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</div></div><h1><font size="3">Wednesday, July 31, 2013<br> "Manning Deserves Nobel Peace Prize"<br></font><span style="font-size:medium">The sentencing phase of the Bradley Manning trial begins today. </span><br>
</h1><div><font size="3">NORMAN SOLOMON, <a href="mailto:solomonprogressive@gmail.com" target="_blank">solomonprogressive@gmail.com</a>, <a href="http://normansolomon.com/" target="_blank">normansolomon.com</a><br> Solomon wrote "<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/30/bradley-manning-institute-for-public-accuracy-editorials-debates/2601569/" target="_blank">Manning deserves Nobel Peace Prize</a>," just published by <i>USA Today</i>.
The piece states: "Tuesday's verdict from a military judge does not
diminish the huge moral stature of whistle-blower Bradley Manning. Next
month, I will be proud to deliver a <a href="http://manningnobel.org/" target="_blank">petition</a> to
the Nobel Committee in Oslo with a simple message from more than
100,000 signers: 'I urge you to award the Peace Prize to Bradley
Manning.'<br><br> "Thanks to Manning, vast troves of information have
become public knowledge, making possible more informed debate about war
and peace. For instance, he leaked the now-infamous '<a href="http://www.collateralmurder.com/" target="_blank">collateral murder</a>' video, with a soundtrack of chilling banter as U.S. servicemen in a pair of gunships fired on civilians in Baghdad." <br>
<br> Solomon is founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and author of <i>War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death</i>. His is the co-founder of RootsAction.org, which organized the petition at: <a href="http://www.manningnobel.org/" target="_blank">ManningNobel.org</a>.<br>
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</font></div><h1>Manning deserves Nobel Peace Prize: Opposing view</h1><p><span class="">Norman Solomon
</span><span class="">9:33 p.m. EDT July 30, 2013</span></p><h2 class="">Whistle-blowers like him hold government accountable</h2><p>Tuesday's verdict from a military judge does not diminish the huge
moral stature of whistle-blower Bradley Manning. Next month, I will be
proud to deliver <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7612">a petition</a>
to the Nobel Committee in Oslo with a simple message from more than
100,000 signers: "I urge you to award the Peace Prize to Bradley
Manning."</p><p><b>OUR VIEW: </b><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/30/bradley-manning-verdict-sentencing-editorials-debates/2601571/" title="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/30/bradley-manning-verdict-sentencing-editorials-debates/2601571/">A framework to assess other leakers</a></p>
<p>Thanks
to Manning, vast troves of information have become public knowledge,
making possible more informed debate about war and peace. For instance,
he leaked the now-infamous "<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/07/waiting-for-the-manning-verdict.html">collateral murder</a>" video, with a soundtrack of chilling banter as U.S. servicemen in a pair of gunships fired on civilians in Baghdad.</p>
<p>Other evidence that Manning brought to light includes <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/31/122766/cable-massacre-of-iraqi-family.html">a U.S. diplomatic cable</a>
about a covered-up massacre of at least 10 civilians, including young
children, in the Iraqi town of Ishaqi. That revelation stiffened the
resolve of Iraq's government to seek jurisdiction over American troops
for criminal actions. Washington found the demand unacceptable, thus
hastening full U.S. military withdrawal from the country.</p><p>Such
disclosures from Manning "helped end the Iraq War, and may have helped
prevent further conflicts elsewhere," according to Mairead
Corrigan-Maguire, a Nobel Peace laureate. She has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/30/bradley-manning-nobel-peace-prize-candidate">formally nominated Manning for the honor this year</a>, saying "I can think of no one more deserving."</p>
Consent of the governed is meaningful only to the extent that it is <i>informed</i>
consent. Bradley Manning let Americans, and many others around the
world, know what their governments were really doing. The disclosures
caused problems for leaders in many nations who much preferred to operate behind an opaque curtain.<p>Over
time, democracy and peace are closely entwined. Only a knowledgeable
citizenry can come to grips with actual policies that perpetuate war
when shielded from public scrutiny.</p><p>It's easy to insist that
Bradley Manning must face the consequences of his actions. But we badly
need whistle-blowers like Manning because U.S. government leaders do not
face the consequences of <i>their</i> actions, including perpetual warfare abroad and assaults on civil liberties at home.</p><p>No
government should have the power to keep waging war while using secrecy
to cloak policies that cannot stand the light of day. Thank goodness
for the courage of Bradley Manning.</p><i>Norman Solomon is author of </i>War Made Easy<i>, founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and co-founder of RootsAction.org<br>-------------------------------------------<br>
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