Estuve en el tribunal militar de Fort Meade, Maryland, el jueves pasado cuando Bradley Manning admitió haber entregado documentos gubernamentales secretos a WikiLeaks. Los cientos de miles de documentos filtrados revelaban crímenes de guerra cometidos por EE.UU. en Irak y Afganistán al igual que actos gubernamentales antiéticos. La declaración de Manning ante el tribunal fue [...]

Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty to 10 charges including possessing and willfully communicating to an unauthorized person all the main elements of the WikiLeaks disclosure. The charges carry a total of 20 years in prison. For the first time, Bradley spoke publicly about what he did and why. His actions, now confirmed by his own [...]

El jueves, 29 de noviembre, Bradley Manning prestó declaración por primera vez desde su arresto, hace dos años y medio en Bagdad. Hoy se cumplen también dos años de la aparición de las primeras portadas mundiales con informaciones sobre Cablegate, un archivo de 251.287 cables diplomáticos del Departamento de Estado norteamericano: mensajes enviados entre el [...]

Whatever one’s views about his alleged actions, you would need a pretty hard shell not to be moved by the case of Bradley Manning. Hero to some, traitor to others, this diminutive soldier has endured an unprecedented level of mistreatment, languishing in a largely incommunicado pretrial state for more than two years and facing repeated [...]

Thursday, November 29th, Bradley Manning testified for the first time since his arrest two and a half years ago in Baghdad. Today also marks the two-year anniversary of the first front pages around the world from Cablegate, an archive of 251,287 U.S. State Department diplomatic cables — messages sent between the State Department and its [...]

Si la insatisfacción de dos ciudadanas suecas por el comportamiento erótico de Julian Assange deriva finalmente en un conflicto diplomático que mantiene en vilo a la prensa internacional, no se requiere perspicacia para advertir inmediatamente que la excede. Los ítems que el affair sobreexpone son variados y merecen atención como indicadores de cambios sustantivos, potenciales [...]

In the week Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he  ordered bombing attacks on Yemen, killing a reported 63 people, 28 of them children. When Obama recently announced he supported same-sex marriage, American planes had not long blown 14 Afghan civilians to bits. In both cases, the mass murder was barely news. [...]

Today US Army Private Bradley Manning is to be formally charged with numerous crimes at Fort Meade, Maryland.   Manning, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by members of the Icelandic Parliament, is charged with releasing hundreds of thousands of documents exposing secrets of the US government to the whistleblower website Wikileaks. These documents [...]

Cuando me pidieron que interviniera en la concentración del sábado en Fort Meade en apoyo del soldado raso Bradley Manning, me planteé a mí mismo cómo podría proporcionar algún contexto alrededor de lo que se pretende que Manning ha hecho. (En mi charla, para no pensar que tenía que insertar la palabra “pretende” en cada frase, pedí [...]

When I was asked to speak at Saturday’s rally at Fort Meade in support of Pvt. Bradley Manning, I wondered how I might provide some context around what Manning is alleged to have done. (In my talk, so as not to think I had to insert the word “alleged” into every sentence, I asked for unanimous [...]