Killing Civilians in Afghanistan with Impunity by U.S. Forces: WikiLeaks Wins BuzzFlash Wings of Justice

WikiLeaks

At a time when so many of us protest but limit our risks to being online advocates, WikiLeaks staffers are exposing, under covert threat of the U.S. Intelligence community, the reality of civilian deaths in the the Afghanistan War through confidentially obtained “kill” footage. There is nothing like authentic visual images to turn speculation into fact, and U.S. Government lies into fiction.

And what we are talking about here is innocent people, including children being killed, for the purpose of upping the “kill count,” just as happened in Vietnam. Even decades later, almost everyone who dies from U.S. Bombs or gunfire in Afghanistan and Iraq are still categorized as a “militant” or enemy agent.

Due to a recent ruling of a federal court, net neutrality may not be preserved. If this eventually stands as the law of the land (however, there is a way for the FCC to preserve net neutrality by reversing a Bush era ruling), the government/corporate alliance will likely ensure that WikiLeaks disappears from the Internet – and they will never allow it on mass television.

The Internet is the beach head of exposing the truth necessary for an informed democracy. Television news long ago transformed itself into a megaphone for the status quo and a marketing tool for its wealthy parent corporate media owners.

WikiLeaks is an essential counterbalance to the government and the corporate media burying the truth through a repetition of lies.

The WikiLeaks staffers and their courageous journalists deserve the BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award. We can only hope that they survive the corporatist assault on net neutrality.