On Friday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that Venezuela would offer political asylum to NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden. Regardless of what happens next, President Maduro’s announcement was world-historical. With his announcement, Maduro has invited Americans to live in a new world: a "multi-polar" world in which the U.S. government’s power is limited, not by a…
The U.S. government’s crackdown on whistleblowers is a direct threat to our efforts to reform U.S. foreign policy to make it more just. If we don’t know for sure what the U.S. government is doing, we can’t have an effective democratic debate about what U.S. policy should be. Faced with the threat of persecution by…
To add your support for this letter, click here. A Spanish translation of this letter is here. Another Spanish version is posted at SOAWatch, here; and there is also one at Aporrea here. A French version is at Mémoire des luttes, here. Dear President Correa, We write to urge you to grant political asylum to…