Ecuadorian Prez Moreno threatens Assange for violating ‘asylum terms’

Posted on April 3, 2019 by | 7 comments

From telesurenglish.net, April 2:

“Ecuador says Assange doesn’t have the right to “hack private accounts or phones” nor intervene in the foreign politics.
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Two Exposés on Omidyar Closing Down the Snowden Archives

Posted on April 2, 2019 by | 4 comments

This is a labor of love and loathing. Yes, it’s long, but it’s by way of a two-fer, and out of necessity I’ve even had to blow by a hella lot of the second essay.  Shall I offer prizes to those who finish it?  ;  )

First: ‘Silencing the Whistle: The Intercept Shutters Snowden Archive, Citing Cost’;  The closing of The Intercept’s Snowden archive will likely mean the end of any future publications, unless Glenn Greenwald’s rather absurd promise of finding “the right partner … that has the funds to robustly publish” is fulfilled, Whitney Webb, mintpressnews.com
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Ukraine’s Presidential Elections: March 31

Posted on March 29, 2019 by | Leave a comment

And boy, it’s likely be a wild ride, especially as the World is Watching, the West is already interfering in the election, and Ukrainian politics can get pretty er…kinetic, as in how many ‘Rumbles in the Rada’ have we seen post-Maidan?


As of today there are still 39 candidates vying for the job, and euronews.com claims that this piece contains ‘everything you need to understand about key poll’.  (Even though it’s manifestly biased against Russia and Yanukovitch who’d ‘fled’ as Maidan Uprsings, etc., but still kinda fun) including their category:
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Why The Intercept Really Closed the Snowden Archive, Barrett Brown

Posted on March 28, 2019 by | 3 comments


Please consider this a PSA; Greyson Smythe had sent it to me, and as the original text was all in italics, I’d told him that I’d need to paste it all into a word document sans italics to see if I could make sense of it all.  And still there are swathes of it that are confusing to me in my  ignorance.  Given that the Ukrainian Presidential elections are on March 31, my mind is in Ukraine on that wild story I’m trying to write up/paste together.  And oh, it’s a very long piece.

From Barrett Brown, medium.com, March 27, 2019:

A tale in five leaked documents
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Further War on Maduro’s Bolivarian Venezuela

Posted on March 25, 2019 by | 6 comments

It’s a bit of a tome, but you can look at individual headlines and decide which ones to read.  I’ll start with today, then work backwards in time, or try to, as the word doc for this diary is in serious disarray by now.

‘Venezuela crisis: Russian military planes land near Caracas’, bbc.com, March 25, 2019

“Two Russian military planes landed in Venezuela’s main airport on Saturday, reportedly carrying dozens of troops and large amounts of equipment.
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Mike Gravel 2020

Posted on March 21, 2019 by | 1 comment

‘2020 primary rock; finally, an 88-year-old presidential candidate that can out-insult Trump on Twitter’, Claud Cockburn, spectator.us (h/t Café Babylon denizen Greyson Smythe)
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Bolsonaro meets with Torture Haspel, Guaidoistas seize 2 VZ embassies

Posted on March 19, 2019 by | 5 comments

Sorry, I hadn’t meant to write about Venezuela again so soon, as there are so many other places to cover (China, Pakistan/India, DPRK) but given these two new pieces of news, well, needs must…  And given that Telesur’s terms of use amount to ‘use content at will, but only with attribution, I’ll do so.

‘Far-Right Homage: Bolsonaro Visits CIA Before Meeting Trump on First US Visit’, telesurenglish.net, March 18, 2019
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