15 March 2012 — williambowles.info
US soldier accused in Wikileaks case due in court
The Associated Press
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A US Army private accused of leaking classified material to the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks could soon learn when his trial will start. Pfc. Bradley Manning was scheduled to appear in a military courtroom at Fort Meade, …
Wikileaks has struck again
Ke Alakai
Wikileaks has struck again. The website dedicated to leaking government and
corporation secrets to the public has once again released new information
to the public that has purportedly been received through hackers. The most
recent group of leaks is …
http://kealakai.byuh.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4859&Itemid=152
State Department moves to fire diplomat who criticized Iraq reconstruction
Washington Posta
Now the State Department is moving to fire him based on eight charges
ranging from linking on his blog to documents on the whistleblowing Web
site WikiLeaks to disclosing classified information. In his 24 years as a
diplomat, Van Buren was posted …
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/state-department-moves-to-fire-diplomat-who-criticized-iraq-reconstruction/2012/03/13/gIQATgu0CS_story.html
UN expert criticises Manning’s detention
Ninemsn
The UN investigator on torture says imposing harsh conditions of detention
on a US Army private accused of leaking classified documents to the
anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks violates his presumption of innocence. Juan
Mendez said in a report to the …
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8435759/un-expert-criticises-mannings-detention
Foreign investment and the whims of politicians
ABC Online
The record of this meeting is one of the gems in the WikiLeaks diplomatic
cables. Colmer confirmed to the embassy that the Government had changed the
foreign investment guidelines in order to address “growing concerns” about
Chinese investment in …
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3886786.html
SXSW Recap: Days 4 and 5
Crave Online
As part of their support of WikiLeaks, they found that Paypal and
Mastercard can be used to donate to KKK and Nazi websites. Now that’s not
okay regardless of WikiLeaks! So if Julian Assange brought attention to
that practice, I’m more concerned with …
http://www.craveonline.com/film/reviews/184765-sxsw-recap-days-4-and-5
The Cost of Defending Your Name Against Cyber Theft
Business Finance Magazine
Late last year, hackers pilfered a reported 5 million internal emails
(which were shared with WikiLeaks) from the company as well as credit card
information from tens of thousands of Stratfor customers. Since then,
Stratfor and its CEO, George Friedman …
http://businessfinancemag.com/article/cost-defending-your-name-against-cyber-theft-0314
We chat with one of the legion of hactivists using the Internet to organize …
San Francisco Bay Guardian
… again at the end of 2010 when Anonymous defended Wikileaks’ release of
secret diplomatic cables, shutting down the websites of Visa, Amazon,
PayPal, and other companies that cooperated with the US government in
trying to freeze Wikileaks’ assets.
http://www.sfbg.com/2012/03/14/interviewing-anonymous
The Anatomy of a Gag Order: Thomas Drake and the Justice Department
truthout
In a January interview with Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone, WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange expressed concern that the First Amendment, as we
know it, is under attack. “The US government is trying to redefine what
have been long-accepted …
http://www.truth-out.org/anatomy-gag-order-thomas-drake-and-justice-department/1331739461
Name It; Clients Are Called It
New York Times
It certainly appeared that Stratfor, an intelligence firm based in Texas,
was poking fun at its own clients when WikiLeaks released an internal
glossary from the company this year that defined a “Clancy” as
“somebody who has read a lot of Tom Clancy …
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/name-it-clients-are-called-it/
UK Home Secretary approves Richard O’Dwyer’s extradition to US
World Socialist Web Site
The EAW has most notoriously been used against Julian Assange, founder of
WikiLeaks. For more than a year, Assange has been held under virtual house
arrest in England, while he fights an EAW for his extradition to Sweden to
face trumped-up sexual …
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/rodw-m15.shtml
‘Incursion into Iran will badly affect whole world’
News.Az
Do you trust Wikileaks, recently citing the words of Turkish Prime Minister
Erdogan saying that military strikes on Iran is favorable for Turkey,
aiming to become leader of the Islamic world? Wikileaks is a tool of
American policy, this is false, …
http://www.news.az/articles/politics/56641
Spy Blimp Caught Rogue Soldier on Tape After Shooting Spree
Wired News
WikiLeaks became famous after acquiring and distributing a video,
“Collateral Murder,” purporting to show US troops in Iraq killing
civilians. Footage also exists of an airstrike in the western Afghan region
of Garani, even though the military has yet …
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/afghanistan-massacre-video/
Computer security spending up in Europe
UPI.com
Authorities alleged Monsegur and his colleagues took responsibility for
cyberattacks against Visa, Mastercard and eBay Inc.’s Paypal as retaliation
for their refusal to process payments for WikiLeaks, the Journal said. Also
allegedly targeted were the …
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2012/03/15/Computer-security-spending-up-in-Europe/UPI-46941331807400/
The ‘war on drugs’ is the problem, not the solution. It never made sense: now …
Catholic Herald Online (blog)
By William Oddie on Wednesday, 14 March 2012 The perennial question of the
so-called “war on drugs”, I see, has emerged again, in the form of a
debate involving in some way Julian Assange of WikiLeaks fame and Sir
Richard Branson, both of whom, …
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2012/03/14/the-war-on-drugs-is-the-problem-not-the-solution-it-never-made-sense-now-we-have-the-proof/
A Renewed Push To End Violence In Syria
NPR
There have some WikiLeaks cables that basically add up to some speculation
that they might be willing to do that. Certainly, it is a very long and
hard to defend border, mountainous terrains, several hundred miles long.
The possibility for physically …
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/14/148606404/a-new-push-to-end-violence-in-syria
Why Greg Smith’s Goldman letter can’t be shrugged off
Financial News
This instinct to dismiss the letter as nothing more than further evidence
of established wisdom reminds me of the reaction to Wikileaks decision to
publish reams of information relating to the war in Afghanistan in the
summer of 2010.
http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2012-03-14/greg-smith-goldman-letter-comment?mod=promos
Veritatem Cognoscere Press Launches Hollow Strength, the New Espionage …
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
THE DAILY BEAST: Wikileaks Stratfor Emails Roil US Intelligence Community
SPYTALK: CIA Man’s Thriller Gets Inside Iran’s Murderous Rivalries COMEDIAN
MAZ JOBRANI RECOMMENDS: Hollow Strength for Summer Reading Journalists can
contact Veritatem …
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/03/14/prweb9281971.DTL
Encyclopaedia Britannica Kills Paper Product, Looks To Online Editions
Hot Hardware
Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Google, holidays, Android, Salvia, Julian
Assange, and Wikileaks are all in the top 100. The major question facing
the Encyclopaedia Britannica is whether it can establish itself in the mass
market as a place you visit to …
http://hothardware.com/News/Encyclopaedia-Britannica-Kills-Paper-Product-Looks-To-Online-Editions1/
‘Internet of Things’ will tap anything, everything
Vancouver Courier
The Internet is already the “greatest spying machine the world has ever
seen,” according to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The lines are
becoming blurry between commercial data-mining, law enforcement snooping,
illegal hacking, …
http://www.vancourier.com/Internet+Things+will+anything+everything/6302118/story.html
Google Adds (Even More) Links to the Pentagon
Wired News
Last fall, the Justice Department demanded that the company give up the IP
addresses of Wikileaks supporters. During the first six months of 2011, US
government agencies sent Google 5950 criminal investigation requests for
data on Google users and …
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/pentagon-google/
What MPs Know About Assange (Australia)
Democratic Underground
WikiLeaks‘ Global Intelligence Files has since disclosed, in an email dated
26 January 2011, that a sealed indictment for Assange has been issued by a
secret grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia. His defence team await the
issuance of an extradition …
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101619443
Geek Guide: Internet freedom, now!
The Express Tribune
The treaty, which had been under secret development since 2006, only
captured public attention by chance, thanks to the publication of a secret
discussion paper on whistleblowing website Wikileaks. Critics immediately
noted that the agreement not only …
http://tribune.com.pk/story/347734/geek-guide-internet-freedom-now/
A different kind of truth
Jerusalem Post
“…transparency, consumer savviness, the WikiLeaks scandal which
trumpeted a new era of transparency and access to information.” These are
usually stated as positives, but one can’t help but detect the skepticism
in her tone.
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Books/Article.aspx?id=261968
Wikileaks / Cyprus EEZ: H Turkey is ready even for a military …
By aira
revealed that Turkey is ready even for a military confrontation in the
Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus if the extraction of natural gas from Plot
12. “The official policy of Turkey is…
http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/2012/03/15/wikileaks-cyprus-eez-h-turkey-is-ready-even-for-a-military-confrontation/
Wikileaks files reveal secret US-Yemen bomb deal : Federal Jack
By POPEYE
(BBC) US cables released by the Wikileaks website suggest that Yemen
allowed secret US air strikes against suspected al-Qaeda militants.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh claimed raids were conducted by Yemen’s
military when they were in …
http://www.federaljack.com/?p=173862
From the field: Nothing like Wikileaks, but a small cache of Bashar …
By arn
You can get sense of the communications strategy of the Syrian President
from this memo in which he is being offered advice about how to address the
question of reform, among other themes. The leaked documents suggest that
the President …
http://bostonuniversity.blogspot.com/2012/03/nothing-like-wikileaks-but-small-cache.html
AnonOps Communications: #LulzSec was part of a #FBI play …
By Anonops
Sabu also provided an FBI-owned computer to facilitate the release of five
million emails taken by LulzSec from the Texas-based, global private
intelligence firm Stratfor, which are now being published by WikiLeaks. The
FBI then instructed …
http://anonops.blogspot.com/2012/03/lulzsec-was-part-of-fbi-play-against.html
The Dirty War on WikiLeaks | Common Dreams
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, arriving for an extradition
hearing at the high court in London on 2 November 2011. Photograph: Kirsty
Wigglesworth/ …
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/09-10
Twitter / WikiLeaks: Julian Assange accused by …
Julian Assange accused by Swedish military on state TV of blackmailing
entire nation http://t.co/pohTYf5S | Ferrada http://t.co/FMEbq2tR.
http://twitter.com/wikileaks/statuses/175818350964899841
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Was LulzSec bust part of a play against Julian Assange?
Computerworld
By Taylor Armerding CSO – Last week’s arrests of five LulzSec leaders was
major news in the hacktivist world, but it looks like that takedown may
have been just an intermediate step in pursuit of a more prominent
fugitive: WikiLeaks founder and …
Is this truly the face of “hactivism”? Inside Anonymous’s hack of Stratfor
DailyTech
Wikileaks Leveraged Attack to Post More US-Targeting Espionage Wikileaks
encouraged the attack and has been publishing scores of Stratfor‘s emails
from a 200 GB archive of stolen information. Wikileaks founder Julian
Assange told Reuters, …
“South Park” on Demand
NBC Chicago
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared on the recent 500th episode of
“The Simpsons” as a barbecuing denizen of an off-the-grid community just
outside Springfield. On “South Park” last season, Assange was portrayed as
a rodent named WikiLeaks (evil …
http://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/television/South-Park-on-Demand-142476005.html
Stratfor CEO: Company is not ‘rogue organization’ critics portray
Austin American-Statesman
The harm was made worse, Friedman said, by the use of stolen company email
messages by the group WikiLeaks to create what he called a false image of
Stratfor‘s business and its clients. “This was a very extraordinary hack,”
Friedman said.
Assange: Pentagon Attempts To Quash Coverage With “Espionage” Charges
OpEdNews
… Ross The Pentagon is attempting to quash coverage of its activities by
alleging that any reporter seeking classified information is collaborating
with the source and guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage, WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange says.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Assange-Pentagon-Attempts-by-Sherwood-Ross-120313-113.html
See all stories on this topic:
http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.opednews.com/articles/Assange-Pentagon-Attempts-by-Sherwood-Ross-120313-113.html&hl=en&geo=us
Where’s Osama buried?
TNT Magazine
And, last week, a major domino in a new conspiracy theory – a new ‘big
lie’ – appeared to fall, when Wikileaks reproduced emails from a shadowy
security firm questioning whether Osama bin Laden’s body was actually
buried at sea.
http://www.tntmagazine.com/news/features/wheres-osama-buried
Jester hacker brags of mobe attack on Anonymous, baby-kisser
Register
“Enemies” of the hacker listed as targets included @AnonymousIRC,
@wikileaks, @anonyops, @barretbrownlol (the Twitter address of sometime
Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown) and @RepDanGordon (Rhode Island State
Representative Dan Gordon) and others.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/13/jester_qr_exploits/
Anti-Anonymous hacker threatens to expose them
msnbc.com
The Jester said his script cross-checked each harvested Twitter user name
against a “hit list” of Twitter accounts associated with Anonymous news
sites and chat rooms, Islamist recruiting sites and WikiLeaks. “His payload
checking Twitter names for the …
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46716942/ns/technology_and_science-security/
US Subjected Manning to Cruel, Inhuman, Degrading Treatment
truthout
The United States government subjected Bradley Manning to cruel, inhuman
and degrading treatment following his arrest in May 2010 in Iraq on
suspicion of leaking hundreds of thousands of secret State Department
cables and other documents to WikiLeaks, …
Iraq’s Tribal Chiefs Step Into the Breach With Swift Justice
New York Times
The United States military steadfastly defended the actions of its
soldiers, but a United Nations investigation — the results of which were
published last year by WikiLeaks — cited evidence that the residents had
been handcuffed and then killed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/world/middleeast/ishaqi-iraqs-tribal-chiefs-practice-swift-justice.html
You are naked on the Internet
msnbc.com (blog)
It’s a simple privacy setting, but it can trip up even advanced users, as
Wikileaks’ Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange learned last year when his
publicly-accessible OKCupid profile was discovered. Even something as small
as a unique turn of phrase could …
http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/13/10673853-you-are-naked-on-the-internet
Stop Being an Anthropologist
Inside Higher Ed
In my case this amounted to a recursive loop from the hype surrounding new
media – Arab Spring, Anonymous, Wikileaks, SOPA, PIPA, and Occupy – to
departments requesting applicants with expertise in social media and
political movements.
http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2012/03/14/essay-finding-first-job-social-sciences
Prime Minister Wants Sanctions to Go
AllAfrica.com
The party’s secretary-general Mr Tendai Biti was quoted by whistleblower
website Wikileaks in consultation with the EU that he supported a gradual
removal of sanctions to ensure that his party retains leverage over
Zanu-PF. Meanwhile Mwenezi East House …
http://allafrica.com/stories/201203140160.html
Afghanistan: When Even the Danes Turn on the War…
New York Times (blog)
In a confidential memorandum, subsequently published by WikiLeaks, he
noted: “Danish public support regarding NATO’s engagement in Afghanistan,
however, is slipping, jarred by continuing casualties and the perception
that other Allies are unwilling to …
http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/afghanistan-when-even-the-danes-turn-on-the-war/
2012: The Year of the Dissolving Diva
The Atlantic
While defiant—anything named for WikiLeaks then was bound to be—it was
also accessible, filigreed with dance loops, raucous if unchallenging, and
containing at least three viable pop songs. One of them, “Bad Girls,” was
gussied up by Timbaland …
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/03/2012-the-year-of-the-dissolving-diva/254287/
Kony Baloney
Slate Magazine (blog)
The other important thing to point out is more troubling: The Kony 12
episode, to me, is another in the continuing list of events—including
WikiLeaks releases, the so-called “Twitter” revolutions of the Arab
Spring and China’s burgeoning …
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_reckoning/2012/03/13/kony_baloney.html
Massacres are the inevitable result of foreign occupation
The Guardian
British soldiers are currently on trial for filming their abuse of Afghan
children, while US WikiLeaks files record 21 separate incidents of British
troops shooting dead or bombing Afghan civilians. The line between
deliberate and accidental killings …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/13/massacres-result-of-foreign-occupation
Che does Ireland, &c.
National Review Online
From documents dumped by WikiLeaks, it seemed so. And why are we neutral as
between Britain and Argentina on the matter of the Falklands? Why do we
insist that Britain negotiate? What’s there to negotiate about? And why
does our State Department refer …
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/293386/che-does-ireland-c-jay-nordlinger
The Pacific Solution didn’t work before and it won’t work now
ABC Online
On the December 10, 2010, the Sydney Morning Herald reported from Wikileaks
that a ‘key Liberal Party strategist’ told a US diplomat in Canberra in
November last year, that the issue of asylum seekers was ‘fantastic’ for
the Coalition and ‘the more …
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3886792.html
Kony 2012: the reaction
The Guardian (blog)
From my perspective, I am joining the dots between Kony2012, Wikileaks and
Obama’s 2008 online campaign. All three developments are part of a
fundamental power shift. Kony has engaged my two teenage children like no
other social cause and, …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2012/mar/13/reality-check-kony-2012-reaction
2012 Elections
Salon
(He said nice things about Wikileaks, and he seems to vote for limiting the
executive branch’s surveillance and domestic intelligence-gathering powers
just as often as he votes to expand them.) He is married to Mary Bono Mack,
California congresswoman …
http://entertainment.nikkis.salon.com/topic/2012_elections/
The mainstream media? It doesn’t exist anymore
Globe and Mail
What do we call The New York Times or The Guardian newspaper when they work
with the whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks? Earlier this month, after the
right-wing publisher Andrew Breitbart died suddenly, some of his obituaries
suggested he’d shaken up the …
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/the-mainstream-media-it-doesnt-exist-anymore/article2368315/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Home&utm_content=2368315
Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen?
The Nation.
But Shaye was later vindicated when Wikileaks released a US diplomatic
cable that featured Yemeni officials joking about how they lied to their
own parliament about the US role, while President Saleh assured Gen. David
Petraeus that his government …
http://www.thenation.com/article/166757/why-president-obama-keeping-journalist-prison-yemen
Santorum Snatches Deep South Primary Wins
Yahoo! News UK
So that’s good news for Obama (not that I’ma fan anymore after Guantanamo
broken promises, NDAA, Wikileaks bank blockade and otherclamping down on
freedoms and free information) – but nevertheless, Obama’s better than the
uber-corrupt GOP (Ron Paul …
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/santorum-snatches-deep-south-primary-win-024014505.html
Stop being U.S. puppet
The Record (New Westminster)
A document leaked by Wikileaks, for example, summarizes a meeting in Ottawa
on March 17, 2003, in which Canadian, British and American diplomats met to
discuss Canada’s support for the imminent assault on Iraq. It confirms
Canada’s commitment of armed …
http://www.royalcityrecord.com/news/Stop+being+puppet/6299284/story.html
Hack or hoax? Jester brags of QR code smartphone attack against Anonymous
Computerworld (blog)
The Register reported, “‘Enemies’ of the hacker listed as targets included
@AnonymousIRC, @wikileaks, @anonyops, @barretbrownlol (the Twitter address
of sometime Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown) and @RepDanGordon (Rhode
Island State Representative …
SXSW 2012 Review: WE ARE LEGION: THE STORY OF HACKTIVISTS
Twitch
Scientology, Hackers Invade PayPal, the horrific Playstation debacle, the
infamous Wikileaks explosion, and several compelling anecdotes in between,
We Are Legion may be “pro-hacker,” but (again) it certainly does seem like
this “legion” of “anonymous” …
http://twitchfilm.com/reviews/2012/03/sxsw-2012-review-we-are-legion-the-story-of-hacktivists.php
Stratfor CEO: WikiLeaks ‘makes war more likely’ | The Raw Story
By Stephen C. Webster
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Speaking to an audience on Tuesday at this year’s South
by Southwest convention, Strategic Forecasting CEO George Friedman
suggested that by publishing archives of U.S. diplomatic cables, the
anti-secrecy group …
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/13/stratfor-ceo-wikileaks-makes-war-more-likely/
The war on WikiLeaks is now trial by media in Sweden by John …
By dandelionsalad
War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the
battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose
manipulation and deception are essential for starting an unpopular colonial
war. Like the invasions of …
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/the-war-on-wikileaks-is-now-trial-by-media-in-sweden-by-john-pilger/
UN torture chief accuses US of cruel and inhuman treatment towards …
By Legal Help
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez [official
website] last week formally accused [text, PDF] the US government of cruel,
http://legalhelp.org/us-legal-news/1934-un-torture-chief-accuses-us-cruel-inhuman-treatment-towards-wikileaks-suspect.html
UN torture chief accuses US of cruel and inhuman treatment towards …
By admin
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez [official
website] last week formally accused [text, PDF] the US government of cruel,
inhuman and degrading treatment towards Pfc. Bradly Manning [advocacy
website; JURIST …
WikiLeaks: Stratfor emails say Chavez betrayed FARC to appease …
The extradition to Venezuela of alleged drug trafficker Walid Makled
occurred in the context of an intense diplomatic chess game where President
Hugo Chávez …
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/03/11/141476/wikileaks-stratfor-emails-say.html
Wikileaks Reveals that NATO Troops Operate inside Syria
Damascus, Mar 9 (Prensa Latina) Recent revelations by Wikileaks on the
presence of NATO troops in Syria coincide with rumors in journalistic and
academic …
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29683
Rogers’ “Cybersecurity” Bill Is Broad Enough to Use Against …
The language is so broad it could be used as a blunt instrument to attack
websites like The Pirate Bay or WikiLeaks. Join EFF in calling on Congress
to stop the …
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/rogers-cybersecurity-bill-broad-enough-use-against-wikileaks-and-pirate-bay
Is Stratfor spying on you? Wikileaks. – UK Indymedia
Private American spy agency Stratfor outed by Wikileaks. Audio of Julian
Assange, Yes Men, Bhopal charities, Spanish & Italian Press reveal
privatization of …
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/03/493226.html
Uniforms and WikiLeaks in the Discussion of the Anwar al-Awlaki …
More interesting still came when PJ Crowley cited this WikiLeaks cable,
reporting on a January 2, 2010 meeting between Ali Abdullah Saleh and David
Petraeus …
http://www.emptywheel.net/2012/03/09/uniforms-and-wikileaks-in-the-discussion-of-the-anwar-al-awlaki-killing/
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