The Daily Beast | 9 May 2016 An employee at CENTCOM’s Joint Intelligence office says she was reassigned, supposedly for cursing at work, after speaking out about cherry-picked ISIS war intel. TAMPA, Florida — She worked on and off for five years identifying targets for the U.S. military’s Central Command. And then, when, some believe,…
Edward Snowden | 3 May 2016 I’ve been waiting 40 years for someone like you.” Those were the first words Daniel Ellsberg spoke to me when we met last year. Dan and I felt an immediate kinship; we both knew what it meant to risk so much — and to be irrevocably changed — by revealing…
RT | 7 March 2016 Guccifer, the infamous Romanian hacker who accessed emails of celebrities and top US officials, will be extradited to the United States, after losing a case in his home country’s top court. Reuters reports that Lehel will come to the US under an 18-month extradition order, following a request made by…
Activist Post | 30 Oct 2015 This week, the European Parliament voted to offer Edward Snowden asylum and protection and drop all criminal charges against him. When at one time most of the world was bullied by the US government into pressing charges against Snowden and forcing him into exile, the entire European continent has…
The Guardian | 19 Oct 2015 Lawyers for Julian Assange say they are considering launching a fresh appeal against his Swedish arrest warrant, following the publication of correspondence between prosecutors in Britain and Sweden. The Wikileaks founder’s legal team say the documents show Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service and Marianne Ny, the prosecutor in Sweden seeking…
The Guardian | 13 Oct 2015 People who expose wrongdoing on national security and intelligence issues around the world are often given weak or no protection and are often subject to retaliation, creating a “chilling effect on people speaking out”, a United Nations report has found. The report by David Kaye, United Nations special rapporteur…
Washington Examiner | 1 Oct 2015 State Department officials appear to have colluded with CBS News’ “60 Minutes” in 2011 to plant specific interview questions for Julian Assange, the leader of a hacker group that is responsible for illegally obtaining and publishing thousands of classified U.S. intelligence cables. The revelation that former Secretary of State…
John Pilger | 30 Sept 2015 George Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” These are dark times, in which the propaganda of deceit touches all our lives. It is as if political reality has been privatised and illusion legitimised. The information age is a media age.…
Mint Press | 14 Sept 2015 Cables reveal that before the beginning of the Syrian revolt and civil war, the United States hoped to overthrow Assad and create strife between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. LONDON — Speaking from Ecuador’s embassy in London, Julian Assange revealed that the United States planned to overthrow the Syrian government…
The Guardian | 14 Sept 2015 When a United Nations investigator reported the rape of a refugee in Sri Lanka, she did not expect the disclosure to force her into a decade-long legal battle with her employer. Caroline Hunt-Matthes was ostracised and eventually ousted, and it took her nine years to secure redress. By that…