Oslo.The headquarters of the Nobel Committee is in downtown Oslo on a street named after Henrik Ibsen, whose play “An Enemy of the People” has remained as current as dawn light falling on the Nobel building and then, hours later, on a Fort Meade courtroom where Bradley Manning’s trial enters a new stage — defense testimony in the sentencing phase.
BY AMY DAVIDSON, The New Yorker
Update: Manning was found not guilty of aiding the enemy, which was the most serious charge against him, but was found guilty of five counts of violating the Espionage Act.“Picking up the wounded?” “Yeah, we’re trying to get permission to engage” “Come on, let us shoot!”
By Thomas Gaist, wsws.org
Snowden’s (and Manning’s) popularity is solid around the world. Here Germans demonstrate for his asylum.
As the US government aggressively pursues Edward Snowden’s extradition from Russia, it was reported in Moscow Friday that representatives of the Russian state security service, the FSB, are in discussions with the American FBI on the fate of the National Security Agency contractor-turned-leaker.
NOTE: STRONGLY RECOMMENDED TO BE KISTENED TO IN CONJUNCTION WITH THIS ARTICLE— MICHAEL PARENTI, “THE OVERTHROW OF COMMUNISM.“
By Stephen Gowans, WHAT’S LEFT
Merkel
Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel “has defended German cooperation with the National Security Agency program, called Prism, and rejected any comparison between it and the invasive methods used by the Stasi, the secret police of East Germany’s Communist government.”