America, your perceived exceptionalism isn’t a view shared by millions of people who feel your freedom bombs dropping on their homes: Americans widely agree that the United States has a unique character because of its history and Constitution that sets it apart from other nations as the greatest in the world. This view, commonly referred…
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Wikileaks isn’t solely about challenging the US empire
Assange on Al-Jazeera discusses the role of Wikileaks, not being opposed to paying for material (why should journalists be the only ones compensated when leakers are taking the biggest risks, he argues?) and getting material from closed societies such as China:
The perfect storm with Zionist lobby and Islam haters
Max Blumenthal has the goods on the growing campaigns in the US organised with the Zionist lobby, anti-Muslim haters, Republican politicians and those looking for a scape-goat. Remember Jews; this is the new public face of our religion. What are you doing about it?
Of course empire spokesmen hate Wikileaks
Jeffrey Bleich, US ambassador in Australia, writes an embarrassing defence of secrecy post-Wikileaks, claims lives have been lost (with no evidence) and wishes for the good old days of governments sharing secrets because they know what’s best: Before I became an ambassador, I worked for many years as a lawyer advocating for freedom of expression…
There’s plenty in Wikileaks cable dump, if reporters care to look
One: This is why Wikileaks is so crucial: A June 2009 cable from France, days after the great Cairo speech of Obama, in which the Israelis are said to claim a secret deal with the US for settlement growth. I’m running. More to say later. And note too… where… Sarkozy says, Israel, the horse of history is…
Assange and the Jewish analogy
Not quite sure of the accuracy of this comparison; institutional anti-Semitism against Jews wasn’t just in the establishment, it was widely shared across the community: The founder of WikiLeaks has compared his treatment by the Swedish authorities seeking his extradition over sexual assault allegations to the persecution of the Jewish people in the last century.…
WTF, indeed
Yes, America is run by paranoid children who loathe light being shone on its activities: The CIA has launched a task force to assess the impact of the exposure of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and military files by WikiLeaks. Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task Force. But at CIA headquarters, it’s mainly…
The minor taste of accountability in Afghanistan
Expect these kinds of stories to happen far more often. Lawless contractors in a lawless land is a recipe for disaster: Afghan authorities arrested an employee of a British private security company this week and sentenced him to eight months in jail, the latest move in the government’s crackdown on private security firms. Global Strategies…