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Bradley Manning Addresses Sentencing Hearing
by Stephen Lendman
He's an American hero. He's no spy. He committed no crimes. He acted responsibly. He did the right thing. He deserves praise, not prosecution.
He exposed US war crimes. He fulfilled his legal obligation to do so. He's victimized unjustly. Police state injustice wants him imprisoned longterm. Systemic unfairness defines US policy.
Manning was convicted on 20 of 22 charges. They include six espionage counts. He potentially faces 90 years imprisonment. On August 14, he addressed his sentencing hearing. More on that below.
Mubarakism 2.0
by Stephen Lendman
February 11, 2011 marked the end of Mubarak's 30-year dictatorship. July 3, 2013 reflects its reincarnation.
Iron fist junta power's reinstated. Perhaps it'll be worse than before. For sure it is now. Violence continues daily. Many hundreds, perhaps thousands, died. Countless numbers were injured and arrested.
State terror targets Morsi supporters. Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) generals demand things their way. Human lives are a small price to pay for power. Tyranny defines today's Egypt. It's always been that way. It's worse than ever now.
Al Jazeera America Set to Debut
by Stephen Lendman
On November 1, 1996, Al Jazeera began operating. It's headquartered in Doha. It's owned and operated by Qatar's monarchy.
Chairman Hamad bin Thamer Al Thani's a distant cousin of Qatari Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.
Al Jazeera News channel (JNC) is indistinguishable from other scoundrel media. It long ago fell from grace.
It abandoned professionalism and objectivity. Its programming lacks credibility. It features largely pro-Western propaganda.Wadah Khanfar served earlier as managing director. His pro-Western support got JNC staff to leave. They refused to report managed news.
Egypt: from Anarchy to Insanity Needs Global Intervention
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
Egyptian military junta, historically hated and feared appears to have gained the upper hand in cold blooded massacres of the innocent civilians demonstrating against the perpetuated military brutality - a challenge to global human conscience that must be challenged with intervention to bring to immediate halt. After one year of political optimism and emerging hope for peaceful transformation of the anarchy-infested institutions, under elected President Morsi, Egyptian was moving towards a rational path of democratic change and development. Out of nowhere, Egyptian Generals seem to have gone paranoid and more of incoming signal from the US Government that evolving democracy was not befitting to the American policies and practices in the Arab Middle East. President Obama and others of the military-industrial complex in Washington view continuing conflicts and social-economic and political disruptions as necessary to their short and long terms aims of the foreign policy in the Arab world.
Egypt's Bloody Friday
by Stephen Lendman
Egypt's bloody crackdown continues. On Friday, scores more died. Some estimates say close to 200. More on that below.
On August 16, the Muslim Brotherhood's Ikhwanweb headlined "Statement: Friday of Rage," saying:
"Despite our deep pain and sorrow following the August 14 Rabaa massacre and others committed since the bloody coup, the crimes of the coup regime have only increased our steadfastness and firmness in rejecting it and determination to remove it.""The struggle to overthrow this illegitimate regime is an obligation, an Islamic, national, moral, and human obligation which we will not steer away from until justice and freedom prevail, and until repression is conquered."
NSA Caught Red-Handed
by Stephen Lendman
It's a longstanding rogue agency. It always operated extrajudicially. It's worse than ever now. It's a power unto itself.
Obama claims "(w)e don’t have a domestic spying program. What we do have are some mechanisms where we can track a phone number or an email address that we know is connected to some sort of terrorist threat."
False! Obama knows it. He lied. He always lies. He's a serial liar. NSA has a longstanding domestic spying program.
On August 15, the Washington Post headlined "NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds."
Most infractions involved "unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States."
The assault in Christians in Egypt and Syria
Michael Collins
The attacks are systematic and pervasive in both countries where Christians account for five to ten percent of the population. Al Qaeda and extremist fellow travelers are behind the violence. In the Syrian conflict, the United States supports the rebel cause, which has openly declared Al Qaeda fighters. In Egypt, armed supporters of the ousted government of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi carry out the attacks.
Where is the focused condemnation from the White House of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood; the threats to cut off aid to the Syrian rebels for their deliberate attacks on Christians?
Why aren't right-wing Republicans up in arms over this?
President Obama was cheered by his party and the opposition for cancelling a meeting with Vladimir Putin, one man, yet we see no outrage or cancellation of meetings with rebels.
Holder Did Not Go Far Enough On Sentencing & Drug Policy Reform
By Kevin Zeese and Cliff Thornton
End the injustices of mandatory sentencing: Pardon those unjustly punished, end the drug war
Finally, after working to see the end of mandatory minimum sentencing for nearly 30 years, hearing Attorney General Holder say the obvious – that mandatory sentences don’t work, are costly, unfair and need to be ended – was welcome. Unfortunately, Mr. Holder’s comments are mostly rhetoric with inadequate policy change. There are important steps that could be taken by President Obama and Attorney General Holder right now, without Congress, that could end injustice being suffered by tens of thousands and prevent future injustices.
Institutionalized US Spying: More Than NSA's Involved
by Stephen Lendman
Washington has 16 known US spy agencies. NSA and CIA are best known. Perhaps few Americans know much about the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
It calls itself "first in all-source defense intelligence to prevent strategic surprise and deliver a decision advantage to warfighters, defense planners, and policymakers."
"DIA deploys globally alongside warfighters and interagency partners to defend America's national security interests."
Last December, the Washington Post headlined "DIA sending hundreds more spies overseas," saying:
It's "part of an ambitious plan to assemble an espionage network that rivals the CIA in size, US officials said."
Perhaps it includes covert domestic spying. CIA's charter prohibits it. According to the ACLU, it "didn't stop the (agency) from spying on Americans."
Bradley Manning Addresses Sentencing Hearing
by Stephen Lendman
He's an American hero. He's no spy. He committed no crimes. He acted responsibly. He did the right thing. He deserves praise, not prosecution.
He exposed US war crimes. He fulfilled his legal obligation to do so. He's victimized unjustly. Police state injustice wants him imprisoned longterm. Systemic unfairness defines US policy.
Manning was convicted on 20 of 22 charges. They include six espionage counts. He potentially faces 90 years imprisonment. On August 14, he addressed his sentencing hearing. More on that below. Manning's a 2013 Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Over 100,000 people worldwide support him. On August 12, RootsAction co-founder Norman Solomon delivered thousands of pages to Oslo's Nobel Committee.
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