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Mar 2, 2022

Why The US Hasn’t Really Supported Ceasefire Talks Between Ukraine and Russia

Originally published as part of the Dissenter Newsletter The world is in a nuclear crisis, and instead of strongly supporting ceasefire talks to end the Russia-Ukraine war, Western countries are pouring gasoline on the fire. On February 24, delegations from Ukraine and Russia met on the Ukraine-Belarus border near the…

Russia

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Why The US Hasn’t Really Supported Ceasefire Talks Between Ukraine and Russia
Why The US Hasn’t Really Supported Ceasefire Talks Between Ukraine and Russia
Russia

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Sep 28, 2021

Pentagon-Backed ‘Black Hawk Down’ Championed Military Intervention After 9/11

[Editor’s Note: This is the third in The Dissenter’s weekly series on 9/11 and its impact on cinema, which will be published as a companion to our series, “Twenty Years In A Security State.”] During the 2004 presidential campaign, Vice President Dick Cheney defended President George W. Bush’s response to…

Film

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Pentagon-Backed ‘Black Hawk Down’ Championed Military Intervention After 9/11
Pentagon-Backed ‘Black Hawk Down’ Championed Military Intervention After 9/11
Film

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Sep 18, 2021

How The Post-9/11 Climate Helped Turn The Satirical ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ Into A Flop

[Editor’s Note: This is the second in The Dissenter’s weekly series on 9/11 and its impact on cinema, which will be published as a companion to our series, “Twenty Years In A Security State.”] “After September 11, 2001, as American soldiers went into battle in Afghanistan and then Iraq, it…

Film

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How The Post-9/11 Climate Helped Turn The Satirical ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ Into A Flop
How The Post-9/11 Climate Helped Turn The Satirical ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ Into A Flop
Film

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Sep 6, 2021

9/11 Cinema: ‘The Siege’ Foreshadowed America’s Dark Transformation

[Editor’s Note: This is the first in The Dissenter’s weekly series on 9/11 and its impact on cinema, which will be published as a companion to our series, “Twenty Years In A Security State.”] Yunis Shokuri, who was a Guantanamo Bay prisoner for over 13 years, once recalled the plot…

Film

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9/11 Cinema: ‘The Siege’ Foreshadowed America’s Dark Transformation
9/11 Cinema: ‘The Siege’ Foreshadowed America’s Dark Transformation
Film

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Sep 2, 2021

It’s Happening Again. Something Awful Is Being Blamed On The 2016 Election.

You are reading this because once again a group of Democrats in the political and media establishment are blaming prominent people and their advocacy during the 2016 presidential election for a horrible development. It does not matter that these individuals had nothing to do with what is upsetting the population…

Democrats

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It’s Happening Again. Something Awful Is Being Blamed On The 2016 Election.
It’s Happening Again. Something Awful Is Being Blamed On The 2016 Election.
Democrats

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Published in Dialogue & Discourse

·Mar 16, 2021

Freedom Of Information Act In Crisis: Government Transparency During The Biden Era

The United States Supreme Court ruled on March 4 that federal government agencies may invoke the “deliberative process privilege” to conceal documents from release under the Freedom of Information Act. It was widely viewed as a setback for government transparency. Sierra Club sued the Fish and Wildlife Service for “biological…

Donald Trump

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Freedom Of Information Act In Crisis: Government Transparency During The Biden Era
Freedom Of Information Act In Crisis: Government Transparency During The Biden Era
Donald Trump

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Published in Dialogue & Discourse

·Jan 27, 2021

The American Exceptionalism Of Secretary Of State Antony Blinken

“American leadership still matters. The reality is the world simply does not organize itself,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken proclaimed at his confirmation hearing. “When we are not engaged, when we are not leading, then one of two things is likely to happen. …

Politics

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The American Exceptionalism Of Secretary Of State Antony Blinken
The American Exceptionalism Of Secretary Of State Antony Blinken
Politics

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Published in Dialogue & Discourse

·Jan 11, 2021

US Incarceration System Was Deemed Too Cruel For Julian Assange

The mass incarceration system in the United States is cruel and inhumane, and as a result, the U.S. government had their extradition request against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denied by a British district judge. As Judge Vanessa Baraitser declared [PDF], “The detention conditions in which Mr. Assange is likely to…

Wikileaks

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US Incarceration System Was Deemed Too Cruel For Julian Assange
US Incarceration System Was Deemed Too Cruel For Julian Assange
Wikileaks

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Oct 30, 2020

Glenn Greenwald Didn’t Resign Because He Was No Longer Willing To Be Edited At The Intercept

Journalist Glenn Greenwald, a co-founder of The Intercept, accused editors at the media organization of censorship and resigned. It involved a story he drafted on Joe Biden and allegations of corruption stemming from his son’s laptop that was purportedly given to the New York Post. He shared a piece about…

Press

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Glenn Greenwald Didn’t Resign Because He Was No Longer Willing To Be Edited At The Intercept
Glenn Greenwald Didn’t Resign Because He Was No Longer Willing To Be Edited At The Intercept
Press

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Published in Dialogue & Discourse

·Sep 17, 2020

At Extradition Trial, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Challenged Myths About Assange

Opponents of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange often hold up Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg as an example of someone who was responsible for a good leak. They insist WikiLeaks is not like the Pentagon Papers because supposedly Assange was reckless with sensitive documents. On the seventh day of an extradition…

News

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At Extradition Trial, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Challenged Myths About Assange
At Extradition Trial, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Challenged Myths About Assange
News

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Journalist. Writes about politics. Managing editor of Shadowproof.com. Twitter: @kgosztola

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