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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Sunday, September 1, 2013
Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden: American Heroes
( August 31, 2013, Washington DC, Sri Lanka Guardian) From
the beginning, US foreign policy has been predicated on conquest and
whatever levels of violence were required to achieve it. Beneath the
rhetoric of freedom lies a horrifying legacy of invasions, coups, proxy
wars and support for a rogue’s gallery of despots. With all of that,
however, the violence and lawlessness of the Bush-Obama years is of a
scale few if any of us have ever seen.
It is in this context that the state has come down so heavily on Bradley
Manning and is determined to do the same to Edward Snowden. With the
ruling class here essentially at war with the world, including with the
American people, anyone who exposes the workings of empire as Manning
and Snowden have is deemed a traitor. Such revelations cannot be
tolerated, after all, because the emperors must be free first and
foremost to do as they like.