Jeremy Scahill: Holbrooke backed Indonesian genocide in East Timor, killing of journos in Serbia and supported 2003 Iraq invasion. Johann Hari: I’m more inclined to grieve for victims of Indonesian genocide in East Timor than Richard Holbrooke, who armed & supported that genocide. Read this.
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Assange and Manning are loved by the public
The people have spoken: The controversial founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has won an online vote to be TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year. The annual online vote asks readers to choose the most influential person, people or things from the previous year. Readers voted a total of 1,249,425 times, and the favorite was clear,…
No, the Arab world doesn’t want to bomb Iran tomorrow
If you read the MSM over Wikileaks you’ll only receive a very small part of the truth. Government agendas meld seamlessly into media agendas. For example: The dominant theme that emerged in U.S. media coverage of the first round of Wikileaks diplomatic cables last week was that Arab regimes in the Gulf – led by…
Perhaps journalists should just take government money and stop the illusion
I’ve written regularly about the mainstream media’s love of being close to power. Ooh, look over there, Hillary in a red pantsuit! How charming. Sorry,… distracted by a very important news story. Deakin University’s Scott Burchill tackles the same issue, challenging corporate reporter’s desire to be players: To say that the WikiLeaks imbroglio has not…
What should be the real focus of Wikileaks anger?
Many in the US establishment – and indeed, the Australian one, rather upset that their badly protected secrets are no longer secret, poor people – are baying for the blood of Julian Assange. But some sense is around: The predominant consensus in official Washington that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should eventually stand trial here on…
Yes: “The watchdog press died; we have Wikileaks instead”
I’m coming a little late to this but I like it. Here’s US journalism professor Jay Rosen explaining how the mainstream media, after its capitulation to the US “national security state” post September 11, no longer became a reliable check on power (whether it was before 9/11, well, that’s another question). Wikileaks is therefore the…
Wikileaks rallies in Australia hit a nerve
Green Left Weekly reports comprehensively on last week’s Australian pro-Wikileaks rallies: More than 1000 people rallied at Sydney’s Town Hall at 1pm on December 10 to show their support for Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange. Rallies also occurred in Brisbane, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth. The rally, held to coincide with International Human Rights…
So this is what the Afghan war is all about
Patrick Cockburn reports in the Independent on the illusion that Western intervention is helping Afghanistan. A few people are getting amazingly rich, especially private firms in the West, but local citizens are not seeing anything. Not hard to see why the insurgency is thriving: The most extraordinary failure of the US-led coalition in Afghanistan is…
Major Aussie media figures stand up for Wikileaks
Finally some Australian media heavy-weights join the cause in support of Wikileaks. It’s taken far too long but they clearly realise that this entire issue isn’t just about Wikileaks; it’s about our right to read important information in the public interest: The letter was initiated by… the Walkley Foundation and signed by the ten members…
Mastercard, Visa and PayPal rather like illegal Zionist colonies
The huffing and puffing over alleged illegality by Wikileaks (nothing proven by a mile) compares badly to actual behaviour by many corporates in the Middle East. An important Crikey investigation: Visa, Mastercard and PayPal all enable donations to be made to US-registered groups funding illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank in defiance of international…