Julian Assange answers your questions The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, answers readers’ questions about the release of more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables Calling Time on Assange from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza The other face of Wikileaks: Kristinn Hrafnsson from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Amazon and WikiLeaks – Online Speech is Only … Read more
Amazon Bans WikiLeaks From Its Servers from Mashable! by Ben Parr MAIN FOCUS: Wikileaks creates a global public sphere | 01/12/2010 from euro|topics China is blocking Wikileaks‘ websites, states fear for their data security and the world learns of a planned coup d’état against Pakistan’s president. While the daily disclosures of further US dispatches are … Read more
Interpol issues “Red Notice” for arrest of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange over “sex crime” from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin The Arab press downplays WikiLeaks from FP Passport by Max Strasser The L.A. Times‘ Babylon and Beyond blog reports that unlike in most of the world, the WikiLeaks dump of U.S. diplomatic cables isn’t getting that … Read more
From Ankara to Moscow: Reading World Leaders’ Reactions to WikiLeaks – TIME WikiLeaks and the Art of Diplomacy Wall Street Journal Turkey, it turns out, is the diplomatic listening post that ranked first in the volume of the cable traffic sent to Washington WikiLeaks: a strange interlude by ANDREW FINKEL I?ve never actually seen a … Read more
[Check back frequently] This twitter account (http://twitter.com/wikileaksTurkce) is providing a good service. Translating Turkey related stuff to Turkish… Wikileaks su ana kadar Erdogan ABD projesi diyen ulusalcilari bitirdi. bundan sonrasini merakla bekliyoruz.. — Emre Uslu, PhD (@EmreUslu) November 28, 2010 Wikileak bir de Cemil Cicek'i bitirdi. Benim kitap bitirir diye dusunuyordum ama Cicek kitabimdaki bilgiyi … Read more
a nice ad here ***************** America?s world: salesman and missionary, Godfrey Hodgson from open Democracy News Analysis – by Godfrey Hodgson Charles de Gaulle liked to say that a statesman should not be a demandeur; should not ask for favours, but should be in a position to say no. He knew what he was talking … Read more
US Election 2010: Obama lost the terms of debate and a large segment of white women, Ruth Rosen from open Democracy News Analysis – by Ruth Rosen In the wake of the election, progressive movements and their members are debating what went wrong. Some say the media amplified the bizarre statements of the Tea Party. … Read more
he is not doin’ well in the international community, too. His promise for the closure of Guantanamo, for instance… US voters punish Obama from Mark Mardell | The Reporters This is a stinging setback for a president who was elected with so much hope and so much exuberance just two years ago. But it is … Read more
How the Tea Party Utilized Digital Media to Gain Power from MediaShift The biggest story of the U.S. midterm election has been the growing influence of the Tea Party movement. Since their first rallies in early 2009, these vocal, visible conservatives have succeeded in shifting the center of American political discourse to the right. This … Read more
President Obama Tells Gay Teens ?It Gets Better? from Mashable! by Zachary Sniderman photo credit ******************* Does America have a corruption problem? from FP Passport by Blake Hounshell Transparency International’s new Corruptions Perceptions Index is out, and it’s bad news for the United States: For the first time, America has slipped out of the ranks … Read more
Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things Muslims dressed in their garb Former NPR analyst Juan Williams, among other ignorant people, has an irrational fear of Muslims, and thinks you can identify them based on what they look like. Here I will post pictures of Muslims wearing all sorts of things in an attempt to refute that … Read more
last updated: 01 Nov 2010 http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/ Biggest Military Leak in History: WikiLeaks Releases 390,000 Iraq War Documents from Mashable! by Ben Parr WikiLeaks has once again captured international headlines with the release of 391,832 secret Iraq War documents that reveal new information about detainee treatment, civilian deaths, and the involvement of Iran in backing Iraqi … Read more
The Original Pirate: See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/41138 Next leak, next week, from Wikileaks? What’s expected: 400,000 US Army docs from Iraq from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Reports are circulating that WikiLeaks will release close to 400,000 secret U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War next week. Once again, this would become the … Read more
“CIA Secret Experiments” on National Geographic Channel from Boing Boing by David Pescovitz As 44 million Americans live in poverty, a crisis grows from washingtonpost.com – Op-Ed Columns by Katrina vanden Heuvel When the government released new U.S. Census data on poverty last week, our warp-speed news cycle paid too little attention to what these … Read more
Stewart And Colbert To March On Washington With Facebook Fans from All Facebook by Caitlin Fitzsimmons The Daily Show is using Facebook to organize a ?Rally to Restore Sanity? in Washington DC on October 30. ?I?m mad as hell, and I?m not going to take it anymore!? Days of rage: the Tea Party & America’s … Read more