The Wikileaks story over Afghanistan continues to reverberate around the world. The latest angles, analysis and stories here, here, here, here, here and here. A powerful explanation of how Wikileaks is changing the rules of the game is writer Jeff Sparrow in ABC Unleashed: …The release of the Afghan logs constitutes a damning indictment on…
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Wikileaks is just warming up and democracy should be thankful
An exciting time to be a journalist and citizen of the world. Wikileaks is showing the corporate media that transparency and real reporting is the only way forward, if they want to remain relevant and not tied to establishment interests: The Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, said today that the organisation is working through a “backlog”…
A day at Revolution Books
Yesterday’s event at New York’s Revolution Books alongside writer and author Michael Otterman – interviewed today about Iraqi casualties on NPR – was a unique opportunity to discuss Palestine and Iraq. We talked about the hidden civilian trauma, power of the US to wage war with little social cost inside the country, the power of…
The hidden Tamil nightmare
The ongoing forgotten war in Sri Lanka; forced detention, lack of work for women and disappearances.
Times buries civilian killings in Wikileaks story
Note the difference between the New York Times and Guardian dealing with the Wikileaks revelations over Afghanistan.
Australian Zionist head wants West Bank settlements to thrive
So this is how it is. A senior Jewish leader in Australia defending the illegal colonies in the West Bank. For shame: The elected leader of Australian Jewry blasted his Christian counterpart over an “ill-considered” resolution asking churches to boycott goods produced by West Bank Jews. Executive Council of Australian Jewry President Robert Goot, in…
Why can’t Australians speak to refugees?
The Australian election arrives on 21 August and refugees remain a convenient punching bag. Election Wire website journalist… Austin G. Mackell visits Villawood detention centre in Sydney and shows the absurdity of the way in which Australia treats the handful of asylum seekers arriving by boat:
Real journalists welcome Wikileaks and don’t feel threatened by its power
For those wondering about the history of Wikileaks reporting, I’ve been writing about the website for years, including an interview with founder Julian Assange in 2008.
The West dances with the Pakistani devil
This is what happens when the world’s only super-power, with client state support (hello Australia) engage in a war with no end with partners who loathe your presence: Former Pakistani spy agency chief Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul denied that he has any links to al Qaeda or Taliban insurgents and said he is willing to…
Wikileaks reveals the supposed trail of Bin Laden in Afghanistan (maybe)
Wired reveals yet another angle of the invaluable Wikileaks information dump: Most of the reports catalog counterinsurgency’s basics — weapons caches found, gun battles fought, village elders chatted up. But buried in the tens of thousands of U.S. military logs dropped Sunday night by WikiLeaks are incidents that are anything but routine: a suspected chemical…