Tag Archives: Bradley Manning
Opaqueness To Trump Transparency? Group Asks Why Manning Trial Lacks Stenographer
The Freedom of the Press Foundation launched a crowd-funded campaign on its website yesterday to raise money to pay for a court stenographer to transcribe whistleblower U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning’s trial. By Katie Rucke | May 13, 2013 MintPressNews.com Activist groups are hoping to raise funds to hire a court stenographer for Bradley Mannings trial; government authorities refuse to […]
Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a “Terrifying” Step in State Assault on Press Freedom
democracynow Published on May 15, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org - The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins us to discuss what could mark the most significant government intrusion on freedom of the press in decades. The Justice Department has acknowledged seizing the work, home and cellphone records used by almost 100 reporters and editors at the Associated Press. The […]
Glenn Greenwald>Attacks on Stephen Hawking, transparency for Manning, Obama’s new lobbyist chief
Debates over Israel and activism in defense of transparency and journalism heat up this week Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk, Thursday 9 May 2013 14.01 EDT I’m traveling rather extensively this week – the last week of travel I have for quite some time, thankfully – so here are several brief items worthy of note: (1) As the Guardian was […]
Chris Hedges> The Death of Truth
Chris Hedges interviews Julian Assange of WikiLeaks. By Chris Hedges May 6, 2013 This interview is a joint project of Truthdig and The Nation magazine. LONDON—A tiny tip of the vast subterranean network of governmental and intelligence agencies from around the world dedicated to destroying WikiLeaks and arresting its founder, Julian Assange, appears outside the red-brick building […]
Medea Benjamin> Julian Assange on George Bush’s Library and Bradley Manning’s Trial
“I believe that the opposition to the Iraq war was very important, and that it actually altered the behavior of US forces during the initial invasion of Iraq.” Medea Benjamin Thu, Apr 25, 2013 codepink.org War Dollars Home I had an opportunity to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he […]
The World Is A Battlefield: Jeremy Scahill on “Dirty Wars” and Obama’s Expanding Drone Attacks
democracynow Published on Apr 24, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org - As the Senate holds its first ever public hearing on drones and targeted killings, we turn the second part of our interview with Jeremy Scahill, author of the new book, “Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield.” Scahill charts the expanding covert wars operated by the CIA and JSOC, […]
“Sunshine is the best antidote to tyranny”> Independent Journalism on War, Conflict and Human Rights – NCMR 2013
Jeff Cohen, Amy Goodman, Norman Solomon, Marjorie Cohn, & Sonali Kolhatkar on war, journalism, civil rights, drones, human rights, citizen journalism, Bradley Manning and much much more. videofreepress Published on Apr 11, 2013 Subscribe or “Follow” us on WAMMToday.org. For the TC EVENTS calendar and the ACTIONS AND ACTION ALERTS click on the tab at the top of the page […]
“The Kissinger Cables”: Three Years After “Collateral Murder,” WikiLeaks Explores U.S. Diplomacy
Published on Apr 8, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org - The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has just published “the Kissinger cables,” 1.7 million U.S. diplomatic and intelligence documents from 1973 to 1976 that include many once-secret memos written by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. While the documents have been available to the public at the National Archives, WikiLeaks has […]
NCMR 2013 Interview with Jeff Cohen, Park Center for Independent Media
freespeechtv·1,951 videos Published on Apr 5, 2013 Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and the Park Center for Independent Media talks with David Pakman about the future of media on Friday during the National Conference for Media Reform 2013 in Denver. Subscribe or “Follow” us on WAMMToday.org. For the TC EVENTS calendar and the ACTIONS […]
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