Intercept:
"William Owen, a Tennessee-based Democratic National Committee member backing an effort to use so-called superdelegates to select the party’s presidential nominee — potentially subverting the candidate with the most voter support — is a Republican donor and health care lobbyist.
Owen, who runs a lobbying firm called Asset & Equity Corporations, donated to Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, and gave $8,500 to a joint fundraising committee designed to benefit Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in 2019. ...
Owen, currently registered as lobbyist for Klox Technologies, a medical product company, was quoted in the New York Times today as one of the party insiders considering an effort to block Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s path to the nomination at the DNC convention in Milwaukee this July."
-->DNC committee members trying to block Sanders can be Republican healthcare lobbyists. Parties don't matter when they are both under corporate control. This story wasn't covered in the NYT. Thanks to Steve in Beacon, NY for sending this to us.
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Democracy Now, interview with attorney Jennifer Robinson
"What is important, though, is that what the court finally heard is the defense case. And a number of arguments were put forward by our team, including the Espionage Act. This is an unprecedented use of the Espionage Act against a publisher, which is, of course, a political offense and ought to be barred (under the terms of the U.S.-U.K. extradition treaty). There should be — extradition should be barred on that basis.
We also heard evidence about the grave threat that this poses to press freedom, not just for journalists inside the United States, but for journalists everywhere around the world, because of the precedent this case sets, that the United States could seek to extradite and prosecute journalists and publishers from around the world for publishing truthful information about the United States.
We also heard evidence about how the United States’ indictment has misrepresented the facts, including making the false allegation that Julian Assange had recklessly and deliberately put lives at risk."
-->Why doesn't the NYT cover a story like this? Our "newspaper of record" is too busy demonizing Assange to please the National Security State.
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Mondoweiss:
"McCarthyism is again, astride the land, like a destroying Saturn. As of this writing, left labor in England has been decimated through the ginned up, explicitly false claims of antisemitism with no end to the aftershocks from this.
If you’ve been paying attention, there is a British Labour party 'compliance unit for antisemitism' and it’s exactly as bad as it sounds. Based on the deeply flawed IHRA definition of antisemitism, this inquisitorial system actually is more akin to a Stalinist purge show trial than the already sufficiently odious McCarthy hearings. This self-flagellating cleaning of the ranks has resulted in a wholesale purge of Labour members, most recently, 25 people expelled in a single day. ...
Often these people are, like Jo Bird, Jewish and life-long left, anti-racist activists, which brings us to why I’m again discussing this here. The one certain takeaway, that is also germane in the US, is that the weaponization of antisemitism is, unambiguously, an attempt to stifle legitimate and needed criticism of Israel."
-->The NYT is too busy weaponizing charges of antisemitism in the US to spend time discussing the new McCarthyism.
