Kelley B. Vlahos, a writer and reporter whose work I often enjoy and normally agree with, has a piece for Antiwar.com about the Feds’ mistreatment of alleged leaker Bradley Manning. If she stuck to the present and merely focused on Manning’s mistreatment I would surely applaud her efforts at exposing the Feds. However, Vlahos,...
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There is news coming out of the US power structure that the regime may be less stable or at least less confident in its stability than previously thought: Are you a spy? If you have a family member in the Air Force and have seen any of the material released by WikiLeaks, USAF lawyers are...
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Miss Nebraska Teresa Scanlan has at age 17 become the youngest Miss America to win the pageant since its debut 90 years ago. Becoming the first Cornhusker State resident to win the crown, Scanlan beat out 52 other beauty queens to win a $50,000 scholarship at the Planet Hollywood casino-resort in Las Vegas on...
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Francis Shor, the author of Dying Empire, writes for TruthOut about the perception of legitimacy that supports the US regime: While empires try to maintain their hegemony through economic and military prowess, they must also rely on a form of ideological legitimacy to guarantee their rule. Such legitimacy is often embedded in the geopolitical reputation...
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Ralph Nader exposes the US Empire and its attempt to silent dissent and eliminate the freedom of the press: Thomas Blanton, the esteemed director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University described Washington’s hyper-reaction to WikiLeaks’ transmission of information to some major media in various countries as “Wikimania.” In testimony before the...
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This is a rather humourous story despite the Federal bureaucrats, loss of liberty and waste of our tax money involved. Only the Feds could so aptly name their goon squad WTF: The CIA has launched a taskforce to assess the impact of 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables. Its name? WikiLeaks Task Force, or WTF...
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Terry Warren (his English name), a musician of Kaw/Osage ancestry who is active in the Southern and American Indian movements, writes: Having spent the better part of this past Sunday at a family reunion where there were over one hundred of my kin in attendance (American Indian and Celtic descent alike), I have since...
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British judge Howard Riddle reversed course today, freeing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on 200,000 pounds (about $360,000) bail after refusing to grant him bail at a hearing last week. Assange reportedly agreed beforehand to travel restrictions and electronic monitoring as conditions for bail, but the terms of his release have yet to be released....
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Jack Hunter, the “Southern Avenger”, explains how the growth of government is exposed through the papers uncovered by WikiLeaks. The Southern Avenger uses the mainstream media’s rhetoric, takes a small government position on the issue and comes down on the side of transparency and liberty:
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The Establishment’s leading newspaper, the New York Times, has a featured article out recognising Texas Congressman Ron Paul’s rise to importance and now power. Naturally, it highlights his recent opposition to calls by prominent figures in government and the media for Julian Assange of WikiLeaks to be jailed or assassinated. Mentioned in the descriptions...
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A new Marist-McClatchy poll has revealed a disappointingly strong opposition to the notion of a free press in the United States. The poll showed strong support for the notion of censoring WikiLeaks and prosecuting anyone involved in the publication of classified data. In 1971 the US Supreme Court vindicated the right to publish classified...
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Robert Sheer over at Truthdig writes: Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Feinstein, who strongly supported the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, has the audacity to call for the imprisonment of the man who, more than any other individual, has allowed the public to learn the truth about those disastrous imperial adventures—facts long known...
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