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Chile: 5 Dead In A Week As Violent Repression Continues

February 4, 2020 Staff, Telesurenglish.net , ,
Chile has faced one of its most violent weeks after five people have died due to the increase of violence and repression in the hands of the militarized police (Carabineros). The deaths took place in different locations of Santiago. So far, 31 deaths have been registered since  Oct. 18 when demonstrations began against the measures promoted by the current neoliberal government. 

The Assange Precedent: The Spark That Lit The Fire In The War On Journalism

January 31, 2020 By Nozomi Hayase, Commondreams.org , ,
At the hearing on Thursday, at Westminster in London, the timetable for Julian Assange’s US extradition case was worked out. Assange’s US legal teams made an application to have the extradition hearing split. His defense lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald, emphasized to the court that they won’t be ready to call the main body of their evidence until after the first week of the hearing, which is now set to start at the end of February.

Snowden Warns Targeting Of Greenwald And Assange Shows Governments ‘Ready To Stop The Presses—If They Can’

January 29, 2020 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org , , ,
In an op-ed published Sunday night by the Washington Post, National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden connected Brazilian federal prosecutors' recent decision to file charges against American investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald to the U.S. government's efforts to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. "The most essential journalism of every era is precisely that which a government attempts to silence. These prosecutions demonstrate that they are ready to stop the presses—if they can."

Over 40 Press Freedom And Civil Liberties Groups Denounce Brazil’s Charges Against Glenn Greenwald

January 28, 2020 Parker Higgins, Freedom.press , ,
In an open letter today, more than 40 press freedom and civil liberties groups strongly condemned the “cybercrime” charges against Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald and demanded that Brazilian authorities renounce them immediately. The letter was organized by Freedom of the Press Foundation and Reporters Without Borders, and it includes prominent members of the human rights, civil liberties, and press freedom organizations from Brazil and around the world.

The Empire’s War On Oppositional Journalism Continues To Escalate

January 24, 2020 Staff, Caitlinjohnstone.com , ,
It is not surprising that Brazil is advancing the same war on journalism we’ve been seeing in the US, UK, Australia and France. With the election of the overtly fascist Jair Bolsonaro in October 2018 (an election whose corrupt foundations were exposed by Greenwald’s reporting with The Intercept Brasil), the Brazilian government moved into full alignment with the the US-centralized empire, which was why his inauguration was enthusiastically celebrated by characters like Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Consortium News Sends Libel Notices To Canadian Signals Intelligence Agency And Major Television Network

January 23, 2020 By Joe Lauria, Consortiumnews.com , , ,
Consortium News has sent libel notices to the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s version of the U.S. National Security Agency, and to a major Canadian television network, Global News, for a report that said Consortium News was “part of a cyber-influence campaign directed by Russia.” Based on a CSE leak of a secret document, Global News’ website said in a Dec. 10, 2019 article entitled, “‘Canadian eyes only’ intelligence reports say Canadian leaders attacked in cyber campaigns,” that Consortium News led this campaign.

Arrests Made During Protests Against Las Vegas Homeless Ordinances

January 22, 2020 Staff, Tasnimnews.com , ,
A new law allowing Las Vegas to designate sidewalk cleaning periods and criminalizing camping in those areas during cleaning time takes effect Sunday, allowing police to arrest anyone sitting, sleeping, or camping in those public spaces. Anyone caught doing so could face a $1,000 fine, six months in jail or some combination of the two, according to reports. The legislation, Bill No. 2019-44 sponsored by Mayor Carolyn G. Goodman, says in part: During such designated and noticed hours of cleanin...

Scores Wounded As Security Forces, Protesters Clash In Beirut

January 20, 2020 Staff, Reuters.com , , ,
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Cat-and-mouse clashes between Lebanon’s security forces and protesters wounded scores of people on a night of violence that rocked central Beirut on Saturday. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon, chasing protesters armed with tree branches and sign posts in a commercial district near Lebanon’s parliament. Crowds spilled on to the streets this week after a lull in largely peaceful protests which broke out in October. They are furious at a ruling elite that has steered the country towards its worst economic crisis in decades.

Local Activism Can’t Be Crushed, Research Finds. At Most, It Changes Target

January 17, 2020 Staff, Phys.org ,
According to received wisdom, local activism against the establishment of industrial plants follows a cycle, with its highest intensity a short time after mobilization. If a firm stands, activism is destined to fade away. New research published in the Strategic Management Journal suggests we should think again.

Trump Prosecutors Make Move To Ensure That Embassy Protectors Are Convicted

January 16, 2020 Ajamu Baraka and Bahman Azad, Defendembassyprotectors.org , ,
As the trial approaches, the lawyers for the Trump Administration’s  prosecution of the four Venezuelan Embassy Protectors who were arrested last May are asking the court to make sure the jury is kept ignorant about the facts and circumstances surrounding the actions of the protectors. In a recently filed motion by government lawyers, state prosecutors are seeking to severely restrict what can be discussed during the trial  scheduled for February 11, 2020. Judge Beryl Howell will hear arguments on the motion at the pre-trial hearing on January 29.

Did Belmarsh Irretrievably Show Its Hand By Not Allowing Assange Ample Time To See His Lawyers

January 15, 2020 Staff, Angelof-truth.com , ,
It was revealed that, since his last hearing on December 19, Assange had been granted just two hours total to review that evidence with his legal team. What is being conducted in the British courts is not a trial but a legal farce, designed to cover up the lawless rendition of a political prisoner to a country that brazenly assassinates political opponents.

Bolivia’s New Right-Wing Government Intensifies Crackdown On Journalists, Doctors

January 13, 2020 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com , , ,
The U.S.-backed right-wing coup government of Jeanine Añez continues its moves against media and other dissenting voices. The latest victim of the crackdown was Marcelo Hurtado, president of the ATB media network. Hurtado was paraded before cameras; handcuffed and forced to wear a vest labeled “arrested.” He was flanked by two black clad, masked and armed members of the country’s infamous police, who led a successful coup against socialist president Evo Morales in November.

How To Fight War Fever, Power Stand-Off + Fire & Water

January 11, 2020 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com ,
Updates on bad ass organizers, activists and whistleblowers. Next, what we really need in order to stop the empire and why we can't just lean on letters from the UN. War Fever is high and the propaganda machine is working overtime. Next, water woes in the world's largest fire storm, and what this has to do with an indigenous fight in Canada. Finally, Sunrise El Paso sits down to talk corporate takeovers of public utilities.

Repression, Eviction And Dispossession In New Democracy’s Greece

January 10, 2020 Staff, Roarmag.org , ,
The latest attack on the squatting movement in Greece is the preamble for a massive operation of housing dispossession by the right-wing government. Dimitris Indares was still in his pyjamas when the police knocked on his door in the neighborhood of Koukaki, in Athens, in the early hours of Wednesday, December 18. Not long after that, he was lying down on the floor of his home’s terrace, with a Special Operations policeman’s boot on his head.

Australian Political Leaders Urge End To Assange Prosecution

January 7, 2020 Rob Harris, Smh.com.au , , ,
Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has joined calls for the Morrison government to try to halt Julian Assange's potential extradition from Britain to the United States on espionage charges, as the WikiLeaks founder's supporters intensify their campaign to bring him to Australia. Mr Joyce joined former foreign minister Bob Carr in voicing concerns over US attempts to have the 48-year-old Australian stand trial in America, where he faces a sentence of 175 years if found guilty of computer fraud and obtaining and disclosing national defence information.
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