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Military Whistleblower Challenges Pentagon's Warrantless Purchase Of Internet Data

Biogen Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Massive Kickback Scheme Ends In Huge Settlement

US House Of Representatives Finally Passes Whistleblower Protection Bill With Access To Jury Trials

Censorship Is A Bedrock of Incarceration In The United States

US Labor Department Sues Texas Newspaper For Firing Reporter Who Complained About Bugs

Reality Winner Describes How US Justice Department Painted Her As a Terrorist Sympathizer

CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou On What We Learned From FBI's Mar-a-Lago Search Affidavit

Staff From US Prison Behind Instagram Page That Makes Fun Of Sexual Abuse, Says Whistleblower

Interview With National Security Journalist William Arkin: FBI Faces Political Disaster

The Spies Curating What You See On Social Media

Judge Assigned To Lawsuit Alleging CIA Spied On Assange Visitors Previously Upheld WikiLeaks' Right To Publish

CIA, Pompeo Sued For Allegedly Spying On US Attorneys And Journalists Who Met With Assange

Responses Among The Left To FBI Raid Against Trump

Justice Department Unlikely To Charge Trump With Violating The Espionage Act

If US Congress Really Wants To Protect FBI Whistleblowers

Justice Department: NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Must Wait To Apply For Pardon

Equifax Whistleblower Says He Was Fired After Exposing Fraud Related To Consumer Complaints

Roger Waters' 'This Is Not A Drill' Show Is A Revolutionary Concert Experience

Whistleblower Testimony Shows BOP Director Ignored Rampant Abuse And Corruption At Atlanta Prison

Facing Felony Trial, Joliet Police Whistleblower Who Exposed Black Man's Death Retires

Assange Fights Extradition To United States With Two Appeals

Jury Finds Former CIA Programmer Guilty Of Leaking CIA Hacking Materials To WikiLeaks

US Congresswoman Tlaib Reintroduces Amendment To Reform Espionage Act

Mexico President To Raise Assange Case In July Meeting With Biden

US Supreme Court May Take Aim At Whistleblower Protection Law

'Another Dark Day': UK Government Approves Assange's Extradition To United States

Patel Responsible For Assange's 'Slow-Motion Execution' If Extradited, Doctors Warn

In One Week, Spanish Court Summoned Pompeo And UK Admitted It Spied On WikiLeaks Attorney

Major UK Political Parties Back 'State Threats' Bill That Would Restrict Press Freedom

Amnesty International Resists Calls To Designate Assange A 'Prisoner Of Conscience' As Extradition Looms

Tearing Down The Blue Wall Of Silence

The D-Notice: A Very British Way Of Censoring The Press

Dark Day For Press Freedom: British Court Orders Assange Extradition

Canadian Tribunal Upholds Government Decision To Ban Chelsea Manning

UK Supreme Court Slams Door On Assange Appeal, Extradition May Be Authorized

Arms Flood Into Ukraine As US, NATO Pursue Proxy War Over Peace

State Secrets Ruling By US Supreme Court Helps CIA Conceal Torture At Black Site Prison

Amid Nuclear Crisis, US Officials Reluctant To Pursue Ceasefire In Russia-Ukraine War

The Inevitability Of Russia's Attack On Ukraine

Whistleblower Exposes Credit Suisse's Bankrolling of Spy Chiefs Involved In CIA Torture

British Officials Spread Russia Coup Plot Disinformation For United States

CIA Collects Americans' Data In Massive, Secret, And Extralegal Surveillance Program

UK Official Secrets Act Proposals Take Cues From US Espionage Act Cases

Uncovering CIA-Funded Experiments On Children In Europe During The Cold War

CIA Funded Experiments On Danish Orphans For Decades

British High Court Opens Door For Assange To Appeal To Supreme Court

Iowa Judge Upholds Ag-Gag Charge Brought Against Animal Rights Activist Hours Before Dismissing The Case

Biden's Lackluster And Mediocre Press Freedom Record After One Year As President

Twenty Years Of Barbarism At Guantánamo: Biden Could End It But Lacks The Political Will

For Third Year, Committee To Protect Journalists Excludes Assange From Jailed Journalist Index

Freeing Julian Assange: What It Will Take To End This Political Case

Assange Plans To Appeal High Court Decision Backing Extradition To United States

Imprisoned Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Honored By International Free Speech Group

Exclusive: Whistleblower Craig Murray Speaks Out After Being Imprisoned Over Blog Posts

Three Stories That Further Illustrate Why US Government Can't Be Trusted In Assange Case

NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Spoke At First Public Event Since Completing Prison Sentence

Against Blocking The New York Times From Publishing Project Veritas Documents

Dissenter Weekly: US Energy Department Dynamites Radioactive Site Near Los Angeles

FBI Raids Show Project Veritas Is Latest Target In War On Journalism (And It's Maddening)

Pentagon And Its Overseers Suppressed Whistleblowers Who Challenged Massacre In Syria

Dissenter Weekly: USA Today's Year-Long Investigation Into 'Blue Wall Of Silence'

US Government Urges Supreme Court To Protect 'State Secrets Privilege' In Lawsuit Against FBI Spying

Israel Slapped 'Terrorist' Label On Palestinian Human Rights Groups After They Uncovered Pegasus Spyware

Dissenter Weekly: Colorado Kept Mental Patient 'Unconstitutionally Confined'

EPA's Own Survey Shows Employees Fear Retaliation, Pressure To Alter Science

Appeal Hearing: CIA's War On Assange, Their 'Most Prominent Critic,' Takes Center Stage

Appeal Hearing: Prosecutor Attacks Judge's Decision, Which Blocked US From Extraditing Assange

A Guide To The U.S. Government's Appeal In The Assange Extradition Case

Imprisoning Drone Whistleblower In Isolation Unit May Jeopardize US Appeal In Assange Extradition Case

Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Imprisoned In Communications Management Unit Designed For Terrorists

9/11 Cinema: The Antiwar Film Audiences Were Never Supposed To See

Twenty Years In A Security State: Guantanamo Whistleblowers Who Spoke Up Against A Legal Black Hole

The Kabul Strike: Drone Whistleblowers Speak Out On How Normal It's Become To Kill Muslims

Report On CIA Plans To Kidnap Assange Shows Clearest Evidence Yet Of Improper Pressure On Prosecutors

Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo Was Reportedly Obsessed With Killing Assange

Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale In Carceral Limbo While US Generals Shirk Responsibility For Deadly Strikes

Twenty Years In A Security State: The CIA's Torture Business After 9/11

Pentagon-Backed 'Black Hawk Down' Championed Military Intervention After 9/11

When Congress Responded To 9/11 By Giving the White House A Blank Check For Endless War

Listen To The Seventh Episode Of 'Primary Sources' With John Kiriakou (Exclusive For Paid Subscribers)

How The Post-9/11 Climate Helped Turn The Satirical 'Buffalo Soldiers' Into A Flop

FBI Responded To 9/11 By Locking Up Hundreds Of Muslim Immigrants (Exclusive For Subscribers)

9/11 Cinema: 'The Siege' Foreshadowed America's Dark Transformation

Twenty Years In A Security State: After Failing To Stop 9/11 Attacks, FBI Invented Terrorists

Australian Military Whistleblower Who Faces Prosecution Shares Perspective On End To Afghanistan War

Ag-Gag Laws Suppressing Whistleblowers Experience Defeat As Iowa Expands Law To Target Video Recording

How A Drone Whistleblower In Montana Survived A Political Prosecution

The Afghanistan War And The Dissenters We Should've Listened To

British High Court Expands US Government's Appeal In Assange Extradition Case

Cuomo Retaliated Against Whistleblower Who Alleged Sexual Harassment, Attorney General Concludes

The Pursuit Of The Truth In 'Enemies Of The State'

Whistleblower Craig Murray Will Surrender Himself For Prison

Daniel Hale Receives 45-Month Sentence For Releasing Drone Documents

Obama Justice Department Officials Wouldn't Approve Charges Against Daniel Hale

Daniel Hale Pens Letter For Judge Describing How He 'Came To Violate The Espionage Act'

US Government Seeks Harshest Sentence Ever In Leak Case Against Drone Whistleblower

US 'Power Brokers' Benefited From Defending Israeli Spyware Maker

Rogue Police Force Operating In US Commerce Department Further Exposed By Whistleblowers

Reporter's Shield Law Introduced In US Congress: A Breakdown

Assange Extradition: British High Court Grants US A Limited Appeal

Judge Reduces Burden On Prosecutors In Espionage Act Case Against Drone Whistleblower

Pentagon Whistleblower Under Investigation For Trying To Prevent War With China Over Taiwan

US Supreme Court Decision Limits How Prosecutors May Use Anti-Hacking Law In Leak Cases

The US Government's Jailing Of A Drone Whistleblower

Mother Of NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Describes Her Daughter's Release From Prison

Scottish High Court Denies Whistleblower Craig Murray's Request To Appeal Conviction Over Blog Posts

The Dissenter Newsletter Re-Launches

Whistleblower Craig Murray Sentenced To 8 Months In Prison Over His Reporting On Former Scottish First Minister’s Trial

Whistleblower Craig Murray Sentenced To 8 Months In Prison Over His Reporting On Former Scottish First Minister’s Trial

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