Chelsea Manning went to prison for seven years for leaking true information about U.S. atrocities in Iraq to WikiLeaks. Now she has been imprisoned again for refusing to testify before a Grand Jury that is considering indictment WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange for publishing that information.
She is a hero. Julian Assange is a hero. Caitlin Johnstone sums up the situation well.
The United States government has just re-imprisoned one of the nation’s greatest whistleblowers to coerce her into helping to destroy the world’s greatest leak publisher, both of whom exposed undeniably true facts about war crimes committed by that same United States government. Truth tellers are being actively persecuted by this same power structure which claims it has the moral authority to topple governments and interfere in international affairs around the world, exactly because they told the truth.
Please take a moment to make sure you’re really appreciating this. Assange started a leak outlet on the premise that corrupt power can be fought with the light of truth, and corrupt power has responded by smearing, silencing, and persecuting him and doing everything it can to stomp out the light of truth, up to and including re-imprisoning an already viciously brutalized American hero like Chelsea Manning.
Source: Caitlin Johnstone
Self-described liberals such as Rachel Maddow have turned on Julian Assange because he published information unfavorable to Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election campaign. They say he was in cahoots with Donald Trump. Then why is the Trump administration going all-out to put Assange in prison?
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US Re-Imprisons Chelsea Manning To Coerce Her to Testify Against WikiLeaks by Caitlin Johnstone.
Rachel Maddow Deceives Audience About Assange by Caitlin Johnstone.
Democratic Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard Takes a Strong Stand for WikiLeaks and Freedom of the Press by Cassandra Fairbanks for Gateway Pundit. [Added 3/11/2019}
Chelsea Manning’s Refusal to Testify Against Wikileaks Will Help Save Press Freedom, an interview of Glenn Greenwood on Democracy Now! [Added 3/13/2019]
Chelsea Manning Defies Secret Grand Jury, Julian Assange Scoops Michael Cohen by Ann Garrison for Black Agenda Report [Added 3/14/2019]
Tags: Chelsea Manning, Freedom of the Press, Julian Assange, Wikileaks
Phil Ebersole's Blog 
March 9, 2019 at 6:00 pm |
Maybe, just maybe, HRC wasn’t our knight in shining armor. Rather more a kind of rusty and tarnished, yet haughty, mercenary? Probably better than electing the Demon King himself but by how much? Do we want a clever, duplicitous, and amoral hero or an obnoxious and obvious supervillain that is exactly what he looks like?
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