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Wikileaks Newslinks 13 June 2011
13 June 2011 — williambowles.info Benazir Bhutto had US support, clearance to return to Pakistan: WikiLeaks Pakistan Observer Karachi—The latest WikiLeaks cables have revealed that President Asif Ali Zardari said US is “our safety blanket” and recounted how Benazir had returned despite the threats against her because of support and “clearance” from the US. …… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 12 June 2011
12 June 2011 — williambowles.info A new documentary peers into the WikiLeaks founder’s cyber-netherworld MiamiHerald.com By Glenn Garvin WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his life has a single, simple purpose: “I like crushing bastards.” That sentiment sounds noble, until you find out just how flexible his definition of “bastards” is. “All of us came across… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 11 June 2011
11 June 2011 — williambowles.info Will Wikileaks founder Julian Assange win Nobel Peace Prize 2011? Mirror.co.uk Julian Assange, founder of the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks, is on the long shortlist and gets a 20-1 quote from Victor Chandler to win. This is despite Assange being on a sexual assault charge – presumably for screwing the United… Continue reading
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Preview of CNN’s WikiLeaks Special Coming This Sunday: ‘Mission’ Implausible By Greg Mitchell
Like the PBS Frontline producers, the CNN team appears to believe that quoting Assange alone balances a brigade of critics. This, of course, is silly. Many viewers, naturally, take anything the subject of criticism says with huge grains of salt especially when no one else rises to his or her defense (besides figures in masks). Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 10 June, 2011: China Ratings House Says US Defaulting: Report
10 June, 2011 — Information Clearing House Pilger Film Banned By Lannan Foundation By John Pilger A rich and powerful individual and organisation, espousing freedom of speech, has moved ruthlessly and unaccountably to crush it. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28296.htm Continue reading
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2010: Flurry of leaked US embassy cables reveal foreign strategies By David Leigh
At the start of a series of daily extracts from the US embassy cables – many designated ‘secret’ – the Guardian can disclose that Arab leaders are privately urging an air strike on Iran and that US officials have been instructed to spy on the UN leadership. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 10 June 2011
10 June 2011 — williambowles.info Rowan Joffe Is Writing the Wikileaks Movie for HBO and BBC New York Magazine Remember Wikileaks? Rowan Joffe, who wrote both The American and 28 Weeks Later has signed on to write a new Wikileaks movie for HBO and BBC. The film will reportedly focus on creation myth of Wikileaks… Continue reading
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Announcing Frontline Club Exclusive: Julian Assange in conversation with Slavoj Zizek
We are excited to announce that on Saturday 2 July at The Troxy in East London we will be bringing together the editor-in-chief of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and renowned Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Zizek, to discuss the impact of WikiLeaks on the world and what it means for the future. Continue reading
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Wiki wha? By William Bowles
Every day I receive hundreds of stories and of course I can’t read but a small fraction of them but still I get a sense of the story from the title and the description as to whether it warrants further investigation. One thing is apparent from the process of scanning so many stories is that… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Reveals US Wanted to Keep Russia out of Libyan Oil
Kevin Hall of McClatchy Newspapers reports that on April 20 the big Italian oil company Eni put off its deal with Gazprom, the big Russian oil company, connected to its president, Vladimir Putin, put off a deal that would have given Gazprom a big stake in Libyan oil. That’s been an objective of US foreign… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 9 June 2011
9 June 2011 — williambowles.info US had asked Zardari not to humiliate Musharraf: WikiLeaks Hindustan Times PTI The US had asked Pakistani leadership not to humiliate Pervez Musharraf after he stepped down as the country’s President on the promise of indemnity against prosecution, according to WikiLeaks cables. “Don’t humiliate Musharraf. … www.hindustantimes.com/US-had-asked-Zardari-not-to-humiliate-Musharraf-WikiLeaks/Article1-707328.aspx Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3 a Day By Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives
Contractors for Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi’s worked in close concert with the US Embassy when they aggressively moved to block a minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers, the lowest-paid in the hemisphere, according to secret State Department cables. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Haiti: Cable Depicts Fraudulent Haiti Election By Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives
The United States, the European Union and the United Nations decided to support Haiti’s recent presidential and parliamentary elections despite believing that the country’s electoral body, “almost certainly in conjunction with President Preval,” had “emasculated the opposition” by unwisely and unjustly excluding the country’s largest party, according to a secret US Embassy cable. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 8 June 2011
8 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: India told US to beware of Pakistan’s ‘game’ in Afghanistan The Express Tribune A WikiLeaks cable filed by US Political Counselor Uzra Zeya in New Delhi in February last year contains details of his meeting with YK Sinha, India’s A/S equivalent for Afghanistan. The US diplomat wrote: Sinha told… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 7 June 2011
7 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: 500 Baloch and Sindhi separatists in AfghanistanThe Express Tribune PHOTO: AFP A WikiLeaks cable reveals that the Afghan government admitted to hosting about 500 Baloch and Sindhi separatists in a camp in Kandahar. According to the cable, the Afghan Interior Minister Hanif Atmar claimed there is a refugee camp… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 6 June 2011
6 June 2011 — williambowles.info Quick News: Manning supporters rally at Kansas prison Press TV Hundreds of supporters of Bradley Manning converged at Leavenworth, Kan., Saturday to rally for the release of the Army private accused of leaking classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. Gathered outside the prison where Manning is … www.presstv.com/usdetail/183325.html 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 5 June 2011
5 June 2011 — williambowles.info Hay festival: Julian Assange was prepared to name superinjunction holders Telegraph.co.uk Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has suggested he was prepared to reveal the names of individuals covered by superinjunctions issued by the British courts to protect their privacy. By Patrick Sawer, and Holly Watt Mr Assange said the… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 5 June 2011
5 June 2011 — williambowles.info Assange heckled over Bradley Manning’s fate WalesOnline by Clare Hutchinson, Wales On Sunday WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange faced an angry crowd at the Hay Festival yesterday demanding to know how he intended to help Bradley Manning, the Welsh-raised soldier charged with leaking military documents. … www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/06/05/assange-heckled-over-bradley-manning-s-fate-91466-28822001/ Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 4 June 2011
4 June 2011 — williambowles.info Wikileaks: no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square, cables claim Telegraph.co.uk By Malcolm Moore, Shanghai The cables, obtained by WikiLeaks and released exclusively by The Daily Telegraph, partly confirm the Chinese government’s account of the early hours of June 4, 1989, which has always insisted that soldiers did not massacre … www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.html Continue reading
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