Oh, the irony: Documents released today by Wikileaks reveal that a US defence contractor may have sold millions of dollars worth of telephone tapping and other surveillance equipment to the Venezuelan government of Hugo Chavez.
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Killing them very softly
Wikileaks uncovers a sensitive US military counter-insurgency manual that could be described as, “What we learned about running death squads and propping up corrupt government in Latin America and how to apply it to other places”.
How we deal with dictators
The essential website Wikileaks releases yet another coup: During the 2007 Presidential election campaigns in Kenya, an international furore developed around the existence of a “secret” Memorandum of Understanding signed by Raila Odinga (now Prime Minister of Kenya) and the National Muslim Leaders’ Forum. A forged version of this Memorandum of Understanding was in email…
How to speak to journalists for dummies
After the recent revelations of a Pentagon-led plan to twist US media coverage of the “war on terror”, Wikileaks uncovers a 2006 document titled, “Media is the Battlefield: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures“. Produced for those in the US military, typical statements include: You do not have to regurgitate the Secretary of Defense’s responses, but you…
How not to rule a country
Wikileaks reveals the reality of web life under Thailand’s former military rulers: The January 11, 2007 official blocklist contains 13,435 websites, an increase of more than 500% over the 2,475 sites blocked by MICT’s 13 October 2006 list, compiled following Thailand’s military coup d’etat on 19 September. In addition to this figure, the Royal Thai…
A nonexistent Iraq
My following article appeared in yesterday’s ABC Unleashed: More than five years after the start of the Iraq war, the country remains mired in conflict. The Washington Post highlighted the quagmire this week: Attacks against U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces soared across Baghdad in the last week of March to the highest levels since…
Starving the “liberated”
Yet another scoop from Wikileaks: The U.S. military says it is taking steps to alleviate conditions at the Iraqi-run city jail in Fallujah after recent visitors found a filthy, overcrowded facility where prisoners had to provide their own food. The episode demonstrates how far Iraq’s judicial and penal institutions still have to go under U.S.…
The Tibetan word is getting out
China continues to restrict media access to its citizens over the brutal crackdown of Tibetan protesters, but a new international poll finds massive support for the Tibetan cause: A poll of three western and three Asian countries finds widespread criticism of Chinese policies toward Tibet. This critical view is held by large majorities in all…
Must have missed the first day of training
The Wikileaks website has released before information about American activities in Iraq, but now two new documents have surfaced. One discusses the “Lessons Learned” from the battle of Mosul in July 2004 and the other analyses similar lessons from the battle of Samarra in 2004. The American army are portrayed as utterly incapable of waging…