WikiLeaks
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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: Hezbollah Rockets Cover All of Israel
3 December, 2010 — The Real News Network Gareth Porter: Balance of forces in Middle East has changed with Hezbollah able to “cover entire territory of Israel” with rockets http://therealnews.com/scripts/player/player.swf Follow my videos on vodpod Bio Gareth Porter is a historian and investigative journalist on US foreign and military policy analyst. He writes regularly for… Continue reading
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Julian Assange’s rape case: is Sweden just making it up? Julian Assange’s former lawyer writes
Apparently having consensual sex in Sweden without a condom is punishable by a term of imprisonment of a minimum of two years for rape. That is the basis for a reinstitution of rape charges against WikiLeaks figurehead Julian Assange that is destined to make Sweden and its justice system the laughing stock of the world… Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup 3-4 December, 2010
Aroundup of news stories and analysis of the Wikileaks diplomatic cables release 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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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 88
One of the most common threads running through the Wikileaks papers is Washington’s manic obsession with Iran. In country after country the United States exerts unceasing pressure on the government to tighten the noose around Iran’s neck, to make the American sanctions as extensive and as painful as can be, to inflate the alleged Iranian… Continue reading
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Out of the diplomatic bag By William Bowles
3 December, 2010 Wikileaks has committed the unforgivable sin of revealing the inner workings of Empire, what the servants of Empire really think and in so doing it has also revealed the extremely comfortable relationship between the media and the state in making sure that the truth behind the headlines is kept from us. Fascinating,… Continue reading
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U.N. Special Rapporteur Juan Méndez: Instead of Focusing on Assange, U.S. Should Address WikiLeaks’ Disclosures of Torture
One of the leaked U.S. State Department cables released by WikiLeaks urges diplomats to gather intelligence about “plans and intentions of member states or U.N. Special Rapporteurs to press for resolutions or investigations into U.S. counter-terrorism strategies and treatment of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan or Guantanamo.” We speak to Juan Méndez, the new U.N. Special… Continue reading
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Jeremy Scahill: WikiLeaks Cables Confirm Secret U.S. War Ops in Pakistan
Despite sustained denials by the Pentagon, the leaked cables from WikiLeaks confirm that U.S. military special operations forces have been secretly working with the Pakistani military to conduct offensive operations and coordinate drone strikes in the areas near the Afghan border. The cables confirm aspects of a story about the covert U.S. war in Pakistan… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks’ harsh lesson on imperial hubris By Jonathan Cook
The new disclosures…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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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 lift curtains on American political autism – expert — RT
‘This [WikiLeaks story] does lift the curtains on the American mentality, on America’s fundamental intellectual incapacity to deal with the outside world in any other way than by dividing it up into good guys and bad guys. For me it is a message, that there is an incredibly immature and, frankly, dangerous attitude on the… 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 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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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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