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History Of Silencing Israeli Army Whistleblowers

March 25, 2016 Jonathan Cook, www.counterpunch.org , ,
By Jonathan Cook for Counter Punch - One might expect that only historians would care to revisit the 1948 war that created Israel. And yet the debate about what constitutes truth and myth from that period still provokes raw emotions. Much rests on how those events are reconstructed, not least because the shock waves have yet to subside. Israelis fear, and Palestinians crave, a clearer picture of the past because it would powerfully illuminate the present. It might also influence the international community’s proposed solutions for the conflict.

Listen To Chelsea’s Story: In Her Own Words

March 19, 2016 Staff, www.chelseamanning.org ,
By Staff of the Chelsea Manning Support Network - One of the most trying aspects of Chelsea’s imprisonment has been the inability for the public to hear or see her; prison restrictions do not allow any kind of photographs, visual or audio recordings. The most recent photo we even have of Chelsea was taken by the prison in February of last year, and Chelsea had to file a Freedom of Information Act request to even receive it! And yet, our voices and our image have always been an integral part of our identity. Our humanity. Chelsea has said, “I feel like I’ve been stored away all this time without a voice.”

Read A Whistleblower’s Warnings About The Flint Water Crisis

March 18, 2016 Arthur Delaney, www.huffingtonpost.com , ,
By Arthur Delaney for The Huffington Post - WASHINGTON — Miguel Del Toral is a regulations manager for the Environmental Protection Agency who began investigating the water woes in Flint, Michigan, early last year. Congressional investigators say the EPA punished Del Toral for blowing the whistle on the Flint water crisis. As evidence, this week they released an email in which Del Toral complained his supervisors were treating him like office furniture.

Whistleblowers Claim Popular Asthma Drug Was Marketed Illegally

March 14, 2016 Martha Rosenberg, www.alternet.org , ,
By Martha Rosenberg for AlterNet - Asthma is big business for Big Pharma. Advair was the third best selling drug in the world in 2013 and the asthma drugs Singulair and Symbicort were also blockbusters. So it is no surprise the prospect of a high-tech injectable drug that stops an allergic response by binding to Immunoglobulin E (IgE) made Big Pharma sit up and take notice. Xolair (omalizumab), developed from humanized rodent cells (yes, you read that right), is part of Big Pharma's new wave of bio-engineered liquid drugs...

Journalists Should Stand Up For Whistleblowers

February 29, 2016 Timothy Karr, www.otherwords.org ,
By Timothy Karr for Other Words - The Obama administration’s ongoing crusade against government whistleblowers — which culminated last year in the imprisonment of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling — has reignited a debate over the role journalists should play in defending their profession and the sources and networks on which it depends. Sterling’s serving a three-and-half-year prison term for a conviction built primarily on circumstantial evidence — a heavy sentence, though less than the draconian 24 years the government originally sought.

Subprime Mortgage Whistleblowers Warn Bigger Crash On Its Way

February 22, 2016 Jessica Desvarieux, www.therealnews.com ,
By Jessica Desvarieux for The Real News - Whistleblowers Richard Bowen and Michael Winston, along with UMKC's Bill Black, discuss the rampant fraud at Countrywide and Citigroup and how today's high foreclosure rates in states like Nevada could be a sign of what's to come

Pardon Jeffrey Sterling, CIA Whistleblower

February 18, 2016 Reporters Without Borders, www.PopularResistance.org , , ,
By Reporters WIthout Borders. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) delivered yesterday with the wife of CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling a petition for his pardon to the White House. The petition has now gathered over 150,000 signatures. Sterling, a former C.I.A. operative and the latest victim in the Obama administration’s war on whistleblowers, was convicted in January 2015 of divulging classified information to New York Times journalist James Risen. Jeffrey Sterling was convicted under the Espionage Act for merely communicating with New York Times journalist James Risen. He’s now serving a 3.5-year prison sentence in a federal correctional facility in Colorado.

A Grandma Drone Resister’s Letter From Prison

February 16, 2016 Mary Anne Grady Flores, www.alternet.org , ,
By Mary Anne Grady Flores for AlterNet - Joy swept through our cell block, Jamesville County Jail, Pod 4, Thursday, January 28. That evening some of the 59 women in our pod rushed up and knocked on my cell door. They reported the six o’clock news had shown 12 drone resisters handcuffed, sitting on a roadside curb, waiting to be taken into custody. I just started my six-month sentence on January 19, for photographing protesters of the drone warfare directed out of Hancock Air Base in nearby Syracuse, New York. These eight protestors, many of whom are Catholic Workers, were later acquitted.

Flint Whistleblowers Who Exposed Their Poisoned Water

February 9, 2016 Larry Gabriel, www.yesmagazine.org , , ,
By Larry Gabriel for Yes Magazine - The actions of a small group of dedicated activists in the Coalition for Clean Water led to the revelation that Flint, Michigan, residents were being poisoned by lead-contaminated water. The activists had been living with the yellow, brown, and red water flowing from their taps even as government officials denied it and the same poisoned water flowed from the taps at government buildings. The activists, whose different organizations came together to form the coalition, organized, strategized, did water research and testing to expose the government’s lies.

Announcing Bank Whistleblowers’ Group’s Initial Proposals

January 30, 2016 William K. Black, www.neweconomicperspectives.org , ,
By William K. Black for New Economic Perspectives - I am writing to announce the formation of a new group and a policy initiative that we hope many of our readers will support and help publicize. Gary Aguirre, Bill Black, Richard Bowen, and Michael Winston are the founding members of the Bank Whistleblowers’ Group. We are all from the general field of finance and we are all whistleblowers who are unemployable in finance and financial regulation because we spoke truth to power and committed the one unforgivable sin of being repeatedly proved correct.

Bar Goes After Whistleblower, Exposed Warrantless Wiretapping

January 30, 2016 Kevin Gosztola, www.shadowproof.com , ,
By Kevin Gosztola for Shadow Proof - When the Justice Department ended its investigation into Thomas Tamm in 2011, the Justice Department whistleblower who revealed warrantless wiretapping said it was a relief that a “long ordeal” was now over. But it turns out the “ordeal” has entered a new chapter. He now faces ethics violations for blowing the whistle on illegal surveillance. The District of Columbia Bar, a body with the power to discipline lawyers who violate ethical standards and rules of professional conduct, initiated disciplinary proceedings for Tamm for revealing “secrets” or “confidences” of his “client” to New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau.

Stratfor In Hiding Due To Protests?

January 15, 2016 Kit O'Connell, www.mintpressnews.com , , , ,
By Kit O'Connell for Mint Press News - AUSTIN, Texas — In what’s become an annual tradition, activists gathered in downtown Austin on Friday to celebrate the birthday of a political prisoner and hacktivist nearly forgotten and ignored by the mainstream media: Jeremy Hammond. In 2012, Hammond, along with other members of the Anonymous-associated group Lulzsec, hacked millions of emails from the servers of the Strategic Forecasting, also known as Stratfor, a private intelligence corporation located in the city, and leaked them to WikiLeaks, where they became known as the “Global Intelligence Files.”

War On Whistleblowers Paves Way For Global Press Crackdown

January 1, 2016 Chip Gibbons, www.bordc.org ,
By Chip Gibbons for BORDC - On December 28, 2015 the British newspaper The Guardian published an op-ed by Turkish journalist Can Dündar. Dündar has become a rallying cry for the global movement for press freedoms as he faces two life sentences for treason and espionage. His crime? The newspaper Dündar is editor-in-chief-of, Cumhuriyet Daily, obtained video evidence that he claims confirms what has long been suspected: that Turkish intelligence services are illegally carrying weapons into war-torn Syria. The condemnation of the Turkish state for criminalizing journalism as “espionage” and “treason” drew widespread criticisms from international human rights groups, global press freedom watchdogs, and foreign governments.

Killer Drone News Blackout, Media Ignore Whistleblowers

December 7, 2015 John Hanrahan, www.exposefacts.org , ,
By John Hanrahan for Expose Facts - The polls show it and commentators of all political stripes often cite the figures: Killer drone attacks by the U.S. military and the CIA in the Greater Middle East and Africa have strong U.S. public support. According to the Pew Research Center’s most recent poll in May, 58 percent — up slightly from 56 percent in February 2013 — approve of “missile strikes from drones to target extremists in such countries as Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.” The numbers of Americans disapproving of drone attacks actually increased from 26 percent to 35 percent over that two-year period — a hopeful sign, but still very much a minority view.

Take Action For Drone Whistleblowers Under Attack

December 1, 2015 ToBlome, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
From Toby Blome of CODEPINK. Code Pink Women for Peace support the very courageous actions of four former US drone operators, Michael Haas, Brandon Bryant, Cian Westmoreland, and Stephan Lewis, who have come under increasing attack for disclosing information about “widespread corruption and institutionalized indifference to civilian casualties that characterize the drone program.” As truth tellers, they stated in a public letter to President Obama that the killing of innocent civilians has been one of the most “devastating driving forces for terrorism and destabilization around the world.”* These public disclosures come only after repeated attempts to work privately within official channels failed. Despite the fact that none of the four has been charged with criminal activity, all had their bank accounts and credit cards frozen. This retaliatory response by our government is consistent with the extrajudicial nature of US drone strikes.
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