Spies-R-Us
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Operation: LeakSpin — A Message from Anonymous
This project has been founded with the purpose of sorting through recent WikiLeaks releases and raising awareness of potentially important and previously overlooked information. In order to review your research for errors or amend the content the Wikileaks release contained, we have created a small utility which allows contributors to submit and discuss potential content… Continue reading
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Wikileaks, Imperialism and the Western Media By Sean Fenley
The mainstream media’s primary vocation, when it comes to the U.S. reach throughout the planet, is to slander, ridicule and report all sorts of dubious information on, those who are resisting the global neoliberal imperial economic order. Continue reading
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Who is Behind Wikileaks? By Michel Chossudovsky
Wikileaks is not a typical alternative media initiative. The New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel are directly involved in the editing and selection of leaked documents. The Economist and Time Magazine have also played an important role. While the project and its editor Julian Assange reveal a commitment and concern for truth in… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks founder to make another try to win bail — RT
On Tuesday, the City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court could be the scene of the final extradition hearing for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Originally, when the case came before a prosecutor in Sweden, she threw it out. It was subsequently picked up by another prosecutor, who decided to take the case into court. Continue reading
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Of Wikileaks, Whistleblowers and Whipping Boys By William Fisher
As pro- and anti-Wikileaks forces draw their battle lines, and Wikileaks’ impresario Julian Assange marks time in storied, overcrowded and very Victorian Wandsworth Prison in southwest London, a group of his supporters are taking a different tack. Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup 13-14 December, 2010
14 December, 2010 — creative-i.info 14 December, 2010 Assange Last Minute Bail Offer, But Remains in Jail While Money is Raised Breaking news: Assange released on bail…. Operation: LeakSpin — A Message from Anonymous Popular Elsewhere The War to Silence WikiLeaks TRNN Skewer: Rap News 5: WikiLeaks & The War on Journalism (ft. Julian Assange)… Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup 12-13 December, 2010
13 December, 2010 WikiLeaks reveals how Shell infiltrated Nigeria URUK Net Newsletter 12 December, 2010: WikiLeaks row: why Amazon’s desertion has ominous implications for democracy Julian Assange, Tariq Aziz, a Death Sentence and the United Nations Day of International Human Rights By Felicity Arbuthnot Information Clearing House Newsletter 12 December, 2010: It really is us… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 13 December 2010: ECCHR: Report: Blacklisted: Targeted sanctions, preemptive security and fundamental rights
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ News Online: www.statewatch.org/news/newsfull.htm e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. UK: Student protests 2. Council of Europe: The role of judges in the enforcement of judicial decisions 3. EU: ECCHR: Report: Blacklisted: Targeted sanctions, preemptive security and fundamental rights 4. EU: ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS REGULATION: European Court of Justice: Case 5. France: Statement by Collectif Liberté… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks reveals how Shell infiltrated Nigeria
The petrol giant Shell has thoroughly infiltrated the Nigerian government, newly leaked WikiLeaks documents show. The multinational corporation inserted its employees into every key government ministry to gain unparalleled influence in policy-making in the oil rich Niger Delta. Al Jazeera’s Jesse Mesner-Hage reports on how the revelation fits into the decades-long troubled relationship between Royal… Continue reading
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Informed consent; Shop till you drop By Harry Feldman
As I understand it, if the US indicts Assange, it is likely to be under the terms of the Espionage Act (1917), which casts quite a wide net, drawing in anyone who ‘copies, takes, makes, or…receives or obtains…any sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blue print, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, document, writing or note of anything… Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup 11-12 December, 2010
12 December, 2010 — creative-i.info Indigenous Activists Slam Cancun Betrayal; Mass Movements are Our Only Hope WikiRebels: Swedish docufilm on WikiLeaks chronicles a new form of global resistance By Rady Ananda WikiRebels: Swedish docufilm on WikiLeaks chronicles a new form of global resistance WikiRebels – The Documentary Wikileaks Mirrors Vatican calls to evaluate Wikileaks publications… Continue reading
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WikiRebels – The Documentary
13 December, 2010 Sweden’s public service television, SVT, is about to broadcast a deeply-moving, one-hour documentary chronicling the history of WikiLeaks, after having followed the crew for six months. An uninterrupted rough cut of the film can be viewed here until December 13. Though the film arrives in the midst of questionable rape charges, with… Continue reading
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WikiRebels: Swedish docufilm on WikiLeaks chronicles a new form of global resistance By Rady Ananda
Sweden’s public service television, SVT, is about to broadcast a deeply-moving, one-hour documentary chronicling the history of WikiLeaks, after having followed the crew for six months. An uninterrupted rough cut of the film can be viewed here until December 13. Though the film arrives in the midst of questionable rape charges, with Assange currently in… Continue reading
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Incredible – over 500,000 signatures in one day for press freedom! Join the massive outcry and spread the word…
The massive extra-judicial intimidation of WikiLeaks is an attack on democracy. We urgently need a public outcry for freedom of the press and expression. Sign the petition to stop the crackdown and forward this email to everyone — let’s get to 1 million voices and take out full page ads in US newspapers this week. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks News Roundup 11 December, 2010
11 December, 2010 — creative-i.info 11 December, 2010 Former WikiLeaks Staff Open New Whistle-Blower Leak Service `OpenLeaks` A conspiracy to silence? By William Bowles Wikileaks Cablegate: Israel let off the hook on nuclear weapons, Arabs fooled WikiLeaks demos planned in Spain and Latin America If We Lose our Internet Freedoms Because of Wikileaks, You Should… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks funded via Pirate Bay-linked firm
Swedish micropay site Flattr, which was launched by The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde, remains the sole online financial lifeline for embattled whistleblower site WikiLeaks. Continue reading
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Incredible – over 400,000 signatures in one day for press freedom! Join the massive outcry and spread the word…
The massive extra-judicial intimidation of WikiLeaks is an attack on democracy. We urgently need a public outcry for freedom of the press and expression. Sign the petition to stop the crackdown and forward this email to everyone — let’s get to 1 million voices and take out full page ads in US newspapers this week. Continue reading
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Wikileaks: A Big Dangerous US Government Con Job? By F. William Engdahl
What is emerging from all the sound and Wikileaks fury in Washington is that the entire scandal is serving to advance a long-standing Obama and Bush agenda of policing the until-now free Internet. Already the US Government has shut the Wikileaks server in the United States though no identifiable US law has been broken. Continue reading
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Repost: How to Decipher a State Department Cable (FOIA Tip #2) By Nate Jones
This guide –originally written by Kristin Adair– might come in handy as you peruse the 251,287 Department of State cables recently released by wikileaks. Continue reading
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KKK OK but not WikiLeaks for some payment processors — RT
The US government has presented no charges against Assange, but the absence of solid accusations did not stop American government officials from reportedly putting pressure at the highest level to cut off Wikileaks’ funding supply. Continue reading