2023-07-19: News Headlines

Kevin Gosztola (2023-07-19). CIA-Linked Security Company Targeted Former Ecuador President Who Granted Assange Asylum. thedissenter.org

Maximillian Alvarez (2023-07-19). He tried to raise the alarm about railroad safety. Then he got fired. therealnews.com When we hear the term "whistleblower," we tend to think of names like Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange—people who have risked their freedom, even their lives, to expose government lies, abuses of power, and state secrets that the public needs to know about. But there are a range of federal statutes designed to protect those who blow the whistle on their employers, too, especially when those employers are breaking the law and/or endangering their workers and the public. | Michael Paul Lindsey II is a military veteran who has worked for Union Pacific as a trained locomoti…

Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. (2023-07-18). Assange Is 'Dangerously Close' To Extradition For Revealing Crimes. popularresistance.org For nearly five years, publisher and journalist Julian Assange has fought extradition to the United States where he faces 175 years in prison for revealing evidence of U.S. war crimes. | Instead of protecting freedom of the press, to which he pledged allegiance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in April, Joe Biden is continuing Donald Trump's prosecution of Assange under the infamous Espionage Act. James Ball is one of at least four journalists that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI are pressuring to cooperate with the prosecution of Assange, Ball wrote in Rolling Stone.

Editor (2023-07-18). Julian Assange Is 'Dangerously Close' to Extradition for Revealing US War Crimes. scheerpost.com

Dave DeCamp (2023-07-19). US Announces $1.3 Billion Weapons Package for Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The Biden administration announced on Wednesday a new $1.3 billion weapons package for Ukraine that includes air defense systems, kamikaze drones, missiles, and other equipment. The package is being provided to Ukraine through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which allows the US to purchase arms for Ukraine. The Pentagon said the announcement represents the beginning …

Anonymous103 (2023-07-19). Ukraine's Recent Attacks On Crimea (Map Update). southfront.org On July 17, the AFU attacked the Crimean Bridge with two naval drones. Two civilians were killed, a 14 years old girl was wounded; | On July 17, a Ukrainian strike UAV was found near the Port Kavkaz near the Crimean Bridge; | On July 16, the Russian Army thwarted the AFU attacks on Sevastopol with 7 UAVs and 2 surface drones. All drones were destroyed or downed; | On July 18, Russian forces shot down 28 UAVs near Crimea; | On July 19, a fire broke out at a military w…


Staff (2023-07-19). Headlines for July 19, 2023. democracynow.org Trump Says He's the Target of Federal Criminal Probe of Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election, Michigan Attorney General Charges 16 GOP "Fake Electors" with Felonies, Chinese Coal Consumption Hits Record High as Temperatures Soar, Floodwaters Lap Walls of India's Taj Mahal; Heat Index in Iran Tops 150 ∞F, Wildfires Erupt in Greece as Europe Swelters in Record Heat, ACLU Asks Court to Release Children from Angola Prison as Heat Index Tops 130 ∞, Whistleblower Says Texas Officers Were Ordered to Push Migrant Children into Rio Grande, ICC to Probe Reports of Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur…


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