If This Be Treason…
… but, of course, it isn’t, says Tom Knapp
Tag: julian assange
A Government Caught Up in Mendacity and Lies
Paul Craig Roberts on the govt reaction to WikiLeaks
An Award for WikiLeaks
You are not likely to learn this from the “mainstream media,” but WikiLeaks and its leader Julian Assange have received the 2010 Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award for their resourcefulness in making available secret U.S. military documents on the Iraq and Afghan wars. If the WikiLeaks documents get the attention they … Continue reading “An Award for WikiLeaks”
Pincus v. Assange: Who Speaks for You?
Kelley Vlahos on revering CEOs and reviling activists
Dirty Tricks
The smear campaign targeting Julian Assange and WikiLeaks isn’t very subtle, nor is it very effective. First the Pentagon refuses Assange’s request to vet the tens of thousands of secret files WikiLeaks put online, expunging material that might cost American or Afghan lives – and then turns around and declares Assange and his organization have … Continue reading “Dirty Tricks”
Can WikiLeaks Help Save Lives?
If independent-minded Web sites, like WikiLeaks or, say, ConsortiumNews.com, existed 43 years ago, I might have risen to the occasion and helped save the lives of some 25,000 U.S. soldiers, and a million Vietnamese, by exposing the lies contained in just one SECRET/EYES ONLY cable from Saigon. I need to speak out now because I … Continue reading “Can WikiLeaks Help Save Lives?”
Smearing Bradley Manning
Bottom-feeders target WikiLeaks, says Justin Raimondo
Try Assange Under the Espionage Act
Let Jane Harman and co. make their case, says Grant Smith
The Snitch Syndrome
Justin asks, did Wired target Bradley Manning?
On ‘Collateral Murder’ and Stephen Colbert
Much has been written in recent weeks about "Collateral Murder," the Wikileaks audio/video of a 2007 attack by U.S. soldiers on an unarmed reporter and other men (I’m not sure whether they were armed) in Iraq. However, I’m not writing this simply to repeat what others have said, but to give my own perspective because … Continue reading “On ‘Collateral Murder’ and Stephen Colbert”