Greg Mitchell, from The Nation has just written Part II of a three part series dissecting Bradley’s situation and the mass media treatment of it.

Incident in New Baghdad is a short, award-winning documentary about the Apache helicopter strike shown in the Collateral Murder video allegedly leaked by Bradley. Ethan McCord, the soldier who rescued the wounded children from the van, spoke at the film premier in April. He describes his experience in-detail and works to contextualize the attack. If you have not read one of Ethan McCord’s interviews yet, you should absolutely check out the video:

From the video:

That was one incident of many that you guys got to see. Things like this happen almost on a daily basis in Iraq. It may not have been an Apache… it may have been a Bradley (type of fighting vehicle). I saw a Bradley fire on a van load of children, nothing more than children, and watched the Iraqi police pull bodies out. Pieces of children. And the whole time they were just looking at us and shaking their heads. Again, that was one incident. And you guys can see from that one incident that we shouldn’t be there.

A State Department insider, Peter Van Buren, has written a book critical to the war efforts titled We Meant Well: How I helped lose the battle for the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. On his blog he reveals that he worked down the hall from Bradley Manning. Although he said he never knew PFC Manning by name, he sounds sympathetic to his current situation, and has published photos on his blog of the place they both lived and worked.

As of the time of this blog, the billboard we want to put in Washington D.C. for Bradley is nearly 30% funded, with 29 days to go. If this one is successful, our next effort will be to fund subway ads. Check out our press release here, if you haven’t already.

The political satire group “Rap News” presents Osamacide, in which they criticize mainstream U.S. media coverage of the terrorist leader’s death. An earlier video of theirs covered Wikileaks. I think it’s safe to say that their message about our need for more rigorous investigative journalism is well-placed. You may remember that earlier this week Amnesty International commended Wikileaks for changing journalism forever.