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Title:	Ellsberg, CIA Analyst, Army Colonel to Speak at Bradley Manning Rally & March in SF; Sat
START DATE:	Saturday September 18
TIME:	2:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location Details:
outside the San Francisco War Memorial Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue
Event Type:	Protest
Ellsberg, CIA Analyst, Army Colonel Speak for Release of Wikileaks “Whistleblower” Bradley Manning at Rally & March in San Francisco on Sat. Sept 18, 2pm outside the San Francisco War Memorial Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 17, 2010 Daniel Ellsberg, US Army Col. Ann Wright (ret.), a former US diplomat to Afghanistan, and Ray McGovern, senior CIA analyst (ret.), will be the featured speakers at a public rally on Saturday Sept. 18, 2pm, outside the San Francisco War Memorial Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue. The rally will be followed by a 3pm march to Union Square. The Rally and march are part of a nationwide series of support events for Manning in 19 US cities calling for Manning’s release and for an end to violations of US and international law in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Wikileaks website posted on April 5, 2010, a video showing a US helicopter crew killing approximately 12 Iraqi civilians including Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his driver Said Chmagh, 40. Wikileaks wrote that it had come from unspecified “military sources.” These “Collateral Murder” videos released by Wikileaks led to the arrest of Manning in May 2010, now held in Quantico, Virginia. Reuters had filed a formal request, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), in 2007 to access the video and documents that might explain the death of its media workers. FOIA requires federal government agencies to release documents to all persons requesting them unless specifically exempted by the law. Reuters received no documents. Reporters Without Borders, an international journalists association, writes of Bradley Manning, “If this young soldier had not leaked the video, we would have had no evidence of what was clearly a serious abuse on the part of the US military.” The Iraq war over the last seven years has seen the heaviest death toll for journalists in a war since World War II; 230 murders of journalists and media workers since the US-led invasion in 2003. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 16 journalists and three media support workers have been killed by U.S. forces’ fire in Iraq, and another three media workers were killed by fire from the U.S. security contractor Blackwater Worldwide. Ann Wright, a Colonel, US Army Reserves (Retired) and US Diplomat who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the War on Iraq, says, "Manning should be supported for choosing to do the right thing. Bradley Manning is a patriot of our democracy, who stayed loyal to what is right, risking his own security." Daniel Ellsberg, the whistle blower who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press in 1970 helping to end the Vietnam War, says of alleged whistle blower Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, “Soldiers sworn oath is to defend and support the Constitution. Bradley Manning has been defending and supporting our Constitution."  ### http://ActforCimateJustice.org/west Added to the calendar on Friday Sep 17th, 2010 5:59 PM

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§The Ruse of Whistleblowing to Justify Axioms of Imperial Mobilization By Zahir Ebrahim

by Project Humanbeingsfirst.org

( humanbeingsfirst.org ) Friday Sep 17th, 2010 10:16 PM

The core-lies retained in the recent Wikileaks' disclosure – which I call 'the Afghanistan Papers' – is to once again reaffirm that there is a real nemesis called “Osama Bin Laden”, that the “war on terror” is real, that it is being inflicted upon the West from Pakistan-Iran nexus, and to re-substantiate the handoff of former President George W. Bush's clairvoyance to the Obama Administration that “If another September 11 style attack is being planned, it probably is being plotted in Pakistan, and not Afghanistan”! That, when such a “planned” attack transpires, it “will make Sept. 11 pale by comparison”. See: ‘Bin Laden’: Key enabler of “imperial mobilization” and nuclear attack on Iran-Pakistan.

The successful handoff of “imperial mobilization” to Pakistan and Iran, now further sprightly underscored by Wikileaks' documents, is once again demonstrated by President Obama's Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's recent remark to the BBC: “But there is no doubt in anyone's mind that should an attack against the United States be traced to be Pakistani, it would (have) a very devastating impact on our relationship”.

So, could these self-serving ‘Afghanistan Papers’ have been any more convenient as a casus belli, carrying forth the same core-lies now entering its tenth year? If Wikileaks’ dramatization grabbing all the world’s headlines isn’t an officially sponsored 'modified limited hangout' for exactly that purpose of reinforcing the core-lies, then the White House not even bothering to stop the New York Times – whose own motto is ‘All the news that’s fit to print’ – from publishing it, even giving it “all got gold stars” as the Salon put it, is downright inexplicable: “So, uh … why was all of this information classified and top secret? If it’s old news, and it just confirms what “everyone” already knows, what was the rationale for keeping it classified and calling WikiLeaks all sorts of mean names for publishing it?”

The profoundly innocent of knowledge, especially the manufacturers of specious dissent endorsing the revelation of the 'Afghanistan Papers' as anything other than a 'Limited Hangout', may try to comprehend the wily craftsmanship of the Mighty Wurlitzer by studying this deconstruction of Conspiracy Theory.

Perhaps those attending can ask Ellsberg et. al. about this!

Thank you.

See source details for 'Wikileaks and the Mighty Wurlitzer' at URL: http://bloghumanbeingsfirst.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/wikileaks-and-the-mighty-wurlitzer-by-zahir-ebrahim/

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