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WikiLeaks report cites corruption in Venezuela production
Wikileaks: Back from the Dead
Wikileaks is back with a vengeance. This week, the famous hacktivist organization reported millions of stolen emails from the international intelligence firm called Stratfor. Wikileaks refuses to release where their sources come from, although not-so coincidentally Stratfor reported an infiltration of their networks by another pro-information company called "Anonymous." Anonymous even tweeted to Stratfor: "y u no encrypt" to blatantly tease the company about the stolen information.
SOPA R.I. Reps and Senators take donations from pro and anti-piracy groups
WikiLeaks Posts Spy Firm Videos Offering Tools For Hacking iTunes, Gmail, Skype
On Wednesday, WikiLeaks released a series of video files obtained from UK-based Gamma that show how its products can be used to monitor Wifi networks from a hotel lobby, hack cell phones and PCs with fake software updates, or infect computers from a USB key to intercept Skype conversations, log encryption passwords and read private files. The videos were posted as part of the secret-spilling group s ongoing project in cooperation with Privacy International and Bugged Planet known as the Spy Files, which aims to collect and publish marketing documents and other revealing materials from technology firms that sell surveillance equipment.
Army disciplined 15 over Bradley Manning and Wikileaks
The U.S. Army discliplined 15 people as a result of an internal investigation into the decisions and failures that put Pvt. Bradley Manning in a position to download and leak thousands of classified military reports and diplomatic cables he allegedly provided to WikiLeaks, an Army spokesman said Wednesday. At least one non-commissioned officer was reduced in rank for dereliction of duty, according a legal filing made public by Manning's defense over the weekend.
Illegal Cuban migration, after years of decline, is up again
Google 21st Century Robber Baron
Concerning national security, Google s Wikileaks actions exacerbated this serious national security breach because Google s leadership decided to publicly index and make accessible via Google search all of the stolen Wikileaks documents (which contained national security secrets, confidential law enforcement information, private information and property). Google is the only public corporation supporting Wikileaks criminality.
Diplomats predict bleak economic future for Cuba
Cuba's financial situation ``could become fatal'' within two to three years and the country risks being ``insolvent'' as early as 2011, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable from Havana made public Thursday by WikiLeaks. The cable, however, was sent Feb. 9, before Ra l Castro's government announced it was undertaking far-reaching reforms that would cut the jobs of 500,000 public employees, slash subsidies and expand private business in a bid to jump-start the anemic economy.
The Real Wikileaks Story On Iran It’s Becoming The Mexico Of The Middle East
Manning’s History Showed Self-Harm Risk
Are Troops Talking to Assange ‘Communicating With the Enemy’
A military document obtained under the Freedom of Information Act identifies Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as an "enemy" - but the Pentagon insists that was not intended as a legal designation of him per se. Air Force counter-intelligence documents obtained by the Sydney Morning Herald suggest that military personnel who contact Wikileaks could be charged with "communicating with the enemy."
White House Downplays Contents but Warns of Harm to Troops
Manning’s defense team trying different strategies
Lawyers for the Army intelligence analyst blamed for the biggest leak of U.S. secrets in the nation's history are employing a three-pronged defense: The troubled young private should never had access to classified material, his workplace security was inexplicably lax, and the data in question caused little damage to national security anyhow
Tunisia’s President Flees After Riots Fanned by WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks May Have Exploited Music, Photo Networks to Get Data
U.S. Twitter Subpoena Is Harassment, Lawyer Says
U.S. Twitter Subpoena on WikiLeaks Is ‘Harassment,’ Lawyer Says
The Justice Department subpoena, approved last month in federal court and later unsealed, also violates the U.S. Constitution s Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable government searches, Assange s lawyer Mark Stephens said today in a telephone interview in London. WikiLeaks is an organization that publishes leaked documents on its website.
WikiLeaks Advisor: Russian Spies Tried To Recruit Snowden
A close ally of Edward Snowden has told filmmakers that Russia's intelligence agency sought to recruit the former NSA contractor, but he declined the offer. WikiLeaks staffer Sarah Harrison says the Russian FSB intelligence security service approached Snowden while he was stuck in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport for six weeks in 2013.
Julian Assange’s ‘Ghostwriter’ Eviscerates The WikiLeaks Founder In Crushing Tell-All
O'Hagan, an Editor at Large of Esquire, has now written a 25,000-word lambasting in the London Review of Books, in which he describes the 42-year-old Australian as "thin-skinned, conspiratorial, untruthful, [and] narcissistic." O'Hagan, who is actually quite sympathetic to Assange, spent months around the publisher and his entourage.
WikiLeaks Published Part Of The TTP
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) involves a 12-nation regional trade bloc that accounts for almost 40% of global gross domestic product (GDP) and about one-third of all world trade. The U.S. is leading negotiations and expects them to be finished this year. WikiLeaks published a draft, dated Aug. 30, that it says is the intellectual property rights chapter of the proposed pact that was debated in the 19th negotiating round. Intellectual property law expert Matthew Rimmer told the Sydney Morning Herald that the leaked draft favored U.S. trade objectives and multinational corporate interests "with little focus on the rights and interests of consumers, let alone broader community interests."
This Marketing Guru Says A WikiLeaks-Like Entity Will Emerge To Stop Unethical Brands
"My prediction for 2012 is a rise in the importance of ethics. I foresee a kind of WikiLeaks emerging to tackle the maneuvrings of less-ethical brands. The move will come from an independent organization with the sole mission of disclosing what those companies are up to. Most companies will be vulnerable to being targeted, despite having some sort of written standards. You see, in most cases, the small print is far too complex and removed from consumers daily reality. The safety net as designed will hardly save a soul.
Greg Mitchell Explains Why The Mainstream Press Is So Threatened By WikiLeaks
Sarah Palin Flip Flops And Decides The WikiLeaks Cables On Iran Are Very Useful
Army Bradley Manning aided al Qaeda with leaks
An Army private aided al Qaeda by leaking hundreds of thousands of military and other government documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, the military said Thursday. Pfc. Bradley Manning had previously been charged with aiding the enemy among a total of 22 counts, but on Thursday the military identified the enemy Manning's actions aided. Manning and his attorneys are appearing at a hearing at a military courtroom at Fort Meade, near Baltimore, for two days of hearings in the case.
Julian Assange interview on 60 minutes
U.S. Treasury We Can’t Blacklist WikiLeaks
How WikiLeaks Enlightened Us in 2010
WikiLeaks has brought to light a series of disturbing insinuations and startling truths in the last year, some earth-shattering, others simply confirmations of our darkest suspicions about the way the world works. Thanks to founder Julian Assange's legal situation in Sweden (and potentially the United States) as well as his media grandstanding, it is easy to forget how important and interesting some of WikiLeaks' revelations have been.
Messianic Jews Singled Out in Israeli Town
Bush, Obama both took a pass on sanctioning Syrian regime insiders
Two U.S. administrations declined in recent years to place sanctions on Syrian officials who now are involved in that country s harsh crackdown on dissidents, despite the officials involvement in crushing internal opposition previously, according to secret State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks: We’ve published CIA’s secrets on how to break into computers
Flood of WikiLeaks cables includes identities of dozens of informants
Hacker group urges boycott of PayPal
WikiLeaks papers reveal Guantanamo detainees’ talk of post-9 11 plots
22 new charges for U.S. WikiLeaks suspect
WikiLeaks’ Assange makes Facebook fundraising plea
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Kim Kardashian's ascendance to the presidency is about as likely as the notion that WikiLeaks harmed U.S. national security, lawyers for Pfc. Bradley Manning argued in a defense brief released Wednesday. "Anything 'could' happen - the world 'could' end tomorrow; Kim Kardashian 'could' be elected president of the United States of America; I 'could' win the lottery," Coombs wrote. "These are not the types of 'could' that 18 U.S.C. Section 793 contemplates."
Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices
US diplomat convinced by Saudi expert that reserves of world's biggest oil exporter have been overstated by nearly 40%. The US fears that Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude oil exporter, may not have enough reserves to prevent oil prices escalating, confidential cables from its embassy in Riyadh show.
Will WikiLeaks founder Assange go free
Tunisia That ‘WikiLeaks Revolution’ meme
There's been a rather lot of, well, unsupported analysis on the internet seeking to attribute Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution, which drove President Ben Ali from power yesteday, to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Uber blogger Andrew Sullivan writes: "This is a major, er, coup for Wikileaks and the transparency it promotes - especially against tyrants like Ben Ali." The theory goes that private US diplomatic cables from the Tunis embassy released via Wikileaks on December 7 revealed to Tunisians that Ben Ali was an authoritarian despot, that his family was supremely corrupt, and that life was crushingly hard for the Tunisian poor and unemployed, spurring them to take to the streets.
Sundance Universal Funding WikiLeaker Julian Assange Docu By Alex Gibney And Ex-Uni Chairman Marc Shmuger
Leaked UN letter may be trouble for US Iraq talks
E-mails released by WikiLeaks show Dow Chemical spied on activists over industrial accident in India
Documents released this week show that Midland-based Dow Chemical hired a private intelligence company to spy on activists concerned about continued effects of a 1984 gas leak in India that killed thousands. The group WikiLeaks obtained e-mails that show Dow hired a Texas-based company, Stratfor, to monitor environment and human rights advocates concerned with the leak at a plant in Bhopal, India, that killed about 15,000 and is considered the worst industrial accident in history. Union Carbide, which later was bought by Dow, owned and ran the plant.
Dylan Ratigan interviews Julian Assange
Hearing for US soldier in WikiLeaks centers on prison treatment
Saturday s proceedings, on the fifth day of the hearing, focused on the events of January 18, 2011, when Manning broke down and began crying after falling while guards were removing his shackles in an exercise room. Defense attorneys allege that Manning became especially distraught that day because guards were bullying him. Manning himself testified earlier that his guards seemed angry on the morning the incident occurred, making him nervous. One of Manning s guards at the time, former Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jonathan Cline, acknowledged in his testimony that military personnel at Quantico had been irritated by a pro-Manning protest a day before the incident in the exercise room. The protest had snarled traffic around Quantico.
WikiLeaks Grand Jury Witness David House Publishes First Account Of Prosecutors’ Questioning
David House, a friend of WikiLeaks alleged source Bradley Manning who first met the young Army private at a hacker space in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has published a detailed account of his interrogation by prosecutors. House doesn t say much in that questioning: He confirms his name and birthdate, and otherwise invokes the fifth amendment against self incrimination to avoid responding. But the questions themselves shed light on an investigation that has otherwise taken place almost entirely in secret, and show that the prosecution may be digging into Bradley Manning s ties to a group of Boston hackers who attended BUILDS, a hackerspace House founded.
ACLU Sues The State Department To Declassify WikiLeaks’ Already-Published Cables
Why Didn’t WikiLeaks Reporting Earn A Pulitzer: The NY Times Didn’t Submit It
It s not every year that classified histories of two wars and massive troves of diplomatic secrets appear in America s newspapers. So it may have surprised some to read through the list of Pulitzer prizes Monday and see no mention - among the winners or even the finalists - of wikiLeaks' revelations.
WikiLeaks Fires Back At Defector Over Book Claims
WikiLeaks has gone on the counterattack. A statement sent to me by spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson says that WikiLeaks is taking legal action against Domscheit-Berg, and accuses him of "various acts of sabotage."The former WikiLeaks staffer admits to having damaged the site's primary submission system and stolen material," the statement reads.
Wikileaks To Disclose U.S. Tax Cheats – And the IRS Is All Ears
When Wikileaks Julian Assange allegedly gained the confidence of U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning, he received a mother load of confidential documents that the United States said threatened its national security. The release of those documents was condemned by the U.S. government and federal charges may still result for Mr. Assange. Look for Assange s photo at your local post office.
Assange Slams China’s WikiLeaks Copycat ‘Very Dangerous To Do It Wrong’
NATO unimpressed by Russia’s military
Swiss banker who used WikiLeaks faces trial
How WikiLeaks Blew It
The story of WikiLeaks, once an exciting tale of overcoming government secrecy and empowering online activists and journalists, is now a story primarily concerned with the vagaries of diplomatic immunity, British-Ecuadorean relations, and Swedish rape laws. It's a safe bet that it's not the scenario that Julian Assange -- who is reportedly now holed up in a windowless backroom of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, sleeping on an air mattress -- had in mind when he founded the whistle-blowing website six years ago.
Best of ArabLeaks
Ever since those first cables from Tunis leaked on Dec. 7, 2010, informing the world that Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's extended family was a "quasi-mafia" and that his son-in-law's "over the top" mansion housed not only an infinity pool but also a tiger who fed on "four chickens a day," WikiLeaks has been intimately bound up with the revolutions. Indeed, the Tunisian uprising began only 10 days later, and its shock waves have spread across the Arab world.
Qaddafi family values
As Libya spiraled further out of control today, WikiLeaks posted two new cables from the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli detailing the family squabbles of strongman Muammar al-Qaddafi's family. Both are from March 2009, and both are signed by U.S. Ambassador Gene Cretz, the United States' first ambassador in Libya since 1972, who lost his job last month following the release of the infamous "voluptuous blonde" cable (and/or other more serious dispatches) he had signed
Details on the strange death of a former Chilean president
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What we learned, besides a few new shades and details, is that American diplomats in Moscow rely on a lot of the same sources Western journalists do in trying to decipher the Kremlin -- sources like the Russian press, which is a lot more intrepid than the West gives it credit for. They also don't seem to spend much time actually deciphering the Kremlin; mostly the cablers were preoccupied with the gossip coming from the bulldogs under the rug or the spiders in a jar or the "heads in a soup" or whatever metaphors such circles use.
Julian Assange’s TV debut
The first episode of Julian Assange's new TV show, The World Tomorrow, premiered on RT today with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as the first guest. Aside from a quick intro and a goofy theme song by M.I.A., it's a pretty spartan affair, consisting solely of Assange and his translators speaking with Nasrallah over skype. The newsiest quote was probably Nasrallah's fairly staunch defense of Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on protesters:
Pirates have links to Somali government, terrorist organizations
Two months after Somali pirates made their debut in the international spotlight by hijacking the MV Faina, a ship filled to the brim with Ukranian tanks and weapons, the U.S. government sent a cable from London with alleged details about the piracy circuit, recounted during a debriefing with a Canadian captain who had recently escorted an aid ship ashore
The curious case of Glenn Greenwald vs. Wired Magazine
I love a good blog fight as much as anyone, but after reading several thousand words of accusations and counter accusations being slung between Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald and Wired's Evan Hansen and Kevin Poulsen, I'm left scratching my head trying to figure out what, exactly, this particular dispute is all about.
WikiLeaks 2.0 Time to be afraid
Just hours after WikiLeaks started publishing the 5 million emails it says come from the global-intelligence publisher Stratfor, it's becoming clear that this data dump could have a much larger impact than WikiLeaks' earlier publication of thousands of diplomatic cables. Those cables revealed, for the most part, mere gossip and mundane, low-level chatter. But the Stratfor emails could be explosive for companies, governments and individuals around the world, not least for Stratfor itself. Or they might not. At the very least, this batch of data seems far more interesting.
LulzSec-linked Hacker Who Threatened To Burn White House Appears In Court
Army Officer Orders Court-martial For WikiLeaks Suspect
An Army officer ordered a court-martial Friday for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history. Military District of Washington commander Maj. Gen. Michael Linnington referred all charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning to a general court-martial, the Army said in a statement.
WikiLeaks’ Assange Hires Famous Spanish Lawyer in Asylum Case
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been seeking political asylum in Ecuador, has hired a legal advisor best known for ordering the arrest of the former Chilean military leader Augusto Pinochet in 1998. Ecuador's foreign minister Ricardo Patino confirmed Assange's hire of Spanish jurist Baltasar Garz n, a human rights investigator, on Tuesday.
WikiLeaks To Move Servers Offshore, Sources Say
Julian Assange s investors are in the process of purchasing a boat to move WikiLeaks servers offshore in an attempt to evade prosecution from U.S. law enforcement, FoxNews.com has learned. Multiple sources within the hacker community with knowledge of day-to-day WikiLeaks activities say Assange s financial backers have been working behind the scenes on the logistics of moving the servers to international waters
Stratfor Hacking Victims Targeted Again After Speaking Out
Victims of a data breach at the security analysis firm Stratfor apparently are being targeted a second time after speaking out about the hacking. Stratfor said on its Facebook page that some individuals who offered public support for the company after it revealed it was hacked "may be being targeted for doing so."
Hacker Group Draws Increased Scrutiny From Feds
The computer hackers, chat room denizens and young people who comprise the loosely affiliated Internet collective have increasingly turned to questionable tactics, drawing the attention of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal investigators. What was once a small group of pranksters has become a potential national security threat, federal officials say.
AP Review Finds No WikiLeaks Sources Threatened
Federica Ferrari Bravo's story of meeting American diplomats in Rome seven years ago hardly reads like a James Bond spy novel or a Cold War tale of a brave informant sharing secrets to help the United States. So it came as a something of a surprise to her to hear that in one of the 250,000-odd State Department cables released by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, she was deemed a source so sensitive U.S. officials were advised not to repeat her name.
WikiLeaks – The Next Generation
The New York Times Sleeps With the WikiLeaks Dogs and Now It’s Got Fleas
The fallout from the WikiLeaks disclosures of classified American diplomatic cables contines. As does the news related to to the prosecution of Julian Assange. And as the public discussion continues, it's time to take stock: What exactly is the takeaway from 'cablegate?' Has WikiLeaks been good for the country, or for The New York Times?
WikiLeaks Suspect Arrives in Kansas Amid Criticism of Treatment at Quantico
Leaked Cable Reveals Previously Undisclosed 9 11 Suspects
Army Officials Felt Accused WikiLeaker Was Unfit To Serve
Army investigators have concluded Iraq war commanders in desperate need of intelligence analysts ignored recommendations from low-level military officials at Fort Drum who said Pfc. Bradley Manning -- the accused source of the WikiLeaks document scandal -- was not fit for deployment because of behavioral problems, a military official tells Fox News.
Influence Game: India, Pakistan vie for US backing
Rep. Dan Burton criticized the White House last September for ignoring the persistent violence and unrest in the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir. Barack Obama, he noted, pledged during the 2008 presidential campaign to defuse what long has been a flashpoint between Pakistan and India, nuclear-armed neighbors that each claim Kashmir as their own. "So far, this is a promise unfulfilled," Burton, R-Ind., said.
Group hacks US law enforcement sites, steals data
LulzSec, ‘Anonymous’ May Win Grand Prize at Hacker Convention
The computer hacking community is gearing up for its own version of the annual Oscars, with two notorious "hacktivist" groups and industry heavyweight WikiLeaks among those vying for the top award. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/27/lulzsec-anonymous-may-win-grand-prize-at-hacking-convention/#ixzz1TevEAFbV
Notorious LulzSec Hacker ‘Tflow’ Released on Bail
‘Anonymous’ Hackers Claim to Breach NATO Security
Nation’s fight against cyber intruders goes local
Notorious Hacker Group LulzSec Announces It Is Disbanding
Alleged Teen Member of LulzSec Hackers Arrested in UK
A Brief History of the LulzSec Hackers
Just a day after hacker group LulzSec teamed up with underground associates Anonymous and openly declared war on the U.S. government - among other high profile international institutions, the UK has struck back, allegedly arresting a British teenager suspected of being a mastermind behind an organization veiled in secrecy. Here s a look at how we got here.