The Vile Campaign Against Julian Assange and WikileaksInformation Terrorists?By DAVE LINDORFFDecember 7, 2010WikiLeaks is under concerted attack from the US government. Also under attack by the US government is the whole idea of freedom of thought and of information.It is increasingly clear that the "rape" charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are trumped-up affairs resulting from pressure by the US government and intelligence agencies on Swedish authorities. The main allegation of rape is being made by a Swedish woman, Anna Ardin, who...
Thursday, 9 December 2010
The Arrest of Julian Assange Truth in Chains
The Arrest of Julian AssangeTruth in ChainsBy CHRIS FLOYDLondon.December 7, 2010Well, they got him at last. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the target of several of the world’s most powerful governments, turned himself into British authorities today and is now at the mercy of state authorities who have already shown their wolfish – and lawless – desire to destroy him and his organization. It has been, by any standard, an extraordinary campaign of vilification and persecution, wholly comparable to the kind of treatment doled out to dissidents...
Julian Quixote Wikileaks vs. the Empire
Wikileaks vs. the EmpireJulian QuixoteDecember 8, 2010By ERIC WALBERG It was United States president Woodrow Wilson who called for "open diplomacy" — number one of his fourteen points in 1918 — so that "diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view." He would surely approve of Wikileaks' efforts at open diplomacy, though current US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called them "an attack on America's foreign-policy interests" and indeed on "the international community", though she failed to specify which particular community...
Wikileaks and the New Global Order
Wikileaks and the New Global Order By JONATHAN COOKNovember 30, 2010The Wikileaks disclosure this week of confidential cables from United States embassies has been debated chiefly in terms either of the damage to Washington’s reputation or of the questions it raises about national security and freedom of the press.The headlines aside, most of the information so far revealed from the 250,000 documents is hardly earth-shattering, even if it often runs starkly counter to the official narrative of the US as the benevolent global policeman, trying to...
Why Wikileaks is Good for Democracy
Why Wikileaks is Good for DemocracyBy BILL QUIGLEY November 30, 2010“Information is the currency of democracy.” -- Thomas Jefferson. Since 9-11, the US government, through Presidents Bush and Obama, has increasingly told the US public that “state secrets” will not be shared with citizens. Candidate Obama pledged to reduce the use of state secrets, but President Obama continued the Bush tradition. The Courts and Congress and international allies have gone meekly along with the escalating secrecy demands of the US Executive.By labeling tens of...
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