Articles by Chase Madar

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Criminal Prosecutions Won’t Change the Financial Industry
Chase Madar – Al Jazeera, 19 Oct 2015

Indictments will catch some small fish, but reforming Wall Street requires much, much more. Criminalization is a toxic heavy gas that tends to sink to the bottom of any social ladder, leaving those at the upper rungs untouched.

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Hawks for Humanity
Chase Madar – Al Jazeera, 27 Jan 2014

To be fair, Human Rights Watch and Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., are far from alone in warmongering: In 2012, Amnesty International USA went so far as to put up bus-stop advertisements in Chicago during the NATO conference to urge the military alliance to “keep the progress going.”

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Seven Myths about Bradley Manning
Chase Madar – The Nation, 10 Jun 2013

Myth # 1: It is routinely asserted or implied that Manning declassified the field reports and diplomatic cables because he is a nut job, or because he is gay, or because he is a gay nut job. In fact, Manning’s motive was expressly political: “I want people to see the truth…regardless of who they are…because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.”

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Government Persecution, From Aaron Swartz to Bradley Manning
Chase Madar – The Nation, 28 Jan 2013

When 26-year-old Internet prodigy and freedom of information activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide on January 11 [2013], the tragedy was the direct result of US attorneys deciding to throw criminal charges at him for violating a website’s “terms of services” while accessing publicly subsidized academic research.

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Blood on Whose Hands? Bradley Manning, Washington, and the Blood of Civilians
Chase Madar – TomDispatch, 23 Jan 2012

Who in their right mind wants to talk about, think about, or read a short essay about… civilian war casualties? What a bummer, this topic, especially since our Afghan, Iraq, and other ongoing wars were advertised as uplifting acts of philanthropy: wars to spread security, freedom, democracy, human rights, gender equality, the rule of law, etc.

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Bradley Manning, American Hero
Chase Madar – TomDispatch, 11 Jul 2011

We still don’t know if he did it or not, but if Bradley Manning, the 24-year-old Army private from Oklahoma, actually supplied WikiLeaks with its choicest material — the Iraq War logs, the Afghan War logs, and the State Department cables — which startled and riveted the world, then he deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom instead of a jail cell at Fort Leavenworth. President Obama recently gave one of those medals to retiring Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who managed the two bloody, disastrous wars about which the WikiLeaks-released documents revealed so much.

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Why Bradley Manning Is a Patriot, Not a Criminal
Chase Madar - TomDispatch, 14 Feb 2011

An Opening Statement for the Defense of Private Manning – Bradley Manning, a 23-year-old from Crescent, Oklahoma, enlisted in the U.S. military in 2007 to give something back to his country and, he hoped, the world.

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Guantánamo, Exception or Rule? All-American Justice for a Child Soldier at Obama’s Gitmo
Chase Madar - TomDispatch, 8 Nov 2010

Child Soldiers and Juvenile Offenders: The Khadr case should have been a bit queasy-making for us Americanos. Hasn’t there been a surge of concern for child soldiers in book clubs and church groups across the land? Turns out, however, that this long-distance compassion goes up in smoke at closer range. The second a child soldier points his gun at an American, not another African, it’s adiós victimized child, hello hardened terrorist.

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