Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Bradley Manning prosecution to call full witness list despite guilty plea

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Bradley Manning prosecution to call full witness list despite guilty plea

Click here to access article by Ed Pilkington from The Guardian.

The article provides the latest update on the trial of Bradley Manning who may have been instrumental in exposing US war crimes. It appears that the government's prosecution team is going all out to convict him of "aiding the enemy".

It will be the sixth time the Espionage Act has been unleashed against the source of an official leak of classified information under the Obama administration - more than the total number of times it has been deployed under all previous presidents since it was enacted in 1917.