Chris Hedges: Worthy and Unworthy Victims
Worthy victims allow citizens to see themselves as empathetic, compassionate, and just. Worthy victims are an effective tool to demonize the aggressor. They are used to obliterate nuance and ambiguity.
Chelsea Manning, WikiLeaks, and The Deepwater Horizon
If the the U.S. jails Julian Assange, they should jail me, and my colleagues at The Guardian and New York Times. We all used the Manning / Assange / WikiLeaks emails
VICE News: The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion
Leopold: According to the latest figures compiled by Iraq Body Count, to date more than 200,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, although other sources say the casualties are twice as high. More than 4,000 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq, and tens of thousands more have been injured and maimed. The war has cost US taxpayers more than $800 billion.
Norman Solomon: Convicting Sterling to Chill Whistleblowing
Few reporters covered the bulk of the trial’s several dozen hours of testimony. (In the courtroom each day, I usually saw no more than three or four other journalists present.) The dire shortage of thorough coverage meant that news media did very little to illuminate the profuse contradictions and disturbing implications that riddled the testimony from more than 20 employees of the CIA.
Norman Solomon: Race, Leaks and Prosecution at the CIA
Left dangling in the air was the indication that Harlow thought of Sterling as a possible leaker because he’d gone through channels to claim that he had been a victim of racial bias at the CIA.
Nick Theis: Does Your University Have a Military Industrial (In)security Complex?
Military recruiting is at the root of this university, and is the root of its relationship to the military. The same act that allowed the U of M[innesota] to establish itself as a so-called “land-grant university,” the 1862 Morrill Act, also laid the groundwork for what was to later become the Reserve Officer Training Corps More
Moyers and Company — Iraq: The War Card
As part of its investigation into the false statements made by top Bush administration officials leading up to the Iraq war, the Center for Public Integrity has just released an interactive database where you can search who said what, when. WAR & PEACE Moyers and Company June 26, 2014 Iraq: The War Card (Photo: Center for Public Integrity) The Center More
Henry Giroux: Data Storms and the Tyranny of Manufactured Forgetting
The current mainstream debate regarding the crisis in Iraq and Syria offers a near perfect example of both the death of historical memory and the collapse of critical thinking in the United States. It also signifies the emergence of a profoundly anti-democratic culture of manufactured ignorance and social indifference. By Henry A. Giroux Truthout.org | News Analysis More
▶ Human Rights and Civil Rights: A colloquium inspired by Dr. Condoleezza Rice
[youtube=http://youtu.be/rDIuhKlFCjE] Published on Apr 28, 2014 On April 17, 2014, Dr. Condoleezza Rice gave the Distinguished Carlson Lecture at the University of Minnesota as part of the series of events entitled, "Keeping Faith with a Legacy of Justice," sponsored by the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the More
Glenn Greenwald: Excerpt from The Battle for Justice in Palestine
There are disturbing parallels between the kinds of witch hunts against individuals suspected of anti-Israel views and the campaigns to root out alleged Communists during the 1940s and 1950s. Most universities then, as now, did not show great courage in standing up to intimidation by government and other outside groups, while some were actually complicit. More
▶ Condi Rice at the University of Minnesota, Full Videos of Protest with Speeches
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▶ 100+ gather in protest of Condoleezza Rice speech
by Shelby Capacio - email KMSP-TV Minneapols-St. Paul Posted: Apr 17, 2014 4:50 PM CDTUpdated: Apr 17, 2014 10:47 PM CDT Watch the video: http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/clip/10066869/protest-greets-condoleezza-rice Photo by Scott Wasserman. (Editor's Note: This photo was taken early on as people were gathering.) Photo by Scott Wasserman (Editor's Note: David Pellow, U of MN faculty, speaks to large group who are not More