Edit: Read snoopydog's essay if you like some meat with your essays. Good job snoop!
I haven't seen (or gone looking for) much more than this reprint from CNN in Cuenca High Life: British judge rejects U.S. request to extradite Julian Assange to face espionage charges.
"The court makes clear that it would have granted the U.S. extradition request if not for concerns about #Assange’s mental health, and about the severe conditions in which the U.S. would likely imprison him.” - @knightcolumbia #AssangeCase https://t.co/GzzrHN11YG
— Courage Foundation (@couragefound) January 4, 2021
Reading a Braille Map
Mick Wallace MEP Condemns EU Complicity in War Crimes (2:16)
I’d first been introduced to him at the Tehran Times while searching for updates just ahead of the first anniversary of the Jan. 3, 2020 US assassination of Iranian Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani.
‘We love human rights when we can Kick China, Iran’s, says MEP’, December 22, 2020, (w/ video 1:28)
The US health system operates for profit. As a result, the US COVID response has been an utter failure. The goal has been ever more profit, not preventing the spread of the virus and protecting people. From selling and exporting record amounts PPE last winter while telling citizens they don't need masks to insisting on developing our own test (for big pharmas sake) delaying testing in the US for months. By contrast Thailand ginned up their tests within hours, and now have a rapid test. US lockdowns were started too late to be really effective and the rapid re-opening once profits were impacted expanded the spread. However, what bothers me the most is the lack of simple preventative recommendations like taking vitamin D.
Caitlin Johnstone: 'There is no legal case in the world right now where the struggle for lucid and unobstructed seeing has so much on the line.. We really are deciding the fate of our species with our response to the prospect of Assange's extradition' https://t.co/ctSrgXyZIJ
— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) January 2, 2021
Happy new year everyone! Okay, now that that's over, I think we ought to begin 2021 through renewed opposition to the school of thought, policy, and action that has dominated the scene at all levels for the past forty years. I am referring, of course, to neoliberalism.
The discussion re-announced itself with a revealed interview with one of those Big Men on Campus with Joe Biden's ear. I am referring, of course, to Larry Summers.
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain. ~ Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy
BREAKING: Speaker Pelosi’s house VANDALIZED with red paint, PIGS HEAD and spray-painted message “$2K (crossed out)... CANCEL RENT... WE WANT EVERYTHING”. City called to clean up at 3am and police attempting to stop photos of scene. Media SILENT. pic.twitter.com/D3ERXteFCl
— Sam Houston (@_s______h___) January 1, 2021
Wishing everyone peace, comfort, love, and the support to live with dignity.
