Liberties
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The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning By Chris Hedges
The military trial of Bradley Manning is a judicial lynching. The government has effectively muzzled the defense team. The Army private first class is not permitted to argue that he had a moral and legal obligation under international law to make public the war crimes he uncovered. The documents that detail the crimes, torture and… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 10 June 2013
10 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning Trial: Is Our Future an Orwellian Nightmare Or Information … PolicyMic At its core, the ongoing military trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the admitted conveyer of three-quarters of a million classified U.S. government documents to Wikileaks, is about the evolution of big data into a relentless and almost certainly … Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 9 June 2013
9 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning: Martyr To Freedom Of Expression Or Traitor? Sunday Leader Will the 25-year-old Bradley Manning, former First Class Private of the US Marines, now being tried for leaking the biggest ever trove of diplomatic and military secrets of America to the web site Wikileaks, in the future be considered a 21st Continue reading
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Subversive Nun’s Sophisticated Plot to Incite Peace By Peter Rugh
Tears welled up in my eyes when I heard that 83-year-old Catholic nun Megan Rice is facing 20 years in prison — a sentence that, if delivered to the fullest extent this September, would essentially condemn her to spend the rest of her life behind bars. Unlike me, however, she reportedly smiled when the jury… Continue reading
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Subversive Nun’s Sophisticated Plot to Incite Peace By Peter Rugh
Tears welled up in my eyes when I heard that 83-year-old Catholic nun Megan Rice is facing 20 years in prison — a sentence that, if delivered to the fullest extent this September, would essentially condemn her to spend the rest of her life behind bars. Unlike me, however, she reportedly smiled when the jury… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 8 June 2013
8 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning’s WikiLeaks trial: Book parts delivered as it happens Los Angeles Times Leftie publisher O/R Books is covering the Bradley Manning trial for a book slated to appear in October, “The United States vs. PFC Bradley Manning: A Graphic Account From Inside the Courtroom.” The chronicler is Clark Continue reading
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NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others By Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill
The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian. Continue reading
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Iowa City moves to ban drones, traffic cameras and license plate readers
The residents of Iowa City, Iowa have moved to ban drones, red-light cameras and license plate readers in what is likely the most thorough action taken by a town yet against modern surveillance technologies. Continue reading
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Video: "A Massive Surveillance State": Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails
The National Security Agency has obtained access to the central servers of nine major Internet companies — including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo! and Facebook. The Guardian and The Washington Post revealed the top-secret program, codenamed PRISM, after they obtained several slides from a 41-page training presentation for senior intelligence analysts. It explains how PRISM allows… Continue reading
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Video: “A Massive Surveillance State”: Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails
The National Security Agency has obtained access to the central servers of nine major Internet companies — including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo! and Facebook. The Guardian and The Washington Post revealed the top-secret program, codenamed PRISM, after they obtained several slides from a 41-page training presentation for senior intelligence analysts. It explains how PRISM allows… Continue reading
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NO2ID Newsletter (2nd Series) No. 9 – 6th June 2013
7 June 2013 — NO2ID Edited by Daryl Worthington ++ NEW THREAT TO MEDICAL PRIVACY by James Baker Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 7 June 2013
7 June 2013 — williambowles.info As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point RollingStone.com Well, the Bradley Manning trial has begun, and for the most part, the government couldn’t have scripted the headlines any better. In the now-defunct Starz series Boss, there’s a reporter character named “Sam Miller” played by actor Troy Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 6 June 2013
6 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning remembered as a computer whiz Los Angeles Times MEADE, Md. — Bradley Manning’s former Army supervisor described him Wednesday as a highly competent computer whiz who could easily get around secret passwords to retrieve information about enemy terrorist cells. “He indicated to me he was very … http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-manning-trial-20130606,0,3183792.story Continue reading