The Wikileaks story over Afghanistan continues to reverberate around the world. The latest angles, analysis and stories here, here, here, here, here and here. A powerful explanation of how Wikileaks is changing the rules of the game is writer Jeff Sparrow in ABC Unleashed: …The release of the Afghan logs constitutes a damning indictment on…
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Wikileaks is just warming up and democracy should be thankful
An exciting time to be a journalist and citizen of the world. Wikileaks is showing the corporate media that transparency and real reporting is the only way forward, if they want to remain relevant and not tied to establishment interests: The Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, said today that the organisation is working through a “backlog”…
A day at Revolution Books
Yesterday’s event at New York’s Revolution Books alongside writer and author Michael Otterman – interviewed today about Iraqi casualties on NPR – was a unique opportunity to discuss Palestine and Iraq. We talked about the hidden civilian trauma, power of the US to wage war with little social cost inside the country, the power of…
The West dances with the Pakistani devil
This is what happens when the world’s only super-power, with client state support (hello Australia) engage in a war with no end with partners who loathe your presence: Former Pakistani spy agency chief Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul denied that he has any links to al Qaeda or Taliban insurgents and said he is willing to…
Is a journalist’s job to please or offend the White House over Wikileaks? Obvious, really
Wikileaks, the world’s first stateless news organisation. And a modern dilemma for hyper-connected media companies, so used to being on the drip feed of the establishment: The… WikiLeaks report presented a unique dilemma to the three papers given advance copies of the 92,000 reports included in the Afghan war logs — the New York Times, Germany’s…
Wikileaks releases the new Pentagon Papers?
The Wikileaks story about leaked documents over the Afghan war is racing across the world. Some analysis and further news is here, here, here and here. Releasing sensitive information in the age of the web is a marvel of new technology. Here the New York Times explains its reasoning behind publication. The job of journalists…
Wikileaks blows open the Afghan disaster
The power of the internet to prick the most powerful government in the world, its corrupt war, its shameful allies (including Australia) and blow wide open the nature of the Afghan engagement: A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces…
Iran is allowed to examine its nuclear options
This is how demonised Iran has become in the global media. Tehran announces a small development and tiny outlay ($8 million is change) and it’s lead story in the Jerusalem Post (with its URL under “Iranian Threat”): Iran’s nuclear agency began studies Saturday to build an experimental nuclear fusion reactor, something that has yet to…
Unregulated capitalism is out of the control but the rich feel fine
Independent US Senator Bernie Sanders writes in The Nation that there is something seriously wrong with the American way of life. Goodbye middle class: While the middle class disappears and poverty increases the wealthiest people in our country are not only doing extremely well, they are using their wealth and political power to protect and…
Jeffrey Goldberg no longer impresses as an IDF prison guard
An instructive tale of how Zionist spokespeople in the American media are losing power in the new, online discourse.