Photo by (CC-BY) WikiLeaks, War Crimes and the Pinochet Principle By Amy Goodman WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s protracted effort to fight extradition to Sweden suffered a body blow this week. Britain’s Supreme Court upheld the arrest warrant, issued in December 2010. After the court announced its split 5-2 decision, the justices surprised many legal [...]
Wikileaks founder loses extradition appeal Decision by UK supreme court means Julian Assange can be sent back to Sweden, where he faces sexual-assault charges. Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, has lost his appeal at the supreme court in London against extradition to Sweden, where he faces sexual assault allegations. The judges ruled with a majority of [...]
Julian Assange can appeal to the European court of human rights if he loses his case at the supreme court. Photograph: Geoff Caddick/AFP/Getty Images The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, will discover on Wednesday whether he is to be deported to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault when the supreme court delivers its verdict on his [...]
Assange talking to Occupy LSX. (photo: Matthew Taylor) Assange Fate to Be Determined Next Week UK Supreme Court to announce May 30 if Assange is to be extradicted to Sweden – Common Dreams staff link http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/23-1 Julian Assange will find out next Wednesday whether he will be extradited to Sweden to face sex crime [...]
Julian Assange Interviews President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa Ecuador’s Fight Against Its Media Vultures link to article and video http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31397.htm Video Posted May 22, 2012 In 2010 Correa was taken hostage in an attempted coup d’etat. After the attempt he launched a controversial counter-offensive Ecuador’s media, which he blames for the coup [...]
link http://www.tothepointanalyses.com/1408 Part I – Liberal Games On 10 April 2012 the journalist Charles Davis did a guest posting on Glenn Greenwald’s website, Salon. The title of the piece is “The Liberal Betrayal of Bradley Manning.” Davis’s argument is that President Obama acts much like George Bush Jr. when it comes to “security” issues. He has, for [...]
On March 4, 2012, Vladimir Putin was elected to serve as Russia’s president for another six years, and he is set to take up office following his inauguration on May 7. To his supporters, such as those we encountered celebrating at an election night government rally in Moscow, Putin is a hero, the [...]
Jennifer Robinson, a lawyer for the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP A lawyer for the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has said she was stopped at Heathrow airport and told she was on a watch list requiring official approval before she could return to her native Australia. Jennifer Robinson said a member of airport security told her she [...]
David Petraeus, A Threat to CIA Analysis Thursday, 28 April 2011 09:35By Ray McGovern, Consortium News | Op-Ed The news that President Barack Obama has picked Gen. David Petraeus to be CIA director raises troubling questions, including whether the commander most associated with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will tolerate objective [...]
Saudi Arabia Dancing to Israel’s Tunes By Kourosh Ziabari April 14, 2012 “Information Clearing House” -— It is no longer a secret that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has joined forces with the United States, Israel and Britain to destabilize Iran. Saudi officials have openly stated their opposition to [...]
China gets most of its Gulf oil from Saudi Arabia – 1 million barrels per day to be exact [EPA] New York, NY - Though the so-called “cable gate” scandal has largely vanished from public view, revelations from classified US State Department correspondence continue to illuminate present day geopolitical dilemmas. Take, for example, mounting tensions in [...]
There are fears that UK technology firms could be supporting Assad’s Syrian regime. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images Jamie Doward and Rebecca Lewis guardian.co.uk, Saturday 7 April 2012 21.00 BST Article history Britain is exporting surveillance technology to countries run by repressive regimes, sparking fears it is being used to track political dissidents and activists. The UK’s enthusiastic role in the [...]
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Slams Media for Libelous Coverage – Common Dreams staff WikiLeaks‘ Julian Assange said today that he’s made 75 official complaints over shoddy reporting of his extradition battle. Assange claims he has been subjected to inaccurate and libelous media coverage.Assange itemized the complaints in a written statement to Britain’s judge-led inquiry into [...]
Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir said she fears she could be arrested for her association with WikiLeaks. Photograph: Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty Images US anti-terrorism law curbs free speech and activist work, court told Controversy over NDAA centres on loose definition of key words, such as who are ‘associated forces’ of named terrorist groups A group political activists [...]
Yukiya Amano: Minion of the Empire by Muhammad Sahimi, March 26, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On Dec. 1, 2009, Yukiya Amano began his tenure as the director general (DG) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), after a bitter election in which he narrowly defeated the South African diplomat Abdul Minty. On Feb. 18, [...]
The Espionage Act, signed into law in 1917, caused hundreds of radical newspapers to shutdown [GALLO/GETTY] This is the second article in a two-part series. Read Part One here. New Haven, Connecticut - One day in 1917, US President Woodrow Wilson sat in his office scratching his head. He faced a dilemma. The war in Europe was [...]
Bradley Manning Prosecution Incurably Infected by Government Misconduct Thursday, 22 March 2012 13:36By Kevin Zeese, Bradley Manning Support Network | Report Last week I spent two days in court for a pretrial motions hearing in the court martial of Bradley Manning, the private accused of leaking documents to WikiLeaks that showed widespread unethical [...]
The Pakistani parliament house in Islamabad. Photograph: Anjum Naveed/AP Pakistani MPs say US drone strikes must end before relations improve Parliamentary committee draws up tough recommendations as basis of new partnership with US after months of tension Missile attacks by unmanned US aircraft on militants in Pakistan‘s tribal areas must come to an end before Islamabad [...]
The Pakistani parliament house in Islamabad. Photograph: Anjum Naveed/AP Pakistani MPs say US drone strikes must end before relations improve Parliamentary committee draws up tough recommendations as basis of new partnership with US after months of tension Jon Boone in Islamabad guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 March 2012 11.25 GMT Article history Missile attacks by unmanned US aircraft on [...]
The Unstoppable Legacy of the War on Terror Ever More and Ever Less: A New Age of Enemies by Karen Greenberg By now, you’d think we’d be entering the end of the 9/11 era. One war over in the Greater Middle East, another hurtling disastrously to its end, and the threat of [...]
Julian Assange is on bail awaiting a UK court decision on his appeal against extradition to Sweden [Reuters] Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, plans to run for the Australian senate in elections next year, despite being under virtual house arrest in the UK and facing extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, according to the [...]
Bradley Manning has been charged on 22 counts, including aiding the enemy. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images The UN special rapporteur on torture has formally accused the US government of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment towards Bradley Manning, the US soldier who was held in solitary confinement for almost a year on suspicion of being the WikiLeaks [...]
The Crime of Truth: Obama’s Persecution of the Peacemaker WRITTEN BY CHRIS FLOYD THURSDAY, 08 MARCH 2012 00:50 If any one person can be said to have ended the direct involvement of the United States military in Iraq, it is not the man whose champions claim this deed as one of his [...]
. 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 [...]
Private Eyes they’re watching you they see your every move Private Eyes they’re watching you (Hall and Oates song) George Ikners ikners.com WikiLeaks recently began publishing emails from intelligence-gathering firm Stratfor [EPA] Irvine, CA - “There is no way the United Statescan be this incompetent. The chaos here has to be at least partly deliberate.”So explained [...]
Wikileaks Bin Laden’s Body Taken To US: Statfor By The Journal March 05, 2012 – INTERNAL EMAILS in a major global intelligence firm, published by WikiLeaks, suggest that Osama bin Laden’s body may have been brought to America after he was killed by US Navy Seals. The emails, from the intelligence [...]
Flickr / mar is sea Y (CC-BY-SA) Wikileaks vs. Stratfor: Pursue The Truth, Not Its Messenger by Amy Goodman WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, has again published a massive trove of documents, this time from a private intelligence firm known as Stratfor. The source of the leak was the hacker group “Anonymous,” which took credit for [...]
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 [...]
. “Indicting Assange represents a dramatic assault on the First Amendment, journalists and the public right to know.” (Photo: AP) The email was from Fred Burton, Stratfor’s vice-president for counterterrorism and corporate security, and former deputy chief of the Department of State’s counterterrorism division for the Diplomatic Security [...]
From the very first time news of this got out in the form that it did, it was extremely obvious that this would be an extremely major issue. The so called apology from the US military commander apart from nearly [...]
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 [...]
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/24/headlines#4 PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION Manning Defers Plea on WikiLeaks Charges Accused U.S. Army whistleblower Private Bradley Manning was arraigned in a military court on Thursday on charges stemming from the alleged disclosure of classified material to WikiLeaks. Manning faces 22 charges, including aiding the enemy, for allegedly downloading and passing on [...]
US to Reestablish Military Presence in Philippines The move is part of a broader imperial plan to counter China‘s influence in Asia-Pacific by John Glaser, January 26, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The U.S. is in talks with the government of the Philippines about re-establishing a military presence in the country about two decades after the [...]
Court Cases on Bush Torture and Rendition Policies Shift to Europe Rights groups have aimed at prosecutions in Europe after facing state’s secrets barriers in the US by John Glaser, January 14, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum While the Obama administration has stuck to its promise of immunizing Bush administration officials [...]
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 [...]
dapd An Anonymous activist at a demonstration in Berlin: The Guy Fawkes mask is the movement’s trademark. The loose-knit hacker collective Anonymous has a new target in its sights: Germany‘s far-right scene. The group has launched a new WikiLeaks-style website publishing confidential data obtained from the far-right NPD party and other extremist groups. It’s all [...]
The supposedly explosive report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) detailing that Iran is resuming its reputed nuclear weapons program has had a less than radioactive fallout. After Israeli officials threatened unilateral action against Iran’s nuclear sites for a few days, their hitherto heated rhetoric cooled. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak eventually downplayed the saber-rattling, [...]
IBO: 162,000 Reported Deaths in Iraq War At Least 114,000 Were Civilians by Margaret Griffis, January 02, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Iraq Body Count, a British non-governmental agency that tracks only confirmeddeaths, released its estimate of war fatalities. They calculated [...]
US Sending Iraq $11 Billion in Arms, Despite Maliki’s Turn Towards Dictatorship John Glaser, December 29, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Pointing out Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki’s turn towards dictatorship is no longer a fad for opposition members of parliament and voiceless Iraqi subjects. [...]
Senator Saxby Chambliss, who says the detainees would ‘likely continue to pose a threat to the United States’. Photograph: Tami Chappell/Reuters The Obama administration is considering transferring to Afghan custody a senior Taliban official suspected of major human rights abuses as part of a remote bid to improve the prospects of a peace deal in Afghanistan, Reuters has learned. The [...]
A poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hanging from a building as pro-government protesters gather for a demonstration (AFP Photo / Sana) TRENDS:Syria unrest TAGS: Conflict, Protest, Politics, Human rights,Mass media, Syria Syrian NGOs: A dual-use technology? Get short URL email story to a friend print version Published: 27 December, 2011, 21:10 Syrian NGOs have often been the sole [...]
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 [...]
Daniel Ellsberg, 10/04/11. (photo: Genaro Molina /LAT) Ellsberg: US Wants Deal for Manning to Implicate Assange By Deutsche Presse-Agentur 23 December 11 ctivist Dan Ellsberg, who leaked thousands of secret documents on the Vietnam War in the 1970s, on Thursday denounced that the case against US Army soldier Bradley Manning. Ellsberg alleged that [...]
thierry ehrmann (CC-BY) By Amy Goodman Accused whistle-blower Pvt. Bradley Manning turned 24 Saturday. He spent his birthday in a pretrial military hearing that could ultimately lead to a sentence of life … or death. Manning stands accused of causing the largest leak of government secrets in United States history. More on Manning shortly. First, a reminder [...]
The intellectual cowardice of Bradley Manning’s critics VIDEO BY GLENN GREENWALD After imprisoning Private First Class Bradley Manning for eighteen months, the U.S. Army last week finally began the preliminary stage of his court-martial proceeding, and that initial process ended on Thursday. Manning faces over 30 charges; the most serious — “aiding the [...]
Punishing the whistleblower? As Bradley Manning faces charges of espionage over the Wikileaks cables we ask if the US government is overreacting. Bradley Manning, a private in the US army, has been accused of perpetrating the biggest intelligence leak in US history.Now a military judge is trying to determine whether Manning should face [...]
War is brutal and inhumane. (Zoriah.net) By Ramzy Baroud Someone ought to let mainstream news producers know that the nearly 4,500 US soldiers killed in the Iraq war were not the only victims. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have also been killed as a result of the unwarranted US invasion, and many more [...]
Bradley Manning: The Imperative of Truth By Ray McGovern – Posted on 21 December 2011 Pvt. Manning and Imperative of Truth by Ray McGovern It would be very difficult to find many more principled and committed US citizens than Ray McGovern. He can quite easily be counted among such people as Chomsky, [...]
Bradley Manning is escorted from a military vehicle to the court facility at Fort Meade, Maryland. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP Accused whistle-blower Bradley Manning turned 24 on Saturday. He spent his birthday in a pre-trial military hearing that could ultimately lead to a sentence of life … or death. Manning stands accused of causing the largest [...]
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 [...]
