How Bradley Manning Could Have Prevented the Deepwater Horizon Explosion
via @BMqueerfriends & @Greg_Palast
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So, when its Caspian Sea rig blew out in 2008, rather than change its ways, BP simply covered it up.
Our investigators discovered that the company hid the information from its own shareholders, from British regulators and from the US Securities Exchange Commission. The Vice-President of BP USA, David Rainey, withheld the information from the US Senate in a testimony he gave six months before the Gulf deaths. (Rainey was later charged with obstruction of justice on a spill-related matter.)
Channel 4 agreed to send me to the benighted nation of Azerbaijan, whose waters the earlier BP blow-out occurred in, to locate witnesses who would be willing to talk to me without getting “disappeared”. (They didn’t talk, but they still disappeared.)
And I was arrested. Some rat had tipped off the Security Ministry (the official name of the Department of Torture here in this Islamic Republic of BP). I knew I’d get out quick, because throwing a reporter of Her Majesty’s Empire into a dungeon would embarrass both BP and the Azeri oil-o-crats.
The gendarmes demanded our film, but I wasn’t overly concerned: Before I left London, Badpenny handed me one of those Austin Powers camera-in-pens, on which I’d loaded all I needed. But I did fear for my witnesses left behind in Azerbaijan – and for my source in a tiger cage in the USA: Pvt Bradley Manning.
Only after I dove into deep water in Baku did I discover, trolling through the so-called “WikiLeaks” documents, secret State Department cables released by Manning. The information was stunning: the US State Department knew about the BP blow-out in the Caspian and joined in the cover-up.
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How Bradley Manning Could Have Prevented the Deepwater Horizon Explosion | VICE United Kingdom
Manning Leaked Testimony: US Army a ‘child torturing ants with magnifying glass’ (by RussiaToday)
(via cultureofresistance)
Referring to Bradley as Breanna Manning
June 27, 2012As The People’s Record continues to cover whistleblower news relating to Wikileaks and Breanna Manning, many readers have had questions about us referring to Pfc. Manning as “Breanna.”
Breanna Manning, also known as Bradley, was arrested in May 2010 in Kuwait for releasing thousands of classified cables to Wikileaks. However, once the Army intelligence analyst was arrested, her greatest fears weren’t a life sentence or years in solitary confinement.
In June 2010, conversations between Manning and former hacker Adrian Lamo were released to the public and offered insight into the whistleblower’s involvement with Wikileaks.
She also confided in Lamo that she was having gender identity issues and feared being publicized as a man.
“I wouldn’t mind going to prison for the rest of my life, or being executed so much, if it wasn’t for the possibility of having pictures of me… plastered all over the world press… as boy…” (Source)
A few days after Manning had confided in Lamo, she was arrested in Kuwait after Lamo informed the FBI and the Army about the leaked cables.
Manning has been held in conditions classified by Amnesty International as “inhumane,” including 23 hours in solitary confinement each day, daily strip searches and deprivation of pillows, sheets and often times clothing and her glasses. Manning has lived in these conditions since July 2010 for exposing war crimes, corruption, civilian murders and human rights violations, but has not been convicted of any crime. She is currently being charged with “transferring classified data” and “delivering national defense information to an unauthorized source.”
Perhaps widely acknowledging Manning’s transgender identity would have exposed her to more violence and an even more unfair trial. But The People’s Record feels it is vital to cover news surrounding the trial in the way in which she identifies – as a transgender woman. For clarification, we will always mention that Breanna is more widely known as Bradley, but in order to justly and accurately portray the struggle for truth, we will continue to recognize her transgender identity.
Breanna Manning currently faces a potential life sentence for her heroism in bringing justice to victims of war and exploitation all over the world.
- G. Razo
#BradleyManning #SFPride 2012 Contingent #freebrad #savebradley
A hundred friends marched for accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Army PFC Bradley Manning on June 24, 2012, as an official contingent of the San Francisco Pride Parade. Contingent sponsored by Courage to Resist and the Bradley Manning Support Network, and endorsed by a dozen local community groups. Video by Jeff Paterson.
(by SaveBradley)
Bradley Manning Trial Update #freebrad #opmanning
Updates on the trial of Private Bradley Manning for allegedly leaking classified documents to the Julian Assange founded Wikileaks are provided by Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks.
(by TheYoungTurks)
Military judge refuses to drop key charge against #BradleyManning | #freebrad
April 27, 2012
A US military judge ruled Thursday that suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning can be tried for “aiding the enemy” after allegedly leaking documents to the site. The 24-year-old could be jailed for life if convicted of “aiding the enemy,” one of 22 criminal charges that judge Colonel Denise Lind let stand at pre-trial hearings this week at Fort Meade, in Maryland.
I am Slim Amamou, and Bradley Manning saved my life.
With the leaks he provided, he participated in the Tunisian revolution. And if it were not for the Tunisian revolution I would probably be dead or in jail now. At that time, I was in jail and I was saved by the fact that Ben Ali, the president of the bad regime, fled the country.
Thank you for the link @CyranoNymous
