December 2010
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Is Wikileaks A CIA Operation? 1/3
23 December, 2010 In the first of at least 3 videos, Webster Tarpley points to the possibility that Wikileaks is a CIA operation. 1st collector for Worth a review – Points favouring that Wikileak… Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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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
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Zinn on class in America
Howard Zinn Pt1: In the United States we are brought up to think there’s only one class. Continue reading
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In a new 100-pages report PCHR details the collective punishment of the population of Gaza
The absolute closure of Gaza was imposed by Israel following the Hamas takeover in June 2007. For more than three years and a half, this most extreme form of closure has been continuously applied to the so-called “hostile entity” that is the Gaza Strip, cutting off 1.7 million individuals from the outside world. Continue reading
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Political witch-hunt behind sexual assault charges – claims Assange — RT
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange may be out of jail, but his legal battle on sexual assault charges is still ongoing. Continue reading
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Net Neutrality Rules Are Imminent From the F.C.C. – NYTimes.com
The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to pass a controversial set of rules that broadly create two classes of Internet access, one for fixed-line providers and the other for the wireless Net. Continue reading
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Statewatch 21 December 2010 – Survey of users
The Statewatch website gets over 600,000 ‘hits’ per month. More than 9,000 people have joined the Statewatch e-mail list. We intend to update and improve our website and email alerting service and are seeking feedback from users to help us with this process. Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup 20-21 December, 2010
21 December, 2010 — creative-i.info 21 December, 2010 Lawyers for Ahmed Belbacha, Guantánamo Prisoner and Former UK Resident, Sue UK Government Wikileaks News Archive 28 November – 21 December, 2010 The Assange allegations Part II…Feminists Debate Sexual Allegations Against Julian Assange Headlines for December 21, 2010 Political witch-hunt behind sexual assault charges – claims Assange Continue reading
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UK: They destroy, we create: join Artists of the Resistance By Luna 17
‘Len McCluskey calls for a ‘broad strike movement’ to stop the coalition’s ‘explicitly ideological’ programme of cuts. Government cuts are decimating education, welfare, health, sports and the arts. We are told that they are inevitable; that the only choice we have is between music classes for our kids or care for our elderly. Continue reading
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Fault Lines – Canada-Israel: The other special relationship
The Reut Institute is an Israeli extreme right think tank with very close ties to the Israeli government. In some degree, this institute dictates the activities of Israeli governmental agencies in Israel and abroad. The rhetoric and tactics initiated by them is adopted by various bodies including “friends of Israel” and foreign governments. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 