Interesting insights into the running of Wikileaks: WikiLeaks aims to collect 460,000 Euros per annum. That would be enough for the five staffers and some of the approximately 900 volunteer helpers to recover some of their costs in the future. Up to this point, not even Assange receives a salary. He lives off his savings,…
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Why would a man leak to Wikileaks?
The alleged leaker of information to Wiklieaks, American Bradley Manning, is given a profile in the New York Times. He’s portrayed as lonely, confused, gay, anxious and desperate for attention: And as he faces the possibility of a lifetime in prison, some of Private Manning’s remarks now seem somewhat prophetic. “I wouldn’t mind going to…
Wikileaks is ready and willing for much more
Game on: The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks said it will continue to publish more secret files from governments around the world despite U.S. demands to cancel plans to release classified military documents. “I can assure you that we will keep publishing documents – that’s what we do,” a WikiLeaks spokesman, who says he goes by the…
More on the Wikileaks/Israel/Afghanistan connection
Mondoweiss follows up my investigations on the Israel-connection in the Wikileaks dump (and curiously, searching for “Israeli” brings some different results to “Israel“): I’m poking around the Afghan war diaries from Wikileaks (inspired by Antony Loewenstein) and it looks like one element of our nationbuilding effort in Afghanistan is working: the people there have demonstrated…
Who says Wikileaks put lives at risk?
Interesting: The Web site Wikileaks has been drawing criticism for publishing 90,000 classified documents about the war in Afghanistan, some of which reveal the names of Afghan citizens who have provided information to the U.S. The Obama Administration has said this could endanger the lives of those informants. But it turns out that prior to…
Let the post Wikileaks leaking begin
This piece didn’t get the attention it deserves. Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg (a clear inspiration to Wikileaks and Julian Assange) told the Washington Post last weekend what documents or information should be leaked and freely available. A truly free society would depend on it: 1. The official U.S. “order of battle” estimates of the…
Of course Wikileaks is important (says cluey editor)
It takes the Guardian’s investigation’s head, David Leigh, to unpack the significance of the Wikileaks revelations and explain why the story matters. The job of good journalism is to expose flawed wars, not to protect the figures backing an immoral and illegal occupation: The Afghan war logs story has proved to be a global journalistic…
New York Times wanted to be scooped on Wikileaks data
Last night’s SBS Dateline featured a fascinating piece about the background to the recent Wikileaks release. Check out the whole thing but this bit interested me particularly: As the new material starts to circulate between the three publications the full scope of the data becomes clearer, and one of the partners seems to be getting…
Necessary protection for Wikileaks
Now we learn that a MIT student is being questioned about possible involvement in the Wikileaks saga – there’s something almost comical about watching this, as if a host of other leakers within the establishment won’t follow in their footsteps, such is the dismay with US foreign policy – this piece of information is curious:…
Al-Jazeera on Wikileaks Afghan story
The Wikileaks Afghan logs release has caused outrage, consternation and celebration across the world. Al-Jazeera’s media show, The Listening Post, this week discussed the significance of the story and the future of online journalism. They asked me to briefly comment on the tale (starts at 8.40):