Cablegate in the Balkans – And the winner is:
Croatia, apparently. [NOTE: New link to cablegate site is http://213.251.145.96/cablegate.html ] Of the 251,287 secret US Embassy cables which Wikileaks began making public yesterday, 2,053 relate to...
View ArticleBalkans Cablegate #2 – getting the story right (?)
[Updated 19:00] If was good to see Slovenia get its fleeting 15 minutes of Wikileaks fame in the cablegate maelstrom over the past 36 hours, even if just in passing. But the thrust of the story, in...
View ArticleAmazon’s odd explanation about pulling their plug on Wikileaks
Update 10:30 CET: Pengovsky has just informed that Wikileaks has moved to Switzerland this morning. Cablegate site is here: http://213.251.145.96/cablegate.html Here’s Amazon’s statement on caving in...
View ArticleCablegate – First Slovenia Cable Uploaded – 09STATE62397
Posted below for posterity’s sake (and in case the wikileaks/cablegate sites go down again), 09STATE62397, S) REPORTING AND COLLECTION NEEDS: SLOVENIA, sent on 16 June 2009. (Nicely done, by the way....
View ArticleA Week in the Life of Julian Assange
All things considered, it’s difficult to imagine that any organization, and by default, its face, has ever had such a week. International affairs and diplomacy is now officially in the uncharted waters...
View ArticleDo you think Sarah Palin knows the story behind the Espionage Act?
Not likely. But that’s no big surprise. Naomi Wolf reminds us: The Espionage Act was crafted in 1917 — because President Woodrow Wilson wanted a war and, faced with the troublesome First Amendment,...
View ArticleNaomi Wolf: Sex charges against Assange an insult to rape victims worldwide
From Wolf’s analysis: In other words: Never in twenty-three years of reporting on and supporting victims of sexual assault around the world have I ever heard of a case of a man sought by two nations,...
View ArticleUS Air Force Blocks Sites That Post Leaked Cables
The Chinese block stuff that the rest of the world can read, too. From the NYT: When Air Force personnel on the service’s computer network try to view the Web sites of The Times, the British...
View ArticleAssange v Zuckerberg
Rec’d today via email, so unfortunately can’t source it. The post Assange v Zuckerberg appeared first on PIRAN CAFÉ.
View ArticleWikileaks Releases ‘Carter Cables II’, Half a Million U.S. Diplomatic Cables...
The latest release ups total of U.S. cables published by Wikileaks to 2.7 million. The post Wikileaks Releases ‘Carter Cables II’, Half a Million U.S. Diplomatic Cables From 1978 appeared first on...
View ArticleNaomi Klein and Glenn Greenwald on WikiLeaks’ Email Dumps
Where, if at all, should the line separating the right to personal privacy from attempts to increase the transparency of government and forces of power, be drawn? The post Naomi Klein and Glenn...
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