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Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months -- and for two months before that in a military jail in Kuwait -- under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture. Interviews with several people directly familiar with the conditions of Manning's detention, ultimately including a Quantico brig official (Lt. Brian Villiard) who confirmed much of what they conveyed, establishes that the accused leaker is subjected to detention conditions likely to create long-term psychological injuries. In sum, Manning has been subjected for many months without pause to inhumane, personality-erasing, soul-destroying, insanity-inducing conditions of isolation similar to those perfected at America's Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado: all without so much as having been convicted of anything. And as is true of many prisoners subjected to warped treatment of this sort, the brig's medical personnel now administer regular doses of anti-depressants to Manning to prevent his brain from snapping from the effects of this isolation. Bradley Manning is a whistleblower in the purest and most noble form.

Glenn Greenwald, Salon

http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=4260&end=4280&view=yes&id=5671#newspost



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By Craig Woodhouse

Tony Blair should give up millions of pounds he is earning from the Kuwaiti government as reparations for the Iraq war, campaigners said today.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27068.htm



Terrorist by Association

By Jeremy Gantz

The Justice Department targets nonviolent solidarity activists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27069.htm

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New Iraq War Grilling For Tony Blair

Tony Blair is to make his second appearance before the Iraq war inquiry on Friday next week, 21 January 2011. The former PM is one of a number of witnesses to be recalled to give more evidence to the inquiry, headed by former Whitehall mandarin Sir John Chilcot. Mr Blair?s hearing will start at 9.30am and is scheduled to last four and a half hours. Other witnesses who have been recalled include former foreign secretary Jack Straw and former chief of the defence staff Admiral Lord Boyce. Lindsey German, convener of the Stop The War Coalition, warned: ?Blair will be met with demonstrations and protests at the Chilcot inquiry. We are determined to hold him to account.? One Click Note: Grilling? To date, all the numerous enquiries over the Iraq War have been tepid toothless and cost a fortune. The electorate is watching... Daily Express Reporter, Daily Express.

http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=4340&end=4360&id=5751#newspost



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By Aparna Pande

The cables show that contrary to what was said in public the military leadership, including General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, approved drone strikes against Al Qaeda targets and approved US Special Forces being embedded within the Pakistani army fighting in the north-west.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27064.htm



Australia at odds with US on Tehran

Australia is at odds with its major security ally, the United States, over Iran, saying it is not a "rogue state" and its nuclear weapons programme is for deterrence, not attack, according to US cables released by WikiLeaks.

http://gulfnews.com/in-focus/wikileaks/australia-at-odds-with-us-on-tehran-1.730021



Swedish Prosecutor Raises Possible Extradition of WikiLeaks Founder to U.S.

The Swedish prosecutor who asked British authorities to detain Mr. Assange and send him to Sweden for questioning about possible sex crimes, discussed the possibility of sending him to the United States in a statement posted on the Swedish Prosecution Authority's Web site on Tuesday.

http://nyti.ms/fcc7lI


From Information Clearing House

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Air Force cutting off access to WikiLeaks news

CNN

12/14/10

The U.S. Air Force is denying its personnel access to websites carrying documents released by WikiLeaks, including those of some news organizations, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. The White House Office of Management and Budget has already forbidden federal employees and contractors from accessing classified documents publicly available on WikiLeaks and other websites via computers or mobile devices...

http://tinyurl.com/25vfd7z



Campaign against Wikileaks is lawless

Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

12/14/10

Anyone who values the First Amendment ought to oppose the campaign to ?get? Assange by any means necessary. In a free society, you can?t just ?change the law? to persecute someone you don?t like, and you can?t abuse your position to silence speech you oppose...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12633



The assault on Assange is an assault on liberty

Spiked
by Wendy Kaminer

12/14/10

Julian Assange is not Wikileaks; in other words, whether you regard him as a hero, villain, victim or egotistical malcontent, Wikileaks itself remains difficult to characterize. If it can be blamed for deterring diplomacy, derided for titillating us with diplomatic gossip, or dispensed with faint praise (by activist and writer Todd Gitlin) as the ?Facebook of whistleblowing?, it can also be heralded for providing additional proof (if any were needed) of the gross hypocrisies and moral cowardice of the post-9/11 American security state...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10000/



What the state fears most: Information

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan

History tells a cyclical story of man versus state: man persistently creating new ideas and the state tirelessly laboring to destroy them. Bureaucracy has never been a friend to the ideas that undermine its artificial legitimacy. All too often, history provides us with examples of state-enforced book burnings and other forms of extreme censorship...

http://mises.org/daily/4903



Attempts to prosecute WikiLeaks endanger press freedoms

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

To criminalize what WikiLeaks is doing is, by definition, to criminalize the defining attribute of investigative journalism. That, to be sure, is a feature, not a bug, of the Obama administration?s efforts...

http://salon.com/a/sJSAfAA



Justice for Julian, justice for all!

Center for a Stateless Society
by Darian Worden

Everyone who values freedom should be concerned about the arrest of WikiLeaks personality Julian Assange. This is one of those cases that are not just about the accused, but are contests of values. Anyone who wants freedom and truth to triumph over tyranny and censorship should make two specific demands: A fair trial for sexual offenses and no prosecution for free speech...

http://c4ss.org/content/5362


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Grave Domestic Threats to National Security
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff337.html

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Journalists Begin, Finally, to Stand Up in Defense of WikiLeaks and Freedom of Information
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/15-2

USAF Blocks Media Sites over Wikileaks
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/15

Personal Democracy Forum: Wikileaks and Internet Freedom
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/12/15-1

?Assangination?: From Character Assassination to the Real Thing
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/15

US Rights Group Criticizes Swedish Prosecutors Discussion of Extraditing WikiLeaks Founder to US
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/12/15



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Guttenberg will die bisher in der Bevölkerung unbeliebten Militäreinsätze popularisieren. Seine Kritiker bleiben an der Oberfläche.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33844/1.html



Mehr Medienkompetenz für Politiker

Experten der Internet-Enquete sehen Nachholbedarf bei der Aufklärung über digitale Medien - jeder natürlich in seinem Sinn.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33841/1.html

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22. Januar 2011

Zu Guttenberg Wiederholungstäter bei Missachtung des Parlaments

Der Vorsitzende der LINKEN, Klaus Ernst, übt Kritik an Verteidigungsminister zu Guttenberg wegen dessen Entscheidung, vor einer Aufklärung personelle Konsequenzen aus den Vorgängen auf dem Segelschiff Gorch Fock zu ziehen. Der Verteidigungsminister ist nach Ansicht des LINKEN-Vorsitzenden seinen Informationspflichten gegenüber dem Parlament nicht in vollem Umfang nachgekommen. Ernst hält als Konsequenz auch eine eingehendere parlamentarische Untersuchung im Bundestag für möglich. Er erklärt:

Zu Guttenberg fehlt ein grundlegender Begriff von den Regeln einer Parlamentsarmee. Von ihm wurde kein personelles Bauernopfer gefordert sondern rückhaltlose Aufklärung. Das war keine nette Bitte sondern eine Erinnerung an seine Amtspflichten als Minister. Die richtige Reihenfolge wäre gewesen: Informieren, Beraten, Beurteilen und dann Entscheiden. Anstatt dem Parlament sofort alle Informationen zur Verfügung zu stellen, zieht zu Guttenberg selbstherrlich und völlig unvermittelt personelle Konsequenzen und findet am Abend nebenbei noch ein paar abfällige Worte über den Berliner Politikbetrieb. Das ist nicht der richtige Stil für einen Verteidigungsminister sondern Politik nach Gutsherrenart. Zu Guttenberg ist ein Wiederholungstäter in Sachen Missachtung des Parlaments. Wenn jetzt nicht sofort alle Fakten auf den Tisch kommen, dann muss im Bundestag ernsthaft darüber nachgedacht werden, ob die Vorfälle in der Bundeswehr nicht eingehender untersucht werden müssen.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/zu-guttenberg-wiederholungstaeter-bei-missachtung-des-parlaments/



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