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Dónde Están? Where are the Disappeared?

Return to Chile, 40 Years After the Coup by KATHY RENTENBACH Dónde están? Where are they? They still don’t know ...
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The Fifth Estate: A dishonest film about WikiLeaks and Julian Assange

By Robert Stevens Director Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate is the second major film this year dealing with the whistleblower ...
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US drone strikes could be classed as war crimes, says Amnesty International

Joint report with Human Rights Watch judges US attacks in Yemen and Pakistan to have broken international human rights law ...
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Charles Murray: merrily carrying ideological water for the oligarchy

From our archives—things you should have read the first time around but missed, and which the corporate media omit or ...
8 Ways WikiLeaks Cables About a Tiny Country Like Iceland Expose the Dark Depths of American Empire

8 Ways WikiLeaks Cables About a Tiny Country Like Iceland Expose the Dark Depths of American Empire

  WORLD   AlterNet / By Sam Knight A Chelsea Manning-leaked cable showed how Iceland asked the U.S. to stop European "bullying," just ...
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Wikileaks Rides East!

A Hard Quest to Deliver Truth to the Unwilling by ISRAEL SHAMIR The West's major media do not fare well ...
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Empire of the Senseless

A Lethal Competence by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR For the sake of argument, let’s assume the following to be true: Barack ...
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Why the Draft Never Stopped a War

It was the Vietnamese Who Stopped the US War Machine by JONATHAN CARP In 2011 I sat on a panel ...
The president that implicitly promised transparency and a strengthening of citizens' rights, has instead decimated them.

NSA “harvesting” electronic address books and contact lists

By Thomas Gaist, wsws.org The Washington Post on Tuesday published new revelations stemming from PowerPoint slides and documents leaked by ...
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The perfect epitaph for establishment journalism

'If MI5 warns that this is not in the public interest who am I to disbelieve them?', says the former ...
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Lynne Stewart: The People’s “First Responder”

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The rich have unlimited capital and all the resources of ...
Trailer shot from The Fifth Estate, with British actor Benedict Cumberbatch as Assange. Do actors ever understand the political implications of their work, and do they care?

Disney’s Ode to State Repression

Wikileaks, The Fifth Estate and Corporate Pop Culture’s War on Whistleblowers by CHRIS GEOVANIS, Counterpunch If Walt Disney had actually ...

 

 
 

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