What a thing to witness negative prices for #WTICrude. A day to remember for sure.

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The world’s official covid-19 death count is 4.6m, but we estimate that between 9.4m and 18.2m people have died. Our new model will continue to update as the pandemic progresses econ.st/3n8ljla

Not one official has been prosecuted for crimes by the US during the 20-year “War on Terror." Only whistleblowing officials like Thomas Drake, John Kiriakou, Reality Winner, Daniel Hale, Chelsea E. Manning and @snowden who exposed these crimes have been prosecuted...

It took years — eight years and counting in exile — for me to realize that I was missing the point: we talk about conspiracy theories in order to avoid talking about conspiracy practices, which are often too daunting, too threatening, too total. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-p…

Facebook-owned Whatsapp being down is a reminder that you and your friends should probably be using a more private, non-profit alternative like @Signalapp anyway (or another open-source app of your choice). It's just as free, and takes like 30 seconds to switch. #facebookdown

Intolerance and the ruthless self-interest of political parties have so damaged the foundation of nationhood—the willingness to cooperate with one's neighbor—that I fear we have already witnessed the failure of some the greatest states of our era. We just don't realize it.

The wildest thing about Western establishment media is its journalists aren't even working under threat of prison or violence. They do state propaganda - and sanitise our worst war criminals - totally off their own back. Incredible discipline and dedication to serving power.

The longer version: foreverwars.substack.com/p/the-only-man…

Light is everything.

THREAD. See our investigations into how the UK legal process has been conflicted from the start of the US attempt to prosecute Julian #Assange The case has implications for media freedom and the US right to prosecute anyone in the world, but also for the independence of UK law

You’re not allowed to be mad, being mad is a sign of Unseriousness and immaturity and a lack of sophistication. The gap between promises and what actually gets passed—no matter how wide, is simply the product of insuperable forces against which we are wholly helpless

"The extrajudicial assassination of Julian Assange in London was discussed at the highest levels of the US government" | Assange Fiancee @stellamoris1 #Assangecase #FreeAssangeNOW

Imagine killing an aid worker. Imagine killing his family too. Imagine seven of them were actually children, smiling little tots. Then just rising from your chair to grab a coffee and saying, "mistakes were made." This is absolutely unforgivable.

These bastards put Daniel Hale in prison for revealing that nine out of ten people they kill with drone strikes are bystanders, but they won't even slap somebody on the wrist when their criminal negligence buries the full ten perfectly innocent lives. jacobinmag.com/2021/08/daniel…

THREAD 1/7 Intel from a Ukrainian officer about a meeting in Putin’s lair in Urals. Oligarchs convened there so no one would flee. Putin is furious, he thought that the whole war would be easy and everything would be done in 1-4 days. EPP Group Ben Hodges Edward Lucas POLITICO

If mainstream American and British journalists covered their own govt’s imperial wars like they do Russia’s, the whole war machine would collapse overnight. The establishment know this well. It’s why Julian Assange soon begins his 4th year in Belmarsh maximum-security prison.

Preliminary analysis by FA, Al-Haq الحق & earshot.ngo into the #AlAhli hospital blast in Gaza casts significant doubt on IOF claims that the source of the deadly explosion was a Palestinian-fired rocket travelling west to east.