The Pentagon's inspector general quietly reported that soldiers that report crimes and abuses through official legal channels almost always face harsh retaliation while their reports are disregarded.

If Chelsea Manning had reported the "collateral murder" atrocities through channels, she would have been punished less, but it would have achieved nothing at all.

Job loss due to automation is not usually a matter of replacing one worker with one robot. It's part of the way that the plutocratic elite decides how work is done, and pushes down wages.

Occasionally, though, we see an example which is pretty much like "one robot, one less worker" — automatic checkout counters in stores. I refuse to use them — no exceptions! If I can't but from a human sales agent, I leave without buying. But I do more than that: I tell the other customers what I am doing, and urge them to join me.

Australian hero David McBride is being prosecuted, like Chelsea Manning, for revealing atrocities committed by the Australian army.

Chelsea Manning refused to answer some of the grand jury's questions, claiming that the questioning violated her constitutional rights, and in response was jailed.

She hopes that an appeals court will rule that the grand jury had no valid reason to ask her those questions.

Rashna Farrukh quit a job at Sky News because its broadcasts encourage hostility within society.