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Bradley Manning Newslinks 5 June 2013
5 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning Looks Downright Ghostly San Francisco Chronicle *In response to Manning’s confinement, more than 250 of the most eminent U.S. legal scholars sent a letter to President Obama in protest of Manning’s treatment; UN special rapporteur on torture Juan Ernesto Mendez called it “cruel, inhuman and … http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Bradley-Manning-Looks-Downright-Ghostly-4577722.php Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 4 June 2013
4 June 2013 — williambowles.info Wikileaks soldier ‘naive but good intentioned’ – defence TVNZ Military prosecutors say arrogance drove the US soldier accused of the biggest leak of classified information in US history through the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website three years ago. But at the opening of the court martial of Private First Class … http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/wikileaks-soldier-naive-but-good-intentioned-defence-5454764 Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Court-Martial: Secrecy and Injustice on Trial By Stephen Lendman
America honors its worst. It persecutes its best. Manning is heroic. He risked great personal harm. He did so to reveal vital truths. Washington has no right to conceal them. People have a right to know. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 7 May 2013
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 Continue reading
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Press and Public Denied Access to Documents in Bradley Manning Case
Today, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF) rejected claims in a lawsuit by the Center for Constitutional Rights challenging government secrecy around the court martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning. The suit, bought on behalf of a group of journalists, asked the court to ensure members of the press and public have access… Continue reading
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Secret Documents Expose Offshore’s Global Impact
ICIJ has just launched the largest investigative reporting project in its 15-year history. Drawing on a leaked cache of 2.5 million records, ICIJ (a project of the Center for Public Integrity) has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts and about 130,000 individuals and agents, exposing hidden dealings of politicians,… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: The Zero Dark Thirty File
The poster for the blockbuster movie Zero Dark Thirty features black lines of redaction over the title, which unintentionally illustrate the most accurate take-away from the film – that most of the official record of the hunt for Osama bin Laden is still shrouded in secrecy, according to the National Security Archive’s ZD30 briefing book,… Continue reading
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Prosecutors to Present “Evidence” that Al Qaeda including Osama bin Laden “Benefited” from Bradley Manning Leaking By Naomi Spencer
On Wednesday afternoon, government prosecutors said they planned to present evidence that Al Qaeda members, including Osama bin Laden, directly benefited from the publication of materials Manning is charged with leaking. Continue reading
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Audio: The unstable politicians in the US are dangerous – WikiLeaks spokesperson
In an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia, WikiLeaks official spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson speaks about the Freedom of the Press Foundation and their new initiative to provide help and assistance to members of the press who are being persecuted for seeking to tell the truth. In particular the FPF offers a way to circumvent… Continue reading
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Video: My Interview with Top TV Journalist Abby Martin @ RT By Sibel Edmonds
A great example is Abby Martin at RT. Not only is she brilliant, informed, articulate, and very outspoken (and beautiful), but that she is one of us: a tireless member of our irate minority circle. Whether it is the accelerating police state practices, or ever-expanding perpetual wars, or still-unanswered and unaccountable 9/11-the needed trigger for… Continue reading
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The Political Pied Pipers on the Road to Mangaung: A Different Kind of Tale By Dale T. McKinley
South Africa’s modern-day political pied pipers are, like the fairy tale character’s clothing, a patch-work collection. But we should not be deceived by appearances alone, for the securocrat-inspired tune of intolerance and political similitude they are playing with increasing enthusiasm and volume on the road to Mangaung is as deadly to all South Africans as… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 27 October 2012: WikiLeaks reveals US detainee policies: Camp Delta
27 October 2012 Ecuador’s President suggests Assange be questioned at EmbassyVoice of Russia, News Today at 00:44 Sweden may send a representative of its prosecutor’s office to Ecuador’s Embassy in the UK to question Wikileaks founder Julian Assange . This was stated by the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, who cited instances when representatives of Continue reading
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Media Lens: Channel 4 News Misrepresents Chavez’ Election Bid
As Venezuelans head to the polls today, Channel 4 News has published a very biased piece with clear misrepresentations concerning the election. Continue reading
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Stuxnet and the Bomb By Kennette Benedict
The cyber shot heard around the world this month marked America’s first known foray into a new, unpredictable, and potentially society-threatening cyber battlefield. And yet it’s all so familiar: Parallels with the start of the nuclear age and the Cold War haunt every aspect of this development. Continue reading
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Action Alert: Urge Nobel Foundation to Rescind Obama’s award
In June 2012 Coleen Rowley and I co-wrote a petition to rescind Obama’s Transparency Award, given to him during a secret ceremony by a handful of agenda-driven organizations led by Project on Government Oversight (POGO). Here is what our petition called for: Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Newslinks 1 March 2012
1 March 2012 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: Stratfor emails reveal problems with Web security Fort Worth Star Telegram Nearly two years later, Stratfor’s internal emails, more than 5 million pieces, are being published – drip, drip, drip, 100 or so per day – by the website WikiLeaks, which has provided access to all of the Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 27 February 2012: Wikileaks blows the lid off Stratfor, the ‘shadow’ CIA
27 February 2012 — williambowles.info Wikileaks publishes confidential emails from Stratfor BBC News Whistleblowing website Wikileaks has begun publishing the first of more than five million confidential emails from US-based security think tank Stratfor. The group said the documents would reveal Stratfor’s “web of informers, pay-off structure, … http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17176602 Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 24 February 2012
24 February 2012 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks suspect Manning defers plea, court-martial begins Reuters Military prosecutors say Manning downloaded more than 700000 classified or confidential documents and transferred thousands to WikiLeaks, which promotes leaking government and corporate information. Manning’s plea deferral allows his defense team time … http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/23/us-usa-manning-idUSTRE81M20M20120223 Continue reading
The New Dark Age 