Wikileaks
Wikileaks: The forgotten man
WikiLeaks boss Julian Assange has been cast as a heroic champion of free speech and public enemy number one to the most powerful government in the world. But his ongoing expose of US foreign policy would not have been possible without the work of a young American soldier - Private Bradley Manning. It was Manning who allegedly stole the classified video and documents released to the world by WikiLeaks in 2010.
Julian Assange’s speech at Trafalgar Square
Julian Assange's speech at Trafalgar Square at approximately 15:30 on 8th October 2011. --- ". . . and that is something I want to talk about. What can we do with our values, what can we do at all in relation to this war? Because the reality is Margaret Thatcher had it right; there is no society any more. What there is is a transnational security elite that is busy carving up the world using your tax money.
Yemeni Government Contracted With U.N. Sanctioned Arms Dealer
Wikileaks Chief Julian Assange Claims ‘I Am No Rapist’ After Released Autobiography
“Korean-translated version of WikiLeaks” launches as a project
Websites sharing Korean-translated versions of the U.S. embassy cables which were leaked through the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks are bursting out around the country. The most well known one is "WikiLeaks Korea". The main page of this website informs that it is "A project which accepts voluntary Korean-translation of cables related with South Korea".
Holder Addresses U.N. Counter-Terrorism Symposium
Abolish capitalism!
So many working people are now excited by WikiLeaks, which let some of the hidden secrets of the ruling circles enter public knowledge. As the call to "Occupy Wall Street" on Sept. 17 went out, some of the forces involved are rallying around the call for "Freedom of Information" as a way to bring down the tyranny of those in power.
Morocco: Multiple Arrests Against Activists
The arrest, according to his friends and supporters, might be related to a Facebook group, Wikileaks Fnidaq, Mohamed founded and where he published documents allegedly exposing corruption within the local administration. Mohamed was accused of drug trafficking but a group of bloggers and online activists say the accusation is baseless.
Wikileaks Auctioning Off Assange’s Prison Coffee, CBS Logo Coin To Raise Money
U.S. Official Snubbed Cuban Plea for Hurricane Aid
Cuba doesn't make a habit of asking the United States for help. The two countries haven't had formal diplomatic relations for 50 years. So when Havana hesitantly raises the issue of disaster aid with a U.S. Coast Guard officer while on a boat in the middle of the Caribbean where nobody can see or hear them talking -- that's probably important, right?
Ethiopia must end crackdown on government critics
Earlier this month five Ethiopian journalists were charged under the anti-terrorism legislation while another journalist, Argaw Ashine, was forced to flee the country, after he was mentioned in a Wikileaks cable, and was summoned by officials from the Government Communication Affairs Office and the Federal Police for interrogation over his sources.
Qaddafi’s Son Is Bisexual and Other Things the New York Times Doesn’t Want You to Know About
Now that Wikileaks has been forced by circumstance to release the full, unredacted archive of its 250,000-plus classified diplomatic cables, we can see what the New York Times voluntarily redacted, at the request of the State Department, from the cables that it published. Among the things it hid: Muammar Qaddafi has a bisexual son, and a Reuters correspondent is a source for State Department intelligence.
Wikileaks statement regarding Argaw Ashene
The Ethiopian journalist, Argaw Ashine, mentioned by the CPJ in its press release today, is not detailed by WikiLeaks cables as a US embassy informant. No journalistic source is named or identified in the cable. Rather, Mr. Ashine is mentioned, in passing, in relation to events in 2005 and 2006. Neither was Mr. Ashine named by the CPJ in a list of journalistic related redactions processed by us.
The Corruption of Western Liberal Democracy
"Across the globe, transparency and accountability are critical to restoring trust and turning back the tide of corruption. Without them, global policy solutions to many global crises are at risk" - That being the case, Transparency International should have no problem in publically supporting WikiLeaks for bringing transparency into the machinations of governments, exposing their deceit, and their undermining of the democratic process. Will it do that?
Bulgarian Ambassador in Washington – Trusted Informant of USA
A secret diplomatic cable [08SOFIA185], released by Wikileaks and dated March 27, 2008, reveals that Bulgarian Ambassador in Washington, DC, now serving a second term there, Elena Poptodorova and then Deputy Defense Minister, Sonya Yankulova, have informed American Ambassador in Sofia John Beyrle about plans to increase the Bulgarian contingent in Kandahar by fifty rangers, months before the official decision of the Bulgarian cabinet.
Caracas Cables Pt IV: Infiltrating the DEA, Expropriated Golf Course, Halliburton’s Ties to Venezuelan Oil Company
As the political relationship deteriorated between the Bush administration and Ch vez, so, too, did collaboration on the U.S.-sponsored drug war. Recently released cables document the testy and 'ambivalent' dynamic, with U.S. ambassador William Brownfield commenting that Ch vez s anti-drug czar Luis Correa appeared to be 'penalizing' a non-governmental organization called Alianza 'for having too close of a relationship with us.'
Grifters of ‘Al Saud, Inc.’ How Saudi royals get their wealth
A secret, 1996 cable -- sent from the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and released by Wikileaks -- offers a detailed account of the mechanisms of wealth distribution and waste within Saudi Arabia's royal family. Despite the considerable riches doled out to "thousands" of Saudi princes and princesses, the cable observes that Saudi royals "seem more adept at squandering than accumulating wealth."
9 11 blind
Consider just what we have learned about Iraq and Afghanistan because of WikiLeaks: tens of thousands of civilian casualties in Iraq never before disclosed; instructions to U.S. troops not to investigate torture when conducted by U.S. allies; the existence of Task Force 373, carrying out night raids in Afghanistan; the CIA's secret army of 3,000 mercenaries; private parties by DynCorp featuring trafficked boys as entertainment; and an Afghan vice president carrying $52 million in a suitcase. The efforts of the White House to prosecute Julian Assange and persecute Pfc. Bradley Manning in military prison should be of deep concern to anyone believing in the public's right to know.
240 Wikileaks cables on pharmaceutical data exclusivity
The following are the cables identified in an August 29, 2011 search of the wikileaks cables, from http://cablesearch.net, using the search terms data exclusivity and pharmaceutical. This search identified 240 cables. Some 40 countries are mentioned in the cables. More than half of the cables involve 5 countries: Turkey (76), Taiwan (21), El Salvador (11), Honduras (11) and Tunisia (10).
And Wikileaks tells us also why Hezbollah won’t disarm
We all know the reasons why Hezbollah is keeping its arms in Lebanon, despite the liberation of the South from Israeli occupation (except Sheba s farms). This is directly related to an Iranian decision facilitated by Syria, so it s much more than a matter of pure 'national interest'. We, in Lebanon are too nice that we serve the whole region's interests', and we have been doing so for almost centuries.
In Defense of WikiLeaks: Looking at Cables on Pharmaceutical Drugs and Trade Pressures
Like many others, I have spent the past several days combing through countless US Department of State cables. I am primarily looking at the cables that describe our government's efforts to drive up the price of medicine in developing countries. This is an act of state-sponsored violence that is rarely reported by the New York Times, the Guardian or other newspapers that had received early copies of the cables.
Extrajudicial killings in the Philippines: What we can learn from Wikileaks
From 2004-2010, the Philippines witnessed one of the worst waves of human rights violations in its history. Hundreds of activists were killed or abducted. Hundreds more were arrested and faced with trumped-up charges. The magnitude of the abuses caught the attention of the international community. The issue also further isolated the regime of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The main suspects in the killings and disappearances were state security forces.
New York City Police Department’s secret CIA force targeted minorities
WikiLeaks: UN Peacekeepers Traded Food For Sex
Guardian Dismisses Claims Of Security Breach Over US Cables
Washington and Brasilia Monitoring Chávez in the Caribbean
Daniel Domscheit-Berg: a comparative analysis
2011-08-28 Forbes – Bulgaria Glorifies Bulgaria’s Energy Mafia Leader Exposed By Wikileaks
This week edition of Forbes - Bulgaria features Bogomil Manchev on the cover page. Manchev who's presented by Forbes as an "energy innovator" has been exposed in a secret diplomatic cable from Sofia, revealed by Wikileaks. Bivol reminds the excerpts about Manchev from the cable named DIRTY ENERGY: CORRUPTION AND LACK OF TRANSPARENCY PLAGUE BULGARIAN ENERGY SECTOR
McCain Promised Qaddafi To Help Secure Military Equipment From U.S.
For all the braying by the Senate s top three hawks about how the U.S. wasn't doing enough to oust Libyan dictator Col. Muammar Qaddafi from power, one might be surprised to learn that exactly two years ago, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ), Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) were in Tripoli meeting with the erratic leader and giving him assurances that relations between the nations were on the mend.
Former Wikileaks spokesman destroyed unreleased files
WikiLeaks Statement on Daniel Domscheit-Berg and OpenLeaks
Five days short of a year ago, on 25 August 2010, WikiLeaks suspended former employee 'Daniel Domscheit-Berg'. Over the last 11 months, we have tried to negotiate the return of various materials taken by Mr Domscheit-Berg, including internal communications and over 3000 unpublished private whistleblower communications to WikiLeaks. Mr Domscheit-Berg has repeatedly attempted to blackmail WikiLeaks by threatening to make available, to forces that oppose WikiLeaks, these private communications and to which Mr Domscheit-Berg is not a party.
Obama Crafts New Anti-WikiLeaks Law
Computer Club expels Daniel Domscheit-Berg
Openleaks founder Daniel Domscheit-Berg has been expelled from the Chaos Computer Club on grounds of damaging the reputation of the club. Following a meeting of the board members, he was handed a written notice at the Chaos Communication Camp in Finowfurt. According 5 of the club statutes, this decision is not final, as he can now request to be heard by the board of the club; its members can also ask for the topic to be discussed in a plenary meeting.
U.S. and Brazil Vie for Power in Peru
In their correspondence with the State Department, U.S. diplomats in South America have been exceptionally paranoid about the activities of Hugo Ch vez and the possibility of a leftist regional alignment centered upon Venezuela. That, at least, is the unmistakable impression that one is left with by reading U.S. cables recently disclosed by whistle-blowing outfit WikiLeaks, and it's a topic about which I have written widely in recent months. Yet, with President Hugo Ch vez's health now fading fast and Venezuela looking like a rather spent force politically, it would seem natural that Washington will eventually turn its sights upon other rising powers -- countries like Brazil, for instance.
Author Alan Moore stands up for Bradley Manning
With any legitimate trial of whistleblower Bradley Manning still being at an unspecified date in the future, it would seem that what is presently on trial here is Western culture itself. When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we become complicit.
U.S. Diplomats May See Opportunity in Chavez’s Illness
With a big question mark hanging over the health of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, many in Washington may see opportunity. Though Chavez initially claimed that he was merely suffering from a "pelvic abscess," the firebrand leader subsequently conceded that he had cancer. In a shock to the nation, Chavez announced that he had a tumor removed during a sojourn in Cuba, and that he would "continue battling."
How WikiLeaks Is Helping Change Malaysia
Late last year, Malaysian Opposition Leader Dr Anwar Ibrahim was being labelled "WikiLeaks' first Malaysian victim" after the Sydney Morning Herald released a US cable suggesting he had knowingly "walked into" a sex trap. But the purported evidence quickly dissolved into hearsay when Singapore's intelligences services could not substantiate their allegations of "technical intelligence". A cable released later showed US officials pressuring the Malaysian government to drop the sex charges against Dr Anwar because they had no credibility, either at home or abroad.
Alleged Lulzsec hacker Jake Davis charged
Investigation into Polish CIA prison extended
Lulzsec’s Topiary and the Shetland Islands
On Wednesday the 27th of July the Metropolitan Police issued a press release stating that an 18 year old man had been arrested at a residential address on the Shetland Islands. The reason for his arrest is described as follows: "He is believed to be linked to a continuing international investigation into the criminal activity of the so-called "hacktivist" groups Anonymous and LulzSec, and allegedly uses the online nickname "Topiary" which is presented as the spokesperson for the groups."
A passionately eager Bulgaria in bed with the muscle bound duo of Gazprom and Lukoil
A diplomatic cable of the US embassy in Sofia, dated October 2, 2008, has been revealed on WikiLeaks, focusing on Bulgaria's energy dependence from Russia. The report titled "BULGARIA AND THE ENERGY KNOT: SCENESETTER FOR OCT 7 VISIT OF SPE GRAY," has been sent by then US Ambassador in Sofia, Nancy McEldowney to Boyden Grey, at the time Special Envoy for European Affairs and Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy at the Mission of the United States to the European Union, ahead of his visit to Bulgaria.
Can the Venezuelan Opposition Benefit from Chavez’s Illness
U.S. diplomatic cables recently declassified by whistle-blowing outfit WikiLeaks underscore the complete ineptitude of the Ch vez opposition. In the run up to the 2006 presidential election, for example, U.S. diplomats noted that Venezuela s largest opposition party, Acci n Democr tica or AD, was "going nowhere fast." Mincing no words, the American embassy noted that the party s secretary general Henry Ramos Allup was "unimaginative, overconfident, and even repellent" as well as "crude, abrasive and arrogant."
Canadian government determined to send Abdullah Khadr to the US
Why we should protect those accused of rape
What do David Copperfield, Michael Flatley, the Duke lacrosse team, the four Hofstra students, Rene Angelil (Celine Dion s manager-husband), Rick Pitino, Kobe Bryant, KBR/Halliburton and Julian Assange have in common? All were accused off rape, and will, in all likelihood, be remembered for that association, regardless of what ultimately happens (Assange's case is ongoing; none of the cases have led to a conviction). It is time for a modest reform in rape jurisprudence; the accused should be granted anonymity unless and until found guilty.
Hacktivists Launch New, Legal Attack on PayPal
A second wave of online protests has been launched againt PayPal, the Internet payment company whose December 2010 blocking of WikiLeaks donations provoked angry Denial Of Service (DDOS) attacks on their site. The latest protest, code-named #OpPayPal, was launched by AntiSec hacktivists, headed by Anonymous and Lulzsec, in response to recent FBI arrests of people allegedly involved in the earlier protest.
Twitter Archive
Wikileaks' Twitter account was opened in early 2009. The first tweet dates from Feb 11 2009. Since then, Wikileaks has used its Twitter account as one of the primary tools of its public relations: announcing leaks, informing its supporters, and issuing statements to various authorities. The Wikileaks timeline, as written in its tweets, charts the development of the organization since early 2009.
Four Questions to Answer if Assange is to be Extradited
Interview: WkiiLeaks Cambodian Cables and Politics
Prior to the war on terror there was the war on drugs...and you can see this in the cables, which reference the exchange of training between the US government, or the DEA, and the Cambodia task forces around the war on drug...similarly also with the war on terror...is their a similarity between these two approaches on the part of the US in terms of foreign policy?
The Odd Couple Julian Assange, Rupert Murdoch and Freedom of Information
Trading Our Future: Tax Cheating and the Panama Free Trade Agreement
Panama is the second largest tax haven in the world, according to a secret State Department memo released by Wikileaks. There's a deep irony in the US relationship with Panama. The country's cooperation in the war on drugs is considered pivotal, with the State Department arguing that Panama is more important to the US than we are to Panama (see this cable). One third of all ships are flagged in Panama, and Panama
‘Anonymous’ Hackers’ New York Homes Raided By FBI
Is Bradley Manning a Traitor or a Hero
The U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning is now entering his 14th month of incarceration on suspicion of passing classified U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks, and evidence supporting both sides of the argument has steadily mounted. It's spawned a divisive national debate about the role and legitimacy of whistleblowers in a democracy that's unlikely to subside no matter what the outcome of his pending court martial.
Assange to appeal extradition to Sweden
WikiLeaks front-man Julian Assange will front the high court in London on July 12 for his appeal against extradition to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sexual misconduct. Assange has been under house arrest in England for over six months, following a ruling in February at a London district court that the extradition of Assange to Sweden was valid and would not breach any of his human rights.
Democracy Now interviews David House
On the eve of the extradition hearing for WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange in London, Democracy Now! spent an exclusive hour with David House, who co-founded the Bradley Manning Support Network after U.S. Army Private Manning was arrested for allegedly releasing classified U.S. military documents to WikiLeaks.
Look Who’s Whacking WikiLeaks
Steve Fishman and New York Magazine – Perception Management
Why is WikiLeaks using part of its current funds to sue MasterCard and Visa (legal activism)
For six months, without explanation or legal justification, MasterCard and Visa have illegally blocked all public donations made through their systems from reaching WikiLeaks. So WikiLeaks is suing them for access to these donations. Some people ask why WikiLeaks is doing this, instead of only using its present means to continue to publish the US Embassy Cables, of which more than 234,000 remain to be published.
WikiLeaks MasterCard, Visa Donations Accepted Again
WikiLeaks has again begun accepting credit card donations, a company affiliated with the secret-spilling site said Thursday. Andreas Fink, the chief executive of Icelandic payment processor DataCell, told The Associated Press that Visa and MasterCard were again processing payments to WikiLeaks after a seven month hiatus. Fink claimed the move was a tacit admission of guilt on behalf of the credit card companies, but it may well have been accidental.
Reclusive and Dangerous: A Behind The Scenes Look Into The Fight Between Hacker Ryan Cleary And Anonymous
Hackers have a habit of publishing logs of their chat-room conversations in forums where everyone can read them. In the logs that hackers claim show Cleary's conversations, he comes across as intelligent, boastful and nasty - he brags about being able to drain funds from the bank accounts he hacks, he threatens to ruin the websites of his critics and he rails against anyone who "fails to understand" him.
The Big Laundry or the Bad Apples in Bulgarias Banking Sector
On October 26, 2005, on the so-called government route on Bulgaria boulevard in Sofia, banker Emil Kuylev was gunned down. Immediately after the murder, the top people in the country Interior Minister, Rumen Petkov, Chief Prosecutor, Nikola Filchev, and President Parvanov publically declared that Kyulev s business was clean.
LocalLeaks and HackerLeaks Press Release
Press Release - First we would like to thank the global media for being so attentive to the launch of our two new disclosure platforms. We would also like to thank the several dozen people who already trusted us with their sensitive leaks. It has been a remarkable week for those of us who staff these two important projects. None of us ever expected in our wildest dreams the enormity of the reaction to these two ideas.
Sex, lies and no videotape: Göran Rudling dismantles the case against Julian Assange
G ran Rudling is a highly concerned Swedish citizen in respect of that nation's sexual offences legislation and its operation. He has particular views, some of which are most interesting ie the story of one complainant (for the moment we might refer to her as 'AA') of whom he says: it's a matter of "Revenge by Proxy."
WikiLeaks Spoofs Classic MasterCard Commercial
Anonymous Launches HackerLeaks – WikiLeaks For Stolen Data
Big bank censorship of Wikileaks
Cables reveal hidden sides of Nicaragua’s ‘Zero Hunger’ budget deficit from the very beginning due to lack of transparency
The reported number of people living below the poverty line is 2,300,000 individuals in Nicaragua, and the zero hunger program was designed to lift people out of poverty. However, recently released cables detail how the progression of planning the program and defining standards had been opaque since the first step.
Most in the American LGBT Community Do Not Know of Bradley Manning
Jin Renqing, Chinese Finance Minster, Fired For Affair With Taiwanese Spy
@Lulzsec’s Last Press Release
In a pastebin press release, @lulzsec says good bye, thank you, and carry on without us - We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many machines. We are all part of it, helping it grow, and helping it grow on us.
Introducing the Monthly International WikiLeaks Central Essay Competition. Brilliance equals payola.
Interview with Tangerine Bolen: ‘WikiLeaks kicked open the door…our responsibility to make sure that door never shuts again.’
Julian Assange: Detention ‘An Impediment’ To WikiLeaks Work
Grand Jury Meets to Question WikiLeaks Supporters ‘Do You or Have You Ever Worked for WikiLeaks ‘
A federal grand jury empanelled to investigate WikiLeaks meets again in Alexandria, Virginia today. David House, co-founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network, is expected to appear before the grand jury. He and others in the Greater Boston area have been subjected to this process, which seeks to embroil them in espionage charges for being linked to WikiLeaks
Torture Accountability After All
Those of us who opposed the Bush administration torture program have been demoralized by the lack of accountability for the numerous abuses committed as part of that program. President Obama decried torture, and said he would end it, but he also said he wanted to "look forward, not back," apparently precluding investigations of the abuses committed by the previous administration.
CNN’s ‘WikiWars’ Documentary Exploits Character of Julian Assange to Cast Doubt on WikiLeaks
Closely following the character of Julian Assange, founder of the pro-transparency media organization WikiLeaks, the recently aired CNN documentary, 'WikiWars,' provides a presentation of the story of the organization with a prime focus on Assange's character. It is another opportunity, like PBS' Frontline documentary "WikiSecrets," for a wide audience in the United States to get a better grasp of the nature of the organization
The extradition appeal of Julian Assange EU melting pots, ambiguities and human rights on trial.
Julian Assange s defence made substantial arguments at the extradition hearing that the EAW was not for the purposes of prosecution, that the use of the word lagforing in the warrant, meaning judicial process, was not sufficient to qualify as meaning a prosecution for the required purposes of an EAW.
How WikiLeaks has changed today’s media
New Subpoenas Issued in WikiLeaks Grand Jury Investigation: Time for a Political Support Committee
The grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks has widened. A subpoena has been issued to David House, co-founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network. Manning s ex-boyfriend, Tyler Watkins, who recently appeared in PBS Frontline s 'WikiSecrets' documentary, and Nadia Heninger, who has done work with WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum (someone whose Twitter user data has been subpoenaed by the government), have each been served with a subpoena
Nigeria: The Cost of Oil
Omar Deghayes on Omar Khadr
Julian Assange: WikiLeaks Publishing Classified Documents Hasn’t Resulted In Anyone Being Harmed
The Revenge of Aaron Barr: Firing the Social Engineering Cannon at Anon
Bradley Manning Supporters Rally At Kansas Prison
Hundreds of supporters of Bradley Manning converged at Leavenworth, Kan., Saturday to rally for the Army private accused of leaking classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. Gathered outside the prison where Manning is currently being held, protesters denounced Manning's treatment and called on the White House to drop all charges against him.