December 22, 2010
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BBC News – Today – Transcript: The Assange interview
The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been holed up in a mansion in East Anglia since he was released from prison last week. He is under strict bail conditions while he fights extradition to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning about claims of sexual assault. Today programme presenter John Humphrys went to meet… Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup 22 December, 2010
22 December, 2010 — creative-i.info U.S. Embassy Leak on the Taste of Venezuelan Socialism Coming soon to a bookshop near you: Assange in his own words Kristen Saloomey, “Bradley Manning Suffering in Solitary Confinement” If We Lose our Internet Freedoms Because of Wikileaks, You Should At Least Know Why by Scott Creighton Bradley Manning Suffering Continue reading
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Apple bans Wikileaks i-phone app
December, 2010 Apple has removed an application that lets iPhone and iPad owners browse the WikiLeaks archive from its App Store. Apple states: The first on personal attacks: “Any app that is defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited, or likely to place the targeted individual or group in harms way will be rejected.” The second says “apps must Continue reading
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NATO denies plans to run special-ops in Pakistan — RT
The US-led coalition in Afghanistan has denied reports that it is pushing to extend its special operations into neighboring Pakistan. Continue reading
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FCC net neutrality rules to hinder Internet freedom — RT
‘What the FCC did today, while they’ll call it net neutrality, wasn’t net neutrality,’ said Rosenbaum. ‘For the first time in history the US government has said it’s ok for corporations to discriminate online and to censor online, and that’s a real unfortunate thing.’ Continue reading
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WikiLeaks exposed US as global bully undermining democracies – American author — RT
Revelations by the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks have shown America’s role in global affairs as one of a bully, best-selling US author and broadcaster Laura Flanders told RT. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Suffering in Solitary Confinement By Kristen Saloomey
While the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, fights his legal battles in front of the cameras (or from the palatial estate in Britain where he is under “house arrest”) the American soldier accused of releasing secret US government documents to him remains hidden from public view. Army Private Bradley Manning has spent seven months in… Continue reading
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Europe in the World by Navid Kermani
Navid Kermani: Europe is in fact cementing its ideological borders. . . . Radical openness is an essential feature of the European project. . . . You can’t draw the borders of Europe just as you would draw the borders of a country. Europe isn’t a country — it is an idea. . . .… Continue reading
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Fintan O’Toole’s Own Cultural Revolution by William Wall
Their situation is ‘objectively’ hopeless: the whole drift of history is basically against them, they cannot rely on any ‘objective tendencies’ pushing in their way, all they can do is to improvise, do what they can in a desperate situation. But, nonetheless, does this not give them a unique freedom? And are we — today’s… Continue reading
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If We Lose our Internet Freedoms Because of Wikileaks, You Should At Least Know Why by Scott Creighton
Wikileaks was started up in Dec. of 2006. Oddly enough, as a supposed “leak” site, a dissident site, it was given a great deal of immediate mainstream attention from the likes of the Washington Post, TIME magazine, and even Cass Sunstein the now Obama administration official who wrote a paper on how to “cognitively infiltrate”… Continue reading
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Apple bans Wikileaks i-phone app
December, 2010 Apple has removed an application that lets iPhone and iPad owners browse the WikiLeaks archive from its App Store. Apple states: The first on personal attacks: “Any app that is defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited, or likely to place the targeted individual or group in harms way will be rejected.” The second says “apps must Continue reading
The New Dark Age 