Death Penalty for Bradley Manning, the Alleged WikiLeaks Whistleblower?

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by Andy Worthington
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Dandelion Salad
www.andyworthington.co.uk
2 March, 2011

Alleged WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning, who has been in US custody since last May, after he reportedly told a former hacker that he had passed thousands of classified US military documents and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, had 22 new charges filed against him on Tuesday by the US Army, including a capital offense — “aiding the enemy” — for which the government has said it will not seek the death penalty, although, as Wired explained, “under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the presiding judge ultimately decides what charges to refer to court-martial and whether to impose the death penalty.”

Another Corporate-Inspired War? By Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto
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Dandelion Salad
liberalpro.blogspot.com
March 2, 2011

The news we are hearing about the situation in Libya is conflicted to say the least. In general, the facts presented to us by the mainstream media are sketchy. Reports of Libyan Air Force attacks on protestors are not substantiated in any of the news articles that I have had the opportunity to see, yet the U.S., the UK and NATO member States are calling for a No-Fly zone over Libya. This would be another case of unwanted intervention in the affairs of a sovereign state, not unlike the interventions that have occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It’s Time to Change by Mark A. Goldman

by Mark A. Goldman
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://www.gpln.com
March 2, 2011

The United States treats people living in the Middle East with the same attitude southern whites treated blacks in the days of Jim Crow:  we take their dignity away by denying them their freedom, their power, their basic human rights. We cheat them out of their unalienable right to life, liberty, and dignity which they otherwise might have if they were able to enjoy the wealth that rightfully belongs to them and not to us.  We made their oil our slave.  We steal their power.

Sanders: Don’t Balance Budget on the Backs of the Middle Class, the Poor, the Children and the Elderly

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SenatorSanders | Mar 2, 2011

Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate about the need for strong budget priorities. Sanders is a member of the Senate Budget Committee.

The Tables Get Turned: Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and Raymond Davis by Cindy Sheehan

by Cindy Sheehan
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Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
March 2, 2011

Turn about is fair play.
American Proverb

In February of 2010, based on the flimsiest of physical evidence and rampant anti-Muslim bias, a Pakistani woman, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, was convicted in US Federal Court in Manhattan for ATTEMPTED “murder of an American” and sentenced to 86 years plus life in prison. The terms “kangaroo court” and “railroaded” spring easily to mind when I think about the case of Dr. Siddiqui. I wrote extensively about the case in an article called: Injustice in the Age of Obama.

U.S. And NATO Escalate World’s Deadliest War On Both Sides Of Afghan-Pakistani Border by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
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Stop NATO
Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism
March 2, 2011

The United States and its military allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have entered the third month of war in Afghanistan this year, which President Barack Obama in December of 2009 announced as the year in which American and other foreign occupation forces would be reduced preparatory to their full withdrawal.

Within months of the U.S. head of state’s claim, the commander-in-chief had over 90,000 troops in the conquered country and currently there are 60,000 more from some fifty other nations serving in NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The total number exceeds that of any foreign military force ever before stationed in Afghanistan.