the unbalanced evolution of homo sapiens

Moderate Rebels The US government has co-opted identity politics rhetoric about "intersectionality" to push imperialism and war, totally emptying the concept of any analysis of class and empire. 

The Grayzone   Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with Stella Moris, the fiancée of imprisoned WikiLeaks journalist Julian Assange, about the appeal hearings in the US extradition case and how it threatens freedom of the press around the world.  

Moderate Rebels   While it censors leftists in Latin America, purging Sandinistas day before elections in Nicaragua, Twitter quietly published a study admitting that its algorithm amplifies right-wing politicians and media outlets in the United States, Britain, Japan, Germany, France, Spain, and Canada.  

If he is extradited and found guilty of publishing classified material it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting.   by Chris Hedges  Part 1 For the past two days, I have been watching the extradition hearing for Julian Assange via video link from London. The United States is appealing a lower court ruling that denied the US request to extradite Assange not, unfortunately, because in the eyes of the court he is innocent of a crime, but because, as Judge Vanessa Baraitser in January concluded, Assange’s precarious psychological state would deteriorate given the “ harsh conditions ” of the inhumane US prison system, “ causing him to commit suicide .” The United States has charged Assange with 17 counts under the Espionage Act and one count of trying to hack into a government computer, charges that could see him imprisoned for 175 years. Assange, with long white hair, appeared on screen the first day from the video conference room in HM Prison Belm

Under the cover of counterterrorism, AFRICOM is beefing up Nigeria’s military to ensure the free flow of oil to the West, and using the country as a proxy against China’s influence on the continent.   by TJ Coles  Part 9 - “Gray zone” warfare against China   Having left operations to Special Forces, AFRICOM is now tasked with overseeing an expanding footprint in Nigeria. But in addition to preventing oil supply disruptions, the US seeks to counter Russian but particularly Chinese involvement. According to the US state-run outlet, Voice of America (VOA), the China National Offshore Oil Corporation began investing in Nigeria’s state oil sector in 2005. A 2007 US Army War College thesis expressed concern that, following “donations” of Chinese military equipment to Nigeria, China had helped the government to drill hundreds of boreholes in a goodwill gesture to provide clean drinking water. The US acted to tarnish China’s image. As part of what is now called the “whole of government” approa

Zach Dorfman, Sean D. Naylor and Michael Isikoff   Part 6 - Assange’s legal odyssey appears to have only just begun   Inside the White House, Pompeo’s impassioned arguments on WikiLeaks were making little headway. The director’s most aggressive proposals were “ probably taken seriously ” in Langley but not within the NSC, a former national security official said. Even Sessions, Trump’s “ very, very anti-Assange ” attorney general, was opposed to CIA’s encroachment onto Justice Department territory, and believed that the WikiLeaks founder’s case was best handled through legal channels, said the former official. Sessions’ concerns mirrored the tensions between the ramped-up intelligence collection and disruption efforts aimed at WikiLeaks, and the Justice Department’s goal of convicting Assange in open court, according to former officials. The more aggressive the CIA’s proposals became, the more other U.S. officials worried about what the discovery process might reveal if Assange were to

Redacted Tonight   The State Department has its next coup planned and they've even announced the date.  

acTVism Munich   Statements from Reporters Without Borders, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson, Assange's fiancée Stella Moris, British politician Jeremy Corbyn, and others on the Assange trial following the October 28, 2021 hearings at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, United Kingdom. 

Moderate Rebels   Colombian mercenaries who killed Haiti's leader Jovenel Moise and a Miami-based military contractor plotted a similar operation to assassinate Bolivia's democratically elected socialist President Luis Arce. Ben Norton discusses, and analyzes corporate media propaganda.

acTVism Munich   A report on the second day of the appeal hearing in the extradition proceedings of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The defense rebutted claims by the US government arguing that the assurances provided can be revoked at any time and are thus unreliable. Additionally, the court heard evidence that US intelligence plotted to assassinate Assange. A decision on extradition will be delivered in the coming weeks.