{"id":145520,"date":"2015-04-06T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T15:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=145520"},"modified":"2015-04-06T15:03:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T15:03:02","slug":"chelsea-manning-and-the-call-of-americas-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chelsea-manning-and-the-call-of-americas-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Manning and the Call of America\u2019s Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 5<sup>th <\/sup>marked the five year anniversary of WikiLeaks publication of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2013\/03\/07\/bradley-manning-conscience-america\">Collateral Murder<\/a> Video. The footage of a secret US military video depicted an Apache helicopter killing Iraqi civilians, including two Reuters journalists. It provided an uncensored view of modern war for the world to see. The light that shone in the darkness was the conscience of a young woman. Chelsea Manning (formally Bradley Manning) is now serving 35 years behind bars for her great public service.<\/p>\n<p>After witnessing Manning confess to her role as WikiLeaks whistleblower at the court-martial proceeding in Fort Meade, Maryland, attorney and President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2013\/03\/07\/bradley-manning-conscience-america\">said<\/a> that locking her up \u201cfor even a day is to lock up the conscience of our nation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Manning\u2019s disclosure of secret government documents exposed <a href=\"https:\/\/wardiaries.wikileaks.org\/\">America\u2019s illegal wars<\/a> in Afghanistan and Iraq. <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/WikiLeaks-and-the-Guantanamo.html\">The Guantanamo Files<\/a> revealed the state of America\u2019s offshore gulags and violations of universal human rights according to the Geneva Convention. The <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/cablegate.html\">secret US embassy cables<\/a> let us see corrupted diplomacy serving corporate global hegemony through coercion and manipulation. Manning\u2019s conscience shed light on the real actions of the US government behind a fa\u00c3\u00a7ade of democracy. Yet, the ugly face of empire was not the only thing she showed us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2015\/04\/06\/chelsea-manning-and-the-call-of-americas-conscience\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 5th marked the five year anniversary of WikiLeaks publication of theCollateral Murder Video. The footage of a secret US military video depicted an Apache helicopter killing Iraqi civilians, including two Reuters journalists. It provided an uncensored view of modern war for the world to see. The light that shone in the darkness was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}