Daily Archives: September 26, 2021

2021-09-26: News Headlines

Ed Rampell (2021-09-26). The Murky Politics of Film Noir. counterpunch.org Special counsel Robert Mueller's 2019 Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election probed crimes and misdemeanors at the highest levels of the Trump campaign and U.S. government. In what could be called The Other Muller Report, author Eddie Muller takes readers and cinefiles on a deep dive into a Hollywood crime genre full of hard-boiled gumshoes, femme fatales, crooked cops, hoods, corrupt politicians and businessmen, where GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone would feel right at home. But unlike the former FBI Director's Muller Report, Eddie Muller's Dark City, The Lost…

Pia Sarkar (2021-09-25). 'Vaccine Apartheid': Africans Tell UN They Need Vaccines. zcomm.org "No one is safe unless we are all safe." That message was repeated throughout the day to world leaders assembled at the UN, as the inequity of vaccine distribution came into sharp focus…

Staff (2021-09-25). Hactivist jailed in 'Little Guantanamo' says prison blocked him from contacting wife, covering for 'sexually abusive' guard. rt.com Imprisoned hacktivist Martin Gottesfeld says the federal prison authorities have cut off his phone access, shortly after he gave an interview to RT and told his wife about a unit manager who was allegedly sexually abusing inmates. | Gottesfeld is serving a 10-year sentence for a "cyberattack" on Boston Children's Hospital in 2014 — which he says he did to help end the "torture" of teenage girl Justina Pelletier, who was being administered the wrong treatment while her parents lost custody of their daughter to the state for trying to protest against it. | Gottesfeld, who was later arrested by the FBI and w…

Andrew Emett (2021-09-25). Missouri cops under investigation for dog attack on video. nationofchange.org St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell said in a statement that his office "is aware of this video, and we will make a thorough review of the incident."

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