Wisdom Quarterly; David Rooney (The Hollywood Reporter,
May 23, 2013) via Boston.com
NIGHTMARE: Imagine living in a world where Mark Zuckerberg with the FBI (Facebook) sells our information to corporations and gets "Man of the Year" but Julian Assange with Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks) releases it free and gets arrested.
Prolific documentary-maker
Alex Gibney delivers a gripping account of the wins and losses of
hard-charging idealism on the front lines of the information wars in
‘‘We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks.’’
Exhaustively researched
and balanced in its view of the controversial key player, the film slips
in ahead of DreamWorks’ dramatic take on the exploits of Julian
Assange, ‘‘The Fifth Estate,’’ which is currently shooting.
Unfolding like an espionage thriller but with a
methodical journalistic skill at organizing a mountain of facts, the
film raises stimulating questions about transparency and freedom of
information in a world in which governments and corporations have plenty
to hide. It should be a magnet for op-ed coverage.
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| "Exposing war crimes is exemplary"! "Thank you Pfc. Manning"! "The war's criminal"! "Killing civilians is a war crime"! "Free Bradley Manning"! - American demonstrators (Al Jazeera) |
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| Julian Assange on RT.com |
In addition to WikiLeaks founder Assange,
Gibney devotes almost equal time to the fascinating figure of U.S. Army
Pfc. Bradley Manning, allegedly the source of the largest volume of
classified military documents leaked by Assange.
It’s an awkward irony
that one of WikiLeaks’ first major coups was a 2007 video showing a U.S.
Apache helicopter mowing down unarmed civilians in Baghdad, released
under the title ‘‘Collateral Murder.’’
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| Equality (bradleymanning.org) |
Manning in a sense was also collateral damage.
A brilliant but lonely tech geek from Bible-Belt Oklahoma struggling
with gender-identity issues, he enlisted to get a government-funded
college education. But his homosexuality made him a target for sergeants
determined to ‘‘beat [or rape] the macho into him.’’ More
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| Hope? Nope! Obama really lets us down (CPA) |
CODE PINK put the "Great Orator," Pres. B.S. Obama, off his "script," which is what he called it, during a major address at the Nat'l Defense Univ. He was defending drones, endless warfare, offensive attacks, targeted killing of anyone unilaterally designated an "enemy" or combatant or simply a "suspect," be it an American citizen in Denver or a child in a faraway land.
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| Manning for Nobel Peace Prize 2013 |
- Ron Paul: Bradley Manning promotes more peace and deserves a Nobel Peace Prize more than Obama
- CARTOONS: A look back at WikiLeaks (usnews.com)
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