Liberties
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 29 July 2011
29 July 2011 — williambowles.info Feds Defend Seizure of WikiLeaks Supporter’s Laptop Wired News (blog) By Kevin Poulsen The Justice Department on Thursday fired back against a lawsuit filed by a WikiLeaks supporter and friend of accused leaker Bradley Manning over the warrantless seizure of his laptop, arguing that they held onto the machine for… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 28 July 2011
28 July 2011 — williambowles.info Black Hat Pwnie Award winner will be a criminal ITworld.com Bradley Manning is charged with stealing and turning over to WikiLeaks thousands of US diplomatic messages and footage of a US airstrike in Iraq. If Manning didn’t do it, whoever did will be of interest to law enforcement. … http://www.itworld.com/security/186735/black-hat-pwnie-award-winner-will-be-criminal Continue reading
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Video: Getting Away with Torture
Human rights advocates urge criminal investigations into the Bush administration for torture Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 13 July 2011: UN torture official accuses US of rule violations
13 July 2011 — williambowles.info Manning visits ‘breach UN rules’ BBC News UN special rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez said the US had has broken rules by insisting on monitoring conversations with Pte Bradley Manning. Mr Mendez says he needs unrestricted access to Pte Manning to do his job. Pte Manning, 23, is being held… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 12 July 2011: UN official says US breaks rules in torture probe
12 July 2011 — williambowles.info The Conscience & Agency of Bradley Manning Firedoglake With previously unreleased instant message chat logs, Steve Fishman for New York Magazine published a feature story July 3, 2011, that further examined the accused whistleblower to WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning. It looked at his family life before going … http://my.firedoglake.com/kgosztola/2011/07/11/the-conscience-agency-of-bradley-manning/ Continue reading
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Video: G20 Toronto – 1 Year Later
A year has passed since the G20 summit came to downtown Toronto. Canadians joined together in solidarity at Queen’s Park to speak out against the injustices … Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 8 July 2011: Conversations with Bradley Manning
8 July 2011 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning Chats About His Political Ambitions and His Boyfriend Gawker Adrian Chen —Months before he was accused of leaking thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks, Bradley Manning had a series of instant message conversations with transgendered videoblogger Zinnia Jones. In newly-published logs of their … http://gawker.com/5819102/bradley-manning-chats-about-his-political-ambitions-and-his-boyfriend Continue reading
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Videos: Thousands of G20 Detentions Illegal: Ontario Ombudsman
25 June 2011 — The Real News Network Thousands of G20 Detentions Illegal: Ontario Ombudsman Paul Jay asks Ombudsman Andre Marin who is responsible and who has been held accountable for “the most massive compromise of civil liberties in Canadian history” RCMP vs Toronto Police – Who Wanted “Martial Law” Legislation? The RCMP says they… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks for 17 June 2011
17 June 2011 — williambowles.info News in Brief: Manning Supporter Silent Before Grand Jury, and More … truthout David House, a computer expert and Bradley Manning supporter, evoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer any questions beyond providing his name and address before a federal grand jury in Arlington, Virginia, yesterday, according to Bloomberg.… Continue reading
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Pilger Film Banned By Lannan Foundation By John Pilger
I am writing to you and a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media, ‘The War You Don’t See’, and the abrupt cancellation of a major event at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe in which David Barsamian and I… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 8 June 2011
8 June 2011 — williambowles.info 1 in 4 US Hackers are FBI Informants, Report Says PCWorld The Guardian gives the example of Adrian Lamo, a convicted hacker who ratted out Bradley Manning last year. Manning, a US Army intelligence analyst, passed classified documents on to Lamo, who turned around and passed those documents right back… Continue reading
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Dr. Gabor Maté: Obama Admin Should Heed Global Panel’s Call to End “Failed” U.S.-Led Drug War
“On any level you care to name, the war on drugs is a failure,” Dr. Maté says. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 6 June 2011
6 June 2011 — williambowles.info Quick News: Manning supporters rally at Kansas prison Press TV Hundreds of supporters of Bradley Manning converged at Leavenworth, Kan., Saturday to rally for the release of the Army private accused of leaking classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. Gathered outside the prison where Manning is … www.presstv.com/usdetail/183325.html Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 5 June 2011
5 June 2011 — williambowles.info Assange heckled over Bradley Manning’s fate WalesOnline by Clare Hutchinson, Wales On Sunday WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange faced an angry crowd at the Hay Festival yesterday demanding to know how he intended to help Bradley Manning, the Welsh-raised soldier charged with leaking military documents. … www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/06/05/assange-heckled-over-bradley-manning-s-fate-91466-28822001/ Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 25 May 2011: Supporter of Bradley Manning Sues the US Government
25 May 2011– williambowles.info Frontline’s ‘WikiSecrets’ Explores Mysteries of Bradley Manning PBS NewsHour On Tuesday’s edition of Frontline, entitled “WikiSecrets,” correspondent Martin Smith unravels the mysteries of Bradley Manning, the Army private who allegedly stole thousands of classified government documents and shared them with WikiLeaks. … www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june11/wikisecrets_05-24.html Continue reading
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In case you missed it: Free speech on trial By John Pilger
16 March 2011 — Morning Star As the United States and Britain look for an excuse to invade another oil-rich Arab country, the hypocrisy is familiar. Colonel Gadaffi is ‘delusional’ and ‘blood-drenched,’ while the authors of an invasion that killed a million Iraqis who have kidnapped and tortured in our name are entirely sane, never… Continue reading
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Stop Nato Updates on Libyan war: 8 April 2011
8 April 2011 — Stop Nato Back To Africa: Swedish Jets In First Combat Mission In 50 Years Italy Flies 108 Air Missions For NATO’s Libyan War Afghanistan, Ivory Coast, Libya: Sarkozy, The New War President Russian, Venezuelan Presidents Cal For Peace In Libya NATO Solidarity: German Okays “Humanitarian” Troops To Libya Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 29-30 March 2011
US- NATO’s War on Libya: Links to Selected News, Analysis and Press Reports Continue reading
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Leonard Weinglass, ¡Presente! by Gloria La Riva
Leonard Weinglass, preeminent civil rights attorney and fighter for justice whose defense history includes the Chicago 8, Daniel Ellsberg, Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Cuban Five, died on March 23 of cancer. Continue reading
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Leonard Weinglass: Aug. 27, 1933 – Mar. 23, 2011
Leonard Weinglass, was a restless fighter for the cause of five Cubans who have been in US prisons since 1998, internationally known as the Cuban Five. Continue reading
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