The New Dark Age

26 July 2011 — williambowles.info

UNLV student arrested by FBI for hacking in support of Wikileaks
UNLV The Rebel Yell
The indictment also stated that Anonymous’ attack on PayPal was meant to avenge PayPal’s cancellation of its WikiLeaks account because of an alleged breach of PayPal’s terms of service. WikiLeaks, founded by Julian Assange on Oct. 4, 2006, …
http://unlvrebelyell.com/2011/07/25/unlv-student-arrested-by-fbi-for-hacking-in-support-of-wikileaks/

Duke: Explaining AIM Closure, Porn Wikileaks
XBiz
During the first part of April, the Free Speech Coalition began to receive
calls from worried industry members about the existence of Porn Wikileaks.
At that point, it was still unclear from where the information came, as
there was what looked like …
http://newswire.xbiz.com/view.php?id=136687

Bulgarian Top Cop Eager to Cooperate with US – WikiLeaks
Novinite.com
Bulgaria’s Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov is determined, has the track
record of an “honest cop” and is enthusiastic about cooperating with the
US, a WikiLeaks diplomatic cable has stated. The cable, entitled “
Bulgaria: Cleaning Up MOI”, …
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=130569

Wikileaks docs show GM in scrap with Kremlin over Opel sale two years ago
Autoblog (blog)
The news comes courtesy of reports that cite US diplomatic cables obtained
by Wikileaks. Some of those demands included the right to sell some of the
automakers’ two factories to a carmaker owned by the Russian state. That
would give the foreign …
http://gadgets.autoblog.com/2011/07/25/wikileaks-docs-show-gm-in-scrap-with-kremlin-over-opel-sale-two/

Wikileaks Revisited
American Conservative Magazine (blog)
Wikileaks is the organization the entire political class and media
establishment told us we must hate. When the whistleblower outfit famously
made its mark in November of 2010 by releasing thousands of classified US
government cables—which revealed …
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/07/25/wikileaks-revisited/

Murdochleaks, a WikiLeaks-style site for News Corp. whistleblowers, goes live
Yahoo! News Blogs (blog)
Murdochleaks, a WikiLeaks-style site that went live this weekend,
encourages whistleblowers both inside and outside the company to submit
“tips or evidence of wrongdoing relating to Rupert Murdoch’s affiliated
institutions. …
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/murdochleaks-wikileaks-style-news-corp-whistleblowers-goes-live-201343504.html

Jordanian Emissary Carries Confidential Message to Assad – Wikileaks
Ammon News
AMMONNEWS – AMMONNEWS – Whistleblower site Wikileaks recently published a
secret cable sent from the US Embassy in Amman on January 1st, 2010
informing US secretary that Prime Minister Maarouf Bakhit made an
unpublicized trip in 2005 (then he was the …
http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleNO=13010

WikiLeaks: GM Refused to Sell Opel to Sberbank and Magna Apprehending Possible …
Business Insider
In its report British newspaper referring to the diplomatic correspondence
has been published in WikiLeaks. It says that Canadian-Russian consortium
has made 31 proposal of agreement correction after its signing.
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-gmrefused-to-sell-opel-to-sberbank-and-magna-apprehending-possible-resale-2011-7

Split personalities revealed in Cambodia
Asia Times Online
By Sebastian Strangio PHNOM PENH – As part of its ongoing release of leaked
United States diplomatic cables, the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks
this month released its small cache of Cambodia-related dispatches. The 777
cables from the US Embassy …
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/MG27Ae03.html

Infographic: How Bitcoins Avoid Taxes
PC Magazine
Same went for WikiLeaks, which had already been boycotted by PayPal. A
Gawker article also exposed the use of Bitcoins to purchase drugs on the
online black market Silk Road. Last month, security software maker Symantec
uncovered a Trojan that appeared …
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2389109,00.asp

Cardinal denies asking US government to intervene in Mexican politics
Catholic News Agency
In the July 21 statement, the archdiocese responded to the information
released by WikiLeaks about a meeting the cardinal had with then US
Ambassador to the Holy See, Francis Rooney, in March of 2006. The cable
published by WikiLeaks is dated April 3, …
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cardinal-denies-asking-us-government-to-intervene-in-mexican-politics/

‘Anonymous’ Claims Italian Cyber Police Website Hack
RTT News
Anonymous came into prominence late last year after the group hacked
websites belonging to several Internet services and online payment
providers who cut their ties with whistle-blower WikiLeaks, including
MasterCard and PayPal. …
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/GeneralNews.aspx?Id=1673518&SM=1

Comments and analyses – on editorial
The Guardian
The company has rightly highlighted its success stories, from the Arab
Spring to WikiLeaks, many of which highlight the link between the
Guardian’s values and high-quality journalism while tackling key
sustainability issues. The ongoing phone-hacking …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainability/sustainability-report-2011-assurance-statement-editorial

Openness – the mind, body and soul of our journalism
The Guardian
Rusbridger is particularly proud of the WikiLeaks stories for bringing
information about corrupt regimes around the world to the attention of
their own people, who are often starved of such information. By sharing the
stories with the New York Times, …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainability/sustainability-report-editorial-rusbridger

Rhetoric vs. Action in American Diplomacy
Huffington Post
In part, this disappointment reflects the real world impact of WikiLeaks.
Whatever the best intentions had been behind the commitment to 21st century
statecraft and public diplomacy, the façade of being the unquestioned
global good guy was exposed by …
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-l-esposito/when-words-fail-rhetoric-_b_907642.html

Why Do the Pentagon Papers Matter Now?
Fellowship of Reconciliation (blog)
We think Ellsberg’s thoughts have real relevance and are provocative,
especially in the age of WikiLeaks. What do you think? Why do the Pentagon
Papers matter now? The producers of the recent Academy-Award and
Emmy-nominated documentary The Most …
http://forusa.org/blogs/ethan-vesely-flad/why-do-pentagon-papers-matter-now/8858

Green team leads the field
The Guardian
Our work on the US diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks gave
unprecedented insight of what happens behind the closed doors of the global
climate change talks. A series on shale gas, which spanned the globe from
the US to France to China, …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainability/sustainability-report-2011-environment

Wikidiarrhea: How The Rooskies Blew The Opel Deal
Truth About Cars (blog)
GM cancelled the sale of Opel because the buyers wanted the right to sell
its factories to a Russian state-owned car maker, says the Times, citing US
diplomatic cables revealed in Wikileaks. Really? You don’t say! We are
shocked! …
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2011/07/wikidiarrhea-how-the-rooskies-blew-the-opel-deal/

Top Dominican Republic official links ex US ambassador to drug baron
Dominican Today
Castillo continued refuting information filtered by WikiLeaks, that
president Supreme Court (SCJ) Jorge Subero told the ex US ambassador that
the prominent attorney was seeking to replace him with that court’s vice
president Rafael Luciano Pichardo, …
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2011/7/25/40336/Top-Dominican-Republic-official-links-ex-US-ambassador-to-drug-baron

NIST preps guidance for mitigating insider threats
FierceGovernmentIT
“As Wikileaks pointed out, it’s not always about technology. We’ve got to
pay attention to all aspects of controls: management, operational and
technical. The adversaries will find your soft spot. They will find where
you are weak. …
http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/nist-preps-guidance-mitigating-insider-threats/2011-07-25

Website security lapses ‘likely to continue’
Hostway
According to the US indictment against 14 of the accused, the criminal act
had been carried out as “retribution” for the closure of a donation account
for Wikileaks, the whistle-blowing website. Alex Fidgeon, a director at MWR
InfoSecurity, …
http://www.hostway.co.uk/news/security/website-security-lapses-likely-to-continue-800633011.html

12000 NY Times homepages
Crikey
Baseball, Football, Obama, Wikileaks, a few pics of dudes holding firearms,
a quick snap of a QANTAS jet, the Beatles and Tony Curtis. Have to wonder
whether the subscribers are being well served there. Register now to join
the conversation instantly, …
http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/26/12000-ny-times-homepages/

That means there’s no way to tell how often, for instance, Interpol reverses …
The Cutting Edge
Take the case of Wikileaks’ Julian Assange. When Sweden wanted to question
Assange on allegations of rape, they got Interpol to issue a Red
Notice—just to arrest him for questioning. Assange’s lawyers charged the
case was political, aimed at shutting …
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=52447

SUMMARY JUDGMENTS: Our daily legal-news aggregator for July 25
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
… file lawsuits in courts against the names that were mentioned in the
documents and be persecuted on charges of treason and complicity with
Israel,” Mousawi said, referring to classified US cables about Israel that
were made public by WikiLeaks. …
http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/California/News/2011/07_-_July/SUMMARY_JUDGMENTS__Our_daily_legal-news_aggregator_for_July_25/

The almanac
UPI.com
In 2010, the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, said the decision to
post more than 75000 secret US Afghan war documents on the Internet was to
give a complete picture of the conflict. The White House called the deed “a
potential to be very harmful. …
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/07/26/The-almanac/UPI-39431311665400/?spt=hs&or=on

For a Second Straight Week, it’s the Debt Crisis and Tabloid Scandal
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism
Only one other media-focused story—the release of troves of secret
government information through open-source whistleblower Wikileaks—lasted
as long in the spotlight (it was a top-five story for three straight weeks
in December, 2010). …
http://www.journalism.org/index_report/pej_news_coverage_index_july_1824_2011

India behind Mumbai attack: JuD chief
Pakistan Observer
According to WikiLeaks, President Asif Ali Zardari told the visiting US
Senator John Kerry that he suspected Indian involvement in the Mumbai
attacks. Zardari linked the attack with Indian huge military spending,
describing increasing Indian military …
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=105421

Steve Marshall: And a nation roars for Evans
TVNZ
Australians just can’t get enough of the Victorian, who has lived away from
the country for so long, he sports a European accent reminiscent of
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange. But don’t let that fool you, they tell me. Cadel
Evans is the Aussie battler who …
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/steve-marshall-and-nation-roars-evans-4326204

Vietnam PM gets five more years amid economic challenges
BusinessLIVE
Former US Ambassador Michael Michalak called Dung “reform-minded”,
according to a confidential US embassy cable written in 2009 and released
by WikiLeaks. Analysts generally agree that he favours greater economic
reforms and more transparency. …
http://www.businesslive.co.za/world/2011/07/26/vietnam-pm-gets-five-more-years-amid-economic-challenges

New York Times Reporting Misses the Mark on Iceland, Prints Neoliberal Line
truthout
The banks were even nationalized – two of them only temporarily – and in a
State Department Cable released by WikiLeaks, an American diplomat not only
referred to the saving of Glitnir as a “bailout” of the institution, but
also pointed out that the …
http://www.truth-out.org/new-york-times-reporting-misses-mark-iceland-prints-neoliberal-line/1311020651

Cyber-Westphalia And Its Disruptors
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
While the global commons is being enclosed, there is still a huge potential
for transnational forces to disrupt the whole process: whether they are
dissidents in China, WikiLeaks, or Anonymous. So while I would
wholeheartedly agree with the authors’ …
http://www.rferl.org/content/cyber_westphalia_and_its_disruptors/24276584.html

President Mutharika, the man who’s overstayed Malawi’s hospitality
The Daily Maverick
In the avalanche of secret diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks was one
from the British ambassador to Malawi which was deeply critical of the
Malawian government, and of Mutharika in particular. Mutharika was offended
and kicked the ambassador out …
http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/article/2011-07-26-president-mutharika-the-man-whos-overstayed-malawis-hospitality

Debate fierce on ATF-Mexico gun traces
Houston Chronicle (blog)
A State Department cable from the WikiLeaks trove released earlier this
year states that while most of the Mexican cartels’ “firearms” come from
the US, most of the “military origin weapons – such as grenades and
light anti-tank weapons” are from …
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/07/debate-fierce-on-atf-mexico-gun-traces/

Cybersecurity Enhancement Act passes Congressman McCaul’s House Science, Space …
Your Houston News
This week 20 people were arrested in the United States and Europe for cyber
attacks on major US companies, including PayPal, in retaliation for its
suspending the accounts of Wikileaks. Just last month an anarchic community
of hackers declared war on …
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/ranch/news/article_5ee2482b-1213-54c4-abc3-a0a422aaf337.html

Hackers target Austrians
Oman Daily Observer
… The Netherlands and most recently in the United States, where the
Federal Bureau of Investigation linked 14 people to a cyber attack on
PayPal — in apparent retaliation for closing down a donation account for
the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.
http://main.omanobserver.om/node/59458
See all stories on this topic:
http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://main.omanobserver.om/node/59458&hl=en&geo=us

The Media Turns on James Murdoch. Fair?
Mogulite
What of newspapers that published Wikileaks documents, which were
diplomatic cables that had been stolen? What of newspapers that published
national security secrets, like revealing that the NSA was tracking the
money transfers to al Qaeda operatives? …
http://www.mogulite.com/murdoch-phone-hacking-2/

Wikileaks docs show GM in scrap with Kremlin over Opel sale two …
By Zach Bowman
As it turns out, General Motors may have nixed the sale of its Opel and
Vauxhall brands in 2009 due to the fact that the proposed buyers added 31.
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/07/25/wikileaks-docs-show-gm-in-scrap-with-kremlin-over-opel-sale-two/

2011-07-25 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Cablegate Releases …
By -s
This is a “WikiLeaks News Update”, a daily news update of stories that are
obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information,
transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are
GMT. …
http://wlcentral.org/node/2076

Wikileaks Revisited | Jack Hunter | SouthernAvenger.com
By Jack Hunter
It’s not exactly a secret that I’ve long been a fan of professional
wrestling. These days, this also means being a fan of Vince McMahon’s World
Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and its current top star John Cena.
http://www.southernavenger.com/featured/wikileaks-revisited

With impeccable timing, WikiLeaks releases cables showing that …
By Nenad
Norway’s intelligence service had previously been criticised for its
failure to keep track of suspected terror cells and the country was felt to
be complacent about the prospect of a terror attack, secret cables from the
WikiLeaks files …
http://truthfrequencynews.com/?p=7012

This Week in WikiLeaks Podcast – Joshua E.S. Phillips on US …
By Kevin Gosztola
For the past months, I have hosted a show called “This Week in
WikiLeaks,” where I bring a guest on to talk about a WikiLeaks-related
story or to talk.
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2011/07/24/this-week-in-wikileaks-joshua-e-s-phillips-on-failure-of-us-military-to-properly-investigate-torture/

DSG: Wikileaks Moment / Napster Moment | The New Significance
By admin
However, it’s actually an integral part of that thread of confusion and
worldwide destabilisation running from Wikileaks, through the Arab Spring,
and European and US anti-austerity struggles, to Anonymous and the ongoing
Cyberwar …
http://www.thenewsignificance.com/2011/07/26/dsg-wikileaks-moment-napster-moment/

KI Media: 2011-07-24 Interview #WikiLeaks Cambodian Cables and …
By noreply@blogger.com (Heng Soy)
2011-07-24 Interview #WikiLeaks Cambodian Cables and Politics. Submitted by
Alexa O’Brien on Mon, 07/25/2011 – 02:00. Originally posted at WL Central:
http://wlcentral.org/node/2074. The following interview was conducted with
a …
http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2011/07/2011-07-24-interview-wikileaks.html

First thus: Some thoughts on books about Wikileaks
By noreply@blogger.com (James Weinheimer)
“The Library of Congress (LOC) and the National Library of Australia (NLA)
have, in the past week, reviewed their categorization for WikiLeaks books
that were on file. A bottom-up movement of WikiLeaks supporters and writers
on Twitter …
http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/2011/07/some-thoughts-on-books-about-wikileaks.html

Reflecting on the Afghanistan War Logs Released by WikiLeaks One …
By Kevin Gosztola
One year ago, WikiLeaks released the Afghanistan war logs.
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2011/07/25/reflecting-on-the-afghanistan-war-logs-released-by-wikileaks-one-year-ago/

Most Shocking WikiLeaks Yet ! (illegal Cancer Cure=Genocide …
By Webmaster
reuploaded from http://www.youtube.com LEGALIZE MARIJUANA CANNABIS HIGH.
http://www.marijuanacrimes.com/us-marijuana-news/most-shocking-wikileaks-yet-illegal-cancer-curegenocide/

Journalism student faces 15 years for alleged ‘Anonymous …
By Eric W. Dolan
After the December attacks US federal investigators followed a trail to
Europe, Canada and back to the United States as they hunted down hackers
who targeted “perceived corporate enemies of WikiLeaks.” The FBI traced
Internet protocol …
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/25/journalism-student-faces-15-years-for-alleged-anonymous-hacktivism/

Wikileaks revisited – Rational Review News Digest — the freedom …
By Thomas L. Knapp
“The political establishment decided to dislike, discredit and destroy
Julian Assange not because he is a bad journalist â ” but precisely
becau…
http://rationalreview.news-digests.com/archives/49884

The Heat is on… « The Last Stand
By Render
R – The LOIC attacks were just one of many Anonymous/Wikileaks inspired
attacks on Paypal. The LOIC attacks served as cover for multiple massive
data breach attempts. Paypal took its own servers offline for the
protection of itself and …
http://render64.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/the-heat-is-on/

Once Again, Online Activity Has Real-Life Consequences at Law Blog
By John Richards
For some background, these hacking attacks started when a website known as
Wikileaks, which is dedicated to making secret government and corporate
information available to the public, released hundreds of thousands of
diplomatic cables …
http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2011/07/25/once-again-online-activity-has-real-life-consequences/

25 July 2011
GM clashed with Russia over Opel unit-paper
Reuters
The paper, citing US diplomatic cables obtained by Wikileaks, said that the
Canadian-Russian consortium bidding for GM’s European operations added 31
amendments to the deal after it was signed. The consortium, which included
Canadian car-parts maker …
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/25/gm-wikileaks-idUSL3E7IP14420110725

‘Frontline’ explores ‘WikiSecrets,’ new on DVD
Plain Dealer
The illuminating piece of investigative journalism goes in-depth into the
recent release online of secret US government documents by Assange’s
whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks. Some call Assange a hero, while others
call him the devil for releasing …
http://www.cleveland.com/movies/index.ssf/2011/07/frontline_explores_wikisecrets.html

WikiLeaks cables omit US involvement in Pak affairs
Oman Tribune
KARACHI WikiLeaks cables that shacked Pakistani political circles by
releasing many inside stories but it deliberately or mistakenly missed a
very important US involvement in Pakistani affairs. Stories such as how
minutely were the Americans involved …
http://www.omantribune.com/index.php?page=news&id=97212&heading=Other%20Top%20Stories

WikiLeaks releases US cables outlining Canadian foreign policy in Latin America
Straight.com
This month, the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks released a bunch of US
diplomatic cables relating to this part of the world. A “confidential”
cable from the US embassy in Ottawa to the US State Department on April 15,
2009 explains Howard’s influence …
http://www.straight.com/article-405783/vancouver/wikeleaks-releases-cables-outlining-canadian-foreign-policy-latin-america

From the School Blogs: Dissertation: Wikileaks and Architecture
Archinect
It was entitled “Wikileaks and the Architecture of Data-Loss Paranoia” and
done under the tutorship of Martin Parker and Richard Coyne. I am glad to
say it has been nominated for the 2011 RIBA President’s Medals Student
Awards Dissertation Medal …
http://archinect.com/news/article/14519258/from-the-school-blogs-dissertation-wikileaks-and-architecture

Cables show inflexibility of both US and Okinawa
Pacific Daily News
Plans for a Marine relocation from Okinawa to Guam have popped up in the
cables released by Wikileaks several times. Here are some of the local
headlines made by these cables: December 2010: Cables from the Wellington
embassy show how US officials …
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20110725/NEWS01/107250308

Together we gain
Bangkok Post
The result could be huge economic benefits for Cambodia PHNOM PENH :
Diplomatic cables from the American embassy in Phnom Penh released last
week by the anti-secrecy organisation WikiLeaks show that Cambodian
officials believed they were just months …
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/economics/248645/together-we-gain

JLP senator labels some PNP members as “suicide bombers”
Go Jamaica
Reacting to the recent Wikileaks revelations and evidence given by former
PNP cabinet minister, Dr Karl Blythe at the FINSAC Commission of Enquiry,
Senator Hyacinth Bennett urged JLP supporters not elect the PNP to power.
She was speaking at a JLP Area …
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=30405

37. Alan Rusbridger
The Guardian
With its phone-hacking revelations from Nick Davies, the WikiLeaks cables,
and the continued fallout from its investigation into the death during the
G20 protests of Ian Tomlinson, our judges said it had been a “very strong
year” for Alan Rusbridger’s …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/24/alan-rusbridger-mediaguardian-100-2011

Online-print tug of war fuels film on ‘Gray Lady’
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
The film begins with a revelation by WikiLeaks, which the editors huff at,
and by the end they’re partnering with WikiLeaks, but only after —
because this is the , after all — they’ve vetted the information
WikiLeaks leaks. One of the problems of …
http://www.staradvertiser.com/features/featuresstories/20110724__Online-print_tug_of_war_fuels_film_on__Gray_Lady_.html

Page One: Inside the New York Times
The Vancouver Observer
The film chronicles the day to day activities of writers and editors as
they cover stories form the collapse of the Tribune Company to the release
of the Wikileaks War Logs. For New York Times die-hard subscribers the film
showcases the intricacies of …
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/culture/film/2011/07/24/page-one-inside-new-york-times

PRESS DIGEST – British business – July 25
Reuters
General Motors scrapped the sale of its Opel and Vauxhall brands two years
ago because the proposed buyers were demanding the right to sell its
factories to a Russian state-owned car maker, US diplomatic cables revealed
by Wikileaks said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/25/press-digest-british-business-idUSL6E7IP00620110725

INFLUENCE GAME: India, Pakistan vie for US backing
The Associated Press
But External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and other Indian officials
were deeply concerned the portfolio would include Kashmir, according to a
January 2009 secret diplomatic cable leaked to the Wikileaks organization
and subsequently obtained by …
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g3cRtqcLY9u2Cq7ClZZLxKNfWwbA?docId=7e961ddcda264b09b708230223650b58

The great privacy debate
ABC Online
When the WikiLeaks argument was at its height, Julia Gillard scolded Julian
Assange for believing that the public had a right to know everything. Well,
precisely; that is the default position in a free and open society.
Government should be transparent …
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2809530.html

Why Tyrants Love the Murdoch Scandal
New York Times
I’m not terribly alarmed that either Britain or the United States will
significantly roll back the protections that allow us to hold our
governments accountable — up to and including the hot scrutiny of stories
like the WikiLeaks disclosures. …
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/magazine/why-tyrants-love-the-murdoch-scandal.html

This day in history
Boston Globe
In 2010, The online whistleblower Wikileaks posted 90000 leaked US military
records that amounted to a blow-by-blow account of the Afghanistan war,
including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as
covert operations against Taliban …
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2011/07/25/this_day_in_history/

African leaders do not take us for granted, insists Japanese aid chief
The Guardian (blog)
Johnnie Carson, the US assistant secretary of state for African affairs,
said in a cable released by WikiLeaks: “China is a very aggressive and
pernicious economic competitor with no morals. China is in Africa for China
primarily. …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/jul/25/japan-africa-aid-sadako-ogata

Stoltenberg Faces Norway Grief as Attacks Turn Paradise to Hell
Bloomberg
Norway hadn’t taken seriously the threat of terrorism, according to a 2009
US diplomatic memorandum distributed by Wikileaks and posted on the
Aftenposten newspaper’s website. The document focused on the threat of
Islamist attacks. …
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-24/stoltenberg-faces-norway-grief-as-attacks-turn-paradise-to-hell.html

Pakistan’s ISI from the Inside
The Atlantic
(Thanks to the Wikileaks, we now know a bit more about the
“counter-terrorism pursuit teams”.) If our political and military
leadership also had the gumption to support the war against the NATO forces
— in the belief that some of the present turmoil …
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/07/pakistans-isi-from-the-inside/242471/

Pro-Russia policy stalls Afghan copters
Washington Times
… that weapon sales open, to the ill-gotten gains that these sales reap
for corrupt senior officials, and to the lever it provides the Russian
government in stymieing American interests,” Mr. Burns said in a secret
cable made public by WikiLeaks. …
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/24/pro-russia-policy-stalls-afghan-copters/

Letters cast doubt on NoW claim that it ‘co-operated fully’ with police
The Guardian
Whistleblowers with inside information about malfeasance at News
International are being encouraged by a new Wikileaks-style site to submit
details about events in the company. The site, created on 13 July, offers
secure, anonymous methods to submit …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/24/hacking-doubts-over-now-cooperation-claim

Analysis: Brutal attack tests Norwegian society
Reuters
A US diplomatic cable from 2009, posted on Wikileaks, criticised Norway’s
limited ability to track potential Islamic militants on its turf and
Friday’s attacks suggest that its security apparatus had also failed to
detect home-grown threats. …
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/24/us-norway-attack-analysis-idUSTRE76N2GZ20110724?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=71

Peruvian army vet warns of growing Iranian presence
Jerusalem Post
According to a US diplomatic cable revealed by Wikileaks last year,
American diplomats were closely following Global CST’s inroads in Latin
America, which includes a similar deal in Colombia. Contreras said he
decided to hire Ziv’s company to help …
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=230825

Hezbollah: War victims should sue state officials
The Daily Star
… and be prosecuted on charges of treason and complicity with Israel,”
Mousawi said, referring to Lebanese officials whose names were quoted in
WikiLeaks cables by then US Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman as being against
Hezbollah during the war. …
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Jul-25/Hezbollah-War-victims-shouldsue-state-officials.ashx

De-link national security from vote-bank politics, says Jaitley
The Hindu
It is the same kind of grid from which Wikileaks came out,” he said. He
said the government had not even started working on the measures announced
after the 26/11 attacks. Mr. Jaitley said many lessons were to be learnt
from the recent attacks. …
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2290813.ece

The almanac
UPI.com
In 2010, more than 75000 previously unreleased US Afghan war documents,
some of them classified, were published on the Internet by an international
organization called WikiLeaks. A thought for the day: Margaret Fuller said,
“Genius will live and thrive …
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/07/25/The-almanac/UPI-66161311579000/

Murdoch, Police, Spook Phone Hacking Links
Pacific Free Press
… from the CIA’s venture capital arm In-Q-Tel) and Berico Technologies
had partnered-up with the Bank of America’s law firm Hunton & Williams and
the US Chamber of Commerce and devised a sub rosa plan of attack against
WikiLeaks and Chamber critics. …
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1-/9314-murdoch-police-spook-phone-hacking-links.html

Shanthie Mariet D’Souza: Norway’s Moment of Truth
Al-Arabiya
The cables released by Wikileaks further provided forewarnings of simmering
anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic tensions in Norway. The Islamist threat
looms large over other NATO countries who have taken part in the Afghan
war. …
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/07/25/159179.html

Tweeters rage against the DC machine
CBS News
#Syria ILikeyouLloyd: … for giving $3b to Israel when they continue to
build illegal settlements & engage in human rights abuses kgosztola: …
for going after #WikiLeaks & #Anonymous but not Bush Admin officials for
torture & destroying rule of law …
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504943_162-20082636-10391715.html

43. Jemima Khan
The Guardian
Her role as one of the earliest supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange, when she unexpectedly turned up at court to post part of his bail
money, also merits her a place on the MediaGuardian 100. Whether her
decision proves that she belongs, …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/24/jemima-khan-mediaguardian-100-2011

Despite cabinet shakeup, one Mubarak-era minister remains firmly in place
Al-Masry Al-Youm
The minister is the gatekeeper for the millions of dollars that enters
Egypt annually from abroad and, as is apparent from US diplomatic cables
released by the whistleblower website Wikileaks, sets Egyptian policy on US
aid to the country. …
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/480230

Editor’s Picks #221
Archinect
He then lets us know that his dissertation entitled “Wikileaks and the
Architecture of Data-Loss Paranoia” has been nominated for the 2011 RIBA
President’s Medals Student Awards Dissertation Medal! The dissertation
explores the data-bunker as “a new …
http://archinect.com/news/article/14522861/editor-s-picks-221

Canada, natives locked in uneasy dance over self-governance
National Post (blog)
The Wikileaks cable said, “The ‘inherent’ right of self-government does
not grant a right of sovereignty in the sense of international law, and
does not create sovereign independent aboriginal nation-states.” It went
on to scold Canada for having “so …
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/24/canada-natives-locked-in-uneasy-dance-over-self-governance/

Rupert Murdoch and the media wars: so what else is new?
RenewAmerica
The NYT’s self-righteous pose is striking, given its embrace of and
propagandizing for the likes of the WikiLeaks security-breaching Julian
Assange, not to mention that the Times — by outing CIA operations post
9/11 — turned itself into a virtual …
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/vernon/110725

Foreign “spy masters” could infiltrate hacker groups
PC Pro
And because the hacker groups are distributed, anonymous and at least in
part consist of ideologists – as shown with hacks against financial
institutions when they blocked payments to WikiLeaks – Moores believed
they were especially vulnerable to …
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/368851/foreign-spy-masters-could-infiltrate-hacker-groups

Obama administration waging war on terror, whistleblowers and media
Daily Nation
… the Bush government’s excesses, the Obama administration has launched a
broader war on whistleblowers and investigative journalists, including
harassing WikiLeaks supporters by detaining them at airports and seizing
their laptops without warrants. …
http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Obama+administration+waging+war+on+terror/-/440808/1206878/-/r3lj8yz/-/

Margaret Sullivan
Buffalo News
What about the WikiLeaks controversy? How were those classified diplomatic
cables (obtained by accessing government computer records) different from
personal or corporate phone messages? How does individual privacy enter
into the discussion? …
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial-page/columns/margaret-sullivan/article499155.ece

No call for new curbs on media
Manawatu Standard
Without commenting on the hypocrisy of non-News Corp outlets that pounced
on the story, like the Guardian and the New York Times (both happy
accomplices to Wikileaks) the matter leapt into the public consciousness
and public revulsion rapidly forced …
http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/opinion/5335158/No-call-for-new-curbs-on-media

SA@TAC – Wikileaks Revisited? – YouTube
By southernavenger
Remembering the false narrative of an imaginary threat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoy0Dnxzm-E

WikiLeaks: Making Life Difficult (Summer School Guest Blog …
By Charlie Beckett
It soon became clear, that from Ball’s perspective, that the relationship
between WikiLeaks and mainstream media is not a simple one . Wikileaks
names and shames the close and censored relationship between the mainstream
media and …
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2011/07/24/wikileaks-making-life-difficult-summer-school-guest-blog/

CassPF: From The Metroon To #WikiLeaks: People, Power And The …
By admin
By contrast, WikiLeaks shows us how an archive can be formed and pluralised
directly from the affairs the records document and thus serve a powerful
purpose in society. Take, for example, a WikiLeaks archive such as the
United States …
http://www.thenewsignificance.com/2011/07/25/casspf-from-the-metroon-to-wikileaks-people-power-and-the-archive-wlcat/

ARCHIVÍSTICA & SOCIEDAD: 2011-07-23 From the Metroon to #WikiLeaks …
By Observador
WikiLeaks, embodying as it does a renegotiation of the boundaries of
knowledge and power that exist between the citizenry and the State, has
brought into sharp relief the unhelpful layers of bureaucracy and vested
political interests …
http://archivisticaysociedad.blogspot.com/2011/07/2011-07-23-from-metroon-to-wikileaks.html
ARCHIVÍSTICA & SOCIEDAD
http://archivisticaysociedad.blogspot.com/

2011 Voltaire Award Dinner for Wikileaks and Julian Assange « The …
By Rj
Liberty Victoria is very pleased to announce the recipients of our 2011
Voltaire Award are Wikileaks and Julian Assange. The Voltaire award dinner
will be held on Saturday 6 August 2011. Liberty President Spencer Zifcak
said Liberty was …
http://thedailyattack.com/2011/07/24/2011-voltaire-award-dinner-for-wikileaks-and-julian-assange/

Squarestate:: So, Why Is Wikileaks A Good Thing Again?
By Fong
So, Why Is Wikileaks A Good Thing Again? by: Fong. Sun Jul 24, 2011 at
10:24:09 AM MDT. So, Why Is Wikileaks A Good Thing Again? Fong :: So, Why
Is Wikileaks A Good Thing Again? …
http://www.squarestate.net/diary/1636/so-why-is-wikileaks-a-good-thing-again

Oslo Blast and Utoya Shooting as Publicity for 2083 Manifesto …
By fpujolmri
Crisis, Media, Reputation (and Wikileaks). Measuring the reputational
impact of crisis, especially Wikileaks, by Media, Reputation and
Intangibles center MRI Universidad de Navarra. Skip to content. Home ·
Wikileaks and Reputation. …
http://wikileaksreputationcrisis.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/oslo-blast-and-utoya-shooting-as-publicity-for-2083-manifesto-media-coverage-analysis/

allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Wikileaks – Tsvangirai Escapes Prosecution
The panel had been put together after whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks
released classified American government cables that revealed United States
policy on …
http://allafrica.com/stories/201107211326.html

Wikileaks-released document shows Ex-Juárez bishop worked to sway …
Former Juárez Catholic Bishop Juan Sandoval Iñiguez asked the United
States government to help prevent Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador from becoming
president …
http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_18530442

Murdoch’s Hacking Is Despicable, But Is WikiLeaks Any Better …
The high moral high-ground “The Guardian,” “The New York Times,” and much
of the liberal press have taken would make sense to me, were it not for
their …
http://www.rferl.org/content/blog/24269427.html