(2019-07-23). Assange and His Wiki Wicked leaks. counterpunch.org "But all the same," insisted the Savage, "it is natural to believe in God when you're alone—quite alone, in the night, thinking about death…" "But people never are alone now," said Mustapha Mond. "We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them ever to have it." Brave More
(2019-07-23). Basta !!! Free Chelsea Manning & Julien Assange Oakland Weekly Friday tabling. indybay.org MacArthur and Fruitvale oakland…
(2019-07-23). Report details Indian security forces use of torture against Kashmiri people. wsws.org Jammu and Kashmir has been under de facto military rule since 1990, with over half a million security forces deployed in a state of just 13 million people.
(2019-07-23). UK: Strong support for Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning at Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival. wsws.org One section of marchers cheered when they saw the SEP's stall with posters of Assange and Manning, and many others stopped to voice their support.
(2019-07-22). WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and Decoding the National Security Commentariat. dissidentvoice.org The Fourth Estate, that historical unelected grouping of society's scrutineers, has become something of a rabble, and, as a confederacy of strewn dunces and the ongoing compromised, is ripe for analysis. An essential premise in the work of WikiLeaks was demonstrating, to a good, stone-throwing degree, how media figures and practitioners had been bought by …
(2019-07-22). American Visitors to the Gestapo Museum Draw Their Own Conclusions. counterpunch.org 
The words would melt a heart of stone — save for those of the Gestapo torturers upstairs. The prisoners wrote their stories, their poems, their last pre-execution laments on the walls of their cells — which you can still read in the basement of the old Nazi secret police headquarters in Cologne. I spent hours More
(2019-07-22). WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and Decoding the National Security Commentariat. globalresearch.ca The Fourth Estate, that historical unelected grouping of society's scrutineers, has become something of a rabble. An essential premise in the work of WikiLeaks was demonstrating, to a good, stone-throwing degree, how media figures and practitioners had been bought by …
(2019-07-22). Fighting Climate Change Means Ending War. counterpunch.org "The easy movement of high ranking military officers into jobs with major defense contractors and the reverse movement of top executives in major defense contractors into high Pentagon jobs is solid evidence of the military industrial-complex in operation." I was utterly stunned when I read these words of former Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, quoted in More
(2019-07-19). In a Crisis of Democracy, We Must All Become Julian Assange. dissidentvoice.org 
The US government's indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange marked the worst attack on press freedom in modern history. Assange has been charged with 18 counts, including 17 violations of the Espionage Act. James Goodale, former general counsel of the New York Times, who urged the paper to publish the Pentagon Papers during the Nixon …
(2019-07-19). Twitter Restores Assange Activism Account In Response To Backlash. dissidentvoice.org After a week of vocal protests from online supporters of Julian Assange, Twitter has reversed its unjust removal of the prominent pro-Assange activism account @Unity4J. After the account was suspended without any explanation being presented to its operators, Assange supporters drew a clear line in the sand against internet censorship and began making a big …
(2019-07-19). In 2003, This U.K. Whistleblower Almost Stopped the Iraq Invasion. A New Film Tells Her Story. democracynow.org 
In 2003, Katharine Gun, a young specialist working for Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, exposed a highly confidential memo that revealed the United States' collaboration with Britain in collecting sensitive information on United Nations Security Council members in order to pressure them into supporting the Iraq invasion. Gun leaked the memo to the press, setting off a chain of events that jeopardized her freedom and safety, but also opened the door to putting the entire legality of the Iraq invasion on trial. ‚Ä®‚Ä®Acclaimed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsb…
(2019-07-16). How Israeli-Designed Drones Became Russia's Eyes in the Sky for Defending Bashar al-Assad. theintercept.com 
Last summer, Israel shot down yet another military drone near the line that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from the rest of Syria. The confrontation would have been business as usual, if not for a twist: Images of the destroyed drone showed Cyrillic tail markings and other identifiable components of a Forpost belonging to Russia. The findings presented an awkward geopolitical moment: Syria and Russia are allies, and Syria and Israel are bitter enemies — but the Russ…
(2019-07-12). Then CIA is Invoking Wikileaks to Push for the Expansion of a Cold War Era Secrecy Law. mintpressnews.com 
Three decades ago, the CIA mobilized to protect itself from radical acts of transparency, and now, with the internet and organizations like WikiLeaks, it hopes to be able to further isolate and criminalize those who challenge it.