Tag: whistleblowers
LuxLeaks Whistleblowers Avoid Serving Prison Sentences
"I am deeply concerned that the conviction of these whistleblowers could have a damaging long term effect on press freedom and on transparency."
Dear Mr. Holder: Here’s Why Edward Snowden Can’t Get a Fair...
Not only did the US torture Manning, US officials have on many occasions practiced arbitrary arrest and imprisonment and torture.
LuxLeaks Whistleblowers on Trial For Revealing Tax Avoidance Schemes
Despite the fact that the LuxLeaks scandal was the largest exposure of corporate tax evasion documents prior to the Panama Papers, the government of Luxembourg does not recognize Deltour and Halet as whistleblowers, nor does it recognize Perrin’s journalistic freedom.
Whistleblowers Challenge Candidates: Stand Against Wall Street Fraud
A new organization, Bank Whistleblowers United, calls on candidates to not take contributions from financial companies that have engaged in fraud and to commit to a set of actions that will "restore the rule of law" on Wall Street.
A Nation of Snitches
"Freedom demands the destruction of the security and surveillance organs and the disempowering of the millions of informants who work for the state." Are we living in a time bomb where informants keep a populace in a state of fear?
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Why guns?
From personal power to autocracy in Donald Trump's America
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
Homer nails uncivilized, all-devouring MAGA Trump brutality – and strategic aikido to return fire
As Polyphemus falls to the aikido of seeming weaklings, Trump underestimates top experts, battling Democrats, anti-oligarchy citizens and committed activists promoting prosperity for the many, even (yikes!) sharing the wealth.