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(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, July 1, 2011
The Newburgh Four Sentencing: FBI Sting Operation Used the Men as Counterterror Lab Rats US District Judge Colleen McMahon understood the men were only in her court for sentencing because the FBI "created an act of terrorism." She understood the FBI scripted the plot from "start to finish." But, afraid to upset superiors or government officials, she condemned the defendants' anti-Semitism and their willingness to "kill, maim and destroy for money."

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, June 30, 2011
UK Police Stop & Search Striking Citizens to Prevent Possible 'Hooliganism' Public workers, up to seven hundred and fifty thousand teachers and civil servants, are alleged to have participated in a June 30 general strike called for in the United Kingdom after UK Parliament passed changes to pensions and retirement, specifically, increasing the amount an employee has to contribute. A number of people participating were subjected to stop and searches by UK police.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 24, 2011
Lt. Dan Choi: Proud to Stand Shoulder to Shoulder with Bradley Manning While at Netroots Nation 2011, I had the privilege of speaking to Lieutenant Dan Choi, who served in the US Army infantry, went to war in Iraq and graduated from West Point with a degree in Arabic. He expressed solidarity with Bradley Manning, one of the first times Choi had spoken about him on camera.

SHARE        Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tim DeChristopher at Netroots Nation: Obama Administration Pursues Activists Like Previous Administrations [VIDEO] DeChristopher recounts how he disrupted a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas auction at the end of 2008 that the Bush Administration was holding as a "parting gift to the oil and gas industry." He explains how he poses a threat to to government because he operates on a higher level of justice and morality that subverts their authority.

SHARE        Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Local News Stations Engage in Covert Consolidation to Circumvent Media Ownership Rules A new trend in news (particularly in local newsrooms) is changing the independence of news networks. A business practice of covert consolidation that consists of deals, loopholes and legal agreements between local television stations that allow them to outsource all the majority of their news programming and circumvent media ownership rules is being employed.

(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 19, 2011
Obama DOJ's War on Free Speech & Activism The war on free speech and activism is apparent here at Netroots Nation as people like Lt. Dan Choi and Tim DeChristopher speak on panels and as individuals like David House are discussed during panel sessions.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 14, 2011
CNN's 'WikiWars' Documentary Exploits Character of Julian Assange to Cast Doubt on WikiLeaks Here are two key questions for the producers of "WikiWars": Why, all over the globe, is WikiLeaks being given credit for being a force for good? Why is it being nominated for peace prizes and medals when here in the United States most contend it has put lives at risk and exercises reckless authority when deciding what information to publish and not publish?

(5 comments) SHARE        Thursday, June 9, 2011
Time for Those Subpoenaed in WikiLeaks Grand Jury Investigation to Setup Support Committee? The grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks has widened. A subpoena has been issued to David House, co-founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network. Manning's ex-boyfriend, Tyler Watkins and Nadia Heninger also were issued subpoenas. These subpoenas lead one to wonder if it isn't time for the subpoenaed to band together and launch a support committee to open up a conversation on the US government's investigation.

(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 5, 2011
A Derelict Congress Unwilling to Exercise Its War Powers Dueling resolutions from Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner and Democratic House Representative Dennis Kucinich sparked a debate in Congress. The debate centered around the War Powers Act, the US Constitution and whether President Obama had violated the law by taking the United States into a war in Libya.

(6 comments) SHARE        Thursday, June 2, 2011
WikiLeaks Through the Looking Glass: A Panel Discussion in a School of Journalism Classroom A student at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Chicago was gracious enough to invite me to speak on a panel on Bradley Manning, the alleged whistleblower to WikiLeaks, which he had to put together for his "Media, Ethics and the Law" class. I participated in the panel Wednesday morning. See what a former Homeland Security official had to say.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 29, 2011
We Have the Rest of This Year to Save Bradley Manning A little more than a year ago, Pfc. Bradley Manning was arrested for allegedly leaking classified information, specifically the "Collateral Murder" video that showed the slaying of two Reuters journalists by the US military forces. To discuss Manning and the one year anniversary of his arrest, I had Kevin Zeese, a Bradley Manning Support Network Steering Committee member, come on "This Week in WikiLeaks."

(22 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 27, 2011
Obama Administration Does Not Want Lawmakers, Citizens to Debate National Security The extension of Patriot Act provisions was accompanied by the House's passing of the worldwide war authorization, which was included in the National Defense programs bill.

(6 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 26, 2011
Did PBS Smear Bradley Manning? I wrote a review of the PBS FRONTLINE documentary "WikiSecrets," which aired on Tuesday night. "The Alyona Show," a show on RT, invited me to appear and discuss the review. Here's video of my appearance along with more discussion of the "WikiSecrets" documentary.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Review: PBS FRONTLINE's 'WikiSecrets' Wants to Be Objective and Fair and That's Why It is Weak Anyone familiar with the stories of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, the organization's founder and Pfc. Bradley Manning, the alleged whistleblower to WikiLeaks, would be forgiven for wondering whether PBS Frontline's documentary "WikiSecrets" presents anything new or not. The documentary attempts to make a sensational connection between Manning and Assange and suggest that Assange might know Manning is the source of the information

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 23, 2011
On the Issue of the US, Pakistan is Playing with Fire It's not just the Pakistan military. I would say Pakistan's civilian and military elites have never trusted their people and they have been posturing on the one hand on an anti-Americanism platform and on the other they have been negotiating and bargaining with the West and in particular the Americans, Raza Rumi, a writer based in Lahore, Pakistan explains.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 21, 2011
Pakistan Papers: US Drone Strikes Violate Sovereignty, Fuel Anti-American Sentiment A new batch of US State Embassy cables released specifically dealing with the US relationship with Pakistan draw attention to a number of Pakistani political issues, the military aid the US has been giving Pakistan, the deployment of US troops in Pakistan and the growing conflict between India and Pakistan, which the US appears to be gaming to advance its own foreign policy.

SHARE        Friday, May 20, 2011
Obama's Middle East Speech Deceitfully Projects Esteem for People Power The core of the speech aims to highlight the value of ordinary citizens sparking movements for change. He says these movements "speak to a longing for freedom that has built up for years." He explicitly highlights how America came from a history of nonviolence, protest and rebellion against empire. But, this focus is deceitful on many levels

(11 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Cornel West's Disgust with Obama Should Not Make Him a Pariah Hedges conducted an interview with philosopher and author Cornel West. (It can be read in Hedges' latest column, "The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic.") Melissa Harris-Perry, a contributor to The Nation, chose to critique the words of Cornel West. Her critique was one of the top articles published yesterday.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, May 17, 2011
New US International Cybersecurity Strategy Aims to Institute 'Rule of Law' on the Internet The United States officially launched its international cyber security strategy in a White House event on Monday, May 16. But, at no time during the launch of the strategy was WikiLeaks mentioned. Not even Clinton bothered to mention it, despite the fact that she heads a State Department that had their department's classified information leaked.

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 15, 2011
Behind the Blogger Who Made the WikiLeaks Confidentiality Agreement a Top Story David Allen Green, legal correspondent for the New Statesman out of the UK, has spent the last few days calling attention to a leaked WikiLeaks confidentiality or non-disclosure agreement (NDA), which he revealed in a blog post on May 11. Green, who is the blogger who was the first to draw attention to the agreement, called it a "draconian and extraordinary legal gag that WikiLeaks imposes on its own staff."

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