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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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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: 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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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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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
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An Exclusive Interview with Julian Assange on the Eve of His Arrest
The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, gave an exclusive interview to Brazilian journalist Natalia Viana of the online publication Opera Mundi on Monday. (Viana, 2004 graduate of Narco News’ School of Authentic Journalism, now is co-chair, with Bill Conroy, of its investigative journalism program.) Assange didn’t hide his irritation at the freezing of his Swiss… Continue reading
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It really is us against them By William Bowles
MPs fiddling expenses and leaked diplomatic cables: what connects them and is the game finally up for capitalist ‘democracy’? Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup 8-9 December, 2010
9 December, 2010 — creative-i.info 9 December, 2010 Bolivia hosts WikiLeaks ‘mirror’ Defend WikiLeaks or Assange? FRINFORMSUM: 12/8/2010 Jay Rosen on Wikileaks: “The watchdog press died; we have this instead.” Newspaper review Peace in Our Time: Obama’s Munich, Part 1 by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Protests to defend Julian Assange and Wikileaks, Dec 9-16 US Continue reading
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Jay Rosen on Wikileaks: “The watchdog press died; we have this instead.”
In this video I grapple with my own thoughts about that novel formation in press and politics: Wikileaks. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Mirror Sites
8 December, 2010 — Wikileaks mirror sites This page is a mirror of an original at wikileaks website – http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html It will be updated each day as new mirror website are established. Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack. In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet, you will find Continue reading
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Wikileaks Mirror Sites
This page is a mirror of an original at wikileaks website – http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html It will be updated each day as new mirror website are established. Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack. Continue reading
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Alan Hart: WikiLeaks: What, really, is the problem?
Some commentators, bloggers and other writers, were quick to jump to the conclusion that the avalanche of documents being released by WikiLeaks is part and parcel of an Israeli/Mossad deception strategy. One implication being that WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange is, knowingly or not, manipulated by Zionism. Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup 4-5 December, 2010
5 December, 2010 — Creative-i.info 5 December, 2010 Wikileaks’ Assange to fight case ‘China in Google cyber attacks’ ‘Secret US-Yemen deal’ revealed A useful US ally? Arrest Warrant Expected for Julian Assange China ‘orchestrated Google hack’ Help Release Shaker Aamer: Three Free Screenings of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” Information Clearing House Newsletter 2 Continue reading
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Wikileaks and State Department correspondence
Index on Censorship has obtained copies of correspondence between whistleblowing website Wikileaks and the US embassy in the United Kingdom, which took place between Friday and Sunday. They reveal Wikileaks editor in chiefs last-minute attempt to seek the cooperation of the United States government in redacting information from the latest controversial release of documents. 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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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: 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