Whistleblowers

Chelsea Manning Meets Russiagate

March 18, 2019 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Whistleblowers

Collage: Caricature of Robert Mueller by Don Keyhotey (Flikr), Photos of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange from WikiMedia Commons by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, March 13, 2019 Whistleblower Chelsea Manning is jailed for refusing to testify against Julian Assange, whose confinement in Ecuador’s London embassy puts the lie to much of the Russiagate fantasy. “No journalist will[…]

Chelsea Manning jailed — again

March 15, 2019 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Whistleblowers

by Barry Sheppard, Published on Socialist Action, March 14, 2019 Chelsea Manning, a transgender U.S. soldier who blew the whistle on U.S. war crimes and spent 2013 to 2017 in an army stockade as a result, is back in prison again. This time, it is because she refuses to join a bipartisan campaign against Wikileaks that seeks to bring Julian[…]

John Pilger: ‘Defy the Thought Police’, Stand With Assange

March 8, 2019 UNAC Editor Resistance, Whistleblowers

Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Assange demonstrate in front of presidential palace regarding his Ecuadorian citizenship in Quito | Photo: REUTERS file photo by John Pilger, Published on TeleSUR English, March 3, 2019 Whenever I visit Julian Assange, we meet in a room he knows too well. There is a bare table and pictures of Ecuador on the walls. There is[…]

Crucifying Julian Assange

November 15, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Featured, Whistleblowers

Reino Unido (Londres), 16 de Junio del 2013. Simpatizantes de Julian Assange se reúnen en los exteriores de la embajada ecuatoriana en Londres. Foto: Xavier Granja Cedeño/Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. by Chris Hedges, published on TruthDig Website, November 12, 2018 Julian Assange’s sanctuary in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London has been transformed into a little shop of horrors. He has[…]

The West is Failing Julian Assange

November 8, 2018 UNAC Editor Whistleblowers

by Stefania Maurizi, for Consortium News, November 6, 2018 October Let’s start with the cat. You never would have thought one of these beloved felines would play a crucial role in the Julian Assange case, would you? And yet look at the latest press coverage. The mainstream media’s headlines weren’t about a man who has been confined to a tiny building in[…]

Julian Assange Should Be Thanked – Not Smeared – for Wikileaks’ Service to Journalism

October 31, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Whistleblowers

Photo: Free Assange protest at UK embassy in Washington, DC, June 19, 2018. ~Popular Resistance by Mark Curtis, published on Middle East Eye, October 21, 2018 Twelve years ago this month, WikiLeaks began publishing government secrets that the world public might otherwise never have known. What it has revealed about state duplicity, human rights abuses and corruption goes beyond anything[…]

Pilger Excoriates Media on Assange

August 11, 2018 Judith Bello Censorship and Propaganda, The War at Home, Whistleblowers

By Dennis J. Bernstein and Randy Credico, from Flashpoints radio show, originally in print on Consortium News DB: John, what is the latest we know about how Julian Assange is being treated and his current state? John Pilger: His state of health is just about the same, as I understand it. He needs medical attention, the kind of treatment you[…]

The Eerie Silence Surrounding the Assange Case

June 13, 2018 UNAC Editor Prisoners, Whistleblowers

Julian Assange remains cut off from the world in Ecuador’s London embassy, shut off from friends, relatives and thousands of supporters, leaving him unable to do his crucial work, as John Pilger discusses with Dennis J. Bernstein. ~ Consortium News By Dennis J Bernstein, originally published on Consortium News, June 9, 2018, taken from a radio interview on Flashpoints on Pacifica’s[…]