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Wikileaks Newslinks 9 September 2011
9 September 2011 — williambowles.info Zimbabwe: Parties Speak on Wikileaks Disclosures AllAfrica.com MDC-T announced yesterday that it had resolved to absolve senior party officials exposed by Wikileaks mocking their leader. However, Zanu-PF secretary for information and publicity, Cde Rugare Gumbo, on Wednesday implored members of the party named in … http://allafrica.com/stories/201109090194.html Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 27 August 2011
27 August 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: Reset The Voice of Russia Julian Assange’s notorious website WikiLeaks has reacted to its falling popularity rating and made public another batch of US State Department cables. Part of these is classified documents, relating to Russia’s relations with this country’s neighbours … http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/08/27/55256716.html Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 24 August 2011
24 August 2011 — williambowles.info As drilling looms, Wikileaks reveals previous tensions Cyprus Mail The last time Turkey interfered with Cyprus’ oil and gas exploration, unlikely support came from the island’s “evil demon”, the United Kingdom, revealed US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks. According to the cables, sent by the US Embassy in … http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/drilling-looms-wikileaks-reveals-previous-tensions/20110824 Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 5 August 2011
5 August 2011 — williambowles.info In our WikiLeaks, Cyber-Hacking Era, a Time Travel Video Game May Be a New … Kotaku One assumes members of the government in the age of hacking and WikiLeaks might want to get their hands on any tools that could help them guard against the problems of leaks. Hazard knows Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 27 July 2011
27 July 2011 — williambowles.info Antisec goes after Paypal Inquirer The payment firm has already been targeted for stopping payments to Wikileaks, and in a separate and apparently random attack, had its Twitter feed taken over in the UK, but this latest attack – for want of another word, aims to hit it right at Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 25-26 July 2011
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 Continue reading
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Democracy Now! 14 July 2011: Dr. Paul Farmer on Haiti After the Earthquake
Dr. Paul Farmer, who was worked in Haiti for nearly three decades and now serves as the the U.N. deputy special envoy for Haiti, discusses how U.S.-backed coups and neoliberal programs have not only subverted Haiti’s democracy, but also seriously weakened its public health. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 15 June 2011: Wikileaks Haiti cables show US deployed troops after the earthquake before Haiti granted permission
15 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks Asks For Anonymous Bitcoin Donations Forbes (blog) By ANDY GREENBERG WikiLeaks was built on the idea of anonymous, untraceable transfers of digital information. Now it wants to fill its coffers with equally untraceable injections of digital cash. On Tuesday the secret-spilling group announced via … http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/06/14/wikileaks-asks-for-anonymous-bitcoin-donations/ Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 6 June 2011: Wikileaks: Inside story of Megrahi’s return home
6 June 2011 — williambowles.info Wikileaks’ Julian Assange wades into superinjunctions TechEye The Wikileaks founder, who is currently fighting extradition to Sweden, where he has faced allegations of sexual assault, has decided to ruffle feathers by claiming that the FBI tried to bribe the organisation’s staff. That’s according to the Daily … www.techeye.net/business/wikileaks-julian-assange-wades-into-superinjunctions Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 1 March, 2011
1 March, 2011 — creative-i.info WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange applies to trademark his name The Guardian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: following in the footsteps of Sarah Palin. Photograph: Chris Radburn/PA Julian Assange, the embattled WikiLeaks founder fighting extradition to Sweden over allegations of rape and sexual assault, has applied to … www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/28/julian-assange-trademark-name Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 23 February, 2011
23 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Branding WikiLeaks Wall Street Journal WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. WikiLeaks sells T-shirts featuring Julian Assange to raise money. This month, WikiLeaks opened an online shop hawking coffee mugs, bumper stickers and T-shirts emblazoned with Mr. Assange’s image. … online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703803904576152152100529810.html Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 13 February, 2011
13 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Assange is not the point, Wikileaks is Huffington Post (blog) It is becoming common for people to say they don’t like WikiLeaks because they can’t stand Assange. This is misleading. Few sympathize with Assange as a … www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-varsavsky/assange-is-not-the-point_b_822447.html Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 20 January, 2011
20 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Swiss ex-banker faces new probe over WikiLeaks data Reuters Elmer helped bring WikiLeaks to prominence three years ago when he used it to publish secret client details. On Monday he handed over new data to the … www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70H81N20110120 Continue reading
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Media Lens: Collateral Damage – WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs
Speech that incites violence against individuals at home is unacceptable. Speech that incites mass death and destruction against entire nations is met with indifference, and/or high office and awards! Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 19 January, 2011
19 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Nigeria: Wikileaks Set to Name the Country’s Treasury Looters AllAfrica.com Rudolf Elmer confirmed that he handed two discs to WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, in London, and that WikiLeaks could release the details in “a matter … allafrica.com/stories/201101190407.html Continue reading
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Wikileaks Daily News roundup 5 January, 2010
5 January, 2010 — creative-i.info WikiLeaks: ‘Voluptuous’ Nurse Cable Costs Ambassador Gene Cretz His Job Huffington Post WASHINGTON — In what appears to be the first diplomatic casualty from the latest WikiLeaks revelations, the US ambassador to Libya has returned to … www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/04/wikileaks-voluptuous-nurse-cable-diplomat-gene-cretz_n_804514.html Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup 18 November – 21 December, 2010
This is a fulltext index of the Wikileaks resource cablegate.wikileaks.org. 278 messages have been published so far, but I’ll update this index if/when more become available on Wikileaks. Continue reading
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What the Wikileaks Cable Reveals concerning the Sgrena Affair: Covering Up the Murder of Nicola Calipari By Michael Leonardi
In a cable that was released by Wikileaks, there is clear collusion between the Italian and the US governments to bury the story of Nicola Calipari’s murder and to deter any future investigations into this case. This cable has unleashed an outcry for justice and chorus of calls for a reopening of the Calipari/Sgrena investigation. Continue reading
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The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired By Glenn Greenwald
For more than six months, Wired’s Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed — but refuses to publish — the key evidence in one of the year’s most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks’ source. In late May, Adrian Lamo — at the same time he… Continue reading
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FAIR Supports WikiLeaks
As journalists, activists, artists, scholars and citizens, we condemn the array of threats and attacks on the journalist organization WikiLeaks. After the website’s decision, in collaboration with several international media organizations, to publish hundreds of classified State Department diplomatic cables, many pundits, commentators and prominent U.S. politicians have called for harsh actions to be taken… Continue reading
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