Julian Assange, before being arrested in London, wrote the following article for Rupert Murdoch’s Australian newspaper. A curious choice of outlet considering the paper’s love of wars against, well, most Arab people, but there you go: In 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide’s The News, wrote: “In the race between…
Open letter to Julia Gillard and the Australian government over Julian Assange
I was honoured to be called by Overland editor Jeff Sparrow on Sunday to discuss the possibility of launching a petition in support of Julian Assange. I offered a little advice and was one on the first signatories. Released publicly today (and lead story on ABC) and already garnering more than 2000 comments, this issue…
US Library of Congress continues its censorship of Wikileaks
WTF? The Library of Congress, which recently shutoff access to WikiLeaks on its computers, may be unintentionally undermining the research its analysts perform for lawmakers, classification expert Steven Aftergood, who regularly publishes a government secrecy newsletter, blogged on Monday. The Congressional Research Service, a branch of the library that scours bills, news and other primary…
Colombo must be getting PR advice from Zionist central
A rogue state makes a decision that would make Israel proud: The Sri Lankan government has appointed a senior army officer accused of war crimes in the conflict with Tamil rebels as its deputy permanent representative to the United Nations. Maj. Gen. Shavendra Silva‘s presence in New York coincides with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon setting…
Wikileaks support protest in Sydney on Friday
MEDIA RELEASE — MEDIA RELEASE — MEDIA RELEASE — Support Wikileaks rally called Supporters of the website Wikileaks will mobilise on Friday (10/12/10) to protest against the backlash it has faced for its release of more than 250,000 US government cables. The protest will hear from independent journalist Antony Loewenstein, award-winning author of My Israel…
Israel supporters using Wikileaks to promote attack on Iran are ignoring Arab public opinion
My following article appears on US website Mondoweiss: Sever Plocker, a columnist for… Yediot Aharonot,… recently wrote with pride and some sadness that, “At least on the Iranian issue — and apparently on more than a few other matters — the leaders of the world, including the Arab world, think as we do [the Israelis], but are…
What’s the thinking behind Wikileaks?
During the current Wikileaks storm, some necessary background. Here’s Julian Assange speaking earlier this year at the Berkeley School of Journalism on why he does what he does:
If the aim is to silence Wikileaks, failure is guaranteed
The utterly shambolic nature of the public case against Julian Assange is revealed here. Political pressure, anybody? TONY EASTLEY: Lawyers for WikiLeak’s editor and founder, Julian Assange, say he could have a meeting with British authorities to discuss sexual assault charges laid against him by Swedish police, within 24 hours. Scotland Yard has received a…
So Assange is victim of massive Canberra smear
Watch the Australian government embarrass itself in front of the world. How many trade deals do we want from the US this time, peoples? Prime Minister Julia Gillard has again been unable to name any Australian laws broken by the controversial WikiLeaks website or its founder Julian Assange. Western governments are increasingly calling for Mr…
More allegations that Wikileaks is helping terrorists
More challenges to the heart of the US empire: Wikileaks raised the stakes in its battle with America last night by releasing a secret list of all the global industries and assets that the US most wishes to protect. Security experts said that the cable, published by the whistleblower website as part of an unauthorised…