Legislation making its way through the US Congress will grant immunity to government employees who leak information about “unidentified aerial phenomena” – commonly known as UFOs – seeking to create a formal process for such disclosures. Introduced earlier this month by Representative Mike Gallagher (R-Wisconsin), an amendment to the 2023 …
Read More »What price truth? How America’s whistleblowers fared in 2021
WikiLeaks founder, award-winning journalist, and Australian citizen Julian Assange has been an inmate of London’s high-security Belmarsh prison since April 2019. He embarrassed the American Empire and, as a result, is facing extradition to the US and prosecution in a kangaroo court under the terms of the Espionage Act. Assange …
Read More »Tara Reade: The shaming of sexual assault whistleblowers has to stop
When Amy Franck decided to become a whistleblower on sexual assault and sexual harassment in the United States military, she realized that it meant possibly losing her career due to the retaliation that regularly faces those who challenge and expose a broken system. However, as a survivor herself, Franck was …
Read More »Isn’t it odd that ‘whistleblowers’ keep popping up just after Facebook announced it wanted to ‘reduce the presence of politics’?
Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, who claims she was fired after highlighting the tech giant’s failure to tackle election interference across the globe, has just given evidence to the Draft Online Safety Bill Committee in the UK’s Parliament. Upon leaving Facebook in September 2020, she wrote “I’ve … found …
Read More »Hypocrisy at its finest: Facebook whistleblowers are feted, while Julian Assange is jailed
All whistleblowers are equal, but some are more equal than others. Or, we could more specifically say, whistleblowers whose revelations aid ruling-class agendas are put in front of Congress and handed the mic, while those whose revelations expose ruling-class agendas are persecuted and end up in maximum-security jails. This week …
Read More »‘Drug dealers’ or whistleblowers? Report that Trump may pardon Silk Road founder Ulbricht sparks debate over who deserves clemency
The White House counsel’s office is reviewing Ulbricht’s case, and the US president has privately expressed sympathy for the felon, the Daily Beast said, citing several sources familiar with the matter. In 2015 Ulbricht received a life sentence without the possibility of parole after being accused of computer fraud, money …
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