right david swanson author and peace activist thank you very much indeed playing site thank you. mining has admitted to being one awaking makes his sources but pleaded not guilty to violating the aspen are shocked the world wide protests were a stage in support of him with people saying the u.s. government is clamping down on the freedom of speech using the twenty five year old to set a freshening example to other potential whistleblowers oh he's marina pardon i how small. the military court martial against private first class bradley manning begins at a complicated time for the obama administration u.s. journalists have been spied on an unprecedented number of whistleblowers have been in prison and access to the truth many say grows increasingly harder by the day we have a severe problem with transparency and secrecy in this country that's for sure our problem is a cult of secrecy extreme levels of dystopian secrecy washington classified ninety two million documents in the year two thousand and eleven that's the last count we have to put things in perspective what bradley mannin

evidence that osama bin ladin not only accessed we can leaks information but benefited from it but david swanson a peace activist he says and there's no evidence bradley manning's leaks actually harmed any point this is an unprecedented legal case being brought by the government arguing that making secrets public through the media in dangers the united states people by aiding the enemy that is if you make something public any whistleblower any media outlet any were reporter or journalist because some enemy can get ahold of public information you have aided the enemy and they will they will bring evidence that osama bin laden had in his possession information that came out through bradley manning's leak they will not as far as anyone knows present any evidence that any harm resulted from this to any civilian or soldier he in stark contrast to the harm being brought upon so many civilians and soldiers by the u.s. government's actions that this pushback against bradley manning helped end the occupation of iraq which was a great harm to the u.s. people as well as to the people of iraq i think that h

author and activist david swanson says this massive disposal of afghanistan will not even raise and in washington. that's that you know small coin in terms of the corruption of the u.s. military which is just beyond measure remember while they're destroying seven billion dollars worth of vehicles and so forth the united states congress has just dumped another over eighty billion dollars into the ongoing occupation of afghanistan for the next year virtually the same amount as last year and as we talk about it winding down and dean and rushing to a close we're talking about at least another year and a half which is longer than most wars in world history of taken from beginning to end and this one's been go on for over twelve years still terry budget in the bill just passed by congress is increasing from last year and increased seen in violation of the famous sequester limitation that has been used to eliminate money for food and health and housing and all things good and decent in the united states military budget seems immune it just continues to climb and of course it is easier to buy