The Case Against Alleged WikiLeaks Supplier Bradley Manning Takes a Strange Turn The military hearing that will determine whether Bradley Manning will receive a court martial for his alleged role in leaking documents to WikiLeaks took a strange turn. In a courthouse in Fort Meade, Maryland, a prosecution witness testified that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cables Note US-Supported Atrocities in Philippines by John Glaser, September 03, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The government of the Philippines is one of the biggest recipients of US military aid in all of Asia, despite recently hosting one of the worst waves of human rights violations in its history. Numerous [...]
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 [...]
A screensaver from the WikiLeaks website. Unredacted US embassy cables have been made available online after a security breach. Photograph: Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images A security breach has led to the WikiLeaks archive of 251,000 secret US diplomatic cables being made available online, without redaction to protect sources. WikiLeaks has been releasing the cables over nine months [...]
Resource Wars. Battle lines being drawn in the Arctic. It has always been the attitude of this page that these wars are set to commence and will make present conflagrations look a small part of what they really are the battle for the hegemong of the imperial project. George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site [...]
Australia: Iran ‘not rogue state‘ Secret US cables reveal Australia sees Iran’s nuclear programme as a ‘deterrent’. Last Modified: 13 Dec 2010 05:49 GMT Australian fears are revealed in the latest WikiLeaks cables [AFP] Leaked US cables show that Australia sees the Iranian nuclear programme as a “deterrent,” a sharply contrary view to that of most Western [...]
