Julian Assange on the futility of trying to shut Wikileaks down: The Cable Gate archive has been spread, along with significant material from the U.S. and other countries to over 100,000 people in encrypted form. And the fight goes on: In a bid to stay one step ahead of the governments, companies, freelance hackers trying…
Does the Australian government work for its own citizens?
There is a battle looming between a subservient Australian government and its American benefactor: Prominent human rights lawyer Julian Burnside told The Sunday Age Mr Assange’s reference to Mr Hicks was apt, given the government’s apparent enthusiasm to assist the US rather than an Australian citizen. But he said he ”wouldn’t be surprised” if Mr…
Personal message from Julian Assange
6/12/10 The original message posted here from Julian Assange of Wikileaks, asking for support, has been removed due to a request from those close to the group. More information will soon appear explaining how we can all support Wikileaks during its time of need.
Has Wikileaks been spun?
Take this with caution – the people saying it are your run-of-the-mill US elite types who love a good, covert US war – but interesting thought: My powder is dry on the interesting subject that Zbigniew Brzezinski raised on PBS NewsHour. He suggested that in this enormous Wikileaks data dump of largely trivial cables, there…
ABCTV News24 on Wikileaks cablegate
Following my analysis on ABC this week about the Wikileaks story (353 comments and counting) I was invited onto ABC TV News24’s The Drum on Thursday to discuss my criticism of the media’s coverage. Alongside ABC’s Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb and The Daily Telegraph’s Joe Hilderbrand (video here for two weeks) I argued that…
New Zionist aim; target “political left” to soften occupation brutality
So let me get this right. A city with countless activists who campaign against Israeli apartheid are automatically merchants of hate? Nice try, Zionists: The UK has become the centre of a systematic assault on Israel’s right to exist that unites Middle East resistance networks with allies on the liberal-left in Europe, according to a…
What rhymes with Wikileaks?
Julian Assange taps into public culture and raps it up (at roughly 4.55):
Why Wikileaks matters part 9753
There is SO much about Wikileaks at the moment that it’s truly hard to keep up. The following is a select selection of some of the more revealing revelations, related stories and controversies. Laurie Oakes in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph: Julia Gillard couldn’t help herself. She had to join the chorus of American hard-liners calling for…