Common Dreams:
"After a series of news reports that have alarmed civil liberties advocates and progressive lawmakers, the ACLU sued on Wednesday to find out how and why federal agencies are buying access to bulk databases of Americans' cell phone location information and effectively bypassing the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement.
'We're suing to bring some much-needed transparency to these disturbing practices,' Nathan Freed Wessler, a staff attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, explains in a blog post about the new lawsuit. 'Transparency is the first step to accountability.' ...
In response to Motherboard's revelation, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)—one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress—tweeted that 'the military industrial complex and the surveillance state have always had a cozy relationship with tech. Buying bulk data in order to profile Muslims is par for the course for them—and is absolutely sickening. It should be illegal!' "
-->The NYT simply protects the military industrial complex by not printing stories like this. And when it comes to protecting journalists like Julian Assange, our "newspaper of record" is even more craven.
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Common Dreams:
"A week after Michael Flynn secured a full pardon from President Donald Trump, the ex-national security adviser is under fire for sharing a call for his former boss to 'immediately declare a limited form of martial law, and temporarily suspend the Constitution and civilian control of these federal elections, for the sole purpose of having the military oversee a national re-vote.'
Trump, who continues to baselessly claim that his loss to President-elect Joe Biden was the result of a 'rigged election' and file lawsuits challenging the results, pardoned Flynn last week—even though Flynn, who was a senior adviser to Trump's first presidential campaign before briefly joining his administration, had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
Flynn took to Twitter late Tuesday to share a press release from the Ohio nonprofit We The People Convention (WTPC), which bought a full-page ad in the Washington Times urging Trump to invoke martial law to hold a new election 'when the legislators, courts and/or Congress fail to do their duty under the 12th Amendment' of the Constitution, which details the procedure for electing the president and vice president."
-->Here is a direct call for overthrowing the US government and establishing a military dictatorship. Here we have a former lieutenant general and former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency buying full page ads to promote the military takeover of our democracy. No word from the NYT. Its readers will be the last to know about any fascist coup in the US.
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The Guardian:
"Authorities in Sicily have asked Cuba’s government to send about 60 healthcare workers, including doctors and nurses, to the region as hospitals in the Italian island struggle with a shortage of medical personnel during the second coronavirus wave.
The request was filed this week to the Italian embassy in Cuba and refers to intensive care specialists, nurses, anaesthetists, resuscitators, virologists and pneumologists, the Italian newspaper la Repubblica reported.
Between March and April this year, Cuban medical teams landed in some of Italy’s worst-hit regions, including Lombardy and Piedmont, to replace overworked Italian professionals. Other medical brigades have fanned out across the world to fight Covid-19 in 20 other countries, from South Africa to Suriname."
-->Would the NYT ever report this story? No, In fact. The empire's propaganda newspaper never decides that favorable new about Cuba is "fit to print."
