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10 Mar 2011

Bradley Mistreated while in Custody

I was invited to a presentation at MIT this afternoon, given by P.J. Crowley of the U.S. State Department. His role there is Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs. Mr. Crowley was at MIT to talk about the role of social media in government. During the Q&A, Mr. Crowley stated that he felt Bradley Manning, who has been in military custody since May 2010 for his connection to WikiLeaks, is being 'mistreated' while in custody.
I was invited to a presentation at MIT this afternoon, given by P.J. Crowley of the U.S. State Department. His role...
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9 Mar 2011

US-Libya Business Association Leaders on ‘Surviving the WikiLeaks Controversy’ Let’s Just Forget About the Ukrainian Nurse

Wikileaks cables reveal that one of the chief objectives of diplomats in Libya over the past years have been to improve and ensure that the energy sector is able to have maximum commercial opportunities. This led the USLBA, the National Foreign Trade Council, the National Association of Manufacturers and the US Chamber of Commerce to urge Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to "pursue waiver authority for Section 1083 for countries that have been removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism" on February 28, 2008.
Wikileaks cables reveal that one of the chief objectives of diplomats in Libya over the past years have been to improve...
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5 Mar 2011

The National Shame of the US Military’s ‘Slow Torture’ of Bradley Manning

Stripping before men still clothed is the first step toward weakening the prisoner s psychological defense. But stripping is also sexually laden. It transposes sexual gestures, acts and innuendo from a strip club to the torture chamber. Thus sex is always present in the torture chamber whether the victim is a man or a woman. The sexing of torture is deeply grounded in the recesses of the torturer s psyche.
Stripping before men still clothed is the first step toward weakening the prisoner s psychological defense. But...
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1 Mar 2011

Shifting editorial standards

Earlier today, Ian Hislop, editor of a magazine called Private Eye, published a lengthy article recounting what he claims are anti-Jewish remarks made to him by Julian Assange in a private telephone call (meaning a call in which only Hislop and Assange participated).
Earlier today, Ian Hislop, editor of a magazine called Private Eye, published a lengthy article recounting what he...
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1 Mar 2011

Why Assange lost

On 24 February 2011, the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court ordered the extradition of Julian Assange to Sweden under a European Arrest Warrant. This extradition order does not necessarily mean, of course, that he will be extradited, still less that he will be charged, tried, or convicted.
On 24 February 2011, the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court ordered the extradition of Julian Assange to Sweden...
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13 Feb 2011

A Campaign to Smear WikiLeaks Supporters

Internal documents of a California computer security firm obtained by pro-WikiLeaks hackers have been made available online, suggesting various ways companies can help undermine the whistle-blowing website as it prepares to release material that could prove damaging to Bank of America and other financial entities
Internal documents of a California computer security firm obtained by pro-WikiLeaks hackers have been made available...
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13 Feb 2011

Assange Is Not the Point, WikiLeaks Is

It is becoming common for people to say they don't like WikiLeaks because they can't stand Assange. This is misleading. Few sympathize with Assange as a character. Most of us, myself included, have never met with him. But the issue here is not Assange, his hair or whether he does, or does not have, the ability to have sex with women while they are asleep
It is becoming common for people to say they don't like WikiLeaks because they can't stand Assange. This is misleading....
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11 Feb 2011

The leaked campaign to attack WikiLeaks and its supporters

Last week, Aaron Barr, a top executive at computer security firm HB Gary, boasted to the Financial Times that his firm had infiltrated and begun to expose Anonymous, the group of pro-WikiLeaks hackers that had launched cyber attacks on companies terminating services to the whistleblowing site (such as Paypal, MasterCard, Visa, Amazon and others).  In retaliation, Anonymous hacked into the email accounts of HB Gary, published 50,000 of their emails online, and also hacked Barr's Twitter and other online accounts. 
Last week, Aaron Barr, a top executive at computer security firm HB Gary, boasted to the Financial Times that his firm...
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10 Feb 2011

WikiLeaks May Have Just Confirmed That Peak Oil Is Imminent

It's getting more and more difficult to deny that an oil supply crunch is just a few years down the road, especially now that WikiLeaks has released cables revealing that Saudi Arabia's oil reserves have been exaggerated by as much as 40%, or 300 billion barrels. Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil exporter.
It's getting more and more difficult to deny that an oil supply crunch is just a few years down the road, especially now...
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9 Feb 2011

WikiLeaks vs. Donald Rumsfeld Whom Do You Believe

WikiLeaks' massive "war logs" release on Iraq last October exposed Rumsfeld in this regard over and over, but were quickly forgotten by mainstream journalists -- even though the material was not "political" or even from the media but rather from U.S. soldiers on the ground. That's one reason I cover them in-depth (along with all the other WIkiLeaks releases and current controversies) in my new book The Age of WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks' massive "war logs" release on Iraq last October exposed Rumsfeld in this regard over and over, but were...
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9 Feb 2011

NYT’s Keller Disparages Assange

Someone should count how many disparaging descriptions Keller slips in about Assange s personal appearance and ask how that s important to the issues of the factually-verified documentation that WikiLeaks has revealed relating to war crimes, civilian killings, deceitful foreign policies and major frauds.
Someone should count how many disparaging descriptions Keller slips in about Assange s personal appearance and ask how...
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8 Feb 2011

Julian Assange’s Prosecutor Accused of Anti-Men Bias

The extradition hearings in London Monday of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange drips with intrigue: a mysterious Australian hacker accused of sex crimes by two Swedish women. Now add this to the mix: Monday, a retired female judge accused the female Swedish prosecutor attempting to extradite Assange of having a "biased view" against men.
The extradition hearings in London Monday of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange drips with intrigue: a mysterious...
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7 Feb 2011

Dinner with Julian

On Wednesday the 9th of February 2011 from 6.30pm GMT people from all around the world will commence dining with their friends in a unified effort to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of speech.
On Wednesday the 9th of February 2011 from 6.30pm GMT people from all around the world will commence dining with their...
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5 Feb 2011

Bradley Manning and the Tomb of the Well-Known Soldier

Nearly nine months after he was arrested for allegedly leaking classified material, including diplomatic cables, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was very much in the news this week. His supporters and attorney David Coombs continued to charge that the conditions of his confinement were overly harsh and punitive, while the Pentagon continued to deny that. Amnesty International protested the conditions and so did Rep. Dennis Kucinich, among many others. Coombs revealed that Manning did not, as some had suggested, have dual British citizenship. Manning, he said, was proud to be an American and an American soldier.
Nearly nine months after he was arrested for allegedly leaking classified material, including diplomatic cables, Army...
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29 Jan 2011

WikiLeaks Cables Show US Toned Down Pressure On Egypt

The U.S. ambassador in Cairo warned Washington to be less confrontational in its dealings with Egypt, toning down human rights pressure to avoid jeopardizing relations with the Middle East ally, dozens of U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks Friday showed.
The U.S. ambassador in Cairo warned Washington to be less confrontational in its dealings with Egypt, toning down human...
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26 Jan 2011

Bradley Manning placed on suicide watch

In a development which may cast new light on yesterday's incidents at Quantico military prison, NBC reports that "U.S. military officials" indicated that Bradley Manning was placed on suicide watch last week by Brig Commander James Averhart, in a violation of procedure.
In a development which may cast new light on yesterday's incidents at Quantico military prison, NBC reports that "U.S....
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26 Jan 2011

Wikileaks barrister Geoffrey Robertson receives NY Bar Association award, warns US

While accepting an award for distinction in international law and affairs from the NY Bar Association, Geoffrey Robertson, who will defend Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at his extradition hearings in London in February, warned that the United States "risked irrevocable damage to its reputation if it pursued Assange" by "aiming the blunderbuss of its 1917 Espionage Act, death penalty and all, at a publisher who is a citizen of a friendly nation," according to the The Age: US told to drop Assange pursuit.
While accepting an award for distinction in international law and affairs from the NY Bar Association, Geoffrey...
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26 Jan 2011

News Desk A WikiLeaks Arms Race

Earlier this month, Al Jazeera launched a new feature on its Web site called the Transparency Unit - the network s in-house version of WikiLeaks. When the unit first went online, there was not much coverage about it in English, but that changed over the weekend when Al Jazeera announced that it had gained access to a large tranche of confidential documents, now being called the "Palestine Papers."
Earlier this month, Al Jazeera launched a new feature on its Web site called the Transparency Unit - the network s...
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24 Jan 2011

Goal of Quantico Incident Was To Abuse Bradley Manning and Intimidate David House

Everyone but David has stopped coming to see Bradley, and it takes a lot of courage to do what David is doing. It s a very intimidating situation. So I try to support him by giving him a place to stay and driving him to the base when he comes to town. That s really my only involvement
Everyone but David has stopped coming to see Bradley, and it takes a lot of courage to do what David is doing. It s a...
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20 Jan 2011

Obama officials caught deceiving about WikiLeaks

Whenever the U.S. Government wants to demonize a person or group in order to justify attacks on them, it follows the same playbook: it manufactures falsehoods about them, baselessly warns that they pose Grave Dangers and are severely harming our National Security, peppers all that with personality smears to render the targeted individuals repellent on a personal level, and feeds it all to the establishment American media, which then dutifully amplifies and mindlessly disseminates it all.
Whenever the U.S. Government wants to demonize a person or group in order to justify attacks on them, it follows the...
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19 Jan 2011

Swiss ‘Wikileaks’ banker guilty of coercion

A Swiss banker who claims to have handed WikiLeaks details of rich tax evaders has been found guilty of coercion and breaking Switzerland's strict banking secrecy laws. A judge at Zurich's Regional Court has sentenced Rudolf Elmer to a fine of over 6,000 Swiss francs ($6,000).
A Swiss banker who claims to have handed WikiLeaks details of rich tax evaders has been found guilty of coercion and...
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19 Jan 2011

Bradley Manning Walking in the Footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The world now demands a maturity of America that we may not be able to achieve. It demands that we admit that we have been wrong... that we have been detrimental to... life. The situation is one in which we must be ready to turn sharply from our present ways," said Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. when speaking of the Vietnam War.
The world now demands a maturity of America that we may not be able to achieve. It demands that we admit that we have...
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19 Jan 2011

‘Pained’ Libyan Dictator Blames Wikileaks for Tunisia Uprising

As chaos reigns in neighboring Tunisia, Libya's "Brother Leader" Muammar Qaddafi went on television to say he is "very pained" to see another strongman fall. He's probably also upset over reports of riots breaking out in Libya.
As chaos reigns in neighboring Tunisia, Libya's "Brother Leader" Muammar Qaddafi went on television to say he is "very...
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17 Jan 2011

Press conference at Frontline with Rudolf Elmer and Julian Assange

This morning at the Frontline club, Rudolf Elmer handed over to Julian Assange a set of CDs containing leaked banking materials for 2,000 offshore bank accounts. As we reported on Sunday, "[d]details on the CD's ... include information on business people, approximately 40 politicians, people who have made their living in the arts and multinational conglomerates, from US, Britain, Germany, Austria, Asia" and other currently undisclosed locations.
This morning at the Frontline club, Rudolf Elmer handed over to Julian Assange a set of CDs containing leaked banking...
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17 Jan 2011

Pained’ Libyan Dictator Blames Wikileaks for Tunisia Uprising

As chaos reigns in neighboring Tunisia, Libya's "Brother Leader" Muammar Qaddafi went on television to say he is "very pained" to see another strongman fall. He's probably also upset over reports of riots breaking out in Libya.
As chaos reigns in neighboring Tunisia, Libya's "Brother Leader" Muammar Qaddafi went on television to say he is "very...
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13 Jan 2011

How WikiLeaks Unhinged Washington

The WikiLeaks disclosures have prompted a new round of craziness within the U.S. government from the Justice Department devising novel theories for prosecuting people (even non-Americans) who publish Washington s secrets to new strategies for ferreting out disgruntled employees who might be inclined to leak.
The WikiLeaks disclosures have prompted a new round of craziness within the U.S. government from the Justice Department...
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10 Jan 2011

Government-created climate of fear

One of the more eye-opening events for me of 2010 occurred in March, when I first wrote about WikiLeaks and the war the Pentagon was waging on it (as evidenced by its classified 2008 report branding the website an enemy and planning how to destroy it).
One of the more eye-opening events for me of 2010 occurred in March, when I first wrote about WikiLeaks and the war the...
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10 Jan 2011

WikiLeaks causes Singapore Officials to be Cautious with U.S Diplomats

Last month, there were several released documents from WikiLeaks, which showed Singapore Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew and other Singapore diplomats giving unflattering remarks on countries including Myanmar, North Korea, Malaysia and India.
Last month, there were several released documents from WikiLeaks, which showed Singapore Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew...
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10 Jan 2011

US subpoenas Twitter, seeking information on WikiLeaks’ 635,561 followers

A Dutch investigative journalist blasted the US Department of Justice for requesting information on everyone following WikiLeaks' Twitter account and everyone they follow. Which would include Raw Story. The US Department of Justice subpoenaed the social networking site Twitter in December in connection with an ongoing criminal investigation of the secrets outlet.
A Dutch investigative journalist blasted the US Department of Justice for requesting information on everyone following...
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8 Jan 2011

WikiLeaks and Glenn Beck show that journalism is becoming more influential – but also more reductive.

In the past year, journalism, which in the West sees itself as beset by decline, has vastly increased its power. Three large developments have made the implicit, yet huge, claim that journalism, our way of knowing what is happening in our complex world, is essentially a matter of competing high-decibel political dispute and total transparency.
In the past year, journalism, which in the West sees itself as beset by decline, has vastly increased its power. Three...
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8 Jan 2011

Israel Bribes For Gaza Access Reported By WikiLeaks Cables

A U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks on Thursday quoted American officials as saying a key Israeli cargo crossing for goods entering the Gaza Strip was rife with corruption. The June 14, 2006, cable, published Thursday by Norway's Aftenposten daily, says major American companies told U.S. diplomats they were forced to pay hefty bribes to get goods into Gaza. It was unclear whether the practice still continues.
A U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks on Thursday quoted American officials as saying a key Israeli cargo...
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7 Jan 2011

Instances Where Public Discourse Benefited from the Leaks

Regardless of the heated debate over the propriety of Wikileaks actions, some of the cables have contributed significantly to public and political conversations all around the world. In this article, we highlight a small selection of cables that been critical to understanding and evaluating controversial events.
Regardless of the heated debate over the propriety of Wikileaks actions, some of the cables have contributed...
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7 Jan 2011

The Pirate Party, And The Future Of The Internet

American diplomacy seems to have survived Wikileaks s attack on the international community, as Hillary Clinton so dramatically characterized it, unscathed. Save for a few diplomatic reshuffles, Foggy Bottom doesn t seem to be deeply affected by what happened. Certainly, the U.S. government at large has not been paralyzed by the leaks contrary to what Julian Assange had envisioned in one of his cryptic-cum-visionary essays, penned in 2006.
American diplomacy seems to have survived Wikileaks s attack on the international community, as Hillary Clinton so...
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7 Jan 2011

Julian Assange Threatened To Sue Guardian For Publishing WikiLeaks Cables

Julian Assange threatened to sue The Guardian unless the paper ceased its plans to published the State Department cables the WikiLeaks chief had given it, a Vanity Fair piece released Thursday reveals. The article, written by Sarah Ellison, details, the tense, volatile relationship between Assange and various media organizations after he decided to collaborate with them to publish WikiLeaks material.
Julian Assange threatened to sue The Guardian unless the paper ceased its plans to published the State Department cables...
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6 Jan 2011

Wikileaks in Zimbabwe, and in the Media

The problem here isn t that Albon and Richardson are wrong, though I certainly do disagree with them. The problem is that they don t seem to be anywhere nearly as interested in being right about Zimbabwe as they are in moralizing about Wikileaks
The problem here isn t that Albon and Richardson are wrong, though I certainly do disagree with them. The problem is...
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5 Jan 2011

Obama Should Read WikiLeaks Documents

Perhaps President Barack Obama should give himself a waiver on the ban prohibiting U.S. government employees from downloading classified cables released by WikiLeaks, so he can better understand the futility of his Afghan War strategy.
Perhaps President Barack Obama should give himself a waiver on the ban prohibiting U.S. government employees from...
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3 Jan 2011

Israel Plans Total War on Lebanon, Gaza

The memo on the talks between Ashkenazi and [Congressman Ike] Skelton, as well as numerous other documents from the same period of time, to which Aftenposten has gained access, leave a clear message: The Israeli military is forging ahead at full speed with preparations for a new war in the Middle East.
The memo on the talks between Ashkenazi and [Congressman Ike] Skelton, as well as numerous other documents from the same...
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29 Dec 2010

Floyd Abrams whizzes on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange

Did an imposter steal Floyd Abrams' identity and use it to sell an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal? That's the only explanation I can come up with after reading the First Amendment litigator's wacky battering of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange ("Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers").
Did an imposter steal Floyd Abrams' identity and use it to sell an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal? That's the only...
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28 Dec 2010

The merger of journalists and government officials

Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter of Wired reported that a 22-year-old U.S. Army Private in Iraq, Bradley Manning, had been detained after he "boasted" in an Internet chat -- with convicted computer hacker Adrian Lamo -- of leaking to WikiLeaks the now famous Apache Helicopter attack video, a yet-to-be-published video of a civilian-killing air attack in Afghanistan, and "hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records."
Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter of Wired reported that a 22-year-old U.S. Army Private in Iraq, Bradley Manning, had been...
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27 Dec 2010

Publisher confirms Julian Assange book deal

Publisher Alfred A. Knopf Inc. has confirmed striking a book deal with Julian Assange that the WikiLeaks founder says could be worth more than $1 million. A spokesman for the New York publishing house says that "a principle agreement is in place" and that Assange is due to hand in a manuscript sometime in 2011. The book's publication date is yet to be determined.
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf Inc. has confirmed striking a book deal with Julian Assange that the WikiLeaks founder says...
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27 Dec 2010

The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired

For more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed -- but refuses to publish -- the key evidence in one of the year's most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source.
For more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed -- but refuses to publish -- the key...
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24 Dec 2010

What WikiLeaks revealed to the world in 2010

Throughout this year I've devoted substantial attention to WikiLeaks, particularly in the last four weeks as calls for its destruction intensified. To understand why I've done so, and to see what motivates the increasing devotion of the U.S. Government and those influenced by it to destroying that organization, it's well worth reviewing exactly what WikiLeaks exposed to the world just in the last year: the breadth of the corruption, deceit, brutality and criminality on the part of the world's most powerful factions.
Throughout this year I've devoted substantial attention to WikiLeaks, particularly in the last four weeks as calls for...
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24 Dec 2010

Article 13 and PFC Bradley Manning

PFC Bradley Manning, unlike his civilian counterpart, is afforded no civil remedy for illegal restraint under either the Federal Civil Rights Act or the Federal Tort Claims Act. Similarly, the protection from cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment and Article 55 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) does not generally apply prior to a court-martial. Thus, the only judicial recourse that is available is under Article 13 of the UCMJ.
PFC Bradley Manning, unlike his civilian counterpart, is afforded no civil remedy for illegal restraint under either the...
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23 Dec 2010

What the Wikileaks furor shows us is that a dissent tax is emerging on the Internet

The Wikileaks furor shows us that these institutions of power are slowly and surely taking control of the key junctures of the Internet. As a mere quasi-public sphere, the Internet is somewhat akin to shopping malls, which seem like public spaces but in which the rights of citizens are restricted, as they are in fact private. If you think the freedom of the Internet could never be taken back, I implore you to read the history of radio. Technologies that start out as peer-to-peer and citizen-driven can be and have been taken over by corporate and state power
The Wikileaks furor shows us that these institutions of power are slowly and surely taking control of the key junctures...
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23 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks and the Fight for Privacy

In this view, a diplomatic communication should be protected so U.S. diplomats can communicate candidly to Washington, without fear their words will be made public and used against them. Yet, regardless of this argument s merits, it is curious that many of those making it were comparatively silent over the National Security Agency s warrantless wiretapping program that was exposed back in 2005, when it was the Bush administration deciding, without judicial oversight, to pry into the private communications of American citizens and others.
In this view, a diplomatic communication should be protected so U.S. diplomats can communicate candidly to Washington,...
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23 Dec 2010

The Case of Julian Assange

Given that US politicians, from Joe Biden to Sarah Palin, have called for Assange's head, it isn't paranoid to suspect that he is being singled out in order to extradite him to the United States. But it could also be that Sweden is following up because prosecutors get mad when world-class celebrities flee the country and then thumb their noses at them cf. Roman Polanski.
Given that US politicians, from Joe Biden to Sarah Palin, have called for Assange's head, it isn't paranoid to suspect...
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20 Dec 2010

Ida Lichter, M.D. Baha’is in Iran are Easily Forgotten

Wikileaks has revealed government and diplomatic violations of the truth while paradoxically keeping their own sources secret. In the process, editor in chief and whistleblower Julian Assange has become a hero for human rights defenders. Sadly, the intense publicity surrounding Wikileaks diverts attention from serious injustice and continuing human rights violations, some already on the back burner and badly neglected. A good example is the state-sponsored persecution of Baha'is in Iran.
Wikileaks has revealed government and diplomatic violations of the truth while paradoxically keeping their own sources...
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19 Dec 2010

Viva WikiLeaks! SiCKO Was Not Banned in Cuba

Yesterday WikiLeaks did an amazing thing and released a classified State Department cable that dealt, in part, with me and my film, 'Sicko.' It is a stunning look at the Orwellian nature of how bureaucrats for the State spin their lies and try to recreate reality (I assume to placate their bosses and tell them what they want to hear).
Yesterday WikiLeaks did an amazing thing and released a classified State Department cable that dealt, in part, with me...
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19 Dec 2010

Unsolicited advice for President Obama

All governments prefer to keep certain secrets and, in an ideal situation, everyone is on board with every decision. The WikiLeaks situation clearly cracked open and shared information we preferred to keep secret, resulting, in my opinion, a blow to current open government efforts. While illegally obtained and distributed the fact that the information is out there for citizens of the world to read is indisputable.
All governments prefer to keep certain secrets and, in an ideal situation, everyone is on board with every decision. The...
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18 Dec 2010

Joe Biden v. Joe Biden on WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are the new Iraqi WMDs because the government and establishment media are jointly manufacturing and disseminating an endless stream of fear-mongering falsehoods designed to depict them as scary villains threatening the security of The American People and who must therefore be stopped at any cost.
WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are the new Iraqi WMDs because the government and establishment media are jointly...
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18 Dec 2010

2010-12-17 Australian Federal Police Assange Has Committed No Crime Under Australian Law

As the Australian Federal Police inquiry announced its finding that neither Julian Assange nor Wikileaks have broken any Australian laws, the Australian Labor Party finds its public support slipping. According to an article in The Age, the opposition has overtaken the government for the first time since the federal election in August. Support for the coalition is up four per cent since the start of December, and support for the government is down four per cent. According to The Age
As the Australian Federal Police inquiry announced its finding that neither Julian Assange nor Wikileaks have broken any...
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17 Dec 2010

Larry Flynt Why I Am Donating $50,000 to WikiLeaks’ Defense Fund

Let's get something straight: Julian Assange is a journalist. You can argue that he is not practicing journalism the way you think it should be practiced -- releasing classified U.S. State Department documents -- but he's a journalist nonetheless. And for many of us he's a hero.
Let's get something straight: Julian Assange is a journalist. You can argue that he is not practicing journalism the way...
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17 Dec 2010

Julian Assange’s Love Emails to a 19-Year-Old Reveal Important Lessons in Dating

Gawker has obtained a series of emails supposedly from Julian Assange to a 19-year-old girl he met in a bar in Melbourne back in 2004, when he was 33. If these are to be believed as true, even then, prior to the foundation of WikiLeaks, he had a singular flair for getting at whatever undisclosed information he wanted (in this case, the girl's phone number).
Gawker has obtained a series of emails supposedly from Julian Assange to a 19-year-old girl he met in a bar in Melbourne...
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16 Dec 2010

Diplomacy Will Survive WikiLeaks

The WikiLeaks drama is only the latest in over a century of new technologies heralding the demise of professional diplomacy yet such rumors always prove to be greatly exaggerated. One defense comes from Roger Cohen of the New York Times who notes that the leaked cables reveal that American diplomats are, contrary to popular opinion and derision, in fact rather well-informed, articulate, and courageous. The nuance in the cables language implies that the kind of insights first-hand diplomacy provides cannot be substitute by the fleeting news dispatches of contemporary journalists. Others point out how banal the cables reveal modern-day diplomacy to be: indeed just journalism transmitted in capital letters.
The WikiLeaks drama is only the latest in over a century of new technologies heralding the demise of professional...
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16 Dec 2010

Getting to Assange through Manning

In The New York Times this morning, Charlie Savage describes the latest thinking from the DOJ about how to criminally prosecute WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. Federal investigators are "are looking for evidence of any collusion" between WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning -- "trying to find out whether Mr. Assange encouraged or even helped" the Army Private leak the documents -- and then "charge him as a conspirator in the leak, not just as a passive recipient of the documents who then published them." To achieve this, it is particularly important to "persuade Private Manning to testify against Mr. Assange." I want to make two points about this.
In The New York Times this morning, Charlie Savage describes the latest thinking from the DOJ about how to criminally...
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16 Dec 2010

Swedish State on Trial in Assange Case

The feeling is growing among WikiLeaks watchers that someone is pushing Sweden, as one attorney says. There are two examples cited: First, the original rape case against Assange was announced by a prosecutor in Stockholm in August, then immediately dropped by a higher Stockholm prosecutor, then reinstated in Gothenburg, after an enterprising lawyer apparently shopped for a friendlier jurisdiction. Bottom line: the Stockholm prosecutors, where the alleged sex offense occurred, have no apparent interest in the case. It would be as if a New York prosecutor declined a case in New York and the prosecutors sought a friendlier court in Mississippi.
The feeling is growing among WikiLeaks watchers that someone is pushing Sweden, as one attorney says. There are two...
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16 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks and the Power of Truth

It might strike some people as more than a touch ironic that Official Washington, which has been responsible for incalculable bloodshed around the world, is justifying the assault on WikiLeaks out of a concern for people s lives, claiming that the disclosures put some U.S. allies and collaborators at risk.
It might strike some people as more than a touch ironic that Official Washington, which has been responsible for...
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15 Dec 2010

Rallies Around the World in Support of Julian Assange

As reported by the BBC, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian rallies in support of Wikileaks and Julian Assange were held world wide. As a snapshot of the magnitude of rallies and Wikileaks' increasingly popular transparency movement the following is a list of "known" rallies held in the past 48 hours.
As reported by the BBC, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian rallies in support of Wikileaks and Julian Assange...
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15 Dec 2010

Noam Chomsky, Julian Assange and Michael Moore Brothers in Arms

Long before WikiLeaks or Julian Assange, Chomsky knew well that merely stating the facts would have you labeled as a 'radical'.Coming from an academic background, Chomsky was not accustomed to being silenced. In the academic setting, many of us fear refutation more than we fear anything else.
Long before WikiLeaks or Julian Assange, Chomsky knew well that merely stating the facts would have you labeled as a...
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15 Dec 2010

Wikileaks Central

This site was started by a group of WikiLeaks supporters who got to know each other in recent months. Our aims are simple: (a) To provide a one-stop resource for WikiLeaks-related information, current and historical. (b) To build a community site for WikiLeaks supporters. (c) To counteract the many rumours and plain false information disseminated about WikiLeaks.
This site was started by a group of WikiLeaks supporters who got to know each other in recent months. Our aims are...
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15 Dec 2010

Journalists Begin, Finally, to Stand Up in Defense of WikiLeaks and Freedom of Information

Leading Australian journalists have stepped up in a big way to defend WikiLeaks, with the head of the nation's major media union arguing that "attacks on WikiLeaks can also be seen as attacks on the Australian media outlets which have worked with the organisation to publish leaked material."
Leading Australian journalists have stepped up in a big way to defend WikiLeaks, with the head of the nation's major...
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15 Dec 2010

Michael Moore on Why Posting Bail for Julian Assange is a ‘True Act of Patriotism’

While WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues to be condemned by an unsettling number of American journalists and politicians - who seem to have forgotten the whole point of the First Amendment - filmmaker Michael Moore is not just speaking up on behalf of WikiLeaks.
While WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues to be condemned by an unsettling number of American journalists and...
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15 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks Thoughts

WikiLeaks may be no more or less perfect than other media entities. Freedom of the press and of speech are often messy. But these rights are crucial, enshrined and protected as our most fundamental principles and practices. The First Amendment is there to establish that it is not the job of the media in a democratic society to protect those in power from embarrassment or exposure. Thus, even when we are faced with what may we think of as bad press or speech, we must avoid responding with censorship -- the cure must not be worse than the disease.
WikiLeaks may be no more or less perfect than other media entities. Freedom of the press and of speech are often messy....
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14 Dec 2010

The War to Silence WikiLeaks

Much of the mainstream U.S. news media has sought to distance itself from WikiLeaks over its disclosure of classified records about the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and various diplomatic initiatives. The argument goes that WikiLeaks is not a real journalistic entity and thus undeserving of legal protections covering real journalists.
Much of the mainstream U.S. news media has sought to distance itself from WikiLeaks over its disclosure of classified...
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13 Dec 2010

Julian Assange in Berkeley

Our initial idea which never got implemented our initial idea was that, look at all those people editing Wikipedia. Look at all the junk that they re working on. Surely, if you give them a fresh classified document about the human rights atrocities in Falluja, that the rest of the world has not seen before, that, you know, that s a secret document, surely all those people that are busy working on articles about history and mathematics and so on, and all those bloggers that are busy pontificating about the abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan and other countries and other human rights disasters, who are complaining that they can only respond to the NY Times, because they don t have sources of their own, surely those people will step forward, given fresh source material and do something.
Our initial idea which never got implemented our initial idea was that, look at all those people editing Wikipedia. Look...
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12 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks information isn’t important, but WikiLeaks is

The United States is a story we tell ourselves. When we salute the flag, or say we love "our country," or proclaim that something can happen "only in America," we're not declaring our infatuation with some obscure bit of regulation or the synergistic effects of our economy. It's the story we like. Our lives are made up of such stories. There are few children so underwhelming that their parents don't think them extraordinary, few parents so abusive as to go unloved, few nations so corrupt that their citizens don't view them as the jewel in the world's crown.
The United States is a story we tell ourselves. When we salute the flag, or say we love "our country," or proclaim that...
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10 Dec 2010

From Judith Miller to Julian Assange

For the American press that still looks to Watergate and the Pentagon Papers for inspiration, and that considers itself a check on state power, the hour of its greatest humiliation can, I think, be identified with some precision: it was on Sunday, September 8, 2002
For the American press that still looks to Watergate and the Pentagon Papers for inspiration, and that considers itself...
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8 Dec 2010

If U.S. Hijacks Assange, What’ll We Do With Him

On December 7, 2010, following an international manhunt, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange surrendered at a London police station. The 39-year-old Australian was hauled into court, promptly denied bail and carted off to jail in a police van. A magistrate stressed this case is not about WikiLeaks, but about whether or not to extradite Assange to Sweden to be interrogated about his sexual conduct. He has not been charged with a crime
On December 7, 2010, following an international manhunt, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange surrendered at a London police...
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7 Dec 2010

‘Two-handed engine’ – Wikileaks, the Defense of Diplomatic Secrecy, and East Timor

The logic behind leaking diplomatic cables seems to be different than the logic behind producing a document like the Collateral Murder video. The latter is a recognizable piece of muck-raking in the classic sense, since the aesthetic and ethical response is it designed to provoke is horror: showing us video of an Apache helicopter killing non-combatants (and letting us hear the disregard for human life in the voices of the pilots as they did so), the point of the video was to take something that repetition has rendered banal collateral damage and re-stage it as unnatural, perverse, horrible, and unacceptable, as collateral murder.
The logic behind leaking diplomatic cables seems to be different than the logic behind producing a document like the...
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7 Dec 2010

Julian Assange’s great luck: Why the WikiLeaks founder’s jailing is good news for him.

A U.K. magistrates' court denied Julian Assange bail and jailed him this morning over charges filed in Sweden that he had violated sex laws in that country last summer. The Swedes want Assange extradited, a matter that the court could take weeks or longer to decide. Although notables appeared in court pledging to post bail for the Australian secrets-leaker, the judge ruled that he didn't trust Assange not to run.[more ...]
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7 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been accused of sex by surprise.

Julian Assange's lawyer told AOL News on Thursday that the WikiLeaks founder has been charged with "sex by surprise" in Sweden. Though the lawyer says he doesn't know what "sex by surprise" means, the Swedish prosecution office announced that they are charging Assange with "rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion." These charges allegedly stem from consensual sexual encounters with two separate women that became nonconsensual at some point during the act. If this had happened in the United States, could Assange have been charged with a crime?
Julian Assange's lawyer told AOL News on Thursday that the WikiLeaks founder has been charged with "sex by surprise" in...
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7 Dec 2010

Why the WikiLeaks cables won’t bring down governments.

By now, I think we have learned that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has vast ambitions. Among them is the end of American government as we know it. On his Web site, he describes the leaked U.S. diplomatic cables in dramatic and sinister terms, evoking the lost ideals of George Washington and claiming that they demonstrate a profound gap between "the US's public persona and what it says behind closed doors." Alas, the cables don't live up to that promise. On the contrary as others have noted they show that U.S. diplomats pursue pretty much the same goals in private as they do in public, albeit using more caustic language.[more ...]
By now, I think we have learned that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has vast ambitions. Among them is the end...
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7 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been accused of “sex by surprise.” Is that against the law in the United States?

Julian Assange's lawyer told AOL News on Thursday that the WikiLeaks founder has been charged with "sex by surprise" in Sweden. Though the lawyer says he doesn't know what "sex by surprise" means, the Swedish prosecution office announced that they are charging Assange with  "rape, sexual molestation and  unlawful coercion." These charges allegedly stem from consensual sexual encounters with two separate women that became nonconsensual at some point during the act. If this had happened in the United States, could Assange have been charged with a crime?
Julian Assange's lawyer told AOL News on Thursday that the WikiLeaks founder has been charged with "sex by surprise" in...
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7 Dec 2010

Lawyer for Assange Calls Swedish Case ‘Bonkers’

Mark Stephens, a British lawyer working for Julian Assange, said over the weekend that the prosecutor in Sweden who issued an arrest warrant for the WikiLeraks founder had acted unreasonably. He also told the Guardian that he and another lawyer defending Mr. Assange are apparently under surveillance by British authorities.
Mark Stephens, a British lawyer working for Julian Assange, said over the weekend that the prosecutor in Sweden who...
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7 Dec 2010

Threats made to son of wikileaks founder

Jennifer Robinson, one of the lawyers working to defend Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, spoke to Australia's ABC radio on Monday. Ms. Robinson called on authorities to investigate people who have made public calls for Mr. Assange's death and threats against his 20-year-old son. Earlier this year, Mr. Assange's son, Daniel, defended his father on his blog in response to a New York Post article based on comments he had posted on Twitter and Facebook about the charges against his father in Sweden.
Jennifer Robinson, one of the lawyers working to defend Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, spoke to Australia's ABC...
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5 Dec 2010

Killing the Messenger

It's frightening to observe the working machinery of one of the most powerful governments in the world, which intends to convince that whoever reveals secrets is more dangerous than those who commit atrocious acts in secrecy. Politicians and journalists in the U.S. overreacted, suggesting that Julian Assange should face the death penalty.
It's frightening to observe the working machinery of one of the most powerful governments in the world, which intends to...
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5 Dec 2010

The US Empire Targets Iran

For the past several years, it s been clear that Iran has replaced Iraq at the top of the U.S. government s roster of most hated governments and that, therefore, the American people get fed a steady diet of anti-Iranian propaganda. Every negative in that country is exaggerated and trumpeted by leading U.S. news outlets.
For the past several years, it s been clear that Iran has replaced Iraq at the top of the U.S. government s roster of...
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4 Dec 2010

Wikileaks Fails ‘Due Diligence’ Review

But calling WikiLeaks a whistleblower site does not accurately reflect the character of the project. It also does not explain why others who are engaged in open government, anti-corruption and whistleblower protection activities are wary of WikiLeaks or disdainful of it. And it does not provide any clue why the Knight Foundation, the preeminent foundation funder of innovative First Amendment and free press initiatives, might have rejected WikiLeaks request for financial support, as it recently did.
But calling WikiLeaks a whistleblower site does not accurately reflect the character of the project. It also does not...
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