Sweden is not an independent nation: Karl Rove’s help for Sweden as it assists the Obama administration’s prosecution against WikiLeaks could be the latest example of the adage, “Politics makes strange bedfellows.” Rove has advised Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt for the past two years after resigning as Bush White House political advisor in mid-2007.…
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Leaking is a noble profession
Will Julian Assange regret being one of the key whistle-blower enablers? If history is any guide – thinking of Daniel Ellsberg and Philip Agee – don’t count on it.
Finding ways to dismiss leakers in the US
A reader sent me this disturbing move from the US Senate to supposedly protect whistle-blowers but in fact is the complete opposite. Wikileaks is causing worries across the political establishment: On December 10, 2010, the Senate passed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 372) by unanimous consent. After a careful review of S. 372, the…
Letting Mugabe retire peacefully sounds like a terrible idea
The Wikileaks news that really matters (and yet more evidence that the UN is far too keen to protect dictators rather than prosecute them): The head of the United Nations offered Robert Mugabe a lucrative retirement package in an overseas haven if he stood down as Zimbabwe‘s president, according to claims quoted in leaked diplomatic…
Let’s not get seriously side-tracked with Assange personal life
So the Guardian has smeared Julian Assange with sexual allegations and the focus has inevitably shifted from what Wikileaks is doing to what Assange may have done: As fresh snow erases the traces of Friday’s scrum of camera crews from the elegant lawns of a Georgian mansion in East Anglia, inside Ellingham Hall Julian Assange…
An info-struggle that we must win
An open letter published in the UK Guardian this week: We are writing this statement in support of democracy. Since Sunday, 28 November, WikiLeaks and five major newspapers from around the world (the Guardian, the New York Times, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, El Pais) have been publishing redacted versions of leaked US diplomatic cables in…
Cuba ain’t no paradise and the US diplomat there is pernicious
These stories, via Wikileaks, if true are rather curious for a few key players. Western states are proven once again to largely ignore human rights (money is the key factor). And Michael Moore, for a film that certainly glorified the Cuban health system, is looking a little sheepish. One: Australia, Canada and several European countries…
This is how America treats people with a conscience
The alleged Wikileaks leaker Bradley Manning is being tortured while in US custody. Home of the free, indeed: The last time Bradley Manning saw the world outside of a jail, most Americans had never heard of WikiLeaks. On Friday, Manning, the man whose alleged unauthorized release of hundreds of thousands of classified documents put the…
And nothing will ever be the same again…
Very perceptive and largely fair editorial in yesterday’s UK Guardian on the legacy of Wikileaks and the reasons for its importance: The sight of Julian Assange giving a stream of television interviews from the grounds of an 18th-century country house on the Norfolk-Suffolk borders was, at the very least, a confusion of the cinematic genre…
Australian PM speaks like a drunken autocrat when it comes to rights
Australia is run by a politician clown who ignores the rule of law, smears an Australian citizen and wonders why so few people respect her position: Prime Minister Julia Gillard is under renewed pressure over her initial response to the WikiLeaks controversy. At one stage Ms Gillard labelled the actions of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange…