Mar 2Member-onlyWhy The US Hasn’t Really Supported Ceasefire Talks Between Ukraine and RussiaOriginally 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…Russia7 min read
Sep 28, 2021Member-onlyPentagon-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…Film10 min read
Sep 18, 2021Member-onlyHow 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…Film7 min read
Sep 6, 2021Member-only9/11 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…Film9 min read
Sep 2, 2021Member-onlyIt’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…Democrats3 min read
Published in Dialogue & Discourse·Mar 16, 2021Member-onlyFreedom Of Information Act In Crisis: Government Transparency During The Biden EraThe 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 Trump9 min read
Published in Dialogue & Discourse·Jan 27, 2021Member-onlyThe 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. …Politics9 min read
Published in Dialogue & Discourse·Jan 11, 2021Member-onlyUS Incarceration System Was Deemed Too Cruel For Julian AssangeThe 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…Wikileaks7 min read
Oct 30, 2020Member-onlyGlenn Greenwald Didn’t Resign Because He Was No Longer Willing To Be Edited At The InterceptJournalist 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…Press9 min read
Published in Dialogue & Discourse·Sep 17, 2020Member-onlyAt Extradition Trial, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Challenged Myths About AssangeOpponents 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…News6 min read
