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8 May 2013 — williambowles.info
SF Pride’s Bradley Manning Imbroglio Could End Up in Court
SF Weekly (blog)
If Bay Area peaceniks had their druthers, the whole SF Pride Manning-gate imbroglio would end tonight. Pride board members are scheduled to have a meeting at 7 p.m., at which point they’ll probably discuss the issue and make a final decision on whether …
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2013/05/manning-gate_could_be_headed_t.php
7 May 2013 — williambowles.info
Nato tells EU countries to invest in security, defence
Oman Daily Observer
BRUSSELS — Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen urged EU nations yesterday to invest in security and defence, warning lawmakers that “soft power alone is really no power at all.” EU leaders are expected to focus on the bloc’s security and …
http://main.omanobserver.om/node/163396
7 May 2013 — williambowles.info
Bradley Manning Pretrial Hearing Reaching New Level Of Secrecy
Huffington Post
FORT MEADE, Md. — Government secrecy reaches a new level this week in the court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst who sent 700,000 classified U.S. documents to the WikiLeaks website. A military judge, Col. Denise Lind, has …
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/bradley-manning-pretrial-hearing_n_3224283.html
6 May 2013 — williambowles.info
Listen: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian Assange
Truthdig
In these audio excerpts from their extended conversation in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Chris Hedges asks Julian Assange about legal strategy and the WikiLeaks founder’s thoughts on Pfc. Bradley Manning. For much more, including an in-depth …
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/listen_chris_hedges_interviews_julian_assange_20130505/
4 May 2013 — williambowles.info
Government-operated spyware on the rise around the world – report
RT
More and more regimes across the world are using Western-made ‘lawful intercept’ software to spy on their own citizens, a brand new report has revealed. Citizen Lab, a digital research unit at the University of Toronto, says that servers running …
http://rt.com/news/citizen-lab-finfisher-wikileaks-spyware-788/
2 May 2013 — williambowles.info
The most bitter Bradley Manning-Pride piece yet
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Lots of people angry about the Pride Committee’s decision to fire Bradley Manning as a grand marshal. But the most savage, all-out assault comes from Steven W. Thrasher, a former Village Voice writer who has nothing good to say at all about Pride or …
http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2013/05/01/most-bitter-bradley-manning-pride-piece-yet
29 April 2013 — williambowles.info
WikiLeaks to release more records – The Frontier Post
Frontier Post
LONDON: Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks was on Monday to publish more than 1.7 million US diplomatic and intelligence documents from the 1970s, founder Julian Assange revealed. The website has collated a variety of records including cables, …
http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article/4152/
20 April 2013 — williambowles.info
Google’s Eric Schmidt talks WikiLeaks with founder Julian Assange
Christian Science Monitor
Google executive Eric Schmidt and former Secretary of State advisor Jared Cohen, who runs Google Ideas, decided to pay the WikiLeaks founder a visit in 2011, according to transcripts recently released by WikiLeaks. They met with Mr. Assange as part of …
19 April 2013 — williambowles.info
Julian Assange’s secret chat with Google’s chairman
CNET
Eric Schmidt met with the WikiLeaks founder for five hours in 2011 for material for a book expected to be released next week. Steven Musil. by Steven Musil. April 18, 2013 10:38 PM PDT Follow @stevenmusil. Julian Assange speaks to the public while …
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57580383-93/julian-assanges-secret-chat-with-googles-chairman/
14 April 2013 — williambowles.info
Wikileaks cables: Don’t think you’re supporting Pak, Indira Gandhi told …
Indian Express
This is what Indira Gandhi told US President Richard Nixon just days before India-Pakistan war when she met him in Washington in November 1971, according to a US diplomatic cable made public by Wikileaks. The cable on October 19, 1973 is based on a …
31 March, 2013 — williambowles.info
“Why should we hear about body bags and deaths … I mean, it’s not relevant, so why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that …” (Former First Lady, Barbara Bush, Good Morning America, 18th March 2003)
1 April 2013 — williambowles.info
2 February 2013 – williambowles.info
Syria Opposition Leader Meets with Russian FM
Voice of America
US Vice President Joe Biden, right, and Sheikh Moaz al-Khatib, Syria’s top opposition leader, shake hands at the Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 2, 2013. US Vice President Joe Biden, right, and Sheikh Moaz al-Khatib, Syria’s top …
http://www.voanews.com/content/syria-opposition-leader-meets-with-russian-fm/1596000.html
1 February 2013 — williambowles.info
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Mali and AFRICOM‘s Africa Agenda: Target China
Voltaire Network
Out of the blue in the last days Mali has suddenly become the focus of world attention. France has been asked to militarily intervene by Mali’s government to drive Jihadist terrorists out of the large parts of the country they claim. What the conflict …
http://www.voltairenet.org/article177327.html
1 February 2013 – williambowles.info
Syria Says It Has Right to Counterattack Israel
New York Times
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Tensions over the Israeli airstrike on Syrian territory appeared to increase on Thursday as Syria delivered a letter to the United Nations declaring its right to self-defense and Israel’s action was condemned not only by longstanding …
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/world/middleeast/syria-crisis.html
1 FEbruary 2013 — williambowles.info
Iceland Kicked Out FBI Agents Who Flew in Unannounced to Investigate …
Cleveland Leader
According to the RUV, the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, FBI agents landed in Reykjavík in August 2011 without prior notification in an attempt to investigate WikiLeaks operations within the country. However, their plan was interupted when …
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/20013
17 January, 2013 — williambowles.info
‘It is the first genocide of the 21st century. Poor Iraq and Iraqis. The silence of the world pushes me to lose faith in humanity.” (Anonymous,)
17 January 2013 — williambowles.info
Hmmm… I’ve been watching the ‘left‘ here in the UK tear itself apart literally for decades, and it had been going on for decades prior to my arrival on the scene. What’s difficult to swallow is the attitude expressed below (which I’m reprinting in its entirety), where the writer reacts to the events that are currently tearing the SWP apart, as if it’s something new on the ‘left‘.
Just a correction: it’s not Counterattack but Counterfire.
13 January 2013 – williambowles.info
France fails to free intelligence agent held in Somalia; Paris sends more …
Washington Post
PARIS — As France reinforced its intervention forces in Mali with additional aircraft and soldiers, French commandos launched a failed raid on the other side of Africa in a vain attempt to rescue an intelligence officer held captive for 3? years in …
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/hostage-in-somalia-killed-during-french-rescue-attempt/2013/01/12/963c42e2-5cae-11e2-9fa9-5fbdc9530eb9_story.html
10 January 2013 – williambowles.info
WikiLeaks case likened to Civil War espionage
NavyTimes.com
FORT MEADE, Md. — Prosecutors are using a Civil War court-martial to advance their case that an Army private charged with sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks aided al-Qaida. Lawyers for Pfc.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2013/01/ap-wikileaks-manning-judge-pushes-trial-june-010913/
Rag Radio
Greenwashgold.org
So these breakaways from the Socialist Workers Party now join their old comrades in the varied ranks of the revolutionary socialist factions of Britain. Unfortunately, unlike the breakaways who had already adopted the title Communist Party of Britain before the demise of the old CPGB, who try to claim legitimacy as its continuum in the leadership of the working class, these SWP breakaways had to settle for the title of Counterfire.
Never mind! After all, Counterattack wouldn’t really fit an organisation that aims to become the great umbrella over all the other reformist/revolutionary umbrellas such as Benn’s ‘support the Labour Party’ Coalition of Resistance and McCluskey’s ‘support the TUC‘ The People’s Agenda’, not to mention the ‘bring our heroes home‘ Stop the War Coalition’.
Rather than working for the unity of politically advanced workers, this faction in ‘Change from below’ seeks to be recognised as the leadership of the working class – by working bottom up from the top down. With this, instead of the state of the capitalist class being replaced by the state of the working class, it will be replaced by a “new order based on mass democratic assemblies”.
For the lower phase of communism, what’s wrong with a revolutionary social democratic state and the practice of democratic centralism rather than the long-experienced, practice of leader centralism?
In ‘A world system in crisis’, rather than referring to US-UK-EU imperialism as being the “clear and present danger to world peace”, and that has to be in particular respect to Conservative/Labour UK since 1945, these ‘revolutionary socialists‘, believe it or not, say that the “militarisation of relations between states” is the cause.
They go on from there to call, not for a cooperative, socialist system to replace the competitive capitalist system, but for a “system based on democracy, equality, planning and human need”, which could have been written by almost anyone in the ranks of Left Labour.