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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
WORLD AlterNet / By Sam Knight A Chelsea Manning-leaked cable showed how Iceland asked the U.S. to stop European "bullying," just ...
Wikileaks Rides East!
A Hard Quest to Deliver Truth to the Unwilling by ISRAEL SHAMIR The West's major media do not fare well ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...