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“… This is possibly one of the more significant documents of our time removing the fog of war and revealing the true nature of twenty-first century asymmetric warfare. Have a good day.”

Update March 12 below. While the original 35-page statement by Bradley Manning last week at the pretrial hearing at Fort Meade, Md, has not yet been released, one can read through a rough transcript of it on the Bradley Manning … Continue reading

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Manning Admits Leaking the Documents

That Bradley Manning had unavailingly contacted the Washington Post, the New York Times and, almost, Politico, before providing WikiLeaks with hundreds of thousands of classified documents including diplomatic cables of US embassies around the world and the notorious Collateral Murder … Continue reading

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Obama’s Tears

My thoughts these days are with the parents and victims of last week’s carnage in Newtown, CT. These shooting sprees have conspicuously amassed in recent years in the U.S. and no wonder that apologetic supporters of America’s Second Amendment to … Continue reading

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“He Broke the Law”

President Obama’s infamous verdict on 21 April 2011 did not mean Julian Assange but Bradley Manning who allegedly provided the whistle-blower platform WikiLeaks with hundreds of thousands of largely embarrassing US American diplomatic cables, some even classified, and the notorious Collateral … Continue reading

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Two Soldiers

Update below. The name of the American soldier who massacred and partially burnt last Sunday 16 Afghan civilians including nine children in the Panjwai shooting spree in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, and who had been rescued to Kuwait before Afghan authorities … Continue reading

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