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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.
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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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4 Dec 2010

U.S. Congressman Calls For Execution Of Wikileaks Whistleblower

What should happen to PFC Bradley Manning, the young man now charged with the unauthorized access of and subsequently leaking of classified military information, namely the video that Wikileaks released under the title Collateral Murder ? Should the United States government execute him? If your name is Congressman Mike Rogers, then you believe that yes, the young man should be put to death.
What should happen to PFC Bradley Manning, the young man now charged with the unauthorized access of and subsequently...
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4 Dec 2010

Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; ‘To destroy this invisible government’

To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us, and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not. Firstly we must understand what aspect of government or neocorporatist behavior we wish to change or remove. Secondly we must develop a way of thinking about this behavior that is strong enough carry us through the mire of politically distorted language, and into a position of clarity. Finally must use these insights to inspire within us and others a course of ennobling, and effective action.
To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes...
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4 Dec 2010

Students Warned Not To Link To Or Even Read WikiLeaks If They Want A Federal Job. Is This Still America

Sure looks like a large and concerted intimidation campaign against WikiLeaks supporters. In addition to this, law students at Boston University were warned not to link to WikiLeaks, or even read it online, because it might keep them from getting a security clearance for a federal job.
Sure looks like a large and concerted intimidation campaign against WikiLeaks supporters. In addition to this, law...
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3 Dec 2010

Media Pushes Narrative That Arabs Want War With Iran, Ignores Cables That Show Arabs Urging Restraint

However, one set of cables that the major news media found particularly attractive were ones detailing Arab leaders concerns about Iran. Seizing on a handful of the cables, major news media outlets published stories pushing the narrative that Arab leaders had privately urged the United States government to attack Iran
However, one set of cables that the major news media found particularly attractive were ones detailing Arab leaders...
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3 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks Cablegate LIVE Updates

HuffPost's Sam Stein reports that the Obama administration is not ruling out taking legal action against WikiLeaks after the online site's latest leak. In July, WikiLeaks released more than 90,000 Afghan war logs. Iraq war logs were released last month. WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange says the next dump will target a U.S. megabank.
HuffPost's Sam Stein reports that the Obama administration is not ruling out taking legal action against WikiLeaks after...
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2 Dec 2010

Afghanistan Corruption Is ‘Overwhelming’

The New York Times is reporting on cables that describe the scale of corruption in Afghanistan as "overwhelming" and quotes Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry as saying one of the U.S.'s biggest challenges in Afghanistan was "how to fight corruption and connect the people to their government, when the key government officials are themselves corrupt."
The New York Times is reporting on cables that describe the scale of corruption in Afghanistan as "overwhelming" and...
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1 Dec 2010

The leaked cables make it impossible for Hillary Clinton to continue as secretary of state.

A U.S. diplomat must possess patience, poise, and tact. He must also be attentive to cultural differences, a good observer, and proficient in several languages. When called upon, he must use his skills as a negotiator in the national interest. And, as the latest dump of WikiLeaks tells us, if the dip works for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he must also be prepared to spy on his fellow diplomats.
A U.S. diplomat must possess patience, poise, and tact. He must also be attentive to cultural differences, a good...
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1 Dec 2010

What the WikiLeaks documents tell us about the practice of foreign policy.

The main thing about the latest trove of secret WikiLeaks documents is this: It exists, it's out there for the world to see, and it would be regardless of whether the editors of the New York Times, Le Monde, the Guardian, Der Spiegel, and El Pa s chose to print the news (and much of this trove is newsworthy) or shut their eyes. So let's pretend for a moment that WikiLeaks' founder, Julian Assange, was motivated not by a messianic, anti-American, cyberanarchistic glee ("I enjoy crushing bastards," he once told an interviewer) but by a desire to show us how the world really works.
The main thing about the latest trove of secret WikiLeaks documents is this: It exists, it's out there for the world to...
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1 Dec 2010

How Republicans are using WikiLeaks to indulge their spy-thriller fantasies

It took no time at all for the Justice and State departments to issue condemnations of WikiLeaks for the release of 250,000-odd diplomatic cables. The first tranche of cables started rolling out on Sunday afternoon. The government's angry denunciations of the leaks started in the evening. And then came Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., the incoming chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, calling for the government to go further: He wanted WikiLeaks to be designated a terrorist organization and hunted to the ends of the earth.
It took no time at all for the Justice and State departments to issue condemnations of WikiLeaks for the release of...
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1 Dec 2010

I love WikiLeaks for restoring distrust in our most important institutions

International scandals such as the one precipitated by this week's WikiLeaks cable dump serve us by illustrating how our governments work. Better than any civics textbook, revisionist history, political speech, bumper sticker, or five-part investigative series, an international scandal unmasks presidents and kings, military commanders and buck privates, cabinet secretaries and diplomats, corporate leaders and bankers, and arms-makers and arms-merchants as the bunglers, liars, and double-dealers they are.
International scandals such as the one precipitated by this week's WikiLeaks cable dump serve us by illustrating how our...
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1 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks vs. The Empire

Leading US human rights lawyers Leonard Weinglass and Michael Ratner have joined the defense team for Julian Assange and Wikileaks. US officials are employing cyber-warfare and prosecutorial steps to deny any safe haven for the Wikileaks operation with a fervor comparable to their drone attacks on Al Qaeda havens in Pakistan and Yemen.
Leading US human rights lawyers Leonard Weinglass and Michael Ratner have joined the defense team for Julian Assange and...
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29 Nov 2010

Wikileaks Claims Osama Bin Laden Still Alive

In proving to be one of the most useful tools for the Pentagon, Wikileaks resurrects "Bearded Time Lord" Osama Bin Laden and places him as one of the key masters of the resistance to U.S. occupation in Afghanistan. This assertion is made despite the fact that 92% of the population in Afghanistan have never heard of 9/11.
In proving to be one of the most useful tools for the Pentagon, Wikileaks resurrects "Bearded Time Lord" Osama Bin Laden...
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11 Nov 2010

U.S. bombs Yemen in secret

One of the most interesting items in the trove of diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks confirms that the Obama Administration has secretly launched missile attacks on suspected terrorists in Yemen, strikes that have reportedly killed dozens of civilians. The government of Yemen takes responsibility for the attacks.
One of the most interesting items in the trove of diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks confirms that the Obama...
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23 Sep 2010

WikiLeaks and Hacktivist Culture

According to conventional wisdom, the alleged protagonist is, of course, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and the discussion of him has ranged from Raffi Khatchadourian's June portrait in The New Yorker, which makes Assange sound like a master spy in a John le Carr novel, to Tunku Varadarajan's epic ad hominem bloviation in The Daily Beast: "With his bloodless, sallow face, his lank hair drained of all color, his languorous, very un-Australian limbs, and his aura of blinding pallor that appears to admit no nuance, Assange looks every inch the amoral, uber-nerd villain."
According to conventional wisdom, the alleged protagonist is, of course, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and the...
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24 Aug 2010

Swedish attorneys weigh in on Assange case

THE RAPE AND MOLESTATION charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, which led to an arrest warrant in his name on Friday and its mysterious withdrawal on Saturday (I wrote about it here), continue to perplex Swedish society. The case is far from over, since Assange remains under investigation for molestation and has retained the services of the prominent Swedish lawyer and crime novelist Leif Silbersky.
THE RAPE AND MOLESTATION charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, which led to an arrest warrant in his name on...
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21 Aug 2010

Swedes question rape accusations against Wikileaks founder

WHAT A SHOCK TO the global antiwar movement: Yesterday, the Swedish chief prosecutor announced that Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, which had recently leaked more than 91,000 classified documents to the press, had been accused of rape and molestation, and that a warrant had been issued for his arrest.
WHAT A SHOCK TO the global antiwar movement: Yesterday, the Swedish chief prosecutor announced that Julian Assange,...
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6 Aug 2010

More on How Physicians Became Torture Doctors for CIA

A good amount of documentation on the involvement of psychologists in the torture and abuse of detainees or 'terror suspects.' And, a new study provides even more revelations on the involvement of physicians making it increasingly clear that medical professionals put limits on ethical standards they were expected to follow in order to help the CIA interrogate detainees.
A good amount of documentation on the involvement of psychologists in the torture and abuse of detainees or 'terror...
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26 Jul 2010

WikiLeaks’ Afghanistan Bombshell

WikiLeaks is making headlines again with the release of an enormous trove of secret US military documents from Afghanistan. The Afghan War Diary, as WikiLeaks has dubbed it, was first given to the New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel, which have vetted, analyzed, and packaged the 92,000 documents into what amounts to the biggest story about the war since Osama bin Laden slipped away
WikiLeaks is making headlines again with the release of an enormous trove of secret US military documents from...
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18 Jun 2010

The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks

From the start, this whole story was quite strange for numerous reasons. In an attempt to obtain greater clarity about what really happened here, I've spent the last week reviewing everything I could related to this case and speaking with several of the key participants.
From the start, this whole story was quite strange for numerous reasons. In an attempt to obtain greater clarity about...
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11 Jun 2010

Daniel Ellsberg Says He Fears US Might Assassinate Wikileaks Founder

Daniel Ellsberg, the former US military analyst who released the pentagon papers in 1971, appeared on MSNBC today with Dylan Ratigan. He said he fears for the safety of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, who is reportedly on the verge of leaking secret State Department cables. The Daily Beast reports that Assange is currently being sought by the Pentagon, and Ellsberg advises him not to reveal his whereabouts.
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7 Jun 2010

WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange

The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in. This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall Australian man named Julian Paul Assange, with gray eyes and a mop of silver-white hair, arrived to rent the place.
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5 Apr 2010

WikiLeaks – Collateral Murder – a look inside

Several commenters on Twitter and YouTube have expressed a great deal of anger towards the United States and members of its military. Many of them, unsurprisingly, have wished death on us all. Part of the problem, which is far more complex than I have the time or desire to fully discuss, lies in the presentation of above video. What could have been the case is identified for the viewer quite readily. What certainly is true, in several key moments, is not. When presenting source media as the core of your argument, it is grossly irresponsible to fail to make known variables not shown within that media. If you are going to take the time to highlight certain things in said media, you should make certain all key elements are brought to the attention of your viewer. WikiLeaks failed to do these things in this video, happily highlighting the positions and movements of the slain reporter and photographer while ignoring those of their company. It is also, until their arrival on scene, never clear where exactly the ground forces are in reference to Crazyhorse 18 and flight. I can make a pretty good guess, given my background. I would guess the same cannot be said by the vast majority of WikiLeaks target audience.
Several commenters on Twitter and YouTube have expressed a great deal of anger towards the United States and members of...
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3 Apr 2010

Collateral Murder

Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad. They are apparently assumed to be insurgents. After the initial shooting, an unarmed group of adults and children in a minivan arrives on the scene and attempts to transport the wounded. They are fired upon as well. The official statement on this incident initially listed all adults as insurgents and claimed the US military did not know how the deaths ocurred. Wikileaks released this video with transcripts and a package of supporting documents on April 5th 2010 on http://collateralmurder.com
Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It...
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