Yeah, this will help

Israel National News: Documents revealed by Wikileaks show that Egypt continues to see Israel as its primary military threat despite a decades-old peace treaty. Egypt and Israel fought against each other in four wars before signing the treaty in 1979. United States diplomats have been frustrated as Egyptian leaders focus on being prepared for war [...]

The Empire Strikes Back

Nobody saw this coming: FBI Raids Texas Company in Hunt for Anonymous The FBI has raided a Texan hosting company and seized equipment believed to have been used in the distributed denial of service attacks that targeted supposed “enemies” of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, which included the likes of PayPal and MasterCard. It was actually [...]

WikiLeaks vs. The Pentagon Papers

Floyd Abrams: In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg decided to make available to the New York Times (and then to other newspapers) 43 volumes of the Pentagon Papers, the top- secret study prepared for the Department of Defense examining how and why the United States had become embroiled in the Vietnam conflict. But he made another critical [...]

WikiLeaks vs. The Law of Unintended Consequences

(Oh no he didn’t) (Oh yes he did) The Atlantic: How WikiLeaks Just Set Back Democracy in Zimbabwe Last year, early on Christmas Eve morning, representatives from the U.S., United Kingdom, Netherlands, and the European Union arrived for a meeting with Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Appointed prime minister earlier that year as part of [...]

Ask questions, get answers, remain skeptical

Yesterday I asked some questions about WikiLeaks. Today I got a few answers. WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Now Making $86k/year WikiLeaks’ main financial arm, the Germany-based Wau Holland Foundation says it has collected about 1 million Euro ($1.3 million) in donations in 2010, the year in which WikiLeaks exploded into public prominence thanks to its release [...]

Wrong Emphasis

Sarah Palin Uses Info Gleaned From ‘Treasonous’ WikiLeaks To Pen Op-Ed On Dangers Of Iran Sarah Palin sought to build her foreign policy credentials on Tuesday, with a new op-ed arguing that the Obama administration needs to “toughen up” on Iran based on information from leaked diplomatic cables that she had earlier denounced. Their point: [...]

A few questions about WikiLeaks

Ian Welsh has a post up: I am now an American Express Cardholder because of Wikileaks Since Mastercard and Visa, in cutting off Wikileaks from donations, decided that they knew better than me who I should be able to give money to, I applied for and have now received an American Express card. Granted, American [...]

The Cult of Assange

Michael Lind at Salon: An invisible, stateless, global Panopticon, manned by hidden zealots subjecting everyone in every country to potential surveillance and public humiliation, is a Foucaultian nightmare. Here is the creepy message sent to Wired magazine before a wave of criminal cyber-attacks launched by supporters of Assange: We are the clear logic used to [...]

Confidence Men

It’s no secret I’m skeptical of WikiLeaks. It really seems to piss some people off that I don’t think the organization is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Sorry, but I’m a foliehatt and don’t trust anyone. Neither does this guy: Wikileaks: a Big Dangerous US Government Con Job The story on the surface makes [...]

Assange lashes out

The Christian Science Monitor: Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder compared to terrorists by Vice President Joe Biden, to Thomas Jefferson by the activist-journalist John Pilger, and to Martin Luther King by himself, went on the offensive today against, well, everyone. In a series of interviews, he lashed out at the Guardian newspaper, one of his [...]