Monthly Archives: December 2021

2021-12-13: News Headlines

Editor2 (2021-12-13). Assange Suffered Stroke in UK Prison — Fiancee. orinocotribune.com WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has suffered a ministroke due to the extreme stress of fighting extradition to the US from the UK's maximum-security Belmarsh Prison, according to his fiancee Stella Moris. | Assange was diagnosed with a transient ischemic attack following one of his High Court appeal appearances via video link back on October 27, the mother of his two children

The Canary (2021-12-12). Julian Assange had a stroke in prison due to stress, fiancee says. thecanary.co Julian Assange has had a stroke in prison due to the "constant chess game" over his future, his fiancee has claimed. | "He needs to be freed": | The WikiLeaks founder is said to have suffered a stroke at the time of a High Court battle over whether or not he should be extradited to the US. He's being held at HMP Belmarsh, a high-security men's prison in South-East London. | Stella Moris, who is the mother of his two children, tweeted: | #Assange suffered a stroke on the first day of the High Court appeal hearing on October 27th. | He needs to be freed. Now. Middle East Monitor (2021-12-12). The perils of the digital age: How Facebook failed to protect Persecuted Rohingya Muslims. juancole.com By Elif Selin Calik | — ( Middle East Monitor ) — Rohingya refugees and victims are suing Facebook for $150 billion. They allege that Facebook played a key role in the brutal crackdown against Muslims in Myanmar by promoting anti-Rohingya posts. This online hate turned into real-world violence, according to the lawsuit. As stated …

_____ (2021-12-12). Incarcerated Journalists Fought Isolation And Illness To Expose Abusive Conditions. popularresistance.org In the summer of 2020 we launched a collaborative writing program to connect incarcerated writers with outside journalists and editors. Our goal was to help them publish their writing in mainstream media publications. | We began only a few weeks after COVID-19 came into San Quentin State Prison, where Rahsaan lives. We knew that COVID-19 would be an incredible threat to people incarcerated, but were unprepared for the devastation and loss ahead. At San Quentin — which became home to the largest outbreak in the country — Rahsaan became infected with the virus and experienced the mental health toll of b…

Liberation Staff (2021-12-12). Dec. 13 protests to support hunger strike against abuse in Louisiana ICE jails. liberationnews.org Protests will be held on Monday, December 13, in two press conference/rallies to call for an end to abusive treatment and denial of basic rights to refugees and migrants in Louisiana ICE detention centers.

_____ (2021-12-12). Another Bloody Day Under the Biden Immigration Regime. strategic-culture.org Sadly, I don't mean "bloody" in the informal British sense. | By Bradley DEVLIN | America's current immigration regime, created and willed into being by our elites, simply manned at the moment by the Biden administration, finds itself morally responsible for yet another tragedy. | A thought that might jump into someone's mind is the conditions in migrant detention facilities have led to an untold number of deaths. Substitute "Biden" for "Trump" in that first sentence, and it sounds exactly like allegations you heard hurled at the Trump administration from 2018 on. (Remember "kids in cages"?) But, while conditions…

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2021-12-12: News Headlines

_____ (2021-12-12). Another Bloody Day Under the Biden Immigration Regime. strategic-culture.org Sadly, I don't mean "bloody" in the informal British sense. | By Bradley DEVLIN | America's current immigration regime, created and willed into being by our elites, simply manned at the moment by the Biden administration, finds itself morally responsible for yet another tragedy. | A thought that might jump into someone's mind is the conditions in migrant detention facilities have led to an untold number of deaths. Substitute "Biden" for "Trump" in that first sentence, and it sounds exactly like allegations you heard hurled at the Trump administration from 2018 on. (Remember "kids in cages"?) But, while conditions…

_____ (2021-12-11). Assange Plans To Appeal High Court Decision Backing Extradition. popularresistance.org Attorneys for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plan to appeal to the Supreme Court in the United Kingdom after the country's appeals court overturned a decision that blocked the extradition of Assange to the United States. | The High Court of Justice was "satisfied" with diplomatic assurances offered by the U.S. government related to how Assange would be treated in jail or prison, and they stated, "There is no reason why this court should not accept the assurances as meaning what they say." | "There is no basis for assuming that the U.S.A. has not given the assurances in good faith," the High Court also insisted.

Binoy Kampmark (2021-12-11). Journalism, Assange and Reversal in the High Court. dissidentvoice.org British justice is advertised by its proponents as upright, historically different to the savages upon which it sought to civilise, and apparently fair. Such outrages as the unjust convictions of the Guilford Four and Maguire Seven, both having served time in prison for terrorist offences they did not commit, are treated as blemishes. In recent …

Judy Greenspan (2021-12-11). No compassion, no release in California prisons. workers.org Oakland, Calif. Dec. 5 — The California prison system continues to outdo itself in reckless and inhumane treatment of incarcerated people. COVID rates are spiking again in the state's prisons, due to continued policies of mass incarceration. A recent court decision has severely gutted the state's medical parole process. Now . . . |

Naomi Oreskes, Jeff Nesbit (2021-12-11). Big Oil's new strategy: Profit today, fight again tomorrow. nationofchange.org Despite countless investigations, lawsuits, social shaming, and regulations dating back decades, the oil and gas industry remains formidable.

Andrew Emett (2021-12-11). Former DEA agent sentenced to 12yrs in federal prison. nationofchange.org "While his actions represent an egregious breach of the public trust, they are in no way a reflection of the overwhelming majority of special agents who serve with honor and integrity."

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