Freedom to Assange and Wikileaks
Twelve theses on WikiLeaks
Why WikiLeaks Is Good for America | Threat Level | Wired.com
WikiLeaks on Zapatero: ‘Inexperienced but probably manageable’
Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero probably won’t be all that flattered by this embassy cable, written just after his election in 2004, describing him as “inexperienced but probably manageable”:
UK joins US to condemn WikiLeaks
Financial Times
William Hague, Britain’s foreign secretary, has attacked WikiLeaks for publishing a diplomatic
Al Jazeera gets WikiLeaked
Al Jazeera has been flooding the zone on its WikiLeaks coverage, so it’s interesting to see how the network is responding with alarm to its own cameo in the cables.
Who’s more influential in Iraq? Iran or Saudi Arabia?
Via Arabist.net, here’s an interesting cable, dated January 2008, from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Titled “BLUEBLOOD SHIA CLERIC COMMENTS ON “BACKWARD” SADRISTS AND SISTANI’S FEARS AND FRUSTRATIONS,” the cable describes a meeting with Emad Klanter, a member of a prominent clerical family in Najaf (my emphasis):
Egypt’s shark week: Mossad to blame?
from FP Passport by Max Strasser
WikiLeaks and ?The point of no return? by AYDOĞAN VATANDAŞ
Wikileaks and Thailand
What are specific Wikileaks revelations on Thailand? The most interesting so far cites the case of Russian businessman and alleged arms smuggler Viktor Bout who faced trial in Thailand before being extradited to the United States this year. Documents from the Wikileaks revealed the concern of the U.S. about the attempt of Bout?s associates to bribe local Thai officials. Below is a sample dispatch from the U.S. Embassy in Thailand, uploaded by Wikileaks
Realpolitik Is Not a Pretty Sight
Huffington Post (blog)
Leaks about Turkey being a “terrorist state” were absurd. Turkey is fast emerging as a major power under the most effective democratic government it has
Wikileaks:Syria accused of supplying SCUD missiles to Hezbollah
CNN
It said: “We want France, Britain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Qatar to make a renewed push to echo our concerns with Syria
Wikileaks reveals US Baltic plan
Why the WikiLeaks cables aren’t as threatening as advertised
Why WikiLeaks’ latest disclosures won’t change much.
You’re either with us, or you’re with WikiLeaks
China: WikiLeaks, North Korea and Internet freedom
By John Kennedy
Out of the American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks relating to China, perhaps most revealing are cables telling of Chinese government views of the country’s relationship with North Korea and the its leaders themselves. Even at the time of their release, following the Dandong shooting incident and shelling of Yeonpyeong island this year, some Chinese netizens had come to see North Korea as something of a negative asset.
Damage control and the what-if-they-infiltrate-WikiLeaks concern
Turkish foreign policy: what the WikiLeaks cables reveal by Aaron Stein
Australia blames US over WikiLeaks
Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said the United States, not WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, was to blame for the leak of secret cables, pointing to a ‘core problem’ with its diplomatic security.
US: WikiLeaks has hurt US foreign relations
Foreign powers are limiting their dealings with the US government since hundreds of classified diplomatic cables wound up on the Internet, officials said Tuesday.
Wikileaks climate change cables: the unanswered questions
The Guardian (blog)
… Croatia, France, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam Reference: Section G (2) of this WikiLeaks cable US aid to the Maldives Has the
Why the WikiLeaks cables aren’t as threatening as advertised
Why WikiLeaks’ latest disclosures won’t change much.
France24
… policies that threatened relations with Russia, Turkey, China, Iran and so on and this, he says, is the impact the Wikileaks revelations are having now.
WikiLeaks Archive – Meddling Neighbors Torment Iraq
What WikiLeaks revealed about the empire
Axis of Logic
So it should come as no surprise that the recent release of US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks is being covered with much sound and fury, signifying little
Wikileaks: The Hidden Agenda
Daily Mail Post
The very people who seek to divide Pakistan from Turkey, the very same people who seek to diminish Saudi influence in Pakistan and the very people who seek
WikiLeaks releases nearly impossible to stop
San Francisco Chronicle
The founder of WikiLeaks “intentionally harmed the US government,” says Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee. By releasing 250000 State
Tunisia: Censorship Continues as Wikileaks Cables Make the Rounds
Tunileaks – a project by Nawaat
WikiLeaks: NATO’s secret plans to defend Baltic revealed
from EurActiv.com
Ecuador: Reactions to WikiLeaks
By Paulina Aguilera Muñoz · Translated by Silvia Viñas · View original post [es]
Invitations that are retracted, allegations about ?unconditional? U.S. support of Colombia in fighting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the alleged U.S. request to Argentina to influence the behavior of President Rafael Correa: these are the main talking points on the content of the cables leaked by WikiLeaks relating to Ecuador. The documents have also caused reactions from the blogosphere, with a marked tendency to comment on the issue of freedom of expression.
How many leaks does it take to become a threat to humanity? – By Stephen M. Walt
While the demonization of Julian Assange continues apace, the following thought occurred to me (it probably occurred to you already). Suppose a reporter like David Sanger or Helene Cooper of the New York Times had been given a confidential diplomatic cable by a disgruntled government employee (or “unnamed senior official”). Suppose it was one of the juicier cables recently released by Wikileaks. Suppose further that Sanger or Cooper had written a story based on that leaked information, and then put the text of the cable up on the Times or WaPo website so that readers could see for themselves that the story was based on accurate information. Would anyone be condemning them? I doubt it. Whoever actually leaked the cable might be prosecuted or condemned, but the journalists who published the material would probably be praised, and their colleagues would just be jealous that somebody else got a juicy scoop.
Al-Akhbar hacked – David Kenner
from Wiki Leaks by David Kenner
State Department: We did not ask PayPal to cut off WikiLeaks
from Wiki Leaks by Josh Rogin
Radio Berkman 171: Wikileaks and the Information Wars
From the MediaBerkman blog:
Our emails have been dinging off the hook here at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, with notes from journalists and concerned citizens trying to make some sense of the story-in-progress that is Wikileaks.
Ozgur Uckan: Wikipedia Editors Delete Article Listing Wikileaks Mirror Sites #cablegate
New frontiers
WikiLeaks documents and superficiality
Wikileaks battle: a new amateur face of cyber war?
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