March 12, 2012
Bradley Manning has been charged on 22 counts, including aiding the enemy. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images The UN special rapporteur on torture has formally accused the US government of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment towards Bradley Manning, the US soldier who was held in solitary confinement for almost a year on suspicion of being the WikiLeaks [...]
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January 7, 2012
Daniel Ellsberg / ellsberg.net For our first Truthdigger installment of 2012, we salute Daniel Ellsberg, who has taken a page from his experience with the Pentagon Papers and is still busy serving up a bracing dose of truth to power, most recently with his support of accused WikiLeaker Bradley Manning. It’s not like Ellsberg ever [...]
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December 25, 2011
thierry ehrmann (CC-BY) By Amy Goodman Accused whistle-blower Pvt. Bradley Manning turned 24 Saturday. He spent his birthday in a pretrial military hearing that could ultimately lead to a sentence of life … or death. Manning stands accused of causing the largest leak of government secrets in United States history. More on Manning shortly. First, a reminder [...]
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December 24, 2011
The intellectual cowardice of Bradley Manning’s critics VIDEO BY GLENN GREENWALD After imprisoning Private First Class Bradley Manning for eighteen months, the U.S. Army last week finally began the preliminary stage of his court-martial proceeding, and that initial process ended on Thursday. Manning faces over 30 charges; the most serious — “aiding the [...]
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December 22, 2011
Bradley Manning: The Imperative of Truth By Ray McGovern – Posted on 21 December 2011 Pvt. Manning and Imperative of Truth by Ray McGovern It would be very difficult to find many more principled and committed US citizens than Ray McGovern. He can quite easily be counted among such people as Chomsky, [...]
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December 22, 2011
Bradley Manning is escorted from a military vehicle to the court facility at Fort Meade, Maryland. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP Accused whistle-blower Bradley Manning turned 24 on Saturday. He spent his birthday in a pre-trial military hearing that could ultimately lead to a sentence of life … or death. Manning stands accused of causing the largest [...]
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December 20, 2011
The Case Against Alleged WikiLeaks Supplier Bradley Manning Takes a Strange Turn The military hearing that will determine whether Bradley Manning will receive a court martial for his alleged role in leaking documents to WikiLeaks took a strange turn. In a courthouse in Fort Meade, Maryland, a prosecution witness testified that [...]
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December 19, 2011
Manning Defense Reveals Chaotic Situation at Iraq Base Rules ‘Violated on a Daily Basis,’ Officials Confirm by Jason Ditz, December 18, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The defense of Pfc. Bradley Manning on charges of mishandling classified data is [...]
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December 18, 2011
Bradley Manning, right, is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP In many ways a lack of care in storing information often reflects the attitude the user/owner of the information about the value of the material stored. The revelations in this article re the hearing show a lack of care and concern [...]
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December 16, 2011
photo: mar is sea Y Bradley Manning Deserves a Medal The prosecution of the whistleblower and alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning is an exercise in intimidation, not justice by Glenn Greenwald After 17 months of pre-trial imprisonment, Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old US army private and accused WikiLeaks source, is finally going to see the inside of a [...]
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December 16, 2011
Activists hold signs in support of Bradley Manning, who is currently held at a secured facility in Kansas. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP • Pre-trial hearing gets under way at Forte Meade, Maryland • Manning accused of leaking military secrets to Wikileaks • Civilian lawyer petitions ‘biased’ judge to step down • At Forte Meade: Ed Pilkington (EP) and [...]
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December 15, 2011
AFP For some, Bradley Manning is a hero. Others feel that the US soldier, who is accused of providing secret documents to WikiLeaks, is a traitor and a threat to American security. The military proceedings against him, which begin Friday, are likely to end in a guilty verdict. Daniel Ellsberg knows a few things about [...]
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December 15, 2011
Adrian Lamo said: ‘The decision was not one I decided to make. It was thrust upon me.’ Photograph: Jennifer S Altman/Washington Post/Getty Images Hacker who betrayed Bradley Manning expresses regret over possible jail term Adrian Lamo, the hacker who betrayed the alleged WikiLeaks sourceBradley Manning to the US authorities, has said it would be to his “lasting regret” [...]
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November 29, 2011
Bradley Manning, the US soldier suspected of leaking classified information, is due to make his first court appearance on 16 December. Photograph: AP Bradley Manning treatment in custody concerns MEPs Open letter to US authorities raises human rights fears and urges access for UN special rapporteur on torture to whistleblower • The open letter by [...]
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November 29, 2011
Lawyer: Feds Withholding Evidence in Manning Case by Jason Ditz, November 28, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum According to Bradley Manning’s lawyer David E. Coombs, the US government is deliberately withholding evidence that the defense has requested during discovery, including evidence that could be favorable to Manning’s case. According to Coombs, this includes [...]
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November 28, 2011
Bradley Manning is facing multiple charges relating to his alleged releasing of state secrets. Photograph: AP Bradley Manning lawyer: White House review found ‘leak’ did no real damage Manning’s defence team says White House inquest concluded that WikiLeaks documents had no impact on national security reddit this Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Monday 28 November 2011 22.00 GMT [...]
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November 14, 2011
No Speedy Trial for Bradley Manning now in Pre-Trial Confinement for 560 days By davidswanson - Posted on 14 November 2011 3 of 34 Arrested for Protesting Manning’s Quantico Pre-Trial Conditions Found Guilty of Obstruction of Traffic-$15 Fine By Ann Wright Five months ago, on April 22, 2011, over 400 citizens converged on Quantico [...]
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October 25, 2011
By the Bradley Manning Support Network. October 19, 2011 Report on Bradley Manning to be Released Soon NEW YORK — Juan Mendez, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, confirmed yesterday that the Department of Defense has blocked his requests for an unmonitored meeting with PFC Bradley Manning, the accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower. He told [...]
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July 15, 2011
Wired publishes the full Manning-Lamo chat logs Wikipedia/AP/Salon BY GLENN GREENWALD (updated below) Yesterday — more than a full year after it first released selected portions of purported chat logs between Bradley Manning and government informant Adrian Lamo (representing roughly 25% of the logs) – Wired finally published the full logs (with a few redactions). From the start, Wired had the [...]
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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June 18, 2011
As far as Afghanistan is concerned you need to make a start. A start to disseminate information that not only is war a crime but the damage being done to people’s everyday lives by the ridiculous expenditure required to not just fight a war but to remain on a war standing is ruinous. If you [...]
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June 4, 2011
War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity The brutality with which the US government exercises its “war on terror” is condemned both by the court of international public opinion and by the principles of international law governing human rights. The wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan and the torture of [...]
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June 1, 2011
Misdiagnosing the Middle East |More F. Gregory Gause III | May 26, 2011 There is a dangerous consensus about the Middle East based on the assumption that authoritarian politics are the root of instability, violence and anti-Americanism. Thus the United States is obliged, for both its own security and the furtherance of its values, to [...]
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May 30, 2011
America’s Coming Nakba Obama knows America is threatened by this subservience. By William A. Cook ‘From the moment we took on a role that included the permanent military domination of the world, we were on our own—feared, hated, corrupt and corrupting, maintaining ‘order’ through state terrorism and bribery, and given to megalomanic rhetoric and sophistries [...]
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May 30, 2011
Scott Horton Interviews Daniel Ellsberg Scott Horton, May 28, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, discusses the espionage trial of NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, scheduled to start on June 13 – also the 40th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers leak; [...]
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May 25, 2011
US embassy cables: Barack Obama may have ‘prejudiced’ Bradley Manning trial Remarks that ‘Manning broke law’ could prejudice army private’s trial over leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks Robert Booth guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 24 May 2011 19.30 BST Article history Activists hold signs in support of Bradley Manning, who is currently held at a secured facility [...]
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May 18, 2011
Obama Faces Mounting Arab Disillusionment by David Elkins, May 18, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On the eve of a much-anticipated address by President Barack Obama on U.S. policy in the Middle East, a new survey suggests that disillusionment with both Obama and Washington’s approaches to the region are once again on [...]
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May 17, 2011
Afghanistan under the Knife It was a primitive form of surgery. Almost ten years ago, the United States and its allies stuck a knife deep into Afghanistan in an attempt to remove two malignancies, al-Qaeda and the Taliban. One of those, Osama bin Laden‘s crew, is nearly gone. The Taliban, after going into remission for [...]
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May 17, 2011
Subscribe to FFF Email Update Subscribe to Freedom Daily DONATE TO FFF Hornberger’s Blog Monday, May 16, 2010 Hornberger’s Blog Index Information about RSS REMINDER: The Jacob Hornberger Show every Saturday at 7-8 pm EST. Listen and watch live on the Internet: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-future-of-freedom-foundation America’s Post-9/11 Turn toward Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger Among the most potent [...]
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May 17, 2011
Germany curbs terrorist intel flow to US Published: 15 May 11 13:53 CET Share18 The German government is reportedly reassessing the amount of information it is passing on to US authorities, after a German citizen was killed by a US drone attack on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border last year. CDU floats ‘private sheriffs’ idea to tackle [...]
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May 14, 2011
In a memorable sentence you can read that..”The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” George Orwell With that in mind it is easy to come to a solid conclusion that the major mover and shaker in [...]
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May 14, 2011
Obama Confirms Libya War to Continue – But Will He Ever Ask Congress? With No Authorization Sought, Officials Mull Ways to Skirt Legal Requirements by Jason Ditz, May 13, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Following a White House meeting today with NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen,President Obama confirmed that the US [...]
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May 14, 2011
Afghanistan: war without end? Obama promised no open-ended occupation – and to draw down forces from July. A 2.5% cut is hardly an encouraging start Share68 Comments (94) David Swanson guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 May 2011 19.31 BST Article history General David Petraeus, commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, greets US defence secretary [...]
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May 12, 2011
Tomgram: William Astore, A New Age of “Enlightened” War Posted by William Astore at 10:00am, May 12, 2011. In case you hadn’t noticed, they are — no kidding around — absolutely the niftiest non-humans on Earth. I’m speaking about the special operations force of Navy SEALs that took out Osama bin Laden. They and their special ops [...]
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May 10, 2011
Glenn Greenwald, the Salon.com legal blogger, explains why he is a strong supporter of WikiLeaks, and discusses its recent revelation that the U.S. imprisoned more than 150 innocent men for years without charge in the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay. “If you think that government secrecy is one of the gravest threats to how [...]
Tags: AMY GOODMAN, Bradley Manning, Glenn Greenwald, José Couso, Newt Gingrich, Palestine Hotel, United States, WikiLeaks
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May 9, 2011
False Flags: An American Tradition by STEPHEN LENDMAN on MAY 7, 2011 Spread it! Share48 |More By Stephen Lendman * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Wikipedia defines false or black flags as “covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities.” They’re “big lies,” [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, David Ray Griffin, Elisabeth Bumiller, False flag, Osama BinLaden, United States, Victoria Clarke
Posted in Al Qaeda, Australia, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Bin Laden, Bradley Manning, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Democracy, Democracy Now!, Dissent, Uncategorized, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, War, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »
May 9, 2011
The Predators: Where is Your Democracy? By Kathy Kelly http://warisacrime.org/node/57779 On May 4, 2011, CNN World News asked whether killing Osama bin Laden was legal under international law. Other news commentary has questioned whether it would have been both possible and advantageous to bring Osama bin Laden to trial rather than kill him. World attention [...]
Tags: Federally Administered Tribal Areas, General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Kathy Kelly, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, United States, Unmanned aerial vehicle
Posted in Al Qaeda, Arab Jews, Arab Spring, Assange, Atomics Corporation, Australia, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian Politics, BBC, Bin Laden, Bradley Manning, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, CIA, Commentators, Consent, Counterpunch, D Room, Democracy, Democracy Now!, disaster, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Elites, Englehardt, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Galeano, Gaza, Gitmo, Guardian, Hillary, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Jason Ditz, Leon Panetta, MI 6, Middle East, Military, Military madmen, Mission Creep, NATO, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, Palestine, Pentagon, people's protests, Predator Drone, Propaganda, Protest, Protests, Refugees, Special Ops, Swanson, UK, UK Foreign Policy, UN, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, Waterboarding, Wikileaks, Womens' views and action | No Comments »
May 9, 2011
Nato units left 61 African migrants to die of hunger and thirst Exclusive: Boat trying to reach Lampedusa was left to drift in Mediterranean for 16 days, despite alarm being raised Share1587 Jack Shenker in Lampedusa guardian.co.uk, Sunday 8 May 2011 21.30 BST Article history Refugees from Libya reach Lampedusa. A Nato ship failed to [...]
Tags: Africa, Guardian, Lampedusa, Libya, Mediterranean Sea, NATO, Refugee, United Nations
Posted in Afghanistan, Africa, Al Jazeera, Al Qaeda, antiwar.com, Arab Jews, Arab Spring, Australia, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Bakunin, BBC, Bin Laden, Bolivia, Bradley Manning, BRIC, Burma, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, CIA, D Room, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy Now!, disaster, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Egypt, elections, Emma Goldmann, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Germany new old politics, Gillard, Greece, Guardian, Hillary, IMF, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Indigenous, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Ivory Coast, Leon Panetta, Media, Middle East, Military, NATO, Portugal, Refugees, Rudd, Rupert Murdoch, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, torture, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Uganda peotests, UK, UN, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, Video, War, War is a crime, Womens' views and action, Yemen, zionism | No Comments »
May 8, 2011
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
Tags: Adam Hochschild, Bertrand Russell, British Army, History, To End All Wars, Twentieth Century, Wars and Conflicts, World War I
Posted in Assange, Atomics Corporation, Austerity, Australia, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Bahrain, Bakunin, BBC, BDS, Bin Laden, Bolivia, BP, Bradley Manning, BRIC, Burma, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Children in Palestine and Gaza, CIA, Climate, Climate change, Commentators, Counterpunch, Cuba, D Room, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Egypt, elections, Elites, Englehardt, Environment, Erdogan, Escobar, Escobar Escobar opinion thoughts, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fatah, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Fukushima, Galeano, Gaza, Germany new old politics, Gillard, Gitmo disclosures, Goldstone, Greece, Guantanamo Bay a human disaster, Guantanamo crimes, Guardian, Hamas, Hillary, Honduras, IMF, immigration, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Indigenous, Indigenous Australians, Iran, Iraq, Islam and the US, Israel, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel death and destruction, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israeli checkpoints, Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast Warlords, Japan, Japan Nuclear, Jason Ditz, Jewishness, Jordan, Koran, Kosovo, Labor, Leon Panetta, Libya, Malalai Joya, Media, melt down, MI 6, Middle East, Military, Military madmen, Miscarriage of Justice, Mission Creep, Monbiot, Mothers vote, Nakba, NATO, Netanyahu, News, News of the World, news report, Newsweek, Nigeria oil, nuclear, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, Oil in the USA, Pakistan, Pakistan and war and unrest, Palestine, Pentagon, people's protests, Tom Dispatch, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, Video, War, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »
May 8, 2011
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
Tags: California, Higher education, Mexico, Mexico City, Noam Chomsky, Osama bin Laden, San Francisco, United State, University of California Los Angeles, University of Leeds
Posted in Aboriginals, Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Africa, Ahmadinejad, Air war, Al Jazeera, Al Qaeda, Anarchism, anti zion protests, antiwar.com, Arab Jews, Arab Spring, Armageddon, Art and general issues, Asia, Asia Times, Assange, Atomics Corporation, Atwan, Atzmon, Austerity, Australia, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Bahrain, Bakunin, BBC, BDS, Bin Laden, Bolivia, BP, Bradley Manning, BRIC, Burma, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Children in Palestine and Gaza, China, Chomsky, CIA, Climate change, Commentators, Consent, Counterpunch, Cuba, D Room, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy Now!, Dirty Energy, disaster, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Egypt, elections, Elites, Emails, Emma Goldmann, Englehardt, Environment, Erdogan, Escobar, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fatah, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Fukushima, Galeano, Gaza, Germany new old politics, Gillard, Gitmo, Gitmo disclosures, Goldstone, Greece, Guantanamo Bay a human disaster, Guantanamo crimes, Hamas, Hillary, Honduras, IMF, immigration, Imperial Project, Imperialism, India, Indigenous, Indigenous Australians, Iran, Iraq, Islam and the US, Israel, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel death and destruction, Israel diaspora and deceit, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israeli checkpoints, Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast people's protests, Japan, Japan Nuclear, Jason Ditz, Jewishness, Jordan, Koran, Kosovo, Leon Panetta, Libya | No Comments »
May 8, 2011
In a recent video interview at the Real News site there is some very interesting information. The whole interview should be watched. You can do that at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6731. It starts with the news that S & P has said a few things about the US economy. The witch doctors of financial boogie fever have spoken But they seem to [...]
Tags: Australia, Ben Bernanke, Bernanke, Economy of the United States, Federal Reserve System, God, International Monetary Fund, Julia Gillard, MarketWatch, Singapore Exchange, Standard & Poor's, United States, Wayne Swan
Posted in Al Jazeera, Al Qaeda, Anarchism, Assange, Atomics Corporation, Atzmon, Austerity, Australia, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Bakunin, BBC, BP, Bradley Manning, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Chomsky, CIA, Climate change, Commentators, D Room, Democracy, Democracy Now!, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Emma Goldmann, Erdogan, Escobar, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Galeano, Gillard, Goldstone, Hillary, IMF, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Indigenous Australians, Israel, Japan, Jason Ditz, Labor, Leon Panetta, Libya, MI 6, Military, Military madmen, Monbiot, oil, Parliament, Pentagon, people's protests, Pilger, police, Predator Drone, Propaganda, Protest, Protests, Racism, Ray McGovern, Rudd, Rudolf Rocker, Rupert Murdoch, Sabrosky, Stateless socialism, Sustainable fishing is an oxymoron, Swanson, The Fourth Reich, Timor, Tom Dispatch, torture, UN, Uri Avnery, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, Video, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, Waterboarding, Wikileaks, Womens' views and action | No Comments »
May 8, 2011
While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far morecautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and [...]
Posted in Australia, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Bin Laden, Bradley Manning, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Chomsky, Commentators, Counterpunch, D Room, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy Now!, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Egypt, Elites, Emma Goldmann, Escobar, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Galeano, Gaza, Gillard, Gitmo, Gitmo disclosures, Goldstone, Guardian, Hillary, IMF, Imperial Project, Imperialism, India, Indigenous, Iran, Iraq, Islam and the US, Israel, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel death and destruction, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israeli checkpoints, Japan, Jason Ditz, Jordan, Koran, Kosovo, Labor, Leon Panetta, Libya, Malalai Joya, MI 6, Middle East, Military, Military madmen, Mission Creep, Monbiot, NATO, News, News of the World, news report, Nigeria, nuclear, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, Oil in the USA, Pakistan, Pakistan and war and unrest, Palestine, Parliament, Pentagon, people's protests, Pilger, police, Predator Drone, Propaganda, Protest, Protests, Qaddafi, Racism, Ray McGovern, Rudolf Rocker, Rupert Murdoch, Sabrosky, Saudi Arabia, Stateless socialism, Swanson, Syria, Uganda, UK, UK Foreign Policy, UN, Uri Avnery, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, War, War Crimes, Wikileaks, Womens' views and action, Yemen, Zawahiri, zionism | No Comments »
May 6, 2011
Bradley Manning case: William Hague accused of ‘playing avoidance game’ Labour MP Ann Clwyd also says Foreign Office is stonewalling Manning’s mother in not responding to letter Share41 Amelia Hill and Esther Addley guardian.co.uk, Thursday 5 May 2011 18.49 BST Article history William Hague, above, has been criticised by a Labour MP over the Foreign Office’s [...]
Tags: Alistair Burt, Ann Clwyd, bradleymanning, Clwyd, Fort Leavenworth, Labour Party, WikiLeaks, William Hague
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May 3, 2011
At the end of the day is what some people think is a fairly overused saying, but sometimes it covers the situation. Whatever you may think of Bin Laden and Afghanistan you really need to work out what their position was that led to their actions. It would take a fairly obstinate person to disregard [...]
Tags: Arab people, Crusades, Israel, middle east, Moshe Dayan, United Nations, United States, Zionism
Posted in Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, antiwar.com, Arab Spring, Australia, Australia Politics, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Bin Laden, Bradley Manning, Capital, Capitalism, Chomsky, CIA, Counterpunch, D Room, Democracy, Democracy Now!, Egypt, elections, Elites, Fascism, Gaza, Gillard, Gitmo, Gitmo disclosures, Goldstone, Hamas, Hillary, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq, Islam and the US, Israel, Israel and force, Israel and the settlers, Israeli checkpoints, Labor, Libya, Malalai Joya, Middle East, Military, Military madmen, Mission Creep, NATO, Obama, Obama warmonger, Operation Cast Lead, Pakistan, Pakistan and war and unrest, Palestine, people's protests, Pilger, Propaganda, Protest, Qaddafi, Racism, Ray McGovern, Sudan, Swanson, Syria, torture, Tunisia, Turkey, UK, UK Foreign Policy, UN, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, War, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »
April 29, 2011
Documents offer hints of legal strategy in WikiLeaks case By Ellen Nakashima and Jerry Markon, Thursday, April 28, 7:51 PM Federal prosecutors investigating how the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks obtained large amounts of classified data are exploring potential criminal conspiracy charges under statutes that outlaw the theft of government property and unauthorized access to a computer as well as charges [...]
Tags: Bradley Manning, Espionage Act of 1917, Julian Assange, Neil MacBride, United States Department of Justice, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Washington Post, WikiLeak
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April 29, 2011
Bradley Manning no longer held in solitary confinement, Pentagon says Soldier now detained among medium-security inmates at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas as he awaits court martial Share20 Ed Pilkington in New York The Guardian, Friday 29 April 2011 Article history Bradley Manning is now being allowed to move among other military prisoners, according to [...]
Tags: Amnesty International, Associated Press, Barack Obama, Bradley Manning, Fort Leavenworth, Jeh Johnson, Pentagon, Prison, Quantico Marine Base, Solitary confinement, United States, WikiLeaks
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April 17, 2011
There is not a great deal to think about when you realise what is being done to Bradley Manning. No nation on the planet has ever been responsible for virtually all the major atrocities that have happened to the human race. No matter where you start the story is the same. With the aid of [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Bradley Manning, New York Times, Pentagon Papers, Quantico Marine Base, United Nations, United States, WikiLeaks
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A Gaza message to others
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
Tags: Australia, Brisbane, Gaza flotilla raid, Greek Police, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Kevin Rudd, Melbourne, Politics of Greece
Posted in Australia, Australia and Abu Grahib, Australia and crimes against the indigenous, Australia and support it gives to Afghan war crimes, Australia and the imperial project, Australia Coal Country and Uranium and metals, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in international war crimes, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream, Australian support for Zionism, Australian War Crimes, Bradley Manning, Capital Project, capital project Chomsky views, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, Capitalism for Zombies, Children in Palestine and Gaza, Chomsky, Collective Military Irrelevance, Commentators, Consent, Corporate greed and excess, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, elections, Elites, Englehardt, Environment, Escobar, Fascism, Fatah, Foreign Policy, Gaza, Genocide, Gillard, Gillard and Labor; Masters of the Australian Crawl, Gitmo, Global capitalism and imperialism, Global Food System, Golan Heights, Goldstone, Greece, Guantanamo Bay a human disaster, Guantanamo crimes, Hamas, Hezbollah, Hillary, Human Rights, Ilan Pappe, IMF, Imperial Project, Imperial Project Chomsky views, Imperialism, Indigenous, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islam and Chomsky, Islam and the US, Isolationism, Israel, Japan, Jerusalem, Jewish newspapers, Kropotkin, Labor, Labor Prty as a crime, Leon Panetta, Lettiong the children suffer an Australian way, Libya, Manufacturing Consent, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, NATO, Negotiate. It's now or never, Netanyahu, Obama, Obama warmonger, Pakistan, Palestine, Peace Movement, Peak oil, Pentagon, people's protests, President of the World, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, Refugees, Regulating Democracy, Slovenia, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, UK Monarchy, UN, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War child victims, War Chomsky views, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War criminals all types, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror, Waterboarding, Women abuse and targetting, Women and discrimination, Women and revolution, Women become tragerts, Women in the Middle East, Women's issues | No Comments »