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Part VII: Blood Money and Broken Oaths — Resistance Rising – The Return of the Unbought Voice
By Marivel Guzman | Akashma News
“Empires are never defeated by bombs. They’re unraveled by truth.”
— Akashma News, 2025
For every general who sold his soul, there was a private who refused an order.
For every president who signed a war, there was a journalist, a dissident, a whistleblower who stood between silence and complicity.
This is their chapter—the unbought voices.
I. The Whistleblowers Who Paid the Price
Edward Snowden
In 2013, this former NSA contractor shattered the myth of democratic oversight.
Exposed NSA mass surveillance, PRISM, XKeyscore and in a corporate collusion with the U.S. intelligence apparatus unveiled a global surveillance network that targeted not only terrorists, but ordinary citizens, allies, and journalists.
Labeled a traitor by the state, a hero by the people.
From the Akashma News article, “Are Whistleblowers Heroes or Traitors?” (2017):
“What Snowden revealed was not a single violation—it was a culture of abuse. The United States had quietly converted its intelligence apparatus into a planetary panopticon.”
Snowden once said:
Now exiled in Russia, with global surveillance programs still using the infrastructure he exposed.
“Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American.”
On February 10, 2017, he posted a tweet that said it all:
“Break classification rules for the public’s benefit, and you could be exiled. Do it for personal benefit, and you could be President.” @Snowden
Forced into exile in Russia, Snowden is still hunted—not for falsehood, but for truth.
Chelsea Manning
Leaked the Iraq War Logs, Afghan War Diaries, and the Collateral Murder video—exposing war crimes and civilian deaths covered up by U.S. forces.
Imprisoned. Tortured. Silenced. Yet she never recanted.
Daniel Hale
Revealed the inner workings of the U.S. drone assassination program.
His leaks showed that 90% of drone deaths were not intended targets.
Imprisoned under the Espionage Act for telling the world the truth.
These are not criminals.
They are mirrors held to a government that has forgotten its own reflection.
Daniel Hale and The Drone Papers
“The public should know what is done in its name.” — Daniel Hale
In the pantheon of modern whistleblowers, Daniel Hale stands as a quiet but unwavering voice of conscience. A former U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst, Hale leaked classified documents exposing the stark reality of America’s drone assassination program.
The documents—later published by The Intercept as “The Drone Papers”—revealed that nearly 90% of those killed in targeted strikes were not the intended targets.
Hale showed us the system’s true face: algorithmic kill lists, metadata-driven “signature strikes,” and the bureaucratic normalization of civilian deaths. For this truth, he was not hailed as a hero. He was sentenced to **45 months in prison**.
The Espionage Act was used to punish him, even though he passed information to journalists—not enemies. The Whistleblower Protection Act didn’t apply. In the eyes of the government, exposing war crimes is more criminal than committing them.
Daniel Hale’s sacrifice is a reminder: transparency is treason in an empire built on lies. But through his courage, a new chapter in resistance was written—one where memory and morality still have defenders.
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II. The Journalists Who Refused to Be Bought
Julian Assange
Founder of WikiLeaks.
Published war logs, diplomatic cables, CIA hacking manuals.
Now imprisoned—not for lying, but for publishing classified truths that embarrassed empire.
Abandoned by mainstream media, yet hailed by global civil society.
Gary Webb
Exposed the CIA’s role in funneling drugs into U.S. cities to fund Contra rebels in Latin America (Dark Alliance).
Smeared, blacklisted, and driven to a suspicious “suicide.”
His findings were later confirmed—but too late to save his reputation or life.
Michael Hastings
Exposed Gen. McChrystal’s toxic command culture in Rolling Stone.
His death in a car explosion remains questioned by many.
In a media world built on corporate funding, these few told the truth without permission.
III. The Soldiers Who Said No – And Never Looked Back
Camilo Mejía, Brandon Neely, Clifton Hicks, Erik Edstrom—all former U.S. military personnel who turned against the wars they fought, and spoke out.
Each served the system, then exposed its rot. But among them, one voice thundered louder across borders:
Ken O’Keefe
Former U.S. Marine turned international activist.
Renounced his U.S. citizenship and declared himself a “world citizen” in opposition to empire.
Vocal critic of Zionism, neocolonialism, and U.S. foreign policy—long before it was fashionable.
Participated in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, risking his life to break the Israeli blockade.
Called out not just U.S. policy but the entire system of financial parasitism behind war and media manipulation.
On record stating:
“We, the people, must demand the end of the military-industrial-complex… the bankers’ wars… because they do not fight for our freedom, they fight for their power.” (@KenOKeefe1TJP)
He wasn’t just a soldier who defected in principle.
He became a symbol of radical conscience—a truth-teller across Palestine, Iraq, London, and beyond.
And while censored and demonized by media and state agents alike, his message resonated because it was never for sale.
They told stories of:
Dehumanization of civilians,
Illegal orders,
Suicidal deployments,
War as trauma without purpose.
These voices rarely make the news—but they make up the soul of resistance: those who went, and came back unwilling to lie.
Part IX: Blood Money and Broken Oaths — The Archive of Resistance – Building the People’s Historical Memory
By Marivel Guzman | Akashma News
“The most revolutionary act is to remember what they want you to forget.”
— Akashma News, 2025
History is not just what happened. It’s what survives.
And in a world engineered for forgetting—of crimes, of war, of complicity—resistance begins with remembering.
This exposé is not just a series of investigations. It is an archive. A repository of the betrayed, the unbought, the assassinated, and the whistleblown. A defiant act of record-keeping against empires that thrive on amnesia.
I. Empire’s Greatest Weapon: Erasure
Libraries burned in Iraq, archives bombed, and museums looted.
Emails deleted, war logs classified, and FOIA requests denied.
Journalists silenced, platforms deplatformed, history textbooks rewritten.
Empires don’t just bomb cities. They bomb memory.
And when they can’t erase you, they bury you under entertainment, fear, and the distraction of the next outrage.
II. The People’s Memory: Analog and Digital Resurrection
From the archives of:
WikiLeaks, The Intercept, Akashma News, Cryptome, and Truthout,
To the voices of Snowden, O’Keefe, Assange, Manning, Hale, and Hastings,
To documents salvaged from hard drives, leaked by patriots, and preserved by the persistent,
the historical record lives outside the institutions meant to protect it.
Every censored article. Every pixelated war video. Every leaked memo.
All of it must be remembered—not to relive trauma, but to deny empire its victory lap.
III. Decolonizing Memory: Whose History Survives?
Palestinians record their own massacres in whispers and phone footage.
Black radicals are erased from civil rights textbooks while lobbyists praise “reform.”
Antiwar soldiers, from Vietnam to Fallujah, are airbrushed out of the national narrative.
Historical memory is a battleground.
To win it, we must:
Name the names that were buried.
Preserve the files they tried to erase.
Teach the children what the state will not.
IV. The Archive as Act of War
“The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us.”
We carry these names.
These stories.
These truths.
We build the people’s archive because the state has abandoned truth in favor of power.
V. Conclusion: From Memory to Movement
To remember is to resist.
To preserve is to prepare.
To build an archive of betrayal is to build a roadmap out of empire.
The war doesn’t end when the troops leave.
It ends when the lies no longer work.
And that day begins with a record like this.
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