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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.
Daniel Ellsberg, the former US military analyst who released the pentagon papers in 1971, appeared on MSNBC today with...
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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.
The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the...
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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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9 Feb 2015

Anonymous “Hacktivists” Strike a Blow Against ISIS

Anonymous has just struck a massive blow against ISIS recruiting efforts. Hacktivists recently took control of dozens of Twitter and Facebook accounts that had been openly used by ISIS to expand their influence and recruit new members.
Anonymous has just struck a massive blow against ISIS recruiting efforts. Hacktivists recently took control of dozens of...
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26 Aug 2014

Julian Assange’s Life Was in ‘Mortal Danger’ Rafael Correa

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said on Saturday that he decided to grant political asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on 2012 because his life was in risk. During his weekly report, Correa said that Assange didn t have the basic guarantees for a fair trial. His life was in danger. Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 19th, when he was granted political asylum in the embassy. Assange's political asylum caused a diplomatic crisis between the UK and Ecuador.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said on Saturday that he decided to grant political asylum to Wikileaks founder...
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7 Feb 2015

Why the secret criminal investigation of WikiLeaks is troubling for journalists

Trevor Timm, co-founder of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, argued in 2013 that "virtually every move made by the Justice Department against WikiLeaks has now also been deployed on mainstream US journalists." For example, the Department of Justice tried to secretly subpoena information from the Twitter accounts of WikiLeaks staffers more than two years before the Associated Press found the same thing had been done to its phone records.
Trevor Timm, co-founder of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, argued in 2013 that "virtually every move made by the...
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28 Aug 2014

Haiti: Wikileaks Reveals Obama Administration’s Role in Stifling Haitian Minimum Wage

Strike another one for Wikileaks. The ever-controversial leaker of the world s best-kept secrets has published a wire on The Nation that reveals the Obama Administration fought to keep the Haitian minimum wage to 31 cents an hour.
Strike another one for Wikileaks. The ever-controversial leaker of the world s best-kept secrets has published a wire on...
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24 Dec 2014

How the CIA Sold Obama on Counterinsurgency by Drone Assassination

Last week, WikiLeaks released a June 2009 CIA report on Best Practices in Counterinsurgency: Making High-Value Targeting Operations an Effective Counterinsurgency Tool. The report is classified secret and labeled NoForn, designating that it should not be distributed to non US nationals. The Washington Post, ABC News, and other news outlets stress the report s findings that targeted assassinations had limited impacts on Taliban targets. While this leaked report does criticize the effectiveness of some High-Value Target (HVT) assassination operations, such characterizations mistake the CIA s argument that not all counterinsurgency problems can be solved with targeted assassinations as an argument against such operations. Far from dismissing HVT operations, the report advocates them in select conditions.
Last week, WikiLeaks released a June 2009 CIA report on Best Practices in Counterinsurgency: Making High-Value Targeting...
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3 Jan 2015

Julian Assange on “When Google Met WikiLeaks” While He was Under House Arrest

Julian Assange talks about his book and when he met Eric Schmidt the CEO of Google, and says that Hillary Clinton's back channel was Lisa Shields, Eric Schmidt's girl friend. He basically describes why he thinks that Google and State Department are working closely with each other.
Julian Assange talks about his book and when he met Eric Schmidt the CEO of Google, and says that Hillary Clinton's back...
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13 Dec 2014

In advance of sentencing, government blocks the public’s right to know

Barrett Brown is an imprisoned American journalist and activist, founder of Project PM. Ahead of the sentencing of Barrett Brown, which is due to happen next Tuesday, December 16th, the DOJ is opposing the public s right to know about a case with extraordinary implications for the public and for the practice of journalists.
Barrett Brown is an imprisoned American journalist and activist, founder of Project PM. Ahead of the sentencing of...
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4 Jun 2015

The Scariest Trade Deal Nobody’s Talking About Just Suffered a Big Leak

Here is what the countries negotiating TiSA want. First, they want to limit regulation on service sectors, whether at the national, provincial or local level. The agreement has "standstill" clauses to freeze regulations in place and prevent future rulemaking for professional licensing and qualifications or technical standards. And a companion "ratchet" clause would make any broken trade barrier irreversible. t may make sense to some to open service sectors up to competition. But under the agreement, governments may not be able to regulate staff to patient ratios in hospitals, or ban fracking, or tighten safety controls on airlines, or refuse accreditation to schools and universities. Foreign corporations must receive the same "national treatment" as domestic ones, and could argue that such regulations violate their ability to provide the service.
Here is what the countries negotiating TiSA want. First, they want to limit regulation on service sectors, whether at...
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22 Oct 2014

Galloway Launches Legal Case against the government over Snowden spying revelations

Legal proceedings against the government have been started by Bradford West MP George Galloway, following claims that communications are being intercepted by the intelligence agency GCHQ. This, he claims, is in breach of the Wilson Doctrine which is supposed to guarantee that MPs communications are not spied on.
Legal proceedings against the government have been started by Bradford West MP George Galloway, following claims that...
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14 Jun 2015

Wikileaks Continues to Release Incredible Bombshells About Obama’s TPP

One of the most influential trade deals in American history is currently being rammed down the throats of the American congress by President Obama. Republicans are on Obama s side this time while the majority of Democrats are trying to stop it every chance they get. If it wasn t for the likes of Wikileaks, we would know nothing about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) or its ramifications.
One of the most influential trade deals in American history is currently being rammed down the throats of the American...
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3 Feb 2015

FBI put Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond on a secret terrorist watchlist

The Federal Bureau of Investigation put Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond on a secret terrorist watchlist, according to confidential records obtained by the Daily Dot. The records further reveal how the FBI treats cybercrimes and shines a rare light on the expanding definitions of terrorism used by U.S. law enforcement agencies.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation put Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond on a secret terrorist watchlist, according to...
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14 Jun 2015

The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst – and Filled with Falsehoods

The whole article does literally nothing other than quote anonymous British officials. It gives voice to banal but inflammatory accusations that are made about every whistleblower from Daniel Ellsberg to Chelsea Manning. It offers zero evidence or confirmation for any of its claims. The "journalists" who wrote it neither questioned any of the official assertions nor even quoted anyone who denies them. It s pure stenography of the worst kind: some government officials whispered these inflammatory claims in our ears and told us to print them, but not reveal who they are, and we re obeying. Breaking!
The whole article does literally nothing other than quote anonymous British officials. It gives voice to banal but...
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20 Mar 2015

UK Police deem Snowden investigation a state secret

British police claim a criminal investigation they launched into journalists who have reported on leaked documents from Edward Snowden has to be kept a secret due to a possibility of increased threat of terrorist activity. Following Snowden's disclosures from the National Security Agency in 2013, London s Metropolitan Police and a lawyer for the United Kingdom government separately confirmed a criminal probe had been opened into the leaks.
British police claim a criminal investigation they launched into journalists who have reported on leaked documents from...
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12 Feb 2015

NSA Claims Iran Learned from Western Cyberattacks

The U.S. Government often warns of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks from adversaries, but it may have actually contributed to those capabilities in the case of Iran. A top secret National Security Agency document from April 2013 reveals that the U.S. intelligence community is worried that the West s campaign of aggressive and sophisticated cyberattacks enabled Iran to improve its own capabilities by studying and then replicating those tactics.
The U.S. Government often warns of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks from adversaries, but it may have actually...
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27 Dec 2014

NSA Drops Christmas Eve Surprise

The National Security Agency on Christmas Eve day released twelve years of internal oversight reports documenting abusive and improper practices by agency employees. The heavily redacted reports to the President's Intelligence Oversight Board found that NSA employees repeatedly engaged in unauthorized surveillance of communications by American citizens, failed to follow legal guidelines regarding the retention of private information, and shared data with unauthorized recipients
The National Security Agency on Christmas Eve day released twelve years of internal oversight reports documenting...
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17 Oct 2014

Top NSA Official Has a Lucrative Side-Business

Last month a Buzzfeed s Aram Roston published a story documenting potential self-dealing by the head NSA s Signals Intelligence Directorate, Teresa O'Shea. O'Shea happens to be married to the Vice President of DRS Signal Solutions - a company which circumstantial evidence suggests was the beneficiary of significant contracting work from the agency.
Last month a Buzzfeed s Aram Roston published a story documenting potential self-dealing by the head NSA s Signals...
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16 Oct 2014

New Zealand Cops Raided Home of Reporter Working on Snowden Documents

Agents from New Zealand s national police force ransacked the home of a prominent independent journalist earlier this month who was collaborating with The Intercept on stories from the NSA archive furnished by Edward Snowden
Agents from New Zealand s national police force ransacked the home of a prominent independent journalist earlier this...
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15 Oct 2014

UN Report Finds Mass Surveillance Violates International Treaties and Privacy Rights

The United Nations top official for counter-terrorism and human rights (known as the Special Rapporteur ) issued a formal report to the U.N. General Assembly today that condemns mass electronic surveillance as a clear violation of core privacy rights guaranteed by multiple treaties and conventions. The hard truth is that the use of mass surveillance technology effectively does away with the right to privacy of communications on the Internet altogether, the report concluded.
The United Nations top official for counter-terrorism and human rights (known as the Special Rapporteur ) issued a...
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10 Oct 2014

Core Secrets NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany

The National Security Agency has had agents in China, Germany, and South Korea working on programs that use physical subversion to infiltrate and compromise networks and devices, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
The National Security Agency has had agents in China, Germany, and South Korea working on programs that use physical...
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10 Oct 2014

Edward Snowden’s Girlfriend, Lindsay Mills, Moved to Moscow to Live with Him

CITIZENFOUR, the new film by Intercept co-founding editor Laura Poitras, premiered this evening at the New York Film Festival, and will be in theaters around the country beginning October 24. Using all first-hand, real-time footage, it chronicles the extraordinary odyssey of Edward Snowden in Hong Kong while he worked with journalists, as well the aftermath of the disclosures for the NSA whistleblower himself and for countries and governments around the world.
CITIZENFOUR, the new film by Intercept co-founding editor Laura Poitras, premiered this evening at the New York Film...
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2 Oct 2014

The NSA and me by James bamford

James Bamford is an NSA whistleblower that wrote his first book on NSA - The Puzzle Palace - back in 1981. He says, "More than three decades later, the NSA, like a mom-and-pop operation that has exploded into a global industry, now employs sweeping powers of surveillance that Frank Church could scarcely have imagined in the days of wired phones and clunky typewriters. At the same time, the Senate intelligence committee he once chaired has done an about face, protecting the agencies from the public rather than the public from the agencies."
James Bamford is an NSA whistleblower that wrote his first book on NSA - The Puzzle Palace - back in 1981. He says,...
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3 Oct 2014

Documents Reveal NSA and GCHQ Efforts to Destroy Assange And Track Wikileaks Supporters

The NSA documents reveal that there was a broad effort by the United States government, but through the NSA--these are NSA documents; there's probably a lot more from the CIA, FBI, and other places--but a broad effort to destroy WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and to really surveil and begin to know all of the people who are their supporters. That was a--it's a very significant set of documents this week.
The NSA documents reveal that there was a broad effort by the United States government, but through the NSA--these are...
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6 Jun 2015

Argentina’s President Becomes First Head of State to Meet With Edward Snowden

According to Romero, the president visited Snowden - who has been granted a three-year residency permit by the Kremlim (sic) after revealing US surveillance in 2013 - when she travelled to Russia during the last days of April. "President Fern ndez de Kirchner was the first head of state to meet with Snowden. They talked for about an hour," he added. Romero did not specify the exact date of the encounter and did not make reference to the topics the two discussed.
According to Romero, the president visited Snowden - who has been granted a three-year residency permit by the Kremlim...
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5 Jun 2015

Argentina’s President Becomes First Head of State to Meet With Edward Snowden

According to Romero, the president visited Snowden - who has been granted a three-year residency permit by the Kremlim (sic) after revealing US surveillance in 2013 - when she travelled to Russia during the last days of April. "President Fern ndez de Kirchner was the first head of state to meet with Snowden. They talked for about an hour," he added. Romero did not specify the exact date of the encounter and did not make reference to the topics the two discussed.
According to Romero, the president visited Snowden - who has been granted a three-year residency permit by the Kremlim...
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4 Jun 2015

WikiLeaks Releases ‘Largest Leak of Trade Negotiations in History’

WikiLeaks has posted 17 documents about the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), a giant, controversial global trade deal being negotiated among the U.S. and 23 other countries. TISA is a lesser-known relative of the Trans-Pacific Partnership - a deal that President Barack Obama has been actively campaigning for in Washington.
WikiLeaks has posted 17 documents about the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), a giant, controversial global trade deal...
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20 Mar 2015

U.S. Threatened Germany Over Snowden, Vice Chancellor Says

German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has said the U.S. government threatened to stop sharing intelligence with Germany if Berlin gave asylum to the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden or otherwise arranged for him to travel there.
German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has said the U.S. government threatened to stop sharing intelligence with Germany...
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crackdown, germany, snowden, usa
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21 Dec 2014

Top 7 Ways Assassination Fails the U.S. as Policy

Wikileaks has released a government assessment of drone strikes aimed at assassinating top leaders. The document urges such strikes, but is amazingly frank about the drawbacks. it says: Potential negative effects of HVT ope rations include increasing the level of insurgent support, causing a government to neglect other aspects of its counterinsurgency strategy, altering in surgent strategy or organization in ways that favor the insurgents, strengthening an armed group s bond with the population, radicalizing an insurgent group s remaining leaders, creating a vacuum into which more radical groups can enter, and escalating or deescalating a conflict in ways that favor the insurgents.
Wikileaks has released a government assessment of drone strikes aimed at assassinating top leaders. The document urges...
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24 Oct 2014

Julian Assange: Google’s Basic Business Model “Same as the NSA’s”

That phrase, evil empire, was introduced by Reagan in the 1980s to describe the Soviet empire. But of course encoded within that is that the other empire is not an evil empire. The U.S. empire is a "don't be evil" empire. And that phrase of "don't be evil" was adopted by Google and promoted by Google in terms of how it was going to do things. And it was used quite effectively to lull people into a false sense that Google was a different type of company
That phrase, evil empire, was introduced by Reagan in the 1980s to describe the Soviet empire. But of course encoded...
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google, julian assange, nsa
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17 Sep 2014

Chelsea Manning: “Islamic State Cannot Be Defeated by Bombs and Bullets”

I believe that Isis is fueled precisely by the operational and tactical successes of European and American military force that would be - and have been - used to defeat them. I believe that Isis strategically feeds off the mistakes and vulnerabilities of the very democratic western states they decry. The Islamic State s center of gravity is, in many ways, the United States, the United Kingdom and those aligned with them in the region Attacking Isis directly, by air strikes or special operations forces, is a very tempting option available to policymakers, with immediate (but not always good) results. Unfortunately, when the west fights fire with fire, we feed into a cycle of outrage, recruitment, organizing and even more fighting that goes back decades.
I believe that Isis is fueled precisely by the operational and tactical successes of European and American military...
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iraq, isis, war
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29 Apr 2015

NSA Whistleblower: ‘We Are No Longer Afraid Of The Police State Happening. It’s Here’

First Bill Binney - the high-level NSA executive who created the agency s mass surveillance program for digital information, the 32-year NSA veteran widely who was the senior technical director within the agency and managed thousands of NSA employees - told Washington s Blog that America has already become a police state.
First Bill Binney - the high-level NSA executive who created the agency s mass surveillance program for digital...
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nsa, police state, surveilance, whistlebblowers
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1 Jul 2015

Trade in Services Agreement

Today, 1500 CEST Wednesday, 1 July 2015, WikiLeaks releases a modern journalistic holy grail: the secret Core Text for the largest 'trade deal' in history, the TiSA (Trade In Services Agreement), whose 52 nations together comprise two-thirds of global GDP. The negotiating parties are the United States, the 28 members of the European Union and 23 other countries, including Turkey, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, Taiwan and Israel.
Today, 1500 CEST Wednesday, 1 July 2015, WikiLeaks releases a modern journalistic holy grail: the secret Core Text for...
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29 Jun 2015

NSA targeting phone numbers of top German ministers and public officials

The United States National Security Agency has been massively targeting phone numbers of top German ministers and public officials responsible for commerce, finances, economics and agriculture including even Angela Merkel's personal assistant. WikiLeaks publishes today, 1 July 2015, a list of 69 German government telephone numbers from a high-priority NSA target interception list demonstrating economic and political espionage against Germany for almost two decades. WikiLeaks is also publishing classified interception reports resulting from the surveillance, showing the US and UK spying on German officials discussing their positions and disagreements on the solution to the Greek financial crisis.
The United States National Security Agency has been massively targeting phone numbers of top German ministers and public...
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8 Sep 2014

Wikileaks Quito Cables show how us worked against Correa

Rather than supporting one particular candidate, then-US ambassador Linda Jewell said the embassy only wanted to help facilitate "a fair and transparent electoral process". However, diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks show that behind the rhetoric of "democracy promotion", the embassy sought to stop the election of "dark horse populist, anti-American candidate Rafael Correa". Correa s support for a Citizens Revolution did not accord with the US s vision for Ecuador. The US Embassy in Quito had worked to undermine Correa during his brief term as finance minister in 2005.
Rather than supporting one particular candidate, then-US ambassador Linda Jewell said the embassy only wanted to help...
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ecuador, us foreign policy
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2 Jul 2015

NSA Leak: “Washington Is Negotiating With Every Nation That Borders China… So As To ‘Confront’ Beijing”

Another "Wikileak" of a confidential NSA intercept, and yet another crucial insight into the vision not only behind the Obama administration's desperate push for the Trans Pacific Partnership, but the strategic thinking - if one may call it so - when it comes to the entire US approach to global trade and commerce. Which may well explain why global trade has been imploding in recent years, masked first by just US QE and then by QE from all "developed" central banks.
Another "Wikileak" of a confidential NSA intercept, and yet another crucial insight into the vision not only behind the...
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china, nsa, usa, wto
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