By Jeffrey Sterling, Roots Action Education Fund -
It has been a year since I walked out of a federal prison after two and a half years of incarceration. Though “free” of the prison, I remain a prisoner of the criminal justice system for a time [...]
As Rob Tibbo raced to the Hong Kong International Airport one day last November to catch his getaway flight, a nagging fear followed close behind.
Tibbo, a Canadian expatriate lawyer and [...]
What happens in a world without Julian Assange?
It seems we may be in the unthinkable position of facing such a reality, after WikiLeaks Tweeted regarding the recent statement of Margarita [...]
On the day Donald Trump was elected his supporters asked him to pardon the founder and frontman of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. They flooded social media demanding Assange be allowed to leave the [...]
Reality Winner, the former NSA contract employee who allegedly provided a classified document to two journalists at The Intercept, agreed on Tuesday to change her plea to “guilty” and to accept a [...]
By Kevin Gosztola and Brian Sonenstein, www.shadowproof.com -
By Kevin Gosztola and Brian Sonenstein for ShadowProof. The in-house counsel for the Intercept received a subpoena from the Justice Department for all contracts and communications between [...]
By Jim Wyss for Cuenca High Life. The government of Ecuador on Friday said WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange should be granted safe passage to the South American nation after Swedish authorities [...]
By Chelsea Manning for The Guardian. To those who have kept me alive for the past six years: minutes after President Obama announced the commutation of my sentence, the prison quickly moved me [...]
By Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. Chelsea Manning's sentence has been commuted. She had been jailed for nearly seven years, and her 35-year sentence was by far the longest punishment ever [...]
By Arundhati Roy for The Guardian - The Moscow Un-Summit wasn’t a formal interview. Nor was it a cloak-and-dagger underground rendezvous. The upshot is that John Cusack, Daniel Ellsberg (who [...]
By Timothy Bella for Aljazeera - WASHINGTON — Five years after becoming the first American to be charged for espionage in nearly four decades, Thomas Drake is still trying to rebuild his life. In [...]
By Eleanor Goldfield in Occupy - It’s our six-month anniversary! And we’re celebrating with whistleblowers – because everyone loves a whistleblower! From Chelsea Manning to John Kiriakou, we’re [...]
By Tim Cushing in Tech Dirt - This should be fun. A bunch of whistleblowers that were hounded, surveilled and prosecuted/persecuted by the US government are banding together to sue all the big [...]
By Shandre Delaney in Truth Out - On April 29, 2010, six prisoners in solitary confinement at SCI Dallas in Dallas, Pennsylvania, decided that enough was enough. Collectively, they are known as [...]
By Courage - Whistleblower Chelsea Manning, serving 35 years in prison for releasing hundreds of thousands of US Army and diplomatic cables, exposing scores of human rights abuses, has a hearing [...]
