Tag Archives: Bradley Manning

The Hasty And Ill-conceived Decision to Award U.S. President Barack Obama

University of Umeå professor of Sociology Stefan Svallfors’ remark to the Nobel Peace Prize committee in Oslo today when justifying his nomination of Edward Snowden may be true. But will it be of any advantage? All three, Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks … Continue reading

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“… we must move beyond a mindset of perpetual war”

After five years, President Obama returned to Berlin today and delivered another “historical” speech for about 4000 invited guests and probably millions watching him on TV. A bit boring (since we had already heard Mayor Klaus Wowereit and Chancellor Angela … Continue reading

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Jeremy Benthem’s Panopticon

We might owe whistle-blowers Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden (after Daniel Ellsberg) nothing else than the future. We got a final wake-up call. What Snowden has revealed is what all had long feared in nightmares but could not imagine to … Continue reading

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NSA Targets US Citizens And, Well, Mainly Iranians

The Guardian has revealed this week America’s further decline into the Home of Big Brother. Now, the National Security Agency (NSA) has even developed a powerful data mining tool, called Boundless Informant, that details and maps by country the enormous … Continue reading

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Ten Years On

It’s ten years after G.W. Bush and his allies (UK, Australia and a “coalition of the willing”) attacked Iraq and quickly toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime. The war was illegal, weapons of mass destruction have never been found, at least 130,000 … Continue reading

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