Al-Jazeera is a truly unique news service that covers the world in a way that no other global network does. However, there is always a risk when the major sourcing of funding is a Middle East dictatorship: Qatar is using the Arabic news channel al-Jazeera as a bargaining chip in foreign policy negotiations by adapting…
Of course MSM wish leakers had come to them first
Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young tweets on the Gillard government’s selective outrage: Would the govt be talking about passports & charges if [Murdoch’s] The Oz had got their hands on the leaks given to WikiLeaks first? I think not.
Ending the occupation by telling Israel there will be a price
About bloody time and this needs to be enforced. If Britain and the EU are serious about Zionist occupation (and that’s doubtful) they need to do something about it. No more excuses: Britain’s new shadow foreign minister has called for her government to pressure the European Union to introduce labelling on West Bank products to…
Rudd misses main message of Wikileaks dump
Australia’s Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd doesn’t seem to understand the paradigm shift of the Wikileaks release. His answer is more secrecy, less transparency and less democracy. He may find himself more shocked in the months and years ahead. Here’s hoping: Kevin Rudd has suggested the United States “tighten things up a bit” following the publishing…
Wikileaks insurance policy is the internet itself
Julian Assange speaks to El Pais: If there is a battle between the US military and the preservation of History, we have insured History will win…I believe geopolitics will be separated into pre and post cablegate phases.
Finding ways to wipe Tamils from the picture entirely
He’s back. “Terrorism expert” Rohan Gunaratna loves to talk about violence and evil and is very close to the Colombo brutes. Here he is wishing that any resistance to the autocratic Rajapaksa regime would disappear. Dream on: The cancellation of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Oxford Union speech and the events leading to that controversial decision is…
Leading Australian politician defends Wikileaks
Australian Federal independent MP Andrew Wilkie: Mr Wilkie believes WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has not broken any US or Australian laws in publishing the documents. “It’s not Assange’s fault that this information is leaking out of the [US] administration – it’s the administration’s fault.”
More on the Assange accuser
Mmm: Yesterday Alexander Cockburn reminded us of the news Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett broke at Counterpunch in September.… … Julian Assange’s chief accuser in Sweden has a significant history of work with anti-Castro groups, at least one of which is US funded and openly supported by a former CIA agent convicted in the mass murder…
New South Wales Greens embrace BDS
At its State Delegates Council meeting held on the weekend in Sydney, the NSW Greens unanimously endorsed the following proposal: That the Greens NSW call upon all Australians and the Australian government to boycott Israeli goods, trading and military arrangements, and sporting, cultural and academic events as a contribution to the struggle to end Israel’s…
Good luck shielding yourself from the next Wikileaks dump
The empire (tries) to strike back: The Obama administration is planning a major reshuffling of diplomats, military officers, and intelligence operatives at U.S. embassies around the world out of concern that WikiLeaks has made it impossible—if not dangerous—for many of the Americans to remain in their current posts. Administration officials tell The Daily Beast that…