Wikileaks
The Definitive Guantanamo Prisoner List Updated for 2011, With New Information and Photos from WikiLeaks
Since I began my quest to discover the stories of the Guant namo prisoners, and to bring those stories to the world, which I first embarked upon over five years ago, I have endeavoured to make that information as accessible as possible. A major step in achieving this took place in March 2009, when I first produced my four-part Definitive Guant namo Prisoner List, providing the names and nationalities of all 779 prisoners, and, in over 90 percent of those cases, links to my own articles about Guant namo (around 300 at that point), providing more information about them, or references for where their stories appear in my book The Guant namo Files or in 12 additional online chapters.
Wikileaks Cable Confirms North American Union Agenda
A newly leaked U.S. diplomatic cable originally written over six years ago confirms that the agenda to merge the United States, Canada and Mexico into an integrated North American Union has been ongoing for years, debunking claims made consistently by the corporate media and establishment talking heads that the NAU is a baseless 'conspiracy theory'.
A Pulled Scoop Shows U.S. Fought to Keep Haitian Wages Down
Memorial Day in America: What the US Government Wants Americans to Remember vs. What WikiLeaks Thinks Should Be Remembered
Bulgarian PM: I don’t read Wikileaks… I don’t read tabloids
WikiLeaks, Pakistan and the Ghost of Vietnam
What's said about sausage and journalism must also be true of foreign policy: that if you knew how it was produced, you wouldn't want to consume it. I'm certainly disgusted and alarmed to learn from WikiLeaks via Dawn.com that U.S. special operations forces deployed secretly on joint operations with Pakistani troops as early as 2009, but I'm not surprised. Are you?
WikiLeaks Probe Ramps Up One Year After Bradley Manning’s Arrest
PBS Chat Raises More Questions About Production of ‘WikiSecrets’
Whether Manning could have a fair trial now that the Commander-in-Chief has told his subordinates he thinks Manning is guilty is doubtful. A military officer would be risking his career if he or she handed down a decision that did not meet the approval of the Obama Administration. Gaviria/Smith are seemingly oblivious to this when they type their answer.
Julian Assange Calls Media Coverage Of Bradley Manning ‘Appalling’
Pakistan’s National Defense University Rife With Anti-Americanism
PBS FRONTLINE’s ‘WikiSecrets’ Wants to Be Objective and Fair and That’s Why It’s Weak
Anyone familiar with the stories of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, the organization s founder and Pfc. Bradley Manning, the alleged whistleblower to WikiLeaks, would be forgiven for wondering whether PBS Frontline s documentary 'WikiSecrets' presents anything new or not. The documentary attempts to make a sensational connection between Manning and Assange and suggest that Assange might know Manning is the source of the information.
Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov: Major Methamphetamines Traffic and Dependency on Lukoil
"We must continue to walk a fine line between being used by Borisov's publicity machine and alienating an exceptionally popular and seemingly pro-American politician who may emerge as Bulgaria's next leader. In other words, we should continue to push him in the right direction, but never forget who we're dealing with."
On the issue of the US, Pakistan’s playing with fire.
The Dawn Media Group in partnership with WikiLeaks has been releasing the "Pakistan Papers." Thus far, some of the revelations include the following: Pakistan's military asked for continued drone coverage, the US has had troops deployed on Pakistan soil, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been financing jihadist groups in Pakistan and the US did not provide Benazir Bhutto with proper security.
Trouble for Assange
WikiLeaks Cache Reveal Pakistan’s Role in Drone Strikes
A collaboration between WikiLeaks and the Pakistani newspaper Dawn is straining the already tense relations between the U.S. and Pakistan following the secret raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. A trove of previously top secret State Department cables shed new light on Pakistan's role in encouraging U.S. drone strikes in the country.
One Year On: The Unmaking of Bradley Manning, Part II
Bulgarian Nationalist under US Diplomatic Fire
Henry Rollins on Wikileaks and government reform
One Year Ago: The Unmaking of Bradley Manning
On February 18, 2010, WikiLeaks posted on its Web site a U.S. State Department diplomatic cable dated January 13, 2010, from the embassy in Reykjavik, Iceland. It was an intriguing, if not earthshaking, document that would later earn the tag "Reykjavik13." In the cable, the U.S. deputy chief of mission, Sam Watson, described private talks with Icelandic leaders over a referendum on whether to repay losses from a bank failure, with the real possibility that Iceland could default in 2011
Former Bulgarian Interior Minister Rumen Petkov Busted for Peeing in a City Fountain
Debating Whether the Organization is Hypocritical or Not
For the past four or five days, a copy of a leaked confidentiality agreement from WikiLeaks has been a hot topic among those who follow news and politics. Those that have regularly scrutinized WikiLeaks, who have typically gone along with any meme in the media that shines a light on the organization s imperfections, took the posting of this agreement as an opportunity to focus on how this showed complete hypocrisy.
Behind the Blogger Who Made the WikiLeaks Confidentiality Agreement a Top Story
WikiLeaks Guantanamo Release Offers an Opportunity for Truth Telling
Leaked WikiLeaks Confidentiality Agreement Neither ‘Draconian’ Nor ‘Extraordinary’
A leaked confidentiality agreement that those doing business with WikiLeaks are expected to sign was obtained and published by the New Statesman. The New Statesman and other news organizations believe they have uncovered another aspect of the WikiLeaks organization that indicates it is unfit to be trusted by whistleblowers. But, for anyone who understands confidentiality agreements there may be nothing extraordinary or even draconian about the agreement
Does an Al Qaeda Anthrax Operative Own New York Pharmacies
Journalism vs. WikiLeaks
David Corn has a piece today about a Pakistani businessman who owns several pharmacies in New York City and has been fingered by a Guantanamo detainee as a "possible al-Qaida anthrax operative." So is he? Nobody knows. Maybe the Gitmo detainee was just making stuff up. Maybe it's already been exhaustively investigated and the guy has been cleared. Or maybe he really did have al-Qaeda ties at one time. The Pakistani guy can't be reached, and there's no evidence one way or the other about this aside from the detainee report, so it's impossible to say.
Gitmo Guards’ Rewards System for Detainees Backfires
The story of Yasser Talal Al Zahrani offers one of the most mysterious, and ultimately tragic, narratives in the Gitmo Files published by WikiLeaks this past week. The son of 'a senior official in the Saudi Interior Ministry, reportedly holding the rank of abid, or brigadier,' the seventeen-year-old al Zahrani reportedly left home, having just completed the eleventh grade, 'after hearing that sheiks from neighboring [sic throughout] towns were saying jihad in Afghanistan (AF) was a religious duty.'
Decision to Not Release bin Laden Death Photos Rests on Same Dubious Logic Used Against WikiLeaks
I view everything surrounding the killing of bin Laden to be necessary to deciding whether to release the photos or not. In that sense, President Obama s good decision to not give a speech at Ground Zero in New York yesterday should help inform the debate. What he did by not giving a speech was what someone like former President George W. Bush would not have had the courage to do: he chose, in that moment, to not exploit 9/11 and use it to further advance the national security agenda of America.
Wall Street Journal Launches Its Own WikiLeaks
Facebook Responds To Assange Claim It Is A ‘Spying Machine’
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange recently said in an interview that Facebook is "the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented." Alleging that the social network is vulnerable to "pressure" from U.S. Intelligence, Assange said that the government could potentially exploit user data stored on the network.
IrishLeaks Launches Submission Platform
Today marks the launch of IrishLeaks, an implementation of the Wikileaks model for anonymous leaking platforms in the Republic of Ireland. The platform has received some coverage in domestic Irish news in recent days. IrishLeaks is apparently unaffiliated with Wikileaks in any way. The site now claims to be operational, and open to submissions
Wikileaks on Canada in time for the election
White House Punishing Press for Reporting on Bradley Manning
Putin to bulgarian PM: Bulgarians risk being cold this winter if they don’t advance russian energy projects
Is there evidence of secret CIA prisons on Polish territory
Polish public broadcaster TVP reports that an investigation into alleged secret CIA prisons on Polish territory may have yielded first results. According to a source, Polish investigators have evidence on the exact date prisoner Abu Zubaida was transferred to and from Szymany airport. He is said to have arrived in December 2002 and departed in September 2003.
The Sharecropper And The Terrorist: What The Leaked Files On Two Detainees Reveal About The Guantanamo Dilemma
In December 2001, Pakistani forces arrested two men within a few days of each other in the mountains on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The travelers had nothing to do with each other and little in common. Yet for the next year or so they shared a fate: imprisonment in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
The Guantanamo Children: These Aren’t What You’d Call ‘Little League’ Terrorists
Pakistani national Naqib Ullah (also Naqibullah) was 14 years old and out doing an errand for his father when he was kidnapped from his village in Khan, Afghanistan by 11 men that called themselves, "Samoud's people." The men, according to Ullah, "forcibly raped him at gunpoint". He was taken back to the men's village encampment and "forced to do manual work."
The WikiLeaks Guantanamo release ‘Made up as they went along’
Guantanamo Files: The essential primer
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Met With Jose Padilla, Ex-Chicago Gang Leader, In 2002 WikiLeaks
New York Times, NPR Collude with US Government on Gitmo Files Coverage
A statement from the Pentagon was published just after 9 pm ET on April 24th, no more than an hour or two after the New York Times had posted their package covering the Gitmo Files they had not obtained from WikiLeaks. The statement was posted on NPR and the Times website. Yet, again, it seems this is an instance of complete collusion between the press and government.
Will WikiLeaks vs. NYT, The Guardian and Daniel Domscheit-Berg Drama Overshadow Contents of Gitmo Files
The release of the files should draw attention to the reality that, despite US President Barack Obama's promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, the prison is still open. In fact, El Pais has posted analysis to complement coverage of the Guantanamo Files, which details how "legal and political setbacks" prevented Obama from closing the military prison:
What Can Be Found in Each File
McClatchy Newspapers writes "the US military set up a human intelligence laboratory at Guantanamo," the Washington Post details new classified military documents obtained by the "anti-secrecy organization" present "new details" of detainees whereabouts on Sept 11, 2001 and afterward and the Daily Telegraph reports that it has exposed "America's own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world's most dangerous terrorists."
In Gitmo Opinion, Two Versions of Reality
On Sunday night, a number of news outlets and WikiLeaks published a trove of classified documents [1] on detainees at Guantanamo Bay. ProPublica has been reporting on Gitmo [2] and the issues surrounding indefinite detention for more than two years. In October 2010, Dafna Linzer revealed how the Obama administration censored one federal judge's Gitmo decision [3] that had questioned the government's evidence against a detainee.
Most Surprising Revelations From The Leaked Documents
"Impotence-promoting" drugs. The threat of a "nuclear hellstorm." Prisoners leashed like dogs and forced to urinate on themselves. These are just a few of the shocking revelations found among the cache of over 700 classified military documents detailing the 779 people who have been detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
Ethan McCord and Kevin Zeese on Bradley Manning and Soldiers in War
Director of New Film on ‘Collateral Murder’: It’s a ‘Perfect Microcosm of Iraq War
US Military Retreats on Manning Abuse
State Dept Spokesman’s Newspeak on Whether the US is Undermining the Syria Government
The Washington Post s coverage of US State Embassy cables that suggest the US has been secretly backing Syrian opposition groups snowballed into a big story today. With the regime gunning down more protesters, senior Obama Administration officials took the opportunity to rehash the talking point that the disclosure of information obtained by WikiLeaks could endanger lives.
Second appeal to the American Medical Association concerning Bradley Manning
President Obama recently stated that Private Manning s conditions comply with the Pentagon s basic standards. Given that those standards apparently permit Private Manning to be subjected to plainly unconstitutional conditions, it is clear that the Department of Defense must adapt its standards to meet the demands of the constitution.
Shadowy figures play with real lives in
We are extremely concerned that lives are endangered as a result of this article based on WikiLeaks," a senior Obama administration official told Fox News Monday morning. "The concern regards what (the) Syrians might do to those that work for (Barada), given that (Assad and his security forces) are prone to crack down and could well use this as an excuse -- blaming it on foreigners."
Nigerian Elections: Candidates, as Previously Revealed in WikiLeaks Cables, Still Register to Vote Multiple Times
Nigerian elections that had been postponed until Monday, April 4th, have been postponed yet again by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which is headed by Professor Attahiru Jega. From the INEC headquarters, the rescheduling was announced by Jega, who said since announcing the rescheduling several requests made to the Commission have urged it to consult more widely and ensure the two-day postponement addresses all logistical issues.
State Department Cables Reveal U.S. Thirst For All Things Iranian
Tell Quantico and the Pentagon to allow official visits to Pfc Bradley Manning
We call on you to stop obstructing official visits to PFC. Bradley Manning at Quantico Marine Base. Marine confinement rules clearly state that people "conducting official government business, either on behalf of the prisoner or in the interest of justice," can be allowed "official visits" not subject to monitoring by the brig. Rep. Dennis Kucinich is clearly conducting official government business in the interest of justice.
WikiLeaks Demonstrates Where Citizens Must Apply Pressure to Advance Media Reform and Justice
Avaaz petition for Bradley Manning
To President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates: We call on you to immediately end the torture, isolation and public humiliation of Bradley Manning. This treatment is a violation of his constitutionally guaranteed human rights, and a chilling deterrent to other potential whistleblowers committed to public integrity.
Some Jewish Settlers Ready To Move For Money
This Week in WikiLeaks Presents Danny Schechter Talking About US Media
UK Commons debate on Bradley Manning
The opening argument of MP Ann Clwyd (Labour - Cynon Valley) is notable for emphasizing that Bradley Manning's citizenship is not the sole reason a government of laws should be concerned about his treatment. She had earlier raised the interpretation of the British Nationality Act with the foreign minister in committee and in the Commons, but in this address, she reminds the government of its commitment to speak out against human-rights abuses everywhere, regardless of the victim's nationality.
Open Letter in Defence of WikiLeaks’ Right to Publish
365 Days of #WikiLeaks (Since the ‘Collateral Murder’ Video Release) #365Leaks
Nigerian Elections: Candidates, as Previously Revealed in WikiLeaks Cables, Still Register to Vote Multiple Times
Nigerian elections that had been postponed until Monday, April 4th, have been postponed yet again by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which is headed by Professor Attahiru Jega. From the INEC headquarters, the rescheduling was announced by Jega, who said since announcing the rescheduling several requests made to the Commission have urged it to consult more widely and ensure the two-day postponement addresses all logistical issues
WikiLeaks Cable Vindicates Struggle Against Dow Chemical in India
US withholding key documents
The US government has reacted strongly to Bradley Manning's alleged disclosure of recent diplomatic cables via WikiLeaks. We have heard State Department officials make their good case that indiscriminate leaks of contemporary communications - however much they contribute to public understanding of foreign policy - can undermine diplomacy and endanger human lives. But what we haven't heard is that the Department has been withholding from the public historical documents that bear strongly on two ongoing foreign policy crises.
Bradley Manning Threatened Stepmother With Knife, 911 Call Suggests
At Harvard Law School, Ellsberg draws parallels between Pentagon Papers and WikiLeaks
One Year Ago How the ‘Era of WikiLeaks’ Began — With ‘Murder’
Exactly one year ago this week, Julian Assange and a crew of WikiLeaks volunteers -- including Birgitta Jonsdottir, who has since become a critic -- assembled in Reykjavik, Iceland, to edit and add subtitles to a video of a 2007 incident in Baghdad that Assange himself would title, "Collateral Murder."
Bulgaria – Mafia Lives Here
Yemeni Commander That Defected Was Once Targeted by Saleh
Saudi pilots tasked with striking Houthis in northern Yemen aborted the mission after realizing the site they were being asked to hit was the headquarters of General Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar, a Yemeni northern area commander and known political opponent of Saleh. That s what a cable released by WikiLeaks sent out from the US Embassy in Riyadh on February 7, 2010 reads.