Are supporters of Wikileaks feeding into the crackdown by the US Government? [...]
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Some superb investigative reporting by FireDogLake and Counterpunch helps put the pieces together. Read the whole thing. If we had actual functioning and independent mainstream media, this story have been broken in NYT or WaPo instead of a blog. Both posts are must-reads. Small world, isn’t it? Julian Assange is the human face of Wikileaks [...] Wikileaks tweeted on Nov. 25 that an encrypted version of all the cables was available for download from The Pirate Bay. In the event of Wikileaks’ founder’s [Julian Assange] death (or some other unspecified reason), the secret key would be released — exposing the documents to all who have downloaded and obtained the key. [...] Assange interview in El Pais Q. I read you are taking steps to protect yourselves (you and other people from Wikileaks) after receiving many death threats. Where are those death threats coming from? A. We have hundreds of specific death threats from US military militants. That is not unusual, and we have become practiced from [...] The apoplectic reaction by the US political establishment to the latest Wikileaks dossier has been revelatory in its illustration of an empire in decline, via its increasingly desperate attempts to maintain its reach through a combination of overt military aggression, threats, espionage, smear and the subversion of democracy wherever and whenever deemed necessary. Calls [...] Josh Mull at FireDogLake and Rethink Afghanistan, Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, and myself discuss the continuing impact of Wikileaks in our very first podcast on BlogTalkRadio. Click here to listen. Links: Cablegate.wikileaks.org Part of the discussion is on the Joshua Foust and Glenn Greenwald brouhaha about Wikileaks. twitter.com/joshuafoust and in Salon. twitter.com/ggreenwald and in Registan. [...] Harry’s Place responds to my posing the question, would they (and other left blogs) support Wikileaks publishing data from major US banks, even as they harrumph about the current Wikileaks possibly endangering lives? While I appreciate Morris recognizing that we are indeed a “left blog,” I don’t think that’s what we’re harrumphing about. It’s [...] But first, Ecuador offers asylum to WikiLeaks founder and even liberal and left blogs that should know better are harrumphing like neanderthal conservatives about how Assange has gone beyond the pale and isn’t it tragic that governments can have their sleazy lies and evasions exposed for all to see on the Intertubes. I expect they’ll [...] |  | ||||
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