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How the Wikileaks story came together
The Wikileaks controversy is still swirling. Official Washington is fuming. The Guardian’s investigation’s editor explains the importance of the Afghan war logs and why his paper featured them so prominently. A partnership between old and new media gave this story its global significance (and amen to that). Perhaps the most fascinating insight into this yarn…
Exxon believes in transparency in journalism?
Why is ExxonMobil sponsoring a conference organised by Australia’s leading journalist’s union?
Wikileaks? Nothing to see here, move on please
CNN’s Anderson Cooper publishes on his website this almost hilarious spray against Wikileaks by Clint Van Winkle, the author of Soft Spots: A Marine’s Memoir of Combat and Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder: We sent troops to Afghanistan to avenge the 9/11 attacks and few people objected. Now, the Nation is having second thoughts. People want…
Don’t even think about bombing Iran after Wikileaks release
Another angle of the Wikileaks information dump is the way in which it may be used to justify military action against Tehran. Foreign Policy’s Marc Lynch explains and refutes that bogus comparison (neo-cons and the Zionist lobby, are you listening?) Most of the response to the WikiLeaks Afghanistan document release thus far has focused on…
Rabid Jew just a product of the Zionist system
Of course this man isn’t a terrorist, merely a misguided Jewish man. If he was Muslim, of course… Police released the head rabbi of a prominent yeshiva yesterday hours after arresting him for encouraging to kill non-Jews. Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, head of the Od Yosef Hai Yeshiva and author of “The King’s Torah,” was arrested…
How BDS becomes normalised
From the Guardian money blog: Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper. This week’s question: A friend has been giving me a hard time after seeing Israeli fruit in…
Did Australia cover-up Afghan deaths?
The Australian Wikileaks connection: Classified US Defence Department documents leaked to the WikiLeaks website this week suggest the Australian Defence Force covered up the killing of an Afghan policeman by Australian troops. Buried among the 90,000 intelligence documents is a log entry about the killing of an Afghan man by an Australian mentoring and reconstruction…
How the public can help examine the Wikileaks documents and give context
The Guardian offers a fascinating explanation of how they processed the massive amount of documents given to them by Wikileaks.