militar de Homs fue ejecutado mediante el uso de drones cargados de explosivos. En la instalación tenía lugar la graduación de un grupo de oficiales.

teleSUR, lfb (2023-10-08). EE.UU. envía portaaviones y destructores para apoyar a Israel. telesurtv.net Washington también tomará "medidas para aumentar los escuadrones de aviones de combate F-35, F-15, F-16 y A-10 de la Fuerza Aérea en la región".

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-10-07). Agricultural project benefits women in eastern province of Cuba. plenglish.com Guantanamo, Cuba, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) An agro-ecological urban project based on women's economic empowerment is contributing to local human development, environmental sustainability and the quality of life in this eastern Cuban province.

Diego Ramos, Max Jones, Scheer Post. (2023-10-09). Is The Intercept A Deep State Success Story? popularresistance.org Max Jones and Diego Ramos welcome former CIA analyst and torture program whistleblower John Kiriakou. After bringing a much needed reminder of the history of the torture program following the latest 9/11 anniversary on the Scheer Intelligence podcast, we wanted to ask John about the state of the media's relationship with whistleblowers and taking the case of the Intercept's controversial handling of multiple whistleblower accounts as a shining example of the eroding ethics and competence of journalism in the US. John takes us through his personal history with the media, shedding his wisdom on where we're at in th…

Editor (2023-10-08). Is the Intercept a Deep State Success Story? (w/ John Kiriakou). scheerpost.com

anonimo (2023-10-07). Human remains found near former torture center in Chile. plenglish.com Santiago de Chile, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) The owner of a house that borders a former torture center of the Chilean military dictatorship discovered human remains and war ammunition in its loft, it was learned here recently.

Party for Socialism, Liberation (2023-10-07). PSL statement: Free Palestine, free all Palestinian political prisoners, end all U.S. aid to the Israeli apartheid regime! liberationnews.org The unrelenting oppression, murder, torture and occupation carried out by the Israeli apartheid regime has precipitated a counter-offensive by Palestinian resistance forces.

Ed Rampell (2023-10-08). Nuclear Power Plant is Ground Zero in SOS — THE SAN ONOFRE SYNDROME. counterpunch.org In the ensuing interview Jim Heddle references a "nuclear revival," a phenomenon which has also recently been occurring in different mediums. Christopher Nolan's all-star epic Oppenheimer dramatizes the creation of the atomic bomb and the fallout from it. Steve James' A Compassionate Spy chronicles espionage conducted by the Manhattan Project's youngest physicist at Los Alamos. Oliver Stone's documentary Nuclear Now argues in favor of nuclear energy as a supposed solution to the climate emergency. Janice Haaken's new film Atomic Bamboozle: The False Promise of a Nuclear Renaissance looks at the downside of thi…

Alex Bainbridge (2023-10-06). Momentum builds to free Assange. greenleft.org.au A cross-party delegation of Australian politicians visited the United States in September to lobby for an end to US attempts to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, reports Alex Bainbridge.

Eve Ottenberg (2023-10-06). Past Time to End the Persecution of Julian Assange. counterpunch.org It's long past time for the U.S. and U.K. to free Julian Assange. His flagrantly unjust incarceration is a global scandal, and the world is quite upset about it. Indeed, on September 19 at the United Nations, heads of state denounced this phony prosecution for the fraud and subterfuge it is — an assault on

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-10-05). Journalism Itself Is Locked Up In Belmarsh. caitlinjohnstone.com.au To accept the persecution of Julian Assange is to accept the idea that all media everywhere must function as propaganda organs of the US government.

Margaret Flowers (2023-10-05). Julian Assange May Be Extradited to the United States This Month. orinocotribune.com

presstv.ir (2023-10-06). Iran conducts first drone on drone combat operation. presstv.ir Iranian drones engage in the first aerial combat mission involving another drone.

presstv.ir (2023-10-05). Iran's kamikaze, combat drones destroy all targets during drill. presstv.ir The spokesman of the Iranian Army's joint exercise says homegrown kamikaze and combat drones have successfully hit all their targets during the maneuver.

presstv.ir (2023-10-05). IRCG chief: Iran's AI-powered drones capable of targeting far-off enemy vessels. presstv.ir The chief commander of the IRGC says Iran's AI-powered drones can hit enemy vessels sailing thousands of miles away.

presstv.ir (2023-10-05). Iran conducts first drone on drone combat operation. presstv.ir Iranian drones engage in the first aerial combat mission involving another drone.

William D. Hartung, TomDispatch. (2023-10-05). AI Goes To War. popularresistance.org On August 28th, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks chose the occasion of a three-day conference organized by the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), the arms industry's biggest trade group, to announce the "Replicator Initiative." Among other things, it would involve producing "swarms of drones" that could hit thousands of targets in China on short notice. Call it the full-scale launching of techno-war. | Her speech to the assembled arms makers was yet another sign that the military-industrial complex (MIC) President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about more than 60 years ago is still alive, a…

teleSUR, dcdc, JDO (2023-10-06). Condenan ataque con drones contra academia militar en Siria. telesurtv.net Gobierno sirio decreta tres días de luto público y oficial, a partir de este 6 de octubre, periodo durante el cual las banderas ondearán a media asta en todo el país.

Karen J. Greenberg (2023-10-05). Why Is the US Taking So Long to Close Guantánamo? truthout.org For 18 years, I've been writing articles for TomDispatch on the never-ending story of the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility. And here's my ultimate takeaway (for the moment): 21 years after that grim offshore prison of injustice was set up in Cuba in response to the 9/11 attacks and the capture of figures supposedly linked to them, and despite the expressed desire of three presidents — George W. |