Chris Hedges | Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to the British courts to avoid extradition. If he is extradited it is the death of investigations into the inner workings of power by the press. | If Julian Assange is denied permission to appeal his extradition to the United States before a panel of two judges at the High Court in London this week, he will have no recourse left within the British legal system. His lawyers can ask the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for a stay of execution under Rule 39, which is given in “exceptional circumstances” and “only where there is an imminent risk of irreparable harm.” But it is far from certain that the British court will agree. It may order Julian’s immediate extradition prior to a Rule 39 instruction or may decide to ignore a request from the ECtHR to allow Julian to have his case heard by the court. [...] Julian’s “crime” is that he published classified documents, internal messages, reports and videos from the U.S. government and U.S. military in 2010, which were provided by U.S. army whistleblower Chelsea Manning. This vast trove of material revealed massacres of civilians, torture, assassinations, the list of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and the conditions they were subjected to, as well as the Rules of Engagement in Iraq. Those who perpetrated these crimes — including the U.S. helicopter pilots who gunned down two Reuters journalists and 10 other civilians and severely injured two children, all captured in the Collateral Murder video — have never been prosecuted.

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Ignoring growing calls to halt the military offensive in Rafah, Southern Gaza, Israeli prime minister to "finish the job" as War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz threatened to invade the southern city of Rafah if remaining Israeli hostages are not freed by the upcoming Ramadan.

■ United States VETOES Gaza Ceasefire Resolution - Again (Hal Turner) | In another shining example of the sub-human garbage the US Government has become, the US Ambassador to the United Nations VETOED another UN Security Council Resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The federal government of the United States is protecting an actual Genocide taking place in the Gaza Strip, being perpetrated by the so-called "state" of Israel. Over 30,000 civilians, sixty percent of which are women and children, have now been killed by Israeli military action against Gaza. The United States is protecting this ongoing killing, and it has gotten beyond disgusting.

■ Israel systematically uses quadcopter drones to kill Palestinians: Euro-Med (TRT World)
■ UN agencies warn of 'explosion' in Gaza child deaths (Al Mayadeen)
■ The scarcity of liquidity exacerbates the suffering of Gaza residents, and financial aid is evaporating (Teller Report)
■ Hamas, PIJ Warn of “Israel’s” Religious War on Al-Aqsa: Explosion Coming (Alahed News)
■ Brazil plunges deeper into diplomatic crisis with Israel after Lula recalls ambassador (Anadolu)
■ Brazil Expels “Israeli” Ambassador, Recalls Its Ambassador Back Home (Alahed News)
■ Spain to impose sanctions on West Bank settlers after EU fails to reach unanimity (Yeni Şafak)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Russia recorded cases of Ukrainian troops using US-made chemical grenades in the special military operation zone, according to Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense troops of the Russian armed forces. | Russia's Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defence Troops (RChBD) have documented cases of the use of poisonous chemicals by the Ukrainian military. ● According to Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, some of those substances were contained in the US-made weapons. ● In particular, Ukrainian forces used US-made gas grenades loaded with "CS" capable of causing skin burns and respiratory paralysis, meaning Washington violated the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) ratified by the US on April 25, 1997. ● Ukraine received US-made chemical weapons along with HIMARS systems, Patriot missile defense complexes, howitzers, etc "directly from the United States," Igor Nikulin, military expert, former member of the UN Commission on Chemical and Biological Weapons, told Sputnik.

■ Canada supplying hundreds of drones to Ukraine (Anadolu)
■ Ukraine Had Secret Torture Chambers, Burials in Avdeyevka (Sputnik News)
■ US House Lawmakers Urge Colleagues to Back Ukraine Aid & Border Security Bill (Sputnik News)

Analyzing the excess mortality of vaccinated people | It wasn’t long ago when governments and public health authorities around the world demanded that every person show their vaccine status to exercise basic freedoms. That totalitarian scheme ultimately backfired. Many of the people who once flaunted their vaccine status and called for “vaccine passports” are dying suddenly anyway, and now they have become a pariah, as their cause of death and vaccine status is concealed from the public. But the irony is: Vaccine records are archived and population mortality data are being analyzed, and this data tells a horrifying story. ● According to data from the U.K. Health Security Agency, (UKHSA) there have been approximately 61,000 unvaccinated deaths and approximately one million vaccinated deaths from 2021 to 2023. During this time, populations have been deceived. While everyone has been harmed in some way, we have collectively suffered through a pandemic of the vaccinated. The mortality data out of the UK screams of crimes against humanity.

When the WEF called 'misinformation' the single largest identified risk in early 2024, it was the latest call of many, with an express, not-so-carefully-hidden objective. | It seems strange that we, in the west, have to put up with even dealing with this question, given that our entire framework fundamentally rests upon a cornerstone of free speech. Yet, here we are. But where did this drive come from? ● And in that regard - yes, a number of recent initiatives exist, including those outlined by Shellenberger. But they don't step back in time to identify the roots - which incidentally is where these issues will have to be addressed. Or else the issue will just come right back when you least expect it, in much the same way those dandelions on your neighbours lawn arrive on yours.