Don't Extradite Assange:
"3 Important new developments in cases involving the US government spying on Assange and his lawyers. There have been important updates in the cases involving the spying on Julian Assange and his lawyers.
1. Spanish Court summons former US Secretary of State and CIA director Mike Pompeo to explain CIA plot to assassinate Julian Assange.
2. UK admits violation of Article 8 & Article 10 (confidential journalistic material) of the European Convention of Human Rights. In 2016, Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson took legal action against the UK Government with help from Privacy International over illegal surveillance & information sharing with the US Government for her work for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
3. In a separate case, El Pais reports that The British authorities have obstructing an investigation into US spying on Julian Assange's defence. Spain's High Court has issued an order requesting UK assistance to depose British lawyers spied on at the embassy, some of whom are acting for Assange in the US extradition, but British authorities are obstructing the request for lawyers' testimony. Proving that the US secret services learned about Assange's defence strategy by spying on his lawyers could annul the extradition request."
https://dontextraditeassange.com
-->Still no reporting on Julian Assange, except for Democracy Now and a few other left publications. The blackout of Assange shows just how controlled the major media really is when it comes to hiding the war crimes of the empire.
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Economic Policy Institute:
"The reasons for escalating inflation are hotly debated, but some theories gaining traction have not been grounded in the data. EPI research sets the record straight on the causes of inflation—and how policymakers can best restrain it. Below, we debunk 5 top inflation myths.
Myth #1: Workers’ wage growth is driving inflation. Nominal wage growth—while faster relative to the recent past—has lagged far behind inflation, meaning that labor costs have been dampening, not amplifying, inflationary pressures all along.
Myth #2: Corporate profits are not contributing to inflation. In fact, fatter corporate profit margins have driven over half of the increase in prices in the nonfinancial corporate sector between the second quarter of 2020 and the end of 2021. This is not normal. From 1979 to 2019, profits only contributed about 11% to price growth. Ignoring the role of profits makes inflation analyses a lot weaker.
https://www.epi.org/blog/debunking-5-top-inflation-myths/
-->The top two myths are the most damaging. By not printing this information, most US citizens will end up blaming inflation on wage growth and not on corporate profits. The corporate controlled press keeps us in the dark. The NYT ran a story entitled: "Rising Wages Could Complicate America’s Inflation Cool-Down." Even our newspaper of record is blaming rising wages instead of excess corporate profits.
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Common Dreams:
"I’ve just finished going through the more than 60 presidential statements, documents and communiques about the war in Ukraine that the White House has released and posted on its website since Joe Biden’s State of the Union address in early March. They all share with that speech one stunning characteristic—the complete absence of any mention of nuclear weapons or nuclear war dangers. Yet we’re now living in a time when those dangers are the worst they’ve been since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
You might think that the risks of global nuclear annihilation would merit at least a few of the more than 25,000 words officially released on Biden’s behalf during the 100 days since his dramatic speech to a joint session of Congress. But an evasive pattern began from the outset. While devoting much of that speech to the Ukraine conflict, Biden said nothing at all about the heightened risks that it might trigger the use of nuclear weapons.
A leader interested in informing the American people rather than infantilizing them would have something to say about the need to prevent nuclear war at a time of escalating tensions between the world’s two nuclear superpowers."
-->Why must Norman Solomon have to point out this omission in Biden's pro war rhetoric? Don't the major newspapers have political analysts? Maybe this story gets in the way of our media's rush towards war with Russia.
