If the Australian government thinks it can simply do Washinton’s bidding and not pay a price they have another thing coming. Public campaign on its way. So much for a “progressive” Labor regime: Julian Assange is being investigated by Australian police to establish whether he has broken any of the country’s laws and is liable…
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Scahill faces threats from deep inside the Empire
A revealing comment from Jeremy Scahill on Democracy Now! last week that highlights the establishment fear of fearless reporters doing their job: I wanted to also say, Amy, that after I did the story for The Nation in November 2009 talking about JSOC’s operations inside of Pakistan and the involvement of Blackwater, elite soldiers from…
Why not bomb Syria?
This is mainstream media reporting. Anonymous voices advocating war and chaos in the Middle East, courtesy of Israel and the US: Syria’s fresh interference in Lebanon and its increasingly sophisticated weapons shipments to Hezbollah have alarmed American officials and prompted Israel’s military to consider a strike against a Syrian weapons depot that supplies the Lebanese…
PayPal takes the gutless option
First Amazon, now PayPal: PayPal has frozen WikiLeaks‘ account in the latest action against the whistleblower website, which has been posting leaked US embassy cables online. The decision by the online payment site – which WikiLeaks had used to raise funds for web hosting and other costs – has been announced with a posting on…
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…
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…
