A stunning essay by Salon’s Glenn Greenwald on the mysterious ongoing case of Wikileaks, the supposed military whistle-blower and media coverage of the scandal. It’s no wonder Washington is so keen to silence dissenters within the ranks.
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Wikileaks scores a major win in Iceland
A small but significant step towards protecting information from prying individuals and governments: Iceland has passed a sweeping reform of its media laws that supporters say will make the country an international haven for investigative journalism. The new package of legislation was passed unanimously at 4am yesterday in one of the final sessions of the…
Wikileaks founder in danger
The ongoing saga around Wikileaks and the fearful establishment who now, for the first time, can’t control a medium (the web) that may publish information that upsets those in power: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
The war against Wikileaks
I’ve long admired Wikileaks, a clearing house for classified information (the “reasons” often used by Western governments to kill “liberated” Iraqis, Afghans etc). This news is therefore intriguing, not least because it shows that there is one (and probably more) people within the US government keen to tell the world about the “war on terror”…
Colbert on Wikileaks
Stephen Colbert interviews a rather bemused yet serious Wikileaks co-founder (and Australian) Julian Assange: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Understanding the real agenda behind Wikileaks
I’ve written extensively about the wonderful website Wikileaks and its ability to continually release vitally important information. But Mother Jones provides a more shaded view, questioning some of the tactics of the secretive group: WikiLeaks hatched in 2006 on a private mailing list used by Assange and other journalists and activists. To help navigate the…
Wikileaks releases deadly video from Iraq that corporate hacks have not
Yet another scoop from Wikileaks, one of the most important websites in the world: WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom…
Is Wikileaks the most important website in the world?
The latest Wikileaks drama: Whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks is planning to release a video that reveals what it’s calling a Pentagon “cover-up” of an incident in which numerous civilians and journalists were murdered in an airstrike, according to a recent media advisory. The video will be released on April 5 at the National Press Club,…
Wikileaks allows sunlight in a dark age
I’ve written for years about the invaluable website Wikileaks. It currently faces an unprecedented attack by Western governments and dictatorships across the world to shut down and not release supposedly important “secrets”. Glenn Greenwald explains the importance of the site and why it matters to fight.
Wikileaks is the wonderful site that upsets the powerful
The undeniable power of the Wikileaks website – releasing supposedly classified documents to allow transparency in the public domain – now makes a rather comical story in the New York Times: To the list of the enemies threatening the security of the United States, the Pentagon has added WikiLeaks.org, a tiny online source of information…