GLENN GREENWALD—What makes this law so insidious is that, by design, it is almost impossible for the government to lose. As I detailed in a Washington Post op-ed when the indictment was first revealed — arguing why it poses the greatest threat to press freedoms in the West in years — this 1917 law is written as a “strict liability” statute, meaning that the defendant is not only guilty as soon as there is proof that they disclosed classified information without authorization, but they are also barred from raising a “justification” defense — meaning they cannot argue to the jury of their peers that it was not only permissible but morally necessary to disclose that information because of the serious wrongdoing and criminality it revealed on the part of the nation’s most powerful political officials.
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Activist Disrupts Summit of the Americas, ‘Luis Almagro, the Blood of Bolivians is on your Hands!’
7 minutes readActivist Walter Smolerek with the Party for Socialism and Liberation disrupts OAS chief Luis Almagro at a Summit of the Americas event, calling out his role in the 2019 Bolivia coup. The coup overturned the victory of the elected socialist president Evo Morales and inaugurated a right-wing reign of terror that left scores dead.
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Desperate Dems Pin Electoral Hopes On Jan 6 Hearings
8 minutes readThe January 6th hearings are underway and, according to the New York Times, Democrats are hoping that the public demonstration of just how loathsome the Republicans who supported the “insurrection” are will turn the tide of public opinion in their favor. Without a strong economy or any tangible legislative gains to point to, it may be their only hope. But will it work? Jimmy and The Dive’s Jackson Hinkle discuss whether average Americans will take much interest in the hearings and the electoral bloodbath shaping up for Democrats come November.
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Well-known repulsive narcissist Donny Deutsch appears on Joe Scarborough to dispense “tactical” advice on how to defeat the Republicans (who, as part of the deceiving duopoly are as bad as the treacherous Dems). This is all irrelevant noise as far as ordinary people are concerned, mere pretend fights between two wings of the same party serving the national and global plutocracy.
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Danny Haiphong has been put in Twitter jail, his account suspended for at least a week after the Black Agenda Report contributor posted a tweet questioning the dominant narrative of what happened in 1989 in Tiananmen Square. Perhaps even more curiously, Twitter claimed the suspension was for violating the site’s rules against “abuse and harassment.” Danny joins Jimmy and American comedian Kurt Metzger to discuss his punishment at Twitter’s hands and the truth about the Tiananmen Square “massacre.”