Here’s an inspiring reason why the mainstream media can, if it wants to, matter. Spain’s El Pais editor, Javier Moreno, on why his paper participated in Wikileaks cablegate: Cynics will argue that none of what we have learned from WikiLeaks differs from the usual way in which high-level international politics is conducted, and that without…
If You Love This Planet (with Dr Helen Caldicott) on Wikileaks
The myriad of issues surroundings Wikileaks continues. I was interviewed in late December by Dr Helen Caldicott on her globally syndicated radio program If You Love This Planet to discuss the long-term ramifications of this new form of journalism. My previous appearance on the program from 2009 is here.
What do we want in 2011?
Jewish American blogger and writer Max Ajl is currently in Gaza and wrote this moving post about his wish list for 2011: A friend of mine here said that what we need are not “new year’s resolutions but new year’s revolutions.” So what do I hope for in this New Year? I hope for revolutions.…
A Wikileaks Christmas
Anything to keep the case in the public eye? Thank you, Newsweek, for this delightful photo gallery: The holidays are a time of rest and relaxation for everyone, even enigmatic, internationally wanted former fugitives under house arrest. In an exclusive photo gallery, NEWSWEEK peeks into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange‘s Christmas revelry as he awaits a…
Who is best to keep unnecessary secrets now?
The job of real journalists and citizens is to challenge government spin and lies and not feel sorry for a super-power being less able to get its way: Before the infamous leak, the 250,000 State Department cables acquired by anti-secrecy activists resided in a database so obscure that few diplomats had heard of it. It…
Israel, the US and corporate press selling Iranian “threat” for decades
It must be resisted now as much as ever.
One hour of Assange in long interview with Pilger on freedom and Wikileaks
Here’s an extended interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from the John Pilger film The War You Don’t See: John Pilger in conversation with Julian Assange from John Pilger on Vimeo.
“Governments now need to factor in that things can be WikiLeaked”
Let the information flow freely. These comments represent the kind of healthy debate so absent from the mainstream political and journalistic world. If secrets are kept, Wikileaks and sites like it will remain essential: The government should take the WikiLeaks revelations as a lesson that civil servants and ministers can no longer assume they operate…
Happy new year, Rupert
Following Britain’s Business Secretary Vince Cable declaring his opposition to Rupert Murdoch, this letter in today’s UK Independent expresses the views of many who care about media diversity and decency: Vince Cable’s remarks to the undercover reporters were undiplomatic, yes, but heartening nevertheless. What Cable didn’t say was why he thinks so little of Murdoch.…