A victory for world peace enabled by a warring president
Tears flowed freely down my face as I told my partner that Chelsea’s imprisonment is commuted.
Contradictions galore! The jingoist nation’s most warring president just committed the one decent thing in his eight years of war-making against seven nations, conjuring up false enemies with competing capitalist states Russia and China, and harsh treatment against all the whistle-blowers during his contentious term.
During the US’s worst president’s first term, Chelsea Manning sent Wikileaks important secrets—secrets the world had every right to know—about how the US murdered and lied its way across Afghanistan and Iraq. Since then, Wikileaks’ initiator Julian Assange has been vilified and basically interned by the Obama regime, and its cohort governments in the UK and Sweden. Nevertheless, Assange-Wikileaks and Manning continue to inspire more Establishment workers to come over to the people’s corner, Edward Snowden among them.
We don’t know if the brave offer Assange made to US warriors—that he would turn himself over to their court system if Obama commuted or pardoned Manning—was a motivation for Obama’s action. But hundreds of Manning solidarity committees and civil liberties organizations have hammered away at the White House and the impervious Pentagon to release the heroine.
Chelsea’s photo looks at me as I write. Her…