WikiLeaks
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Assange freed on bail
A U.K. judge has rejected an appeal and granted bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who will be freed from a British jail. Continue reading
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Exclusive: The world’s most wanted house guest
Mr Assange has for several months been staying as a guest of Cpt Smith and other members at the Frontline Club in London, which he founded seven years ago to stand for independence and transparency, and he has also stayed at Cpt Smith’s home in Suffolk. Below is Cpt Smith’s account of the past weeks… Continue reading
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U.S. Tries to Build Case for Conspiracy by WikiLeaks Founder
Federal prosecutors, seeking to build a case against the WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange for his role in a huge dissemination of classified government documents, are looking for evidence of any collusion in his early contacts with an Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking the information. Continue reading
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Wikileaks News roundup 14-15 December, 2010
15 December, 2010 — creative-i.info 15 December, 2010 19:34 Friedman’s Half-Hearted, Inaccurate Defense of WikiLeaks Medvedev instructs intelligence officers to use WikiLeaks for Russia’s purposes WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange granted bail but still in jail WikiLeaks: Heroic or treasonous? US Air Force blocks access to WikiLeaks material Hacktivism for Cyber Democracy Joel S. Hirschhorn Ghana leader… Continue reading
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The media goes to war By John Pilger
Never has so much official energy been expended in ensuring journalists collude with the makers of rapacious wars, which, say the media-friendly generals, are now “perpetual.” In echoing the West’s more verbose warlords, such as the waterboarding former Vice President Dick Cheney, who predicted “50 years of war,” they plan a state of permanent conflict… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks: Heroic or treasonous?
15 December, 2010 WikiLeaks: Heroic or treasonous? Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Hacktivism for Cyber Democracy Joel S. Hirschhorn
Because of the attacks on WikiLeaks and its founder there has been considerable media attention to the hacktivism practiced by supporters of WikiLeaks. That has been manifested as cyber attacks on mainstream commercial websites that acted against WikiLeaks. Hacktivism as retribution and strategy to gain political objectives is bound to become much more common. And… 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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Wikileaks: Prelude to a new wave of ‘legal’ repression? By William Bowles
What is dangerous about the turn of events…is that it if there is an ulterior motive to the release of the cables it might be a new wave of repressive laws, in all likelihood under the infinitely expanding umbrella of the ‘war on terror’. Already, it’s illegal in many countries to ‘assist terrorists’ by putting… Continue reading
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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 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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Sex, Lies, Iran, Israel and WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks has given the mainstream media yet another opportunity to vilify Iran. A typical headline, from the New York Times was: “Around the world distress over Iran.” And, ironically, it is true, but not in the way the headline writer meant. Around the world there is distress over Iran, distress at the way it is… 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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