{"id":11658,"date":"2018-01-09T13:07:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T18:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=11658"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:27:28","slug":"the-courage-of-mordecai-vanunu-and-other-whistle-blowers-how-can-we-emulate-it-in-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=11658","title":{"rendered":"The courage of Mordecai Vanunu and other whistle-blowers, How can we emulate it in our lives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1687\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Vanunu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"181\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11662\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; width: 46%;\">\n<p>Whistle-blowers may be considered as very important actors for a culture of peace. \u00a0As described on the <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?page_id=754\">CPNN page for values, attitudes and actions for a culture of peace<\/a>, the culture of war is characterized by propaganda, secrecy, government control of media, militaristic language and censorship while the culture of peace is characterized by the free flow and sharing of information. \u00a0Whistle-blowers break the back of secrecy directly and dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>Mordecai Vanunu&#8217;s courage continues the tradition of Daniel Ellsberg, who made known the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War and Karen Silkwood, who exposed nuclear pollution in the United States. \u00a0Ellsberg was persecuted by President Nixon and Karen Silkwood was murdered, as described some years ago in a very fine film starring Meryl Streep.<\/p>\n<p>As the amount of government secrecy continues to increase, we may expect that the number of whistle-blowers will also tend to increase in the years to come.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 46%;\">Here are the CPNN articles on this subject:<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 46%;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 46%;\">\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=31011\">Daniel Ellsberg Has Passed Away. He Left Us a Message.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=27852\">Moscow TV protester plays \u2018Russian roulette\u2019 with risky comeback<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=24519\">US: Why Daniel Hale Deserves Gratitude, Not Prison<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=23751\">Glen Greenwald : My New Book on Journalism, Exposing Corruption, and the Resulting Risks, Dangers and Societal Changes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=8801\">Following Chelsea Manning\u2019s commutation, UN expert urges pardons for other whistleblowers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/french\/?p=6432\">LuxLeaks: L\u2019affaire et l\u2019actu en Luxembourg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=8806\">LuxLeaks: The case and the latest news from Luxembourg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=7861\">Film: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I.F. Stone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 Links for the following articles published prior to 2015 do not work because they were made by a version of PERL programming that is no longer supported. With three easy steps, you can find the article by its number.  First, click on it before returning to this page. Your browser will say that the article is not available but in the address listed you can see that it was located at ViewArticle=xxxx where xxxx is the number of the article. Returning to this page, then click <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.cpnn-world.org\/\">here<\/a> for the listing of all years.  Then click on the year that contains the number for the article you seek. It will send you to the page where you can easily search for the article by its title. \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1687\">An Easter letter about Mordecai Vanunu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1676\">Another Pulitzer for reporting classified info<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1386\">&#8216;Snowden did it for all of us&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1328\">International Peace Bureau awards the Sean MacBride Peace Prize to US whistleblower Bradley Manning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1288\">Interview with Edward Snowden: \u00a0The Latest Whistleblower<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1221\">Ethiopian journalist Reeyot Alemu wins 2013 UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1220\">La periodista et\u00edope Reeyot Alemu gana el premio UNESCO-Guillermo Cano de Libertad de Prensa 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1219\">La journaliste \u00e9thiopienne Reeyot Alemu laur\u00e9ate du Prix mondial de la libert\u00e9 de la presse UNESCO\/Guillermo Cano 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=179\">Whistleblowers Recognized for Courage, Sacrifice<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistle-blowers may be considered as very important actors for a culture of peace. \u00a0As described on the CPNN page for values, attitudes and actions for a culture of peace, the culture of war is characterized by propaganda, secrecy, government control of media, militaristic language and censorship while the culture of peace is characterized by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=11658\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The courage of Mordecai Vanunu and other whistle-blowers, How can we emulate it in our lives?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37259,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658\/revisions\/37259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}