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Sylvia J

Daniel Ellsberg, and the “Good” and “Bad” Whistleblower

#CraigMurray

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/06/daniel-ellsberg-and-the-good-and-bad-whistleblower/

"My tribute to my friend #DanielEllsberg, which looks at his defense of #Assange and #Snowden and the wholesale twisting of his memory and legacy by the #establishment #media and #political #class."

#danielellsberg #whistleblowers #wikileaks #guardian #journalism #julianassange #edwardsnowden #chelseamanning

Daniel Ellsberg, and the "Good" and "Bad" Whistleblower - Craig Murray

The massive obituaries to Daniel Ellsberg at the weekend in both New York Times and Washington Post were proof of the status he held in the United States. Only Presidents get that size of obituary. His name was not nearly so widely known in the...

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Sylvia J

Julian Assange and the War Against You

https://brownstone.org/articles/julian-assange-and-the-war-against-you/

“Assange is not persecuted for his own crimes, but for the crimes of the powerful,” writes #NilsMelzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and author of #The-Trial-of-Julian-Assange. “The persecution of Assange establishes a precedent that will not only allow the powerful to keep their crimes #secret but will even make the revelation of such crimes punishable by #law. Let us not fool ourselves: once telling the #truth has become a #crime, we will all be living in #tyranny.”

The #Biden administration looks to jail #Assange for life because he #exposed #international #crimes and #corruption to the public for free.

#julianassange #audio #the-war-against-you #wikileaks #journalism #freespeech #freepress #edwardsnowden #censorship #belmarsh #uk #us #noextradition #freeassange #weareallassange #dropthecharges

Julian Assange and the War Against You ⋆ Brownstone Institute

The groundwork for the censorial technocracy we face today was laid with a series of targeted hits that created enemies of the state.

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Bert Ernste • NL | BR

Ten years ago, Edward Snowden warned us about state spying. Spare a thought for him, and worry about the future

The Guardian

The abuses the Guardian helped him bring to worldwide attention go on: the authorities have merely made it harder to expose them. (...)

[O]ne story the Guardian published 10 years ago today exploded with the force of an earthquake.

The article revealed that the US National Security Agency (NSA) was collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon customers. In case anyone doubted the veracity of the claims, we were able to publish the top secret court order handed down by the foreign intelligence surveillance court (Fisa), which granted the US government the right to hold and scrutinise the metadata of millions of phone calls by American citizens. (...)

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‘Edward Snowden, like so many whistleblowers, has paid a heavy personal price for what he considered as an act of public service.’ Snowden in Hong Kong, June 2013. Photograph: Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras/AP.

It led to multiple court actions in which governments were found to have been in breach of their constitutional and/or legal obligations. It led to a scramble by governments to retrospectively pass legislation sanctioning the activities they had been covertly undertaking. And it has led to a number of stable-door attempts to make sure journalists could never again do what the Guardian and others did 10 years ago. (...)

So do not hold your breath for future Edward Snowdens in this country. The British media is, by and large, not known for holding its security services rigorously to account, if at all. (...)

[T]here has been little more than a whisper of protest over the new national security bill or the threatened extradition of Julian Assange.

This is curious. The notion that the state has no right to enter a home and seize papers was established in English law. (...) (1765) (...)

Please spare a thought for Snowden, who, like so many whistleblowers, has paid a heavy personal price for what he (and many others around the world) considered an act of public service. (...)

“The press,” as the editor of the Times wrote in 1852, “lives by disclosure … The statesman’s duty is precisely the reverse.” Amen.

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Tags: #news #press #newspaper #media #news_media #journalist #journalism #snowden #edward_snowden #censorship #surveillance #mass_surveillance #privacy #nsa #National_Security_Agency #secrecy #government #secret_service #state_spying

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brainwavelost@nerdpol.ch
brainwavelost

Regardless of whatever one might think about Lira’s views and the particular piece of Ukrainian legislation that was cited as the basis for arresting him, the USG is supposed to support the rights of its nationals abroad. This is especially so whenever they’re arrested for expressing an opinion and/or practicing #journalism like he was.

Ukraine security forces are rounding up and arresting what they call “internet agitators” whose heinous crimes allegedly include posting political opinions online, using certain social media sites, and criticizing the Ukraine military. Freedom and democracy on full display.

#gonzalo-lira

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Sylvia J

The Endgame of Rescuing Assange

https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=ApGvksPIrxM

#JulianAssange’s #Australian #lawyer, #StephenKenny, speaks about the “ #end-game” to free the #WikiLeaks #publisher with #US #constitutional-lawyer #BruceAfran.

#CathyVogan & #Kenny discuss #plea-deals, #assurances, and what #Australia should do next to get #Assange out of #Belmarsh.

#noextradition #journalism #freeassange #dropthecharges #freespeech #plea #alford-plea #freepress #weareallassange

Rescuing Assange - with Stephen Kenny, his Australian lawyer & Bruce Afran, US constitutional lawyer

Part One: Conversation between Cathy Vogan, courtroom journalist on the Assange case for Consortium News and his Australian lawyer Stephen Kenny. Kenny succeeded in rescuing another Australian citizen detained by the US, David Hicks, from...

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Sylvia J

Reviving the Dream of a Free Flow of Information

#VijayPrashad

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/22/reviving-the-dream-of-a-free-flow-of-information/

'If the Global South tries to put peace and development on the agenda, the West answers with war and debt. In the hands of Western media monopolies, the #communications order is not used to promote #world #peace, but to exacerbate human division and the risk of war.'

#free-flow #information #unesco #international-commission-for-the-study-of-communication-problems #editors #journalism #journalists #censorship #GlobalSouthInternationalCommunicationForum.

Reviving the Dream of a Free Flow of Information

Vijay Prashad showcases the closing statement issued by hundreds of editors and journalists who gathered in Shanghai in early May for the Global South International Communication Forum. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for...

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Emmanuel Florac

Statewatch | EU rules allowing "exceptional" use of spyware against journalists need "fine-tuning"

#politics #journalism #surveillance #democracy

The self-proclaimed guardians of freedom and democracy, ladies and gentlemen. I hope you despise these fucking Russians and Chinese the way they deserve, uh?

https://www.statewatch.org/news/2023/may/eu-rules-allowing-exceptional-use-of-spyware-against-journalists-need-fine-tuning/

EU rules allowing

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Michael

Without additional comment, a commencement speech by a "journalistic giant" addressing new graduates of the Columbia University School of Journalism.

Steve Schmidt (American political/corporate strategist) said:

"Christiane Amanpour delivered the commencement address at the Columbia University School of Journalism. It was a masterpiece. It is the most important address about the role of journalism in our modern era that has ever been given...
I encourage everyone to watch"

A Journalistic Giant Speaks

#journalism #Amanpour #commencement #truth #media #education #democracy

A journalistic giant speaks

The greatest danger America faces is that the truth and lie stand equal and indistinguishable for millions of Americans who have been preyed upon by a billion- dollar misinformation and propaganda economy. Democracy cannot survive under such...

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