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Tampa activist receives thank-you letter from Bradley Manning; direct action planned at MacDill AFB listen
05/08/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, media, Julian Assange, MacDill Air Force Base, direct action, civil disobedience, CENTCOM, Iraq, Afghanistan
In Tampa supporters of Private Bradley Manning are planning direct action outside MacDill Air Force base on June 1. MacDill is the home of U.S. Central Command. It’s part of a nationwide coordinated day of action and is being organized locally by the Tampa Bay Bradley Manning Support Network.
From his prison cell, Manning recently thanked an active member o...
1 commentsWikiLeaks releases searchable database of mid-70s diplomatic files listen
04/08/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, media, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Julian Assange, Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger
More than 1.7 million diplomatic documents are now online in a searchable database thanks to the document-leaking website WikiLeaks. They have merged those declassified U.S. state department documents from the mid 1970s with a quarter of a million previously leaked diplomatic cables known as Cablegate.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced the release by video conference from inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London this morning.
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Listen to full audio of Bradley Manning's court statement
03/12/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, media, Freedom of the Press Foundation
The Freedom of the Press Foundation has released a leaked audio recording of the entire statement made by Pfc. Bradley Manning.
Manning talks about why he leaked documents, including what Wikileaks calls the "Collateral Murder" video of journalists being killed in Iraq by the U.S. military.
Here's a link to the text of [Bradley Manning's full statement, trans...
Be the first to commentMessage to St. Pete motorists: Free Bradley Manning listen
02/25/13 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bradley Manning, Overpass Light Brigade, Tampa Light Brigade, activism, WikiLeaks
If you were driving south on I-275 Saturday night in St. Petersburg, you may have passed by a pedestrian overpass with this message in lights: "Free Bradley Manning."
Events were planned Saturday on at least five continents to mark the 1,000th day Manning had been in detention, charged with leaking tens of thousands of g...
Be the first to commentWikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning being moved out of Quantico listen
04/20/11 wire reports including APWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bradley Manning, torture, WikiLeaks, State Department, Barack Obama, PJ Crowley
Bradley Manning is being moved to a new prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. The Army private is suspected of giving classified data to WikiLeaks. Pentagon general counsel Jay Johnson says more extensive mental, emotional and physical health care will be available for Manning.
Be the first to comment"This facility is appropriate to meet Private Manning's health and welfare needs. Given the possibility that he will remain in pre-trial confinement for an additional time, we have the sense that this is in Private...
Obama won't say if he disagrees with P.J. Crowley that Bradley Manning's abuse is "counterproductive and stupid" listen
03/11/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Bradley Manning, torture, WikiLeaks, State Department, Barack Obama
Bradley Manning is accused of leaking a trove of diplomatic and war documents to WikiLeaks. He is being detained at a military brig in Quantico, Virginia. His attorney says his clothes are confiscated nightly and he is kept in solitary confinement 23-hours a day. Glenn Greenwald and others have decried the abuse of Manning.
U.S. State Department Spokesperson P.J. Crowley t...
1 commentsMortin Halperin describes Pentagon Papers, not WikiLeaks, as “courageous act” listen
02/11/11 Zack BaddorfWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: WikiLeaks, Sarasota, Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers, war, war crimes
WikiLeaks has made waves around the world with the release of tens of thousands of classified State Department and Defense Department documents. About 20 Tampa Bay Area residents came to Sarasota Monday night to hear from Mortin Halperin, a Senior Advisor to George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, about his analysis on the release of the secret information.
Mortin Halperin was responsible for the writing of the so-called Pentagon Papers, a study of the American political and military invol...
Be the first to commentAustrian Ambassador addresses WikiLeaks listen
02/09/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, Christian Prosl, Austrian Ambassador, University of Tampa
The Austrian Ambassador to the United States spoke yesterday at the University of Tampa about the effects WikiLeaks has on national governments. The ambassador’s primary concern was for the well being and safety of individuals mentioned in leaks.
Ambassador Christian Prosl from Austria put the diplomat back into diplomacy yesterday during his lecture to a crowd of mostly University of Tampa students. Prosl kept his thoughts on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks to a minimum, but said it’s no...
Be the first to commentEx-NSC staffer Morton Halperin criticizes Obama administration for being too timid on Egypt
02/03/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Morton Halperin, Wikileaks, Egypt, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Our guest today is Morton Halperin who will be speaking this coming Monday in Sarasota as part of Forum Truth.
He served in the Johnson, Nixon and Clinton administrations in a number of roles. Perhaps, most famously, during the Nixon administration he was a staff person on the National Security Council appointed by Henry Kissinger. When the New York Times reported in 1969 that the US was secretly bombing...
Be the first to commentGazans differ on reaction to Al Jazeera's Palestine Papers listen
02/03/11 Pam BaileyWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Palestine, Al Jazeera, media, WikiLeaks, Gaza
While uprisings rage in Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen, the release of what is called the “Palestine Papers” by the Al-Jazeera news channel continues to cause an uproar of its own among Palestinians.
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