{"id":399619,"date":"2019-03-15T13:33:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T12:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/blowing-the-whistle-in-1943\/"},"modified":"2019-03-15T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T12:33:09","slug":"blowing-the-whistle-in-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/blowing-the-whistle-in-1943\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowing the Whistle in 1943"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-body-1345381743119477066\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/4akh5-aacd6c?from=site&amp;vjs=1&amp;skin=1&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;auto=0&amp;download=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Being a writer of weekly columns and topical songs, these things are supposed to be at least somewhat temporary in nature. But whether it\u2019s a podcast from last summer or a song I wrote a decade ago, change one or two words and it could have been written yesterday. To mention a few subjects I have addressed in recent months that refuse to fade into recent history: <a href=\"https:\/\/drovics.podbean.com\/e\/child-separations\/\">child separations<\/a> at the border are once again in the news for a number of reasons, including corruption charges against the biggest for-profit child detention facility in the US; politicians and pundits continue to find supposedly new reasons to refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/drovics.podbean.com\/e\/the-corbyn-factor\/\">Jeremy Corbyn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/drovics.podbean.com\/e\/the-bombs-smokescreens-and-fig-leaves-of-progressive-zionism\/\">Ilhan Omar<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/drovics.podbean.com\/e\/1848-and-the-yellow-vests\/\">Gilets Jaune<\/a> as anti-Semitic, despite all the accusations being self-evidently baseless; there has been yet <a href=\"https:\/\/drovics.podbean.com\/e\/land-day-every-day\/\">another massacre in Gaza<\/a> carried out by Israeli snipers, who are now as of this week being charged by the UN for war crimes; there has been a further dramatic escalation in the far right\u2019s efforts to overthrow the democratically-elected government of <a href=\"https:\/\/drovics.podbean.com\/e\/the-venezuela-deception\/\">Venezuela<\/a>; the <a href=\"https:\/\/drovics.podbean.com\/e\/the-war-on-refugees\/\">War on Refugees<\/a> continues in the form of the 2020 Wall Budget Debate; and <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/davidrovics\/song-for-chelsea-manning\">Chelsea Manning<\/a> is back in jail, this time for refusing to testify to what is known as a grand jury.<\/p>\n<p>To refresh our memories, what Private Manning was originally imprisoned for blowing the whistle on were things like the <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/davidrovics\/after-we-torture-our-prisoners\">US use of torture<\/a> and the commission of other war crimes such as a massacre of journalists and children by <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/davidrovics\/if-i-had-a-hammer\">helicopter gunship<\/a>. For exposing war crimes, Chelsea was not&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/03\/blowing-the-whistle-in-1943\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a writer of weekly columns and topical songs, these things are supposed to be at least somewhat temporary in nature. But whether it\u2019s a podcast from last summer or a song I wrote a decade ago, change one or two words and it could have been written yesterday. To mention a few subjects I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399619","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\/399619","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}