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    And in related relative obscurity: Chelsea Manning's Wiki(pedia) pages merit a thorough examination Archived Message

    Posted by Jim_Carlucci on December 9, 2022, 5:34 pm, in reply to "Dore w/ Max Blumenthal: Warmongers CONFRONTED By Journalist At National Press Club Event"

    Wikileaks is mentioned 121 times.
    Assange is mentioned 36 times.

    By contrast Bradley/Chelsea is very rarely or only very briefly mentioned in the neverending Assange/Wikileaks discourse/saga.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army

    (No cheating please - open the full "Desktop" version and of course
    pay special attention to the small-fonted, half-buried, "don't read me" footnotes. As always)

    And here's a surprisingly illuminating extract from a Chelsea Manning interview by a "respected news source" that Glenn Greenwald once believed in and worked with/for:

    Manning - in many ways life is much better, easier, far more community-spirited in prison:

    “I have a lot of trouble with this world, this
    so-called free world, compared with
    the life that I had in prison.    ”

    Why? “I struggle with the fact that ...I feel less supported than I did in both the military and in prison. In prison I know that I have housing; I know that I have healthcare; I know that I have food. I don’t feel as secure here. And people are so detached. There is no community. People don’t talk to each other. People don’t say hi to you. People are suspicious of each other.” Her voice rises to a peak. “There’s more community in a prison than there is out here! And that says a lot about how f##ked-up our world is right now. I struggle with it every day.”

    "Manning was released from a detention centre in Virginia in March 2020, a year after she was imprisoned, when the grand jury’s investigation expired and her testimony was no longer required. To have that much fight in her, to remain true to her principles in the face of such cost, is admirable to the point of baffling. It stems from optimism, she says, and I believe her. “I know that community is possible, because I’ve seen it, and I’ve seen it in the worst places that you can possibly imagine. "

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