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Wikileaks
Wikileaks is one of the biggest and most important stories in the world, challenging governments and journalists alike. I’ve been writing extensively about the group since 2006, featured an exclusive interview in 2008 with founder Julian Assange and examined the myriad of issues around the website. Assange himself asked me in the early days whether I wanted to be on the group’s board to vet incoming leaks and determine their veracity before publishing. I agreed but unfortunately this never eventuated.
Bradley Manning/Wikileaks supporter David House on #OccupyWallStreet
The eloquence of arguing for a different world (still continuing in Sydney, by the way) is a movement fueled by anger, technology and passion:
Codifying secrecy as a way of doing business, thanks to Obama
In case anybody still had any illusions about the obsession of the Obama administration to pursue whistle-blowers or anybody who seriously embarrasses them, read on (via the Wall Street Journal): The U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force GoogleInc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information…
Assange speaks in London at ten year anniversary of Afghan war squalor
When we understand that wars come about as a result of lies, peddled to the British public and the American public and public all over Europe and other countries, then who are the war criminals? It is not just leaders, it is not just soldiers, it is journalists, journalists are war criminals. And Assange, interviewed…
The dangers faced by Jews in Iraq post Wikileaks
Disturbing news from Baghdad, via McClatchy: An Anglican priest here says he’s working with the U.S. Embassy to persuade the handful of Jews who still live in Baghdad to leave because their names have appeared in cables published last month by WikiLeaks. The Rev. Canon Andrew White said he first approached members of the Jewish…
Obama’s Wikileaks executive order that guarantees more secrecy
A government that truly believes in transparency would behave in the opposite way, reducing the increasingly secretive nature of officialdom. Obama fail: By executive order, President Obama will instruct federal agencies today to better safeguard their classified secrets, to set up internal audit systems, and to make sure that reluctance to share critical intelligence in…
Public appreciates need for strong Wikileaks to tell us how world works
The allure of Wikileaks was proven once again last night here in Sydney with a packed Opera House, at the first event in the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, hearing from Julian Assange via video-link. He spoke about the importance of uncovering government secrets, most of which should never be secret, and challenging the corporatised nature…
Assange on the mainstream media
A quote from the just released unauthorised autobiography: Vanity in a newspaperman is like perfume on a whore; they wear it to conceal a dark whiff of themselves.