Julian Assange is in prison, indefinitely and in blatant contravention of humanitarian norms. The US national security state has spoken and put its foot down, in a show of power which has subverted the true course of democracy. Sadly, the political will to sustain the persecution counteracts the political will to terminate it, though in […]
May 3 marks the 30th anniversary of Press Freedom Day, inaugurated in 1993 by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) with support from the United Nations (UNESCO). RSF’s original 1991 report provided a “round-up of journalists killed throughout the world” and laid the groundwork for what eventually became the Press Freedom Index, which now ranks freedom of […]
Daniel Ellsberg demande aux États-Unis de l’inculper dans la mesure où tout comme Julian Assange il est, de façon non autorisée, en possession de matériel classifié. Ellsberg emboîte ainsi le pas au fondateur de Cryptome.org qui a lui aussi demandé à être poursuivi, rapporte Joe Lauria. Source : Consortium News, Joe LauriaTraduit par les lecteurs […]
Stefania Maurizi is an investigative journalist working for the Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano. She has worked on all WikiLeaks releases of secret documents and partnered with Glenn Greenwald to reveal the Snowden Files about Italy. In an interview with Eresh Omar Jamal of The Daily Star, she talks about her latest book, Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its […]
Todd Hayen There has always been a hunger for new discoveries and revelations of the truth, but often, in the past, it took great effort to get past the “agenda”—there has always been one. Think of the Daniel Ellsberg exposure of The Pentagon Papers as well as many pieces coming out of Viet Nam during …
The Curious Incident of the Missing Article of the Russian Treatyby Ian SinclairMorning Star22-23 January 2022 Last month Russia’s Supreme Court ordered the closure of Memorial International, the nation’s oldest human rights group, which was devoted to researching and recording crimes committed in the Soviet Union. “It is not hard to see how Putin, mired […]
Après l’arrêt de la publication des Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg a transmis l’histoire top secrète au sénateur Mike Gravel. Voici comment Gravel a obtenu les documents, ce qu’il en a fait et ce qui s’est passé ensuite. Première partie. Source : ConsortiumNews – Mike Gravel & Joe Lauria Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises […]
Mike Gravel passed away on June 26. He was one of the unsung heroes of the Pentagon Papers, the only U.S. senator who had the courage to champion the Pentagon Papers that destroyed the credibility of American foreign policy. R.I.P. to a politician tough enough to flog Leviathan. Consortium News, June 28, 2021 Pentagon Papers […]
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Fearing a new conflict over Taiwan, Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg has released a shocking account showing how the Joint Chiefs pressed Eisenhower to launch a nuclear war on China. A previously censored account of the 1958 Taiwan Strait crisis that was sponsored by the Pentagon has been published in full by the leaker of the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg. The report provides a hair-raising portrait of a reckless US military leadership relentlessly pressing President Dwight Eisenhower for the authority to carry […]
