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Wikileaks News Roundup 2-6 December, 2010
6 December, 2010 — Creative-i.info 6 December, 2010 Condemnation follows latest WikiLeaks disclosures US ‘vital facilities’ list leaked WikiWitchhunt Wikileaks In Venezuela: Espionage, Propaganda And Disinformation By Eva Golinger WikiLeaks: Numerous Reasons to Dismiss US Claims that “Ghost Prisoner” Aafia Siddiqui Was Not Held in Bagram + Bring Aafia Home Assange will fight return to… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Shows Diplomats Lie to Themselves Before They Lie to Journalists By Peter Hart
The fact that U.S. diplomats and U.S. media were mostly in step is not a coincidence. It reminds me of that Karl Kraus quote: ‘How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.’ Continue reading
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New York Times Beats Drums for War
I think Julian Assange is the real deal. I really kind of resent all the focus on all these trees, missing the forest for what it is. Here’s an outfit that had the courage to face into the Defense Department, do what the United States government really warned it against doing, and all because one… Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup 2 December, 2010
2 December, 2010 — creative-i.info WikiLeaks reports on Putin’s wealth “nonsense” – spokesman WikiLeaks lift curtains on American political autism – expert WikiLeaks founder’s plea rejected WikiLeaks Shows Diplomats Lie to Themselves Before They Lie to Journalists URUK Net Newsletter 30 November, 2010: Wikileaks : US Cable Confirms US Killed Women and Children In Yemen… Continue reading
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FAIR Action Alert: NYT's Iran Missile Fizzle – Paper cites WikiLeaks cable, but omits doubts
A November 29 New York Times article alleging that Iran possesses powerful missiles with “the capacity to strike at capitals in Western Europe” appears to rest on incredibly shaky evidence–amounting to a German newspaper article that did not fully corroborate the U.S. claims the Times was touting Continue reading
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FAIR Action Alert: NYT’s Iran Missile Fizzle – Paper cites WikiLeaks cable, but omits doubts
A November 29 New York Times article alleging that Iran possesses powerful missiles with “the capacity to strike at capitals in Western Europe” appears to rest on incredibly shaky evidence–amounting to a German newspaper article that did not fully corroborate the U.S. claims the Times was touting Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup 1 December, 2010
1 December, 2010 — creative-i.info Ho Hum: More Wikileaks “Chickenfeed” Interpol issues arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder American Racism on Display in Wikileaks Iran Cable Whose Core Interest Is It Anyway? VIDEO: Top Canadian Advisor Calls for Assassination of Wikileaks Director Why Might a Saudi King Want the US to Attack Iran? The folly of… Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup for 30 November, 2010
30 November, 2010 — creative-i.info Richard Cohen Nails That Lying George W. Bush US ambassador: Leaks not damaging WikiLeaks on Public TV: Defending the ‘Interests of the West’ Leaks reveal Pakistan arms fears Wikileaks and the New Global Order: America’s Wake-up Call No-Longer Secret US Embassy Cables – Fulltext Search No-Longer Secret US Embassy Cables… Continue reading
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Wikileaks and the New Global Order: America’s Wake-up Call By Jonathan Cook
The new disclosures do provide a useful insight, captured in the very ordinariness of the diplomatic correspondence, into Washington’s own sense of the limits on its global role — an insight that was far less apparent in the previous Wikileaks revelations on the US army’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Continue reading
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Will Wikileaks kill the Official Secrets Act? Richard Norton-Taylor
It might be thought the deluge of classified US state department information placed on the worldwide web is yet another – possibly fatal – nail in the coffin of the Official Secrets Act (OSA), as well as that uniquely British institution the Defence Advisory Committee, which operates a system of voluntary self-censorship in cooperation with… Continue reading
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New York Times Oversells WikiLeaks/Iranian Missiles Story By Peter Hart
WikiLeaks document dumps are largely what media want to make of them. There’s one conventional response, which goes something like this: “There’s nothing new here, but WikiLeaks is dangerous!” But there’s another option: “There’s nothing here, except for the part that confirms a storyline we’ve been pushing.” In those cases, WikiLeaks is deemed very, very… Continue reading
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Daniel Ellsberg: The lying is being enforced by the upper levels
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has begun releasing a giant trove of confidential U.S. diplomatic cables that is sending shockwaves through the global diplomatic establishment. Among the findings: Arab leaders are urging the United States to attack Iran; Washington and Yemen agreed to cover up the use of U.S. warplanes to bomb Yemen; the United States… Continue reading
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New WikiLeaks Documents Expose US Foreign Policy Conspiracies By David Walsh
The batch of 250,000 US classified documents released by WikiLeaks to several news outlets, some of whose content was made public Sunday, sheds new light on the sordid nature of American imperialist intrigue and conspiracy around the globe. Continue reading
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Wikileaks State Cables: Quick Hits By Nate Jones
The five news organizations that Wikikeaks provided the documents to under embargo did a good job synthesizing and reporting the 251,287 cables leaked by someone with access to that information. That said, document hounds (including historians, IR/polisci people, and concerned citizens) know that to really understand the contents and significance of the records you need… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks releases thousands of classified cables — RT
Over 250,000 classified document sent from American embassies to Washington have been leaked on the Internet, in spite of warnings from the Obama administration. Continue reading
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Wikileaks and Iran
Gareth Porter: Media selecting cables that support Iran narrative Continue reading
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US Department of State: still tightlipped over freedom of speech
An RT crew was locked up in a US jail for 32 hours after they covered a rally near the so-called ‘school of assassins’ in the state of Georgia Continue reading
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USA: Freedom of the press behind bars
Should journalists be given more freedom than ordinary people on the streets, especially when it comes to covering protests? That is the question Lori Harfenist, also known as “The Resident”, asks people in New York, following the arrest of an RT crew reporting on a demonstration at Fort Benning military base in the US state… Continue reading
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US embassy knew Georgians “moved forces” to South Ossetian border – WikiLeaks
US diplomats in Georgia knew Tbilisi concentrated military force prior to the war over South Ossetia in 2008, the classified documents exposed by WikiLeaks show. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks: Demystifying “Diplomacy” By Norman Solomon
Compared to the kind of secret cables that WikiLeaks has just shared with the world, everyday public statements from government officials are exercises in make-believe. Continue reading
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