The Hasty And Ill-conceived Decision to Award U.S. President Barack Obama
University of Umeå professor of Sociology Stefan Svallfors’ remark to the Nobel Peace Prize committee in Oslo today when justifying his nomination of Edward Snowden may be true. But will it be of any...
View ArticleEventually Convicted
As expected, an example was made when Pfc Bradley Manning was convicted today for 20 charges including espionage but not for “aiding the enemy”. Leaking material which demonstrates a government’s...
View ArticleObama’s Speech in Cairo in 2009 and His Lack of Honesty in 2013
Obama had delivered one of his great speeches in Cairo in June 2009. Apart from the diplomatic cables leaked by Bradley Manning later that year to WikiLeaks which demonstrated, among other things,...
View ArticleCIA Assisted Saddam As He Used WMD Against Iran
It is still not clear who actually used chemical weapons near Damascus last week which killed hundreds of civilians, but a new alliance of the willing under commander-in-chief Barack Obama seems to...
View ArticleLocked Up
Those who have most enlightened us in the past couple of years about war crimes, wrongdoings, illicit surveillance of our governments in the name of a more and more absurd “Global War on Terrorism”...
View ArticlePublic Messaging
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has recalled yesterday a U.S. cruise missile strike on a hamlet in Yemen four years ago. Cruise missiles release cluster munitions, indiscriminate weapons that pose...
View ArticleWikiLeaks a Terrorist Organization?
The recent revelations, leaked by NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, that both NSA and itsUK counterpart GCHQ had targeted whistle-blower platform WikiLeaks and, after the publication of the...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Tyranny and Freedom
After Julian Assange in 2010, Thomas Drake and Jesselyn Radack in 2011, and Edward Snowden last year, Chelsea Manning has received the 2014 Sam Adams Award, not named after the 18th century Founding...
View ArticleHow War Against Terror Became War Against Journalists Turning War Against...
When listening to journalists’ immediate comments after the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on 11 September 2001, one could only expect that the world would change forever. Of course, all...
View ArticleA Slap in the Face Deserved
When the Nobel Committee in Oslo will confer this year’s Peace award to the architects of of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“Iran nuclear deal”) of July 2015 (who else would deserve it?), it...
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