Obama's Justice Department has brought more than twice as many prosecutions for the crime of leaking confidential information to journalists as the combined total of all presidents back to Woodrow Wilson. Whether you agree with Obama's track record of such prosecutions, you'd have to admit that treating Petraeus differently would be indefensible hypocrisy and elitism. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Hopefully today's name change, so meaningful to me personally, can also raise awareness of the fact that we trans* people exist everywhere in America today, and that we must jump through hurdles every day just for being who we are. <\/p>\n
Chelsea Manning <\/p>\n
Former U.S. Army intelligence analyst, military whistleblower and democracy advocate <\/p>\n
The amorphous nature of wars since at least the dawn of the Cold War in the mid-1940s has meant that the U.S. has more or less been at war for generations. This, in turn, has precipitated the ever-burgeoning war-industrial-intelligence complex. <\/p>\n
\"Listen, all these kids here with a piece, I'd written a line in a song on my last record about \"Kids with Uzis, ice suckers, Death is a always thing.\" You can't get away from that mess. Whatever the kids got, the adults put them in their hands. They don't know what the hell they're doing, the kids.\" <\/p>\n
I have tended to see whistleblowers as courageous individuals performing an often useful function, but also as slightly crazy vigilantes who were participating in that conspiracy against confidentiality, and thus against privacy. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Our state of affairs goes against a pinnacle of American justice, equality before law, facilitating everything from war crimes, to torture, to domestic spying, to a predatory, ravenous Wall Street that feeds on the middle class with impunity. <\/p>\n
My fellow Americans: I deliver this address at a time of great distress in our nation. Never before have we faced challenges of such severity as we d... <\/p>\n
C. Robert Gibson <\/p>\n
Independent journalist published in Guardian, the Washington Post, Al Jazeera America, NPR, and other publications <\/p>\n
It is one year since the death of 26-year-old Aaron Swartz, the renowned computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist. People all around the world are remembering Swartz <\/p>\n
Ruair McKiernan <\/p>\n
Social innovator, campaigner, and presidential appointee to Irelands Council of State <\/p>\n
Snowden, in a larger sense, in a good way, doesn't matter as a person. What matters is what he has revealed to us about a national security state that has clearly gone quite insane, violating our liberty and our freedom to live without unwarranted search and seizure of our private lives. <\/p>\n
Peter Van Buren <\/p>\n
Author of \"Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99Percent\" and \"We Meant Well\" <\/p>\n
This week's Real Talk With Rob Smith takes on homophobia in hip-hop, Russia, and Chelsea Manning. ... <\/p>\n
Rob Smith <\/p>\n
Iraq war veteran, author, public speaker and LGBT activist <\/p>\n
Miley Cyrus! Okay, now that I have your attention, we can talk. What happened to the dream, the democratic experiment, that was the United States of A... <\/p>\n
\"Music, absolutely, without question, put me in a direction that you can say saved my life, although to me, my life was already safe.\" <\/p>\n
On the day HuffPost Hawaii launched, I had the chance to sit down briefly -- nine minutes, to be exact -- with Honolulu Civil Beat publisher and CEO P... <\/p>\n
Jon Letman <\/p>\n
Independent journalist living in Kauai, HI <\/p>\n
Should the army pay for Bradley (aka Chelsea) Manning's sex reassignment surgery? If he'd been acquitted, the responsibility for any operations would ... <\/p>\n
The original concept of a hero, at least to the ancient Greeks, was that of a demi-god, the child of a god and a mortal, in other words a human with god-like characteristics of bravery and self-sacrifice. <\/p>\n
Lyric Hughes Hale <\/p>\n
Editor of Econvue, a forum for independent voices and expert opinions on the global economy <\/p>\n
When most of the media refused to recognize Pfc. Manning as a woman, there was an outpouring of criticism of that action. Subsequently, both the Associated Press and The New York Times decided to violate their previous editorial policies. Here's the problem. <\/p>\n
Dana Beyer <\/p>\n
Executive Director, Gender Rights Maryland <\/p>\n
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