Rally against the treatment of Julian Assange by the Australian Government, Parliament House Lawns, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Rally in support of Bradley Manning on August 8, 2010, in Quantico, Virginia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg at the 26C3 in Berlin, December 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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JP 3-60 Joint Targeting and U.S. Targeted Killings
On February 27, I submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request
for the updated version of Joint Publication 3-60 (JP 3-60): Joint
Targeting. A short 154 days later, the Joint Staff provided me with a
complete version of it, “without excision.” It is available in full
here (PDF). For the previous 2007 version of JP 3-60 see here.
The Department of Defense defines a joint publication as: “
Manning Sentencing Trial: Government Lied - Nobody Died Thanks WikiLeaks Disclosures
From Matt Sledge at HuffPo...
FORT MEADE, Md. --- For three years Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
were accused of murder. Members of Congress and the administration said
their WikiLeaks document dump endangered U.S. interests --- and lives.
"Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks
he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on
their hands
Threat of Terrorism Still Making People Stupid
When you're a partisan, you have a certain obligation to be, well,
partisan. That means you have to put the things your side does in the
best light and the things the other side does in the worst light. Their
motives are always suspect while your are always pure, and if anything
goes wrong it was obviously their fault, while if anything goes right
they had nothing to do with it.
But just how far d
Proto-Democratization in China?
Yesterday’s Washington Post included a story that seemed to
portray the Chinese Communist Party’s increasingly sophisticated efforts
to track and respond to popular opinion as a kind of democratization.
Reporter Simon Denyer wrote:
The government is trying to understand public opinion on an
unprecedented scale. In response to government demand, opinion
monitoring centers have sprung up in state-ru
( Written by member of Atlantic Council - a NATO promoter. No mention of continual rhetoric condemning a supposed but denied weapons program which Iran has actively condemned and avoided ....and continues to promote disarmament ! The IAEA was partly sponsored by Iran : even after its ability to help fund the agency as an independent entity has been denied by economic warfare, there is no evidence of WMD. )
This Sunday Iran will trade an abrasive diplomatic embarrassment for a
far more presentable figure.
After eight years of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, almost anyone would look good
by comparison. Still, the new president, Hassan Rouhani, a
Scottish-educated cleric, comes equipped with personal qualities,
experience and relationships that could help stem Iran’s slide into
economic crisis and internatio
Top of the Morning: Nobel Prize Winner Turned Away at Cairo Airport
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Nobel Prize Winner Turned Away at Cairo Airport
A Yemeni woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her role in the
Arab Spring protests was blocked from entering Egypt. “Tawakul Karman, a
Nobel Peace Prize Winner was turned away on Sunday at Cairo’s Airport
on Sunday. Her intention was to join the protest against the military
coup that toppled President Mohamed
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