DESVARIEUX: So Michael, so many revelations coming out this week, WikiLeaks revelations. Can we just talk about some of the most significant ones? RATNER: This week and last week. I actually wanted to address two topics. One is the revelations…
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Edward Snowden Bust on Brooklyn War Memorial Replaced by Hologram Mumia Abu-Jamal Health Crisis Update Journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal continues to be in serious medical…
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2015 Bard College Speech Notes 9/11 paradigm shifting – constant – what needs Empire war race capitalism rampant inequality No matter the topic its always been about fighting against the US — Of course wikileaks snowden Gitmo Torture–prosecutions War—…
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1971 On March 8th, 1971, a group of anonymous individuals calling themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into an FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania. They stole thousands of government documents. Among the documents was proof that…
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Michael Ratner: Is Congress’s Decision on Obama’s Plan to Close GTMO Really a Setback as Newspapers Report? Congress was considering whether to allow Guantanamo detainees to be resettled in the United States. That’s something Obama wants to do because so…
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Civil Liberties, Guantanamo / Illegal Detention, Internet Freedom
Hosts Discuss “Liberal” Media Coverage of Reigniting War in Iraq Imagine: Living in a Socialist U.S.A. Book Event – NYC Public Library, June 23, 6:30PM The 2-Year Anniversary of Wikileaks’s Julian…
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WikiLeaks editor remains unjustly holed up in Ecuadoran Embassy two years later. A whistle-blower living in exile in Russia. A publisher seeking the asylum he has already been granted while his sources are imprisoned. This isn’t the cast of a…
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JAY: So Thursday is one year since the first leak, first documents released that was leaked by Mr. Snowden. What do you now think is the significance of all of this? RATNER: Yeah, I’m going to put it into some…
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Michael Ratner: The empire has been hurt by the Snowden, Manning, Assange revelations.
NSA Collecting Metadata and Content on Five Countries Julian Assange/Glenn Greenwald Twitter Storm Host Discussion on NSA’s Ubiquitous Data Collecting The United States vs. Private Chelsea Manning Last year our own Michael Ratner made many trips to Fort Meade…
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