Substack:
"The FBI has reopened an investigation involving Australian journalist Julian Assange, according to front-page reporting from the Sydney Morning Herald.
The news that the FBI is taking fresh investigative steps came as a surprise to Assange’s legal team, given that the U.S. filed charges against the WikiLeaks founder more than three years ago and is involved in an ongoing extradition process from a maximum security prison in the United Kingdom so that he can stand trial in the United States. ...
The Morning Herald reporting also comes amid heightened hopes in Australia that a resolution to the case, which has raised serious press freedom issues in the U.S. and abroad, was near at hand. The country’s ruling party has spoken in defense of Assange, as has the nation’s opposition party leader. In early May, a cross-party delegation of influential Australian lawmakers met with the U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, urging that a deal be struck to return Assange to Australia before U.S.-Australian relations were harmed further by the prosecution."
https://badnews.substack.com/p/fbi-stuns-australia-by-reopening
-->This is big news for supporters of Julian Assange and freedom of the press. Too bad that the NYT didn't print this story. Neither did many other US news outlets. The US media is so dominated by the Pentagon, that it doesn't dare stand up for Assange's rights.
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Defense of Children - Palestine:
"Israeli authorities' systematic denial of fair trial rights to Palestinian children detained by Israeli forces from the occupied West Bank and prosecuted in Israeli military courts constitutes arbitrary detention, Defense for Children International - Palestine said in a report released today.
The report, 'Arbitrary by Default: Palestinian children in the Israeli military court system,' details and examines the systemic denial of fair trial rights inherent in Israeli forces’ practice of arrest, detention, interrogation, and prosecution of Palestinian children in the Israeli military courts.
'Even a superficial review of the detention and prosecution of Palestinian children in the Israeli military court system suggests severe risks of arbitrary deprivation of liberty,' said Khaled Quzmar, General Director at DCIP. 'A full view, through the experience of Palestinian child detainees, exposes an inherently unjust system of control where arbitrary detention is the default practice.' ”
https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_systemic_denial_of_fair_trial_rights_to_palestinian_child_prisoners_amounts_to_arbitrary_detention
-->The human rights of Palestinian children has never been a big topic for the NYT. True to form, it didn't publish this story either.
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Common Dreams:
"Internal documents published Friday by The Guardian and The New Lede shed new light on how multinational chemical giant Syngenta worked to conceal the link between its popular pesticide paraquat and Parkinson's disease.
According to the internal documents, Syngenta sought to 'create an international scientific consensus against the hypothesis that paraquat is a risk factor for Parkinson's disease,' in part by launching what company officials called a 'SWAT team' to counter research that could threaten the corporation's 'freedom to sell' the pesticide.
'It looks like the paraquat maker has adopted nearly every strategy we outlined in our book about bending science,' Thomas McGarity, a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency legal adviser and co-author of the 2008 book Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research, told The Guardian."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/paraquat-parkinson-s
-->Chemical companies can do no wrong, when it comes to reporting by the NYT. The newspaper skipped right over this story.
"The FBI has reopened an investigation involving Australian journalist Julian Assange, according to front-page reporting from the Sydney Morning Herald.
The news that the FBI is taking fresh investigative steps came as a surprise to Assange’s legal team, given that the U.S. filed charges against the WikiLeaks founder more than three years ago and is involved in an ongoing extradition process from a maximum security prison in the United Kingdom so that he can stand trial in the United States. ...
The Morning Herald reporting also comes amid heightened hopes in Australia that a resolution to the case, which has raised serious press freedom issues in the U.S. and abroad, was near at hand. The country’s ruling party has spoken in defense of Assange, as has the nation’s opposition party leader. In early May, a cross-party delegation of influential Australian lawmakers met with the U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, urging that a deal be struck to return Assange to Australia before U.S.-Australian relations were harmed further by the prosecution."
https://badnews.substack.com/p/fbi-stuns-australia-by-reopening
-->This is big news for supporters of Julian Assange and freedom of the press. Too bad that the NYT didn't print this story. Neither did many other US news outlets. The US media is so dominated by the Pentagon, that it doesn't dare stand up for Assange's rights.
=====
Defense of Children - Palestine:
"Israeli authorities' systematic denial of fair trial rights to Palestinian children detained by Israeli forces from the occupied West Bank and prosecuted in Israeli military courts constitutes arbitrary detention, Defense for Children International - Palestine said in a report released today.
The report, 'Arbitrary by Default: Palestinian children in the Israeli military court system,' details and examines the systemic denial of fair trial rights inherent in Israeli forces’ practice of arrest, detention, interrogation, and prosecution of Palestinian children in the Israeli military courts.
'Even a superficial review of the detention and prosecution of Palestinian children in the Israeli military court system suggests severe risks of arbitrary deprivation of liberty,' said Khaled Quzmar, General Director at DCIP. 'A full view, through the experience of Palestinian child detainees, exposes an inherently unjust system of control where arbitrary detention is the default practice.' ”
https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_systemic_denial_of_fair_trial_rights_to_palestinian_child_prisoners_amounts_to_arbitrary_detention
-->The human rights of Palestinian children has never been a big topic for the NYT. True to form, it didn't publish this story either.
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Common Dreams:
"Internal documents published Friday by The Guardian and The New Lede shed new light on how multinational chemical giant Syngenta worked to conceal the link between its popular pesticide paraquat and Parkinson's disease.
According to the internal documents, Syngenta sought to 'create an international scientific consensus against the hypothesis that paraquat is a risk factor for Parkinson's disease,' in part by launching what company officials called a 'SWAT team' to counter research that could threaten the corporation's 'freedom to sell' the pesticide.
'It looks like the paraquat maker has adopted nearly every strategy we outlined in our book about bending science,' Thomas McGarity, a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency legal adviser and co-author of the 2008 book Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research, told The Guardian."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/paraquat-parkinson-s
-->Chemical companies can do no wrong, when it comes to reporting by the NYT. The newspaper skipped right over this story.
