Heather Wokusch

Heather Wokusch is an author and educator based in Europe. She can be reached via www.heatherwokusch.com
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Views Thursday, November 22, 2018 The Case Against WikiLeaks Is a Crisis for the First Amendment The Justice Department has prepared criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and is working behind the scenes to have him extradited to the United States. Press freedom and the right to dissent may hang in the balance. The criminal charges were accidentally revealed last week when... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 12, 2018 Killing the Messenger: Truth in a Time of Universal Deceit When telling the truth is a revolutionary act, journalists and whistleblowers are targets. When politicians attack freedom of speech, media becomes weaponized. And here we are. How ironic that the government of Turkish President Erdoğan is postured as truth-leaker in the apparent gruesome murder of... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 21, 2008 You're Scaring Me, Obama: Let the Bush Years Die To be honest, Obama, you lost me when you voted for the PATRIOT Act reauthorization in 2006. You lost me again when you voted for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) amendment in 2008. And you lost me every single time you voted for yet more war funding. Don't even get me started on your vote for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout. I cast a ballot for you in November, but I just can't share in this moment of collective euphoria over your election. Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 06, 2008 Breaking the Nuremberg Code: The US Military's Human-Testing Program Returns The Pentagon is slated to release a suspected toxicant in Crystal City, Virginia this week, ostensibly to test air sensors.The operation is just the latest example of the Defense Department's long history of using service members and civilians as human test subjects, often without their consent or... Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 07, 2007 Pope Versus President The Vatican's recent snub of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is only the latest salvo in the battle between Pope Benedict XVI and President George W. Bush. This tug of war has profound implications for both U.S. foreign policy and the critical Catholic vote in 2008's presidential race... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 27, 2007 How the Bush Administration Is Turning the USA into a Subprime Borrower "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - George W Bush Much in the same way that US investors were "steered" into rip-off mortgage loans, the entire country has been "steered" into... Read more |
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Views Sunday, August 12, 2007 Welcome to the Jungle: US Military Psychological Operations and You "...the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other." - Benjamin Franklin, 1787 They say that if you drop a frog into a pot of boiling water it will immediately jump out, but that if you raise the pot's heat gradually, the frog won't react. The US... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 22, 2007 Under the Radar: Ten Warning Signs for Today 1. Protest war, lose your property? On July 17th, The White House quietly announced an Executive Order entitled "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq." Among other developments, it gives Bush the power to "block" the property of people in the US found to "... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 07, 2007 Yet Another G8 Farce Few expect the G8 summit taking place in Heiligendamm, Germany from June 6-8 to yield positive results. The main question is how much damage Bush will do to US international standing during these three days. At last year's G8 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, Bush made headlines by groping German... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 29, 2007 Poisoning the Troops, Again The Pentagon has a disturbing pattern of withholding information on the impact of chemical/biological weapons and other toxins on US service members. As a result, veterans are often told that their debilitating symptoms are "in their head" and can go decades without receiving medical help. That's... Read more |