Just out: My official letter to #USGovt of 1 Nov 2019 explaining why continued detention of @xychelsea is not a lawful sanction but an open-ended, progressively severe coercive measure amounting to torture & should be discontinued & abolished wit
U.S. actions are a nightmare. Imprisoning Chelsea because she refuses to testify against Julian (who they have incarcerated and are torturing in the UK's Guantanamo like prison). Truth tellers must be stopped! Venezuela's U.S. puppet and pretend president must deliver all of that oil to our corporations and those of our vassal states. We ignore international law, yet again, and raid their embassy in DC. Israel and Saudi Arabia push us into a war with Iran....a guaranteed disaster in waiting. More children murdered this week in Yemen with U.S. assistance and bombs. More Palestinians murdered by Israelis as they protest their open air prison. We are a shameful nation bent on death and destruction for the profit of those who have more than they can possibly use. Killing one another isn't enough...the entire ecosystem is at risk to satiate our oil (and profit) addiction. It is a nightmare.
And yet, people still dream of a better future... and create new systems... and build new structures in harmony with the biosphere. People dream of a more equitable society and are discussing what a positive future might look like. Young people continue to pressure the politicians and elite to move toward a green future. Can they create a dream within the nightmares?
Gather round fellows I`ll tell you some tales about murder and blueberry pies
And heroes and hells and bottomless wells and lullabys legends and lies
And gather round ladies come sit at my feet I`ll sing about warm sunny skies
There`s mermaids and beans and lovin` machines in my lullabys legends and lies
Lullabys legends and lies and lies lullabys legends and lies
I`ll sing you a song then I`ll shuffle along with my lullabys legends and lies
It had to happen eventually.
Chelsea Manning is scheduled to be released from the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth on Wednesday.
Pvt. Manning will remain on unpaid active duty pending her final appellate review. As such, she will continue to receive health care and have access to commissaries and military exchanges.
May I suggest to Pres. DT that, with the upcoming of release of Chelsea Manning from federal prison, courtesy of Pres. Obama, that Pres. DT continue and enhance this new and positive direction for honest and ethics in government by forming a new Dept.
I can honestly say that I didn't see this one coming.
The government's treatment of whistleblowers is a greater crime than the thing for which they are jailed. #Manning https://t.co/8czTE0rlEf
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) July 6, 2016
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