https://opmanning.wordpress.com “If a fellow soldier is punished for taking their oath to defend the Constitution seriously, what does that mean for our military and for our democracy?” Fri, 13 Feb 2015 22:33:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ 24352874 https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/681a75abbad451e59214efc229e69447b605408e10d053ad980497a7545f3f23?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fs0.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png https://opmanning.wordpress.com https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2015/02/13/transitioning-whistleblower-chelsea-manning-gets-hormone-replacement-therapy/ https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2015/02/13/transitioning-whistleblower-chelsea-manning-gets-hormone-replacement-therapy/#respond Fri, 13 Feb 2015 22:33:15 +0000 http://opmanning.wordpress.com/2015/02/13/transitioning-whistleblower-chelsea-manning-gets-hormone-replacement-therapy/ Challenging the Rhetoric:
IMAGE SOURCE: patriotaction.net by Cheri Roberts, Challenging the Rhetoric, The Guerilla Media Network In a long fought battle, imprisoned 26-year-old former military intelligence analyst turned Whistleblower, Chelsea Manning*, has been granted her request for hormone therapy by Col. Erica Nelson, commandant of the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Last September, Manning, who suffers…]]> https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2015/02/13/transitioning-whistleblower-chelsea-manning-gets-hormone-replacement-therapy/feed/ 0 4873 Featured Image -- 4873 opmanning https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/barrett-brown-why-his-sentencing-hearing-was-sabotaged-his-case-should-now-be-thrown-out/ https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/barrett-brown-why-his-sentencing-hearing-was-sabotaged-his-case-should-now-be-thrown-out/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2014 19:38:01 +0000 http://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/barrett-brown-why-his-sentencing-hearing-was-sabotaged-his-case-should-now-be-thrown-out/ UndercoverInfo:
On Tuesday the sentencing of Barrett Brown, a US journalist, was delayed for a second time and postponed until January 22 of next year. At the hearing the prosecution dramatically presented 500 pages of new evidence, seemingly unrelated to the charges to which Brown was awaiting sentencing. The only explanation for…]]> https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/barrett-brown-why-his-sentencing-hearing-was-sabotaged-his-case-should-now-be-thrown-out/feed/ 1 4872 opmanning https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/paypal14-the-initial-salvo-re-birth-of-the-warrior-class/ https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/paypal14-the-initial-salvo-re-birth-of-the-warrior-class/#respond Tue, 28 Oct 2014 02:14:06 +0000 http://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/paypal14-the-initial-salvo-re-birth-of-the-warrior-class/ https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/paypal14-the-initial-salvo-re-birth-of-the-warrior-class/feed/ 0 4864 opmanning https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/the-nobel-peace-prize-well-deserved-and-no-room-for-criticism/ https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/the-nobel-peace-prize-well-deserved-and-no-room-for-criticism/#respond Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:23:10 +0000 http://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/the-nobel-peace-prize-well-deserved-and-no-room-for-criticism/ Notes from Self:
On Friday, the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai. It would be difficult to fault the Nobel committee for its decision and I have no intention of doing so. Both Satyarthi and Yousafzai are well deserving of the honours for their, as…]]> https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/the-nobel-peace-prize-well-deserved-and-no-room-for-criticism/feed/ 0 4863 opmanning https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/when-organized-political-action-is-like-a-cult/ https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/when-organized-political-action-is-like-a-cult/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2014 02:35:51 +0000 http://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/when-organized-political-action-is-like-a-cult/ GODZILLA GOVERNMENT:
Distanced observations on cults and active politics  ? “ When a religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for the help of a…]]> https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/when-organized-political-action-is-like-a-cult/feed/ 1 4842 opmanning https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/art-as-religion-ch1-alien/ https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/art-as-religion-ch1-alien/#respond Sun, 08 Jun 2014 17:02:51 +0000 http://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/art-as-religion-ch1-alien/ https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/art-as-religion-ch1-alien/feed/ 0 4829 opmanning https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/updates/ https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/updates/#respond Sun, 06 Apr 2014 16:05:36 +0000 http://opmanning.wordpress.com/?p=4800 Continue reading →]]> https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/updates/feed/ 0 4800 opmanning leavenworth https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/bradley-manning-and-adolf-eichmann-counterpunch-tells-the-facts-names-the-names/ https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/bradley-manning-and-adolf-eichmann-counterpunch-tells-the-facts-names-the-names/#respond Wed, 18 Sep 2013 03:00:24 +0000 http://opmanning.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/bradley-manning-and-adolf-eichmann-counterpunch-tells-the-facts-names-the-names/ Amnesty For Bradley Manning:
Bradley Manning and Adolf Eichmann Published June 12, 2013 on CounterPunch, reprinted in full here, original post linked above. Are We All Really Bradley Manning? by ELLIOT SPERBER The year 2013 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Hannah Arendt’s controversial critique of the trial of the…]]> https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/bradley-manning-and-adolf-eichmann-counterpunch-tells-the-facts-names-the-names/feed/ 0 4749 opmanning https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/supportmanning/ https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/supportmanning/#respond Wed, 11 Sep 2013 01:15:29 +0000 http://opmanning.wordpress.com/?p=4745 Continue reading →]]> https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/supportmanning/feed/ 0 4745 opmanning https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/write-a-letter-supporting-pvt-mannings-request-for-clemency-private-manning-support-network/ https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/write-a-letter-supporting-pvt-mannings-request-for-clemency-private-manning-support-network/#respond Tue, 10 Sep 2013 01:49:07 +0000 http://opmanning.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/write-a-letter-supporting-pvt-mannings-request-for-clemency-private-manning-support-network/ Amnesty For Bradley Manning:
Write a letter supporting PVT Manning’s request for clemency! Reblogged from the Private Manning Support Network Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Convening Authorities are granted the power to reduce or eliminate a convicted soldier’s sentence.  They use this power when they feel the court martial failed to…]]> https://opmanning.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/write-a-letter-supporting-pvt-mannings-request-for-clemency-private-manning-support-network/feed/ 0 4743 opmanning