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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Source: https://unity4j.com/u4jempr.pdf

Friday, July 20th, 2018
#Unity4J to hold Emergency Public Meeting; Unveil Non-
Violent Digital Action Plan
International media are reporting that WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief
may imminently be handed by Ecuador to UK authorities. (Ref:
https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/07/breaking-possible-handover-
of-julian-assange-to-the-uk-may-be-imminent/)
If such an event occurs, it presents an immediate threat to Assange’s human rights, asylum
rights, liberty and to press freedoms. It would also be in direct contravention to the rulings
of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Inter-American Court of human
rights, both of which have found in his favour.
The #Unity4J movement in support of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks is holding an
emergency public meeting to unveil a plan for mass non-violent action to demand freedom
for the journalist and publisher. High profile supporters of Julian Assange will be in
attendance and unveil the new strategy.
The vigil will be held in a roundtable format with many guests from previous vigils, and a
few new faces as well, who will discuss the current state of Assange's asylum and the
future of the #Unity4J movement. Taking place at 23:00 UTC on Saturday ( Los Angeles:
Sat 16:00 , New York: Sat 19:00, London: Sun 00:00, Berlin: Sun 1:00, Sydney: Sun 9:00,
Auckland: 11:00 ) the vigil will continue for approximately 3 hours.
#Unity4J originated from an unplanned but timely response to injustice when Julian
Assange’s internet access and visitation rights were abruptly taken away and swiftly grew
into high-profile monthly online vigils endorsed by Chris Hedges, George Galloway, Ray
McGovern, Bill Binney and Daniel Ellsberg among many other noteworthy figures. It is with
that same sense of urgency and duty to take a public stand against oppression that we are
organising this Saturday to resist the escalated violations of Julian's basic rights.
“Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in
its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love."
-Julian Assange
Spread the word:
Livestream will be accessible at:
http://unity4j.com/stream
Event hashtag: #Unity4J
Official website: http://unity4j.com/
Official Twitter: @Unity4J
WikiLeaks Legal Defence Fund:
https://justice4assange.com/donate.html
WikiLeaks support website:
https://iamwikileaks.org
Courage Foundation:
https://couragefound.org/
Live-tweets and/or additional content: @Unity4J @Suzi3D
@ElizabethLeaVos @CassandraRules @KimDotcom @InternetPartyNZ
@greekemmy @couragefound @BellaMagnani @primal_species
@CrowdVBank
Other credible accounts for Julian Assange updates:
https://twitter.com/suzi3d/lists/Assange-updates
MEDIA INQUIRIES: Media inquiries and interview requests should be made
to Suzie Dawson, via DM on Twitter: @Suzi3D, or Elizabeth Vos on Twitter
via @Elizabethleavos, or by emailing info@unity4j.com
For more background on the recent escalation of grave threats to Julian
Assange’s life and liberty, we recommend reading the following articles:
Courage Foundation: Assange’s protection from US extradition “in jeopardy”
https://www.iamwikileaks.org/2018/05/25/assanges-protection-from-us-extradition-injeopardy/
Did Rep. Adam Schiff Just Admit the US Has a Secret Indictment of Julian Assange?
https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/05/26/did-rep-adam-schiff-just-admit-the-us-has-a-secretindictment-
of-julian-assange/
Conspiracy emerges to push Julian Assange into British and US hands
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/05/16/assa-m16.html
The UK’s Hidden Role in Assange’s Detention
https://original.antiwar.com/cook/2018/02/12/uks-hidden-role-Assange's-detention/
Treatment of Assange is unjust, says former Ecuador minister
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/16/julian-assange-treatment-irresponsibleecuador-
foreign-minister-guillaume-long

Memo to the President Ahead of Monday’s Summit

Source: https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/15/memo-to-the-president-ahead-of-mondays-summit/

July 15, 2018

With Friday’s indictments of Russian intelligence officers, Ray McGovern and Bill Binney have written an open letter to President Trump making clear that the “evidence” behind the indictments is as fraudulent as the intelligence alleging WMD in Iraq. It is being published exclusively here ahead of the Trump-Putin summit on Monday.

BRIEFING FOR: The President

FROM: Ray McGovern, former CIA briefer of The President’s Daily Brief, and William Binney, former Technical Director at NSA

SUBJECT: Info Your Summit Briefers May Have Missed

We reproduce below one of our most recent articles on “Russia-Gate,” which, in turn, draws from our Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Memorandum to you of July 24, 2017.

A true public servant

Source: ExpressVPN

William Edward Binney

1944 - present

Nationality:

American

Profession:

Crypto-mathematician, intelligence analyst

Notable for:

Whistleblowing on NSA surveillance

Whistleblower William Binney on NSA Spying

Whistleblower William Binney on NSA Spying

The Real Story of Genesis

Thousands of years ago, there was only God. God has control over the whole never-ending universe, which he created, and his throne is above the clouds. God, with His infinite ability and knowledge, created man, and Milky Way for human to conquer. It was implied that God is a man. Of course God is a man! He is an old man who lives in the skies and encompasses all the characters that man has. He, such as His creations, falls in love, is cunning and crafty, gets revenge, likes and hates, deceives, and even wrestles with his prophet. He is the one who has been, and will be, and created man on his own image. So each one of us is like him without his power, and we are nothing in comparison to him, but his sinful creations.

More Evidence That Half of Americans Are In or Near Poverty

By Paul Buchheit
July 2, 2018
Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49769.htm

The extreme level of inequality in the U.S. is battering the poor

Deniers like Nikki Haley refuse to admit that mass poverty exists in their prosperous nation. That would reflect poorly on their capitalist beliefs. But if the skeptics would look at the half of America they don't care to see, the stark display of destitution might shock them. At least until they invent an excuse to remove it all from their minds. 

The U.S. poverty rate in 2016 was between 12.7 and 14.0 percent. But the poverty threshold is based on an outmoded formula from the 1960s. According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the threshold should be THREE TIMES HIGHER today. And it could be even higher if the true nature of poverty is considered.

انقراض Mass Extinction

دانشمندان موارد چندی از انقراض موجودات در طول کره زمین را ثبت کرده‌اند. البته انقراض بطور روزمره اتفاق میافتد و هر روزه تعدادی از موجودات زنده نسلشان منقرض میشود. بحث در اینجا انقراض همگانی یا جمعی است که نسل گروه عظیمی‌ از موجودات زنده برای همیشه از صحنه گیتی‌ زدوده میشود، که تا کنون همواره به دلیل عوامل طبیعی بوده است. از نظر تاریخی‌، می‌توان به چند واقعه اشاره کرد که دانشمندان و زیست شناسان و دیرینه شناسان کشف کرده‌اند، که نسل بسیاری از موجودات را بطور جمعی‌ منقرض کرده است.

Mexico President-elect Rejects Bodyguards: 'The Citizens Will Protect Me'

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49778.htm
July 03, 2018
By Tom Phillips in Mexico City

Leftist Amlo has also refused to live in ornate presidential residence and pledged to cut his own salary

He has just been elected commander-in-chief of a nation mired in an intractable drug conflict that has claimed more than 200,000 lives in little more than a decade.
But on Tuesday, Mexico’s incoming president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, claimed he would waive the right to close protection in a bid to stay close to the people.
“I don’t want bodyguards, which means the citizens will take care of me and protect me,” López Obrador, or Amlo, as he is best known, told reporters as he called on Mexico’s incumbent president, Enrique Peña Nieto, to discuss the transition.
Amlo, a 64-year-old leftist who trounced opponents in Sunday’s vote, was repeating an undertaking made on several occasions during his historic campaign – one of several promises designed to bolster his image as a man of the people who will rule for Mexico’s 53 million poor.

داستان واقعی‌ آفرینش

هزاران سال پیش، جز خدای متعال هیچ چیز دیگری نبود. تخت سلطنت خداوند ابرهاست، و مقر حکومت او این کهکشان بی‌ انتهاست که او به وجود آورده است. خداوند مرد بزرگواری است که نه تنها انسان را خلق کرده است، بلکه کره زمین را برای زندگی‌ و آسایش او به وجود آورده است. گفته شد که خدا مرد است، البته که خدا مرد است! خدا نه تنها مرد است، بلکه پیرمردی است که در آسمانها زندگی‌ می‌کند و کلیه صفات انسانی‌ را داراست. او همانندِ بندگانش عاشق میشود، خدعه می‌کند، انتقام می‌گیرد، دوست دارد، نفرت دارد، نیرنگ میزند، و حتی با پیغمبرش دست و پنجه نرم می‌کند. این ربّ باریتعالی است که همیشه بوده و خواهد بود، و انسان را در تصورش و مانند خود ساخته است. پس ما هر کدام مانند او هستیم، ولی‌ قدرت لایزال او را نداریم، و چنان که گفته شده، در مقابل او بنده‌ای بیش نیستیم.

Justice and Freedom For Julian Assange Mean Free Speech For Us All

By John Pilger: June 05, 2018

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49572.htm

The Courage Foundation announces an urgent campaign to support Julian Assange and demand his freedom. Keep an eye on our liveblog for updates.
This month, it will be six years since Julian was forced to take refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. He had been warned; the US Department of Justice was likely to file an application with Britain’s Home Office for his extradition to the United States. The allegations against Julian and WikiLeaks in the US were subsequently declared secret by a US District Court judge, but it has since been confirmed that a grand jury in Virginia has concocted a number of possible ‘charges’ against the WikiLeaks founder.
The most likely of these is ‘espionage,’ which harks back to a long-defunct First World War law designed to punish conscientious objectors.
Julian is not an American; neither has he ‘betrayed’ any state. His ‘crime’ has been free journalism and publishing, which are protected under the US Constitution, a document whose sanctity has apparently been jettisoned.

In Unanimous Vote, House Says No Legal Right to Attack Iran

By Marjorie Cohn: June 06, 2018

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49573.htm

In a little noticed but potentially monumental development, the House of Representatives voted unanimously for an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019 (H.R. 5515) that says no statute authorizes the use of military force against Iran.
The amendment, introduced by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota), states, “It is the sense of Congress that the use of the Armed Forces against Iran is not authorized by this Act or any other Act.”
A bipartisan majority of the House adopted the National Defense Authorization Act on May 24, with a vote of 351-66. The bill now moves to the Senate.
If the Senate version ultimately includes the Ellison amendment as well, Congress would send a clear message to Donald Trump that he has no statutory authority to militarily attack Iran.
This becomes particularly significant in light of Trump’s May 8 withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal. That withdrawal was followed by a long list of demands by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, which could set the stage for a US attack on Iran.

Making Sense of Russian Political Ambiguities

The Saker • May 17, 2018

https://www.unz.com/tsaker/making-sense-of-russian-political-ambiguities/

Introduction: the world is not Hollywood

The past couple of weeks saw a number of truly tectonic events taking place simultaneously in the US, in Russia, in Israel, in Syria, in Iran and in the EU. I think that it would also be reasonable to say that most of those who opposed the AngloZionist Empire have felt feelings ranging from mild disappointment to total dismay. I sure did not hear many people rejoicing, but if somebody was, they were in the minority (uncharacteristically, Mikhail Khazin, for example). These reactions are normal, we all form expectations which can be, and often are, disappointed. Still, even when the news is clearly bad it is helpful to keep a number of things in mind.

پاسخ هنرمند هادی خرسندی به رضا پهلوی

source: http://www.iranglobal.info/node/64203

دوشنبه ۱۵ ژانویه ۲۰۱۸

هادی خرسندی

پسر را بجاى پدر نبايد محاكمه كرد

اما تاسفباره كه آقاى رضا پهلوى از يكسو ادعا ميكند كه طرفدار آزادى است, و از سوى ديگر, در همين مصاحبه بدون هيچ سند سياسى و منطقى ميشود كه همه جوانان برخلاف والدينشان با توجه به مطالعه و بدون تعصب اينك همگان طرفدار شاه فقيد و او هستند! ولى در ادامه آب پاكى را خيلى آشكارا روى دست همه طرفداران فريب خورده اش ميريزد! او در همين مصاحبه با آيت الله بى بى سى چنين ميگويد : در زمان حكومت پدرم رژيم پهلوى آزادى بسيار زياد وجود داشت ، زن و مرد با هم كاملا برابر بودندووو!!!

Hacking of the American Mind

Is there a difference between pleasure and happiness? That is the subject of an interview broadcasted recently on our local radio station. Dr. Robert Lustig is famous for his anti-sugar campaign. He has been on several radio programs, TV programs, and TED talks, speaking about his books. There is a link to his interview with KPFA radio host Brian Edwards Tickered, during the pledge drive of this Berkeley radio station. He speaks about "corporate consumption complex" and why everything becomes addictive.

Here is the link:

https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=286194

Noam Chomsky - Is Iran a Threat?

What the Media Won't Tell You About Iran

Glenn Greenwald, Jill Stein & Abby Martin Event - Global Issues in Conte...

Trump’s Ten Lies: A Response to the Iran Nuclear Agreement Speech

Source: https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2018/05/10/trumps-ten-lies-a-response-to-the-iran-nuclear-agreement-speech/

by Ted Snider Posted on May 11, 2018

After listening to Trump’s speech explaining his decision to pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement with Iran, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that Trump’s speech contained "over ten lies." Khamenei didn’t go on to name the lies.

So, what were the lies Trump told?

Israeli Attack On “Iranian” Targets in Syria

Israeli Attack On “Iranian” Targets in Syria a Sign of Tel Aviv’s Frustration, Fear

Immediately after Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA on Tuesday, Israeli officials began accusing Iran of positioning its forces in preparation for an attack. The alleged activity was cited as a justification for a new round of airstrikes on Syria targeting a military base in Kisweh.

by: Elliott Gabriel

Source: https://www.mintpressnews.com/israeli-attack-iranian-targets-syria-sign-tel-avivs-frustration-fear/241871/

May 10, 2018

GOLAN HEIGHTS, SYRIA — An hours-long exchange of fire between the Israeli military and alleged rocket-equipped Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) personnel seized the world’s attention early Thursday morning just after midnight, fanning fears that the Middle East is once again being plunged into a major new war pitting the settler-colonial state against its bitter rival, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

What we (do not) talk about when we talk about ‘terrorism’

Source: http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/remarkable-disappearing-terrorism/

“With Sharon’s backing, terrible things were done. I am no vegetarian, and I supported and even participated in some of the assassination operations Israel carried out. But we are speaking here about mass killing for killing’s sake, to sow chaos and alarm, among civilians, too. Since when do we send donkeys carrying bombs to blow up in marketplaces?”

– Mossad officer, quoted in Ronen Bergman’s Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations

The remarkable disappearing act of Israel’s car-bombing campaign in Lebanon or: What we (do not) talk about when we talk about ‘terrorism’

Rémi Brulin on May 7, 2018

“With Sharon’s backing, terrible things were done. I am no vegetarian, and I supported and even participated in some of the assassination operations Israel carried out. But we are speaking here about mass killing for killing’s sake, to sow chaos and alarm, among civilians, too. Since when do we send donkeys carrying bombs to blow up in marketplaces?”

– Mossad officer, quoted in Ronen Bergman’s Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations

On August 29, 1982, Ariel Sharon took to the opinion pages of the New York Times to argue that Israel’s “most immediate achievement” following its invasion of Lebanon had been the “crushing defeat” of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). As a result, the Israeli Defense Minister explained, Katyusha rockets had stopped raining down on Israeli villages “from terrorist sanctuaries in Lebanon.” The “kingdom of terror” established by Yasser Arafat’s organization on Lebanese soil was “no more,” and Israeli troops had been “greeted as liberators for driving out the terrorists who had raped and pillaged and plundered.” This had been the case, Sharon insisted, “despite the casualties that were the inevitable result of fighting against P.L.O. terrorists who used civilians as human shields and who deliberately placed their weapons and ammunition in the midst of apartment houses, schools, refugee camps and hospitals.”