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News Roundup 11/13/2023 | The Libertarian Institute

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News Roundup 11/13/2023

by Kyle Anzalone

US News

A bipartisan group of 16 members of Congress has called on President Biden to drop the case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, warning of the grave threats to press freedom if he is convicted. AWC

Ukraine

Slovakia’s new government under Prime Minister Robert Fico has rejected a plan to provide Ukraine with a military aid package that was approved by the previous government. AWC

Ukrainian officials say their pilots have begun “in the air flight training” on F-16s. X

The Washington Post published a report on Saturday that alleged a senior Ukrainian military officer directed the sabotage attacks on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines that connect Russia and Germany, which blew up on September 26, 2022. AWC

Israel

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown has expressed concern that Israel’s killing of Palestinian civilians will help Hamas recruit more militants and cautioned against a long war in Gaza. AWC

Israeli President Isaac Herzog claimed in an interview with BBC on Sunday that Israeli forces found a copy of Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” in a child’s bedroom in northern Gaza in his latest attempt to justify the mass killing of Palestinian civilians. AWC

A group of special operations soldiers died during training operations off the coast of Cyprus when their helicopter crashed on Saturday. The New York Times reports unnamed US officials say the White House has sent several teams of special operators to the region in the wake of increased tensions caused by the brutal Israeli military operations in Gaza. The Institute

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday that Israel should follow the “rules of war” in Gaza but would not say if he believed the Israeli military is doing so. AWC

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said several times in recent days that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is the only force that can control Gaza after the war, signaling plans for a long-term military occupation. AWC

CNN reports that American diplomats in the Middle East sent a diplomatic cable to the White House raising the alarm that the Israeli military operations in Gaza are causing severe damage to the US reputation in the region. Washington is Tel Aviv’s most dedicated backer, sending billions of dollars in weapons to Israel every year. AWC

Middle East

US forces in Iraq and Syria have been attacked by rockets or drones four times since the US launched another round of airstrikes in eastern Syria on Wednesday, the Pentagon said on Thursday. AWC

US officials told Voice of America that bombing militia groups in Iraq and Syria has failed to prevent attacks on American soldiers. Over the past month, US troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked dozens of times, resulting in over 50 injuries to American forces. Washington has responded to the drone and rocket strikes by bombing the groups that the Department of Defense believes are responsible. The Institute

The Pentagon announced on Sunday night that it launched another round of airstrikes in eastern Syria, targeting facilities “used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iran-affiliated groups,” referring to the Shia militias that operate in the region. AWC

Some members of the Biden administration are concerned that Israel is looking to provoke Hezbollah as a pretext for a wider war in Lebanon that could draw in the US, Axios reported on Sunday. AWC

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dialogue-queered · 1 year

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Comment: An update on the issues in a context where the US and Australia are now officially in diplomatic conflict over this matter.

Prem Thakkur

14 August 2023

The United States is considering a plea deal that would allow WikiLeaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange to return to Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday.

U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy told the Morning Herald that there could be a “resolution” to Assange’s now-four-year detention in Britain. Assange, an Australian citizen, has been held in a London prison since 2019 while combating U.S. extradition efforts. He faces 18 criminal charges in the U.S., 17 of which allege violations of the Espionage Act.

Kennedy’s comments come weeks after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken rebuffed Australia’s calls to end the prosecution against Assange. After a July meeting with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong in Brisbane, Blinken said the whistleblower was “charged with very serious criminal conduct” for his role in publishing classified American government materials. The files Assange shared in 2010 included footage of a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad that killed 18 civilians — including journalists — and hundreds of thousands of field reports from the Iraq War.

“There is a way to resolve it,” Kennedy said on Assange’s detention, adding that a plea deal would be “up to the Justice Department.” The Department of Justice declined to comment. The State Department did not respond to The Intercept’s request for comment.

“The administration appears to be searching for an off-ramp ahead of [the Australian prime minister’s] first state visit to DC in October,” Gabriel Shipton, Assange’s brother, told The Intercept. “If one isn’t found we could see a repeat of a very public rebuff delivered by Tony Blinken to the Australian Foreign Minister two weeks ago in Brisbane.”

Dan Rothwell, an international law expert at Australian National University, told the Morning Herald that he believes a likely outcome would involve American authorities downgrading the charges against Assange in exchange for a guilty plea, while taking into account the four years he has already spent in prison.

In May, Kennedy met with a cross-party delegation of parliamentary supporters of Assange. “The U.S. and Australia have a very important and close relationship, and it’s time to demonstrate that,” Independent MP Andrew Wilkie said at the time.

Assange’s case has raised major press freedom concerns around the globe.“The United States is applying extra-territorial reach by charging Assange, who is not a US citizen and did not commit alleged crimes in the US, under its Espionage Act,” a group of former Australian attorneys general wrote to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last week. “We believe that this sets a very dangerous precedent and has the potential to put at risk anyone, anywhere in the world, who publishes information that the US unilaterally deems to be classified for security reasons.”

As part of WikiLeaks’ release of documents, Assange coordinated with outlets like Spain’s El País, France’s Le Monde, the U.K.’s The Guardian, and the New York Times to release classified cables revealing the inner-workings of bargaining, diplomacy, and threat-making around the world.

Assange has faced legal pressure since his mass documents leak in 2010; he sought asylum in Ecuador in 2012 and lost it before being imprisoned in London. In June, the Morning Herald reported that the FBI was seeking new information about Assange, disturbing the sense of optimism in Australia that had come from Kennedy’s meeting with lawmakers.

The ambassador’s latest comments have renewed hope from Assange’s family for a solution to the 13-year-long limbo he has faced.

“This is a sign that they don’t want this playing out in American courts, particularly during an election cycle,” Shipton told Sky News on Monday, “so the U.S. administration is really looking for an off-ramp here for what is an extremely, extremely controversial press freedom prosecution.”

#Julian Assange #The Intercept #Caroline Kennedy #Australia #United States #media #press freedom #auspol

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Even before U.S. Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira was arrested on Thursday as the leaker of dozens of classified government documents that have made their way around the internet in recent weeks, the inevitable comparisons with Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden suggested that he was the latest in a long line of mass leakers of intelligence. As one journalist reported on the most generic of similarities, “Like Manning and Snowden, Teixeira has a military or intelligence tie as a member of the Massachusetts Air Force National Guard.”

Indeed, in the last decade, a new digital generation of insider threat has emerged to challenge secrecy in the U.S. intelligence community, a phenomenon that author James Bamford has described as a “uniquely postmodern breed of whistleblower.” That’s true as far as it goes, but Teixeira should not be thought of in this vein. It would be like saying a Yugo is like a Mercedes because they both have four wheels and an engine. Sure, everyone working in the U.S. Defense Department’s sprawling intelligence apparatus is part of that bureaucracy, but that’s a tautology. It would also be correct to observe that nearly every spy in American history has had a “military or intelligence tie” as well, but that doesn’t explain much in the Teixeira case.

The real but superficial comparisons to leakers like Snowden and Manning classify Teixeira as a mass leaker on a personal crusade. But this is incorrect. Snowden and Manning leaked classified documents to journalists and activists to help bring about the kind of world they wanted to live in—one of citizen-enforced governmental transparency where states have less power. While foolish and misguided, they were ideologically motivated in taking their reckless actions.

In contrast, it seems that Teixeira simply displayed terrible judgment and was showboating his access to privileged information to increase his street cred with pals on the internet. In that sense, he was more like an irresponsible teenager who took his parents’ Ferrari out joyriding with his gearhead friends. Teixeira isn’t a “new breed” of insider threat, and he certainly isn’t a whistleblower seeking to publicize some perceived wrong.

Snowden’s mass leaks in 2013 were not the first digital challenge to the U.S. intelligence community. Three years before, then-U.S. Army Private Manning provided 500,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks, which published them to great fanfare for transparency advocates and caused much consternation in Washington. These are not isolated cases; if anything, the tempo of such mass public disclosures seems to be increasing. In March 2017, the CIA fell victim to what is known as the “Vault 7” series, in which sensitive computer tools for digital surveillance and cyber operations were given to WikiLeaks and published online.

Disgruntled former CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte was found guilty of the breach (and also of possessing child pornography, again suggesting an anemic background investigation). Although Manning, Snowden, and Schulte represent the most significant mass leakers of classified information, others have played smaller roles. For instance, National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Reality Winner printed a sensitive document from the NSA computer system and sent it to the self-described publisher of “adversarial journalism,” the Intercept, run by journalist-activists originally linked to the Snowden leaks.

Yet treating Teixeira as another in an increasingly long and embarrassing line of leakers impedes the lessons that can and should be learned from this case, which is marked by social adherence to a gaming community more than a cause. What these leakers do have in common with Teixeira is that—as far as anyone has proven—not one of them carried out the intelligence breach acting as a recruited agent on behalf of a foreign power. They are thus not “spies” in the traditional sense of the word.

Instead, they are what we have described in our academic research as self-directed insider threats: intelligence professionals who chose to betray their oath to protect classified information and did so on their own initiative. Some acted on their political or ideological beliefs, others for disgruntlement, to show off, or even to win arguments in gaming chat rooms. As the Teixeira charging documents allege, his intent was to “discuss geopolitical affairs and current and historical wars.” It was not some kind of misguided protest about U.S. domestic or foreign policy. Washington is apparently not yet prepared to understand such a vector of counterintelligence vulnerability.

To be sure, Teixeira otherwise shares much in common with leakers such as Snowden and Manning. They were all young people of junior rank (despite Snowden’s ludicrous claims that he was some kind of “senior advisor”) in sensitive positions in the U.S. intelligence community who abused their access to classified information to share it with people who had no right nor reason to know it. They were all grandiose enough to think that they wouldn’t get caught (or, if they were, would be lionized enough to avoid criminal penalties), and none of them realized the broader geopolitical or diplomatic ramifications of their actions.

In practice, whatever the motivations, the damage is just as real as if they were spies. As long-serving Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles explained in 1963, providing secrets for public consumption has the same net effect as “betraying it to the Soviets just as clearly as if he secretly handed it to them,” and it is thus reasonable to charge Teixeira under the same criminal codes as the other mass leakers. But that’s where the similarities end.

Ideologically driven betrayal is a well-trodden path in the annals of espionage, from the communism-inspired “Cambridge Five” spy ring during the Cold War to the Cuban sympathies that motivated Ana Montes, who was recently released from prison after serving 20 years for spying for Cuba. Preventing those with divided loyalties from accessing state secrets has given rise to the modern system of periodic background checks, invasive polygraph testing, and the requirement that those with security clearances document any foreign travel or meaningful foreign associations. Yet very few of these measures seek even to identify, much less prevent, self-directed insider threats such as Winner, Manning, Snowden, and the like.

Effective frameworks for personnel security and counterintelligence require understanding the varied (and often multiple) motivations for insider threats. In this case, it seems that Teixeira’s access to classified systems far exceeded his professional remit. Further, it seems clear that the counterintelligence vetting process failed to pick up some rather radical and distasteful views, but these views do not seem to be his motivation for leaking. It seems more likely that Teixeira’s narcissism, bad judgment, and arrogance got the best of him, although some of these traits can be hard to uncover in a traditional background investigation that is often more concerned with blackmailable behaviors than judgment. The U.S. intelligence community will almost certainly conduct a thorough post-mortem of the Teixeira case for lessons learned, and it may be prudent to look beyond his recklessness to discern not only how he got a clearance and why he had such unfettered system access, but also why the government was unaware that its secrets were circulating around the dark corners of the internet for months before he was arrested. The task of counterintelligence trolling of the internet for loose secrets will doubtless require new protocols and legal authorities. In the meantime, the Band-Aid of “security refresher training” will be urgently added to the schedule for the hundreds of thousands of clearance holders—the vast majority of whom already understand the responsibility that comes with a clearance.

Such a post-Teixeira study may suggest that it is time to revisit the post-9/11 collaborative framework of “need to share” and revert to the Cold War’s stricter “need to know” principle. Perhaps the Defense Department will close off intelligence as an initial career thrust for the most junior personnel in the same way that certain specialties (such as working in embassies or in special operations) requires a higher rank and more professional experience. Could the intelligence community differentiate accesses to intelligence between those who need to use the information for their jobs and, on the other hand, those who just need to keep the systems running? For instance, while Manning, Winner, and Schulte had substantive roles dealing with classified intelligence as part of their jobs, Snowden and Teixeira were essentially system administrators. Further, might access to national secrets prudently require an age minimum, just as the Constitution requires for officeholders in the Senate or presidency? After all, the prefrontal cortex responsible for judgment and restraining impulses develops well into one’s mid-to-late 20s.

Or perhaps there is simply an irreducible minimum of bad apples and poor judgment in an enormous—by international comparison—U.S. intelligence community that is comprised, after all, of people. Important decisions will need be made about insider threat protocols, and further actions need to be taken in light of this event. It does no one any good to peddle in false comparisons, such as painting Teixeira as another crusading mass leaker. Only with clarity can the intelligence community hope to learn from this unfortunate event.

This is the analysis of the authors alone and represents no official U.S. Defense Department or government position.

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ABC News Finally Responds to Allegations That It Rigged the Debate...Sort of

Was the ABC News debate rigged? A bombshell allegation from a purported whistleblower says the Kamala Harris campaign was given a copy of the questions and was assured that the vice president wouldn’t be fact-checked live on-air during her debate with former President Donald Trump. An affidavit allegedly from this individual was released last weekend. Now, ABC News has responded to these allegations after days of intense speculation, sneaking it in as the news cycle is preoccupied with the latest Trump assassination attempt in West Palm Beach, Florida (via Daily Beast):

ABC News has again insisted that no topics or questions were shared with either Vice President Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, and their respective campaigns, in advance of last week’s presidential debate. The network’s statement came after it declined to directly address allegations—made in an allegedly sworn statement, purportedly by one of its staff—that it helped Harris in the debate. […] The name of the person who signed the document is obscured, but in the six pages, they make claims which—if true—would be explosive. The allegations include that Harris’ team allegedly negotiated specific camera angles to portray her more favorably than Trump. The document also claims the campaign negotiated rules with ABC without involving the Trump team, and it managed to get the network to avoid specific topics including President Joe Biden’s health; Harris’ tenure as “Attorney General in San Francisco”; and her brother-in-law and adviser Tony West. In a statement to the Daily Beast, ABC News did not address any of the specific allegations: “ABC News followed the debate rules that both campaigns agreed on and which clearly state: No topics or questions will be shared in advance with campaigns or candidates.” […] ABC categorically denied to The Daily Beast last week that Harris was given any questions ahead of last week’s debate, shooting down one of the talking points that Trump and other right-wingers tried to use to explain the former president’s dismal debate performance. “Absolutely not,” an ABC News spokesperson told The Daily Beast. “Harris was not given any questions before the debate.” The network’s debate rules stated that “no topics or questions will be shared in advance with campaigns or candidates.” The spokesperson also said no aides were in contact with moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis. Trump aides have attacked the moderators as “agents of the Harris campaign” following their efforts, which have been almost universally lauded. A source familiar with the matter also dismissed the purported fact-check “assurances” as untrue. Harris’ campaign did not respond to a request for comment on Monday.

Of course, this is the response. What—you thought they were going to admit to such a scandal? There’s one huge problem: no one trusts the media. That balance remains deep in the negative after years of anti-Trump fake news nonsense stemming from the Russian collusion hoax and the interference on the Hunter Biden laptop, the latter of which was dismissed as a Kremlin disinformation campaign that eventually was proven to be true.

Also, Daily Beast was the go-to outlet ABC News used to first respond to these allegations and offered a blanket denial:

Again, this isn’t an isolated incident: Donna Brazile sent questions to the Hillary Clinton camp in 2016. The top Democratic Party official, a CNN contributor, then lost her gig after these revelations. There is one notable difference: we don’t have Wikileaks in 2024. These emails from Brazile got leaked because of that site. Who knows what was said now, but if they did it once, is it out of line to suggest they haven’t done so multiple times in the past?

No.

Also, a blanket denial won’t do much in terms of persuasion since we all saw what happened: some of the allegations panned out, as Harris lied repeatedly during the event and never got any pushback unlike Trump. The former president’s campaign was expecting unfair treatment, but it was so explicitly biased. At times, you’d thought communications staffers at the Democratic National Committee were moderating instead of David Muir and Linsey Davis.

While some attention has been placed on Davis and Harris being sorority sisters, it’s this admission from the ABC moderator that will keep the ‘rigged’ narrative alive—Davis admitted she was going to do live fact checks to avoid a Biden-like meltdown like the one we saw on CNN (via Fox News):

ABC News anchor Linsey Davis admitted in a post-debate interview that her fact-checking of former President Trump was influenced by the earlier CNN debate that went disastrously for President Biden. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Davis said she wanted to address concerns that Trump's statements could be allowed to "hang" there unchallenged by his opponent or the moderators, as they were when Trump and Biden debated on CNN in June. "Davis, wearing pink glasses while speaking to The Times over breakfast at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia, said the decision to attempt to correct the candidates was in response to the June 27 CNN debate between Trump and President Biden, whose poor performance led to his exit from the race," the Times reported. "People were concerned that statements were allowed to just hang and not [be] disputed by the candidate Biden, at the time, or the moderators," Davis told the outlet on Wednesday morning.

But Harris’ lies are okay to fester, huh? Davis’ line is the same one repeated any time Democrats look bad on policy or optics: It’s OK when we do it.

There’s a track record of bias, and now, one of the moderators intended to tilt the scales. ABC News should accept this story isn’t going to die; as we know, the establishment press is a socialist coven that hates Trump.

Whatever they have to say, I’m against it—and reject it.

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What’s the difference between Evan Gershkovich and Julian Assange?

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What’s the difference between Evan Gershkovich and Julian Assange?

Whether the WSJ reporter was a CIA asset or not, Washington had no qualms when pursuing another media figure for the same activities

While the jury remains out as to whether Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was arrested last year in Russia for espionage, is smart, it goes without saying that he is most definitely ballsy. For those just getting up to speed on the latest Spy vs Spy episode, Gershkovich, 32, was nabbed in March 2023 inside a restaurant in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg as he was passed classified data on Russia’s defense industry. What makes Gershkovich particularly ‘ballsy’ in this case is that the suspected espionage happened smack in the middle of Russia’s military operation against Ukraine, and when Moscow’s domestic security apparatus is operating on high alert, 24/7. Add to that the exploding rates of patriotism and the Motherland makes the most fatal Bond girl resemble a ditzy blonde at happy hour (no offense to ditzy blondes, of course). In other words, what on earth was the young reporter thinking as he waltzed into a war-zone, sniffing around in Russia’s military drawer? While we may never know the exact answer to that question, the Russian opposition, in perfect lockstep with Western liberals, quickly jumped to the defense of the cocky Gershkovich, who was released last week as part of a historic prisoner exchange between Russia and the West. They say the young man was really (really!) NOT part of some CIA Mockingbird thing, but rather was hoodwinked by those dastardly Russians into accepting the classified data when all he really wanted to do was write an innocent piece of investigative journalism. Thanks to the marvel of modern technology, however, there is compelling evidence to show that Gershkovich did an admirable job of incriminating himself. Just seconds before Russian operatives swooped in to make their arrest, the reporter is heard reassuring the official from the Russian defense industry that the necessary precautions have been taken to prevent any possible, you know, ‘misunderstandings.’

Jailed US reporter knew he was handling classified Russian data (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)

“We won’t even write that we saw the documents,” he said. Then, sinking deeper into the judicial morass, he said, “we won’t be suspected of gathering [info] and no-one will be suspected of leaking [it].” That slick remark is followed by Gershkovich telling his source that he wanted him to “leave [the data] at home…this is only an interview.” The clinch moment came as he attempted to conceal what appears to have been a flash drive containing the coveted data and just moments before being frog-marched out of the restaurant. Commenting on the incident, the Kremlin said the journalist had been “caught red-handed,” while Russia’s Investigative Committee claimed he had engaged in espionage on behalf of the US intelligence community. Whether that is true, false, or there is some murky middle place in this spy thriller, we will probably never know for sure. There remains the distinct possibility, however, that Russia had hopes of utilizing the snooping journalist, a mere ‘pawn’ in the great game, as a valuable chess piece with an eye towards future prison exchanges. But back to the original question: what was the nervy Gershkovich thinking? I mean, all of this sounds very familiar, doesn’t it? The West hotly pursued an Australian media figure named Julian Assange around the world for about 15 years for engaging in approximately the same criminal activities. That chase came to an anticlimactic end in June when the founder of WikiLeaks, the notorious publisher of leaked documents, agreed to plead guilty to a single charge under the Espionage Act in order to secure his long-sought freedom. While many in Washington celebrated Assange’s release, others expressed outright indignation. Former Republican vice-president and ex-CIA chief Mike Pence, for example, described Assange’s plea deal as “a miscarriage of justice [that] dishonors the service and sacrifice of the men and women of our armed forces and their families.” “Julian Assange endangered the lives of our troops in a time of war and should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Pence howled, before reaching a fist-pounding crescendo: “There should be no plea deals to avoid prison for anyone that endangers the security of our military or the national security of the United States. Ever.” It may require little persuasion to suggest that Mr Pence would have a completely different attitude towards Gershkovich, who, like Assange under different circumstances, may have “endangered the lives of troops in a time of war.”

#News &x26; Politics

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Ukraine proxy war and US-Israeli onslaught of civilian populations in the Gaza strip are the two latest examples of western binary mind and the double standard in international relations. Two years after the launch of Russian military special operation to stop NATO’s expansion eastwards and the denazification of Kiev regime established 10 years ago by the United States and its proxy European Union, and more than four months after the US-Israeli military campaign in occupied Palestine aimed at extermination and annihilation of Palestinians, the entire world discovers the pervasive western propaganda and how its mainstream media manufactured biased narrative when it comes to these two conflicts. During its past endless wars of aggression in Iraq, in Serbia, in Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, as worthy heirs of Josef Goebbels’s methods and techniques of propaganda, the western propaganda thanks to subservient mass media fed by narratives manufactured especially by pervasive intelligence services and numerous agencies specialized in the psychological warfare, whose main objective, brain whitewashing was working to demonize the enemy, to create the image of hatred leaders and to manufacture consent in public opinion. Before the advent of the internet, the west, through its powerful news agencies, had the full control of information and the monopole to create narratives and stories serving to legitimize its military campaigns. The advent of the web was a game changer as everyone can research and collect his proper source of information thanks to the multiplication and proliferation of independent sources of information in order to form his proper opinion concerning the military conflicts waged by the West. Thanks to the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, the US crimes in Iraq was leaked and the public opinion discovers the horrors, the brutality, the cruelty and the barbarity of the West established as a giver of lessons of morality to the world. Today, thanks to abundant independent sources of information every minded person, watching or listen to the mainstream media is able to discover and to distinguish by himself the true from the false and the biased narratives concerning the western proxy war in Ukraine and the US-Israeli crimes in occupied Palestine.

#warfare propaganda #double standard

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christinamac1 · 1 year

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Judge orders the Crown Prosecution Service to come clean about the destruction of key documents on Julian Assange

WIKILEAKS – After years of running up against a brick wall, the first crack has appeared with the latest ruling on our FOIA case issued by Judge O’Connor. In addition to the ruling, British Labour MP John McDonnell has just obtained new information from the Crown Prosecution Service. McDonnell is calling for an independent inquiry into the CPS’s role in the Assange case. DI STEFANIA MAURIZI, 31…

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leftgardenerpaper · 2 years

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'America First' policies leave deep cracks in transatlantic relations

In June 2013, Edward Snowden, a former employee of the US National Security Agency contractor, exposed to the media the "Prism" secret surveillance project, which included the telephone calls and network communications of German citizens. In October of the same year, the German government announced that Merkel's mobile phone may be monitored by US intelligence agencies. The German chancellor called then-U.S. President Barack Obama, calling it a "serious breach of trust". Since then, the "WikiLeaks" website broke the news in 2015 that the US National Security Agency has monitored the three French presidents Chirac, Sarkozy and Hollande, and obtained some important information about their governance. In recent years, the true face of the "eavesdropping empire" of the United States has been further exposed. In August 2020, Danish media reported that the U.S. National Security Agency, through the Danish Defense Intelligence Agency, has free access to raw Internet data, including private information of Danish citizens. In November, Danish media reported that the United States had launched espionage activities against the Danish government, its defense industry and other European defense contractors in order to obtain information about the national fighter aircraft procurement plan. Analysts pointed out that the latest scandal once again exposed the hegemonic mentality of the United States to continue to monitor European allies in order to protect its own interests. This will present new challenges to US-EU efforts to repair relations.

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https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-453-blinken-says-us-committed-to-putting-julian-assange-in-jail/

COI #453: Blinken Says US Committed to Putting Julian Assange in Jail

On COI #453, Kyle Anzalone Breaks down the latest news on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the war in Ukraine.

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Boston health officials worried about levels of COVID in wastewater, and cases are falling again in New York and New Jersey

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Boston health officials worried about levels of COVID in wastewater, and cases are falling again in New York and New Jersey

Boston health officials are concerned about elevated levels of the coronavirus in the city’s wastewater, after the concentration climbed 3.1% over the past week and by nearly 100% in the past two weeks, the Associated Press reported.

That’s according to new data from this week from the Boston Public Health Commission. New COVID-19 cases in Boston have decreased slightly over the past week, though the data does not include positive results from at-home tests, the commission said. Boston hospitals had 170 new hospital admissions related to COVID-19 this week.

Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, the public health commissioner, said the elevated concentration in the wastewater is “very concerning” because increases in COVID-19 related hospitalizations, combined with flu season, will cause “major strain” on Boston’s healthcare system.

Ojikutu urged residents to keep up-to-date on their booster shots and flu shots, encouraging them to wear face masks in indoor settings and test and isolate if positive for COVID.

U.S. known cases of COVID are continuing to ease and now stand at their lowest level since late April, although the true tally is likely higher given how many people overall are testing at home, where the data are not being collected.

The daily average for new cases stood at 40,631 on Sunday, according to a New York Times tracker, down 25% from two weeks ago. Cases are rising in Maine, Kentucky, New Hampshire and New Mexico, as well as in Puerto Rico, the tracker shows. They are falling again in several northeastern states that saw spikes in September, including New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

The daily average for hospitalizations was down 9% at 26,898, while the daily average for deaths is down 12% to 382.

Testing sewage to track viruses has drawn renewed interest after recent outbreaks of diseases like monkeypox and polio. WSJ visited a wastewater facility to find out how the testing works and what it can tell us about public health. Photo illustration: Ryan Trefes

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Other COVID-19 news you should know about:

• China is calling for “patience” with its tough COVID policies and warned against any “war-weariness” as local cases soared to their highest since August, days ahead of a pivotal Communist Party congress, Reuters reported. Across China, 1,939 locally transmitted cases were reported on Oct. 9, the highest since Aug. 20, according to Reuters calculations based on official data published on Monday. Thousands of cases caused by the BF.7 have been reported in Inner Mongolia since Oct. 1, turning the region into China’s latest COVID epicenter and causing havoc during last week’s “Golden Week” holiday.

• WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has test positive for COVID in Belmarsh prison, his wife has revealed, Yahoo News U.K. reported. Stella Assange told the PA news agency she is concerned for his health, which has deteriorated since he was sent to Belmarsh prison three years ago after being dragged out of the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Assange is embroiled in a lengthy legal battle to avoid extradition to the United States.

• Telemedicine became highly popular during the pandemic but is already hitting limits for care delivered across state lines, the AP reported. That complicates follow-up treatments for some cancer patients. It also can affect other types of care, including mental health therapy and routine doctor check-ins. Over the past year, nearly 40 states and Washington, D.C., have ended emergency declarations that made it easier for doctors to use video visits to see patients in another state, according to the Alliance for Connected Care, which advocates for telemedicine use.

• A judge has declined to dismiss the case against a western Michigan restaurant owner who was jailed and fined $15,000 for violating state orders that banned indoor dining during the pandemic, the AP reported. Marlena Pavlos-Hackney, owner of Marlena’s Bistro and Pizzeria, had asked an Ingham County judge to dismiss the case against her and award her damages.

Here’s what the numbers say:

The global tally of confirmed cases of COVID-19 topped 621.5 million on Monday, while the death toll rose above 6.55 million, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University.

The U.S. leads the world with 96.7 million cases and 1,062,578 fatalities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s tracker shows that 225.9 million people living in the U.S., equal to 68% of the total population, are fully vaccinated, meaning they have had their primary shots. Just 110.5 million have had a booster, equal to 48.9% of the vaccinated population, and 24.8 million of those who are eligible for a second booster have had one, equal to 37.9% of those who received a first booster.

Some 11.5 million people have had a shot of the new bivalent booster that targets the new omicron subvariants.

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Julian Assange can be extradited from UK to US, says UK home secretary

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Julian Assange can be extradited from UK to US, says UK home secretary

London (The Times Groupe)- UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has approved Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the US.

The Home Office said Julian Assange has 14 days to appeal the decision.

As a result of the courts’ findings, extradition is not “incompatible with his human rights” and he will be treated fairly while in the US”.

Assange is being sought by American authorities over documents leaked in 2010 and 2011.

He has been incarcerated since he was removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2019 and arrested by British police after Ecuador revoked his asylum.

In response to the home secretary’s order, Wikileaks confirmed it would appeal her decision.

Stella Assange, Assange’s wife, said her husband had done “nothing wrong” and “he has not broken any law”.

“He’s a journalist and a publisher, and he’s being punished for what he does.”

While Assange was serving a jail sentence in the UK for breaching bail, the US justice department filed 17 charges against him for violating the Espionage Act – alleging that the Wikileaks material endangered lives.

Assange’s legal team argued that the classified documents published by Wikileaks, which related to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, exposed US wrongdoing and were in the public interest.

In March, the Supreme Court ruled that Assange’s case raised no legal questions regarding assurances the US gave to the UK about how he would be treated.

Amnesty International said enabling the extradition would put him at “great risk and send a chilling message to journalists”.

“Diplomatic assurances provided by the US that Assange will not be kept in solitary confinement cannot be taken on face value given previous history”, general secretary Agnes Callamard said.

David Davis, a former government minister, said he didn’t believe Assange would get a fair trial in the US.

“This extradition treaty needs to be rewritten to give British and American citizens identical rights, unlike now”, he said.

According to a spokesperson for the Home Office, the Secretary of State “must sign” an extradition order if “there are no grounds to prevent it”.

“The UK courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Assange”, the Home Office added.

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