June 11, 2013
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Media silent on the state killing of Boston bombing witness By Tom Carter
The extraordinary silence of the American media on the state killing of Ibragim Todashev, a key witness in relation to the recent Boston bombings, calls the official account of the bombings even further into question. Continue reading
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Alter-Summit in Athens: A pseudo-left response to growing social opposition in Europe By Christoph Dreier
Last weekend, approximately 200 European trade unions, political NGOs (non-governmental organizations), charity groups, and feminist, environmentalist and pseudo-left groupings organized a so-called Alter-Summit in Athens. The meeting endorsed the institutions of the European Union (EU), with which union bureaucracies have worked closely in negotiating and approving austerity policies since the outbreak of the European debt… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 11 June 2013
11 June 2013 — williambowles.info Could Bradley Manning help Edward Snowden win political asylum? Washington Post (blog) Right, A November photo shows Bradley E. Manning being escorted from a hearing at Fort Meade, Md. (Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras/Guardian via Reuters; Mark Wilson/Getty Images). Edward Snowden, the now-famous leaker of top-secret NSA programs, … http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/10/could-bradley-manning-help-edward-snowden-win-political-asylum/ Continue reading