(2023-10-10). A Message to Donald Rumsfeld's Ghost About My Known Knowns. dissidentvoice.org 
On February 12, 2002 at a Pentagon news conference, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked by Jim Miklaszewski, the NBC Pentagon correspondent, if he had any evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was supplying them to terrorists. Rumsfeld delivered a famous non-answer answer and said: Reports that say that something hasn't …
(2023-10-09). No Charges For Georgia Troopers Who Killed Manuel 'Tortuguita' Terán. popularresistance.org Stone Mountain, GA — A Georgia prosecutor announced Friday, Oct. 6, that six Georgia State Patrol SWAT troopers — Brylend Myers, Jerry Parrish, Jonathan Salcedo, Mark Lamb, Ronaldo Kegel, and Royce Zah — will not face criminal charges in the January 18, 2023 shooting death of Manuel 'Tortuguita' Esteban Paez Terán, a nonbinary indigenous Venezuelan climate protester. Terán's family and fellow activists believe they were murdered that day in the South River Forest near Atlanta, and much of the publicly available evidence from the incident casts doubt on the official narrative. | Stone Mountain Ju…
(2023-10-09). Israel Says It Has No Evidence Iran Was Involved in Hamas Attack. news.antiwar.com On Monday, Israeli officials said they had no evidence that Iran was involved in the Hamas attack on southern Israel after a report from The Wall Street Journal claimed Iranian officials helped plot the operation. "We have no evidence or proof" that Iran was involved, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Maj. Nir Dinar told POLITICO. …
(2023-10-09). Palestinians Have a Legal Right to Armed Resistance against Israeli Colonialism. dissidentvoice.org International law clearly shows that the Palestinian people have a legal right to armed struggle against Israeli colonialism, just as South Africans did against apartheid. Gaza suffers under an illegal Israeli blockade that even a former British prime minister recognized to be a "prison camp." Journalist Ben Norton looks over the evidence. See related article: …
(2023-10-09). rewind] Indigenous Peoples Day: A Look Back at America's History of Genocide. scheerpost.com 
[Editors note: This edition of the Scheer Intelligence podcast was first broadcast in September, 2016 on KCRW. We are reposting here for Indigenous Peoples Day.] UCLA history professor Benjamin Madley's book An American Genocide: The United States and the California Catastrophe 1846-1873 details the killing of tens of thousands of Native Americans as the state was being settled …
(2023-10-10). China once again urges the Philippines stop making provocations and creating troubles at sea. ecns.cn China once again urges the Philippines to take seriously China's concerns, stop making provocations and creating troubles at sea, and stop groundless attacks and smears, so as to avoid undermining peace and stability in the South China Sea and harming the common interests of countries in the region, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Sunday.
(2023-10-10). Imagining the Future: How to Build in Place. counterpunch.org Ursula K. LeGuin, who broke science fiction out of its obsession with gadgets and gizmos to humanize it with stunning vistas of starkly different worlds, had vital insights into how imagination could illuminate other possibilities for human life. LeGuin saw imagination's subversive potential. "The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the
(2023-10-10). US Scrambles to Get More Arms to Israel, Ukraine. news.antiwar.com As Israel has declared a "complete siege" on Gaza in response to the Hamas attack on southern Israel, the US is scrambling to get more weapons in the hands of the Israelis. According to The Washington Post, the Biden administration is considering combining its request for more spending on the war in Ukraine with new …
(2023-10-09). Humor in the Headlines Over China in Latin America. counterpunch.org In a break from its hysterical coverage of the existential threat posed by Donald Trump, the Washington Post — house organ of the Democratic National Committee — cautions us of the other menace, China. "When the leader of this impoverished Central American country visited Beijing in June," we are warned, "China laid out the warmest of welcomes." Apparently, in a grave threat to US national security, the president of Honduras attended a state banquet and actually ate Chinse food. What next for the country…