March 10, 2012
. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, arriving for an extradition hearing at the high court in London on 2 November 2011. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP The Dirty War on WikiLeaks Media smears suggest Swedish complicity in a Washington-driven push to punish Julian Assange by John Pilger War by media, says current military [...]
Tags: Assange, Bradley Manning, George W. Bush, John Pilger, Julian Assange, Sweden, United States, WikiLeaks
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March 1, 2012
Further evidence of secret US indictment of Julian Assange http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/wiki-m01.shtml EXCERPT: “…The Stratfor emails undoubtedly reflect sentiments inside the Obama administration to exact revenge on Assange and destroy WikiLeaks for having exposed US war crimes all over the globe…. It is clear that Australian authorities, acting on the [...]
Tags: Assange, Australia, George Friedman, Gillard government, Julian Assange, Robert McClelland, Stratfor, WikiLeaks
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February 27, 2012
The hacktivist group Anonymous is believed to be the source for emails being published by WikiLeaks from the Stratfor thinktank. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty WikiLeaks has begun releasing a cache of what it says are 5.5m emails obtained from the servers of Stratfor, a US-based intelligence gathering firm with about 300,000 subscribers. The whistleblowing site has released [...]
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January 7, 2012
Daniel Ellsberg / ellsberg.net For our first Truthdigger installment of 2012, we salute Daniel Ellsberg, who has taken a page from his experience with the Pentagon Papers and is still busy serving up a bracing dose of truth to power, most recently with his support of accused WikiLeaker Bradley Manning. It’s not like Ellsberg ever [...]
Tags: Adrian Lamo, Bradley Manning, Daniel Ellsberg, Ellsberg, Manning, Pentagon Papers, United States, WikiLeaks
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December 27, 2011
Did You Have Any Idea? John Pilger One of the things that almost has never come out of the generally appalling media coverage of Julian and Wikileaks, is the REASON for Wikileaks. It had a moral base. It was about Justice. He wrote it on the home page of [...]
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December 26, 2011
Assange linked to US military claimAdelaide Now, 1 hour ago Dangerous no moreThe Australian, 3 Oct 2011 Lunch with Assange comes at a costNEWS.com.au, 16 Jun 2011 ‘We have no evidence on Assange’Herald Sun, 27 Jan 2011 Assange issues warning to journalistsNEWS.com.au, 23 Dec 2010 JULIAN Assange may face espionage charges in the US after prosecutors in [...]
Tags: Assange, Bradley Manning, Facebook, Iraq, Jennifer Robinson, Julian Assange, Manning, Myspace, News Corporation, United States, US government, WikiLeaks
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December 18, 2011
Bradley Manning, right, is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP In many ways a lack of care in storing information often reflects the attitude the user/owner of the information about the value of the material stored. The revelations in this article re the hearing show a lack of care and concern [...]
Tags: Bradley Manning, Classified information, Fort George G. Meade, Fulton, Manning, Matt Williams, Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, United States, United States diplomatic cables leak, WikiLeaks
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December 15, 2011
Adrian Lamo said: ‘The decision was not one I decided to make. It was thrust upon me.’ Photograph: Jennifer S Altman/Washington Post/Getty Images Hacker who betrayed Bradley Manning expresses regret over possible jail term Adrian Lamo, the hacker who betrayed the alleged WikiLeaks sourceBradley Manning to the US authorities, has said it would be to his “lasting regret” [...]
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December 5, 2011
Julian Assange can take extradition case to supreme court, judges rule High court says Assange case raises question of ‘general public importance’ that should be decided as quickly as possible There is a video available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/dec/05/julian-assange-extradition-supreme-court1 The high court has paved the way for the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to pursue his [...]
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December 5, 2011
Julian Assange. Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters WikiLeaks‘ founder Julian Assange will make one further attempt to avertextradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over alleged sex crimes, when he asks judges on Monday to refer his case to Britain’s highest court. Swedish authorities want to question the Australian founder of the whistle-blowing website over accusations of rape [...]
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December 5, 2011
Julian Assange Julian Assange, who might be the man most hated Julian Assange, who might be the man most hated by the U.S. government, was given Australia’sWalkley Foundation Award for outstanding journalism last week. He accepted it from a distance, using Skype, because he is under house arrestin England pending extradition to Sweden. He is threatened [...]
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December 2, 2011
WikiLeaks Spy Files Expose Surveillance Industrial Complex John Glaser, December 02, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum WikiLeaks Spy files project should go a long way in educating the public about how intrusive and privacy-violating the government is and how this new high-tech industry – the surveillance industrial complex, as some are calling [...]
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December 2, 2011
WikiLeaks Releases Documents on Government Surveillance Tactics For an ongoing project called Spy files, hundreds of documents on dozens of governments and contractors have been released by John Glaser, December 01, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum WikiLeaks has released secret files shining light on the mass surveillance practices of dozens of governments and the [...]
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November 30, 2011
Cablegate One Year Later: How WikiLeaks Has Influenced Foreign Policy, Journalism, and the First Amendment One year ago today, WikiLeaks started publishing a trove of over 250,000 leaked U.S. State Department cables, which have since formed the basis of reporting for newspapers around the globe. The publication has given the public a window into the [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, John McCain, Julian Assange, Osama bin Laden, Pulitzer Prize, Tunisia, United States Department of State, United States diplomatic cables leak, WikiLeaks
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November 29, 2011
Internet Has Become ‘Surveillance Machine’: Julian Assange HONG KONG – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange blasted the mainstream media, Washington, banks and the Internet itself as he addressed journalists in Hong Kong on Monday via videolink from house arrest in England. The Internet itself had become “the most significant surveillance machine that we have ever seen,” [...]
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November 16, 2011
Julian Assange arrives to speak to Occupy protesters outside St Paul’s cathedral in London on October 15. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Julian Assange seeks to take extradition fight to supreme court WikiLeaks founder will ask permission to appeal against high court ruling that he must face sex crime charges in Sweden reddit this Robert Booth [...]
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November 14, 2011
No Speedy Trial for Bradley Manning now in Pre-Trial Confinement for 560 days By davidswanson - Posted on 14 November 2011 3 of 34 Arrested for Protesting Manning’s Quantico Pre-Trial Conditions Found Guilty of Obstruction of Traffic-$15 Fine By Ann Wright Five months ago, on April 22, 2011, over 400 citizens converged on Quantico [...]
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November 7, 2011
SYDNEY: Lawyers and the mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday ramped up pressure on the Australian government to intervene over his extradition to Sweden, saying he will not get a fair trial. Assange, who is Australian, on Wednesday lost a bitter legal battle to block his being sent from Britain to Sweden [...]
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November 2, 2011
It was always going to be a difficult appeal to win but unfortunately Assange has lost. There are still some avenues open in the UK. The loss shows the real nature of the law becoming the law of the law of the rulers and a provider of a safe haven for the [...]
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October 28, 2011
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will hear on Wednesday if he is to be extradited to Sweden. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA The Wikileaks founder will hear if he’s to become a free man after an 11-month bail or removed to Sweden within 14 days reddit this Robert Booth and Esther Addley guardian.co.uk, Friday 28 October 2011 13.44 BST [...]
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October 25, 2011
By the Bradley Manning Support Network. October 19, 2011 Report on Bradley Manning to be Released Soon NEW YORK — Juan Mendez, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, confirmed yesterday that the Department of Defense has blocked his requests for an unmonitored meeting with PFC Bradley Manning, the accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower. He told [...]
Tags: bradleymanning, Kevin Zeese, Manning, Obama, United Nation, United Nations Special Rapporteur, United States, WikiLeaks
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October 19, 2011
Foreign Service Officer Van Buren Disciplined Over WikiLeaks Peter Van Buren by Kelley B. Vlahos, October 18, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum WASHINGTON — Peter Van Buren has been officially sanctioned today. Depending how one looks at it, he could be either the first State Department WikiLeaks casualty or the first who’s been [...]
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September 8, 2011
Dick Marty rendition report condemns ‘cult of secrecy’ Bradley Manning was arrested in 2010 A report for Europe‘s human rights watchdog has called for greater scrutiny of secret services and support for whistleblowers. The Council of Europe investigated how countries like Britain, Germany, Romania and Lithuania assisted the US with the rendition of terror suspects. [...]
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September 5, 2011
WikiLeaks files revealed that the Australian government quietly tried to undermine a proposed ban on cluster bombs [EPA] There is the violence you see, and then there is the violence you don’t. Philosopher Slavoj Zizek captures this point expertly in his monograph Violence: Six Sideways Reflections, when he opens with the well-known story about an [...]
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September 1, 2011
WikiLeaks is defending itself against accusations it may have put lives at risk in releasing certain files [AFP] WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website, has said that its massive archive of unredacted US state department cables was exposed in a security breach, which it blamed on its one-time partner - Britain’s Guardian newspaper. In a 1,600-word-long editorial posted to the internet [...]
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July 29, 2011
War Is a Racket SHARE 6 U.S. Marine Corps / Lance Cpl. Adam J. Root KBR subcontractors work on a project at Camp Fallujah in Iraq in 2008. By Amy Goodman “War is a racket,” wrote retired U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, in 1935. That statement, which is also the title of his short [...]
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July 26, 2011
It’s not exactly a secret that I’ve long been a fan of professional wrestling. These days, this also means being a fan of Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and its current top star John Cena. But not every fan likes Cena. In fact, some downright hate him. Though packaged as the ultimate good guy—whose [...]
Tags: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hulk Hogan, John Cena, Julian Assange, Marc Thiessen, Mitch McConnell, WikiLeaks, World Wrestling Entertainment
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July 12, 2011
ISLAMABAD – The decision to suspend more than one-third of American military aid to Pakistan could end up hurting Washington more than Islamabad as the U.S. seeks to navigate an end to the Afghan war and defeat al-Qaida, former Pakistani officials and analysts warned Monday. Holding back the $800 million in aid is unlikely to [...]
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July 11, 2011
Exclusive to The Gulf Today Reports about an alleged CIA drone base targeting militants of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) based in Yemen appear contradictory. Some say that the US spy agency was trying to build a drone facility for surveillance and attack in Yemen itself similar to another on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, [...]
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July 10, 2011
US defence secretary Leon Panetta has said he believes Osama bin Laden‘s successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is hiding in Pakistan‘s tribal area. Photograph: Pool/Reuters The Pakistan military declared it did not need US military aid as the White House confirmed that it would withhold some $800m (£498m) in assistance to the country’s armed forces. The row will worsen [...]
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July 7, 2011
Julian Assange on Why Calls for His Death and the McCarthyesque Crackdown on WikiLeaks Are Good Signs Assange and renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek discuss the release of the largest trove of classified U.S. government records in history. July 5, 2011 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to [...]
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July 6, 2011
Every once in a while the news for those of you who think that decency and equality and freedom really means something gets good. The non stop erosion of liberty by the rampant and incorrigible forces of reaction is what seems so strong. Yet the fact that their power rests in opinion is proven time [...]
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July 6, 2011
Obama Counterterrorism Strategy Lies and Fails John Glaser, July 05, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum When the Obama administration last week released their new National Strategy for Counterterrorism I naively expected some honest iteration of policy of the kind that slip through in declassified NSC reports. That wasn’t the case. Rather, [...]
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July 6, 2011
This article exposes the true US attitude to the use of drones and the nature of the lies needed to justify their use anywhere. These awful killing machines masquerade as surveillance vehicles, soldiers guardian angels, tactical defence weapons and a never ending stream of lies and deceit to cover up what is happening. What they [...]
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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July 4, 2011
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 04/07/2011 Reporter: Geoff Thompson Recently uncovered documents have linked an Australian soldier with the abuse of prisoners in Iraq‘s notorious Abu Ghraib jail. The ABC’s Geoff Thompson investigates. Transcript LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: These notorious pictures helped change the course of the Iraq War. The graphic photos of Iraqi detainees being mistreated [...]
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July 4, 2011
Senate Hawks Push Obama to Make Case for Libya War Lieberman, Graham Say Lack of Explanation Keeping Congress From Approving Conflict by Jason Ditz, July 03, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Two of the Senate’s most hawkish members, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R – SC) and Joe Lieberman (I – CT) today pushed [...]
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July 3, 2011
Asian markets search for a new model consumer after the American economy tanked, which has yet to recover [Getty] Asia needs a new model consumer. A post-crisis generation of “zombie consumers” in the United States is likely to hobble growth in global consumption for years to come. And that means that export-led developing Asia now [...]
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July 3, 2011
Graveyard of Empires by Eric Margolis Recently by Eric Margolis: Turkey: The Mother of Revolutions In his majestic poem “Recessional,” Rudyard Kipling was writing of the fading British Empire, but his words are as vivid and pertinent today as a century ago: Far-called our navies melt away – On dune and headland sinks the fire – Lo, [...]
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July 3, 2011
Unwarranted Influence: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex By James Ledbetter • Yale University Press • 2011 • 268 pages • $26 Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex By William D. Hartung • Nation Books • 2011 • 296 pages • $25.95 Fifty years ago, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s [...]
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July 2, 2011
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton: ‘We need to see this through.’ Photograph: Hyungwon Kang/Reuters Nato will not be deterred from its military action in Libya by Muammar Gaddafi‘s threats to take the war to Europe, the US secretary of state,Hillary Clinton, has said. Clinton brushed aside Gaddafi’s warning that unless air strikes against his regime stopped, [...]
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June 30, 2011
The Politics of Militarization and Corporatization in Higher Education War Colleges By HENRY GIROUX While there is an ongoing discussion about the increasing corporatization of higher education—extending from the attempted buying of faculty positions by right-wing billionaires such as the Koch brothers to the increasing casualization of faculty labor and the commodification of knowledge, what [...]
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June 28, 2011
Ceci n’est pas une guerre Chase Madar 24 June 2011 Tags: law | libya If anyone should have been able to put human rights at the centre of US foreign policy, it was Harold Hongju Koh. The dean of Yale Law School and a prominent critic of Bush-Cheney lawlessness, his reputation was clinched by a chorus of [...]
Tags: Advocacy Organizations, Human rights, Human Rights and Liberties, John McCain, Obama administration, United States, WikiLeaks, Yale Law School
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June 28, 2011
As commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, David Petraeus made his opposition to torture crystal clear. Which is why it came as a surprise when Petraeus, nominated to lead the CIA, asked Congress on Thursday to clarify how far interrogators can go in inflicting pain on detainees in “special cases.” Petraeus referred to what’s known [...]
Tags: Abu Ghraib, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Interrogation, Osama bin Laden, Torture, United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Waterboarding
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June 28, 2011
ill The U.S. Military Concede East Afghanistan to The Taliban? Posted: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:36:18 +0000 John Allen better be a mathematical genius. The three-star Marine general tapped to helm the Afghanistan war has one hell of a battlefield geometry problem on his hands. Not only does Allen have to hold U.S. gains in southern [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Haqqani network, John Nagl, Joint Special Operations Command, Taliban, United States Armed Forces, United States House Committee on Armed Services, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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June 27, 2011
When the Public Rises, We’ll Want an Ally in Congress By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58303 For the majority of people in the United States — a majority does not vote, a majority believes the government is broken, a majority thinks our public policy is headed in the wrong direction — the fact that we call this [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, David Swanson, Dennis Kucinich, Norman Solomon, Republicans, United States, United States Congress, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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June 27, 2011
Obama Soldiers On ‘Centering’ on Afghanistan: a speech that pleased no one by Justin Raimondo, June 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In his speech explaining why the US cannot withdraw from Afghanistan any earlier than 2014 – at the earliest — President Obama wasted no time in waving the bloody shirt [...]
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June 26, 2011
NATO wrong to target residential buildings in Libya 21 June 2011 NATO planes carried out raids on Saturday killing 15 people, including three children. The planes targeted what was termed as a military position where a close aide to Libyan Leader Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi resided. Western correspondents who visited a hospital where the bodies of the [...]
Tags: Benghazi, Hamid Karzai, Libya, Misurata, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Tripoli, United States
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June 26, 2011
Posted on Jun 24, 2011 U.S. Army / Staff Sgt. Andrew Smith By Eugene Robinson Some heard a declaration of victory, others an admission of defeat. The many contradictions in President Obama’s speech about Afghanistan Wednesday night were perhaps intended to obscure the bottom line: Tens of thousands of American troops will remain for at least three more [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Eugene Robinson, Osama BinLaden, Taliban, United State, Washington Post Writers Group
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June 26, 2011
We’re All Leninists Now There seems little doubt that the Lenin owes a great deal to the world in his completely calculated use of Marxist ideals to impose a savagery on peoples of the world that has very little to compare it with. From very early days Bakunin constantly warned as did many anarchists that [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Donald Rumsfeld, Enhanced interrogation techniques, John Yoo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Osama bin Laden, United States, Vladimir Lenin
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
Tags: British government, Centre for Alternative Technology, Germany, Government of the United Kingdom, International Atomic Energy Agency, Japan, Nuclear, nuclearpower
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