Wikileaks founder Julian Assange talks to Fox News (!) about the Afghan war logs and provides some context to the release of classified documents and the ways in which “informants” often work: A bigger problem, according to Assange, was a project the government called the “kill or capture list”– a list of suspected terrorists that…
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Al-Jazeera on Wikileaks Afghan story
The Wikileaks Afghan logs release has caused outrage, consternation and celebration across the world. Al-Jazeera’s media show, The Listening Post, this week discussed the significance of the story and the future of online journalism. They asked me to briefly comment on the tale (starts at 8.40):
Many truths within Wikileaks, if you care to look
The faux outrage over the Wikileaks revelations related to Pakistan’s closeness to the Taliban should be dismissed as propaganda (a point reinforced by Tariq Ali in the Guardian yesterday). Wikileaks has announced that more “secrets” will be forthcoming, despite the group’s testy relationship with corporate media. Here’s founder Julian Assange’s modus operandi: We have clearly…
Knowing that Afghanistan is a failure
Simon Jenkins writes in the Guardian that the Wikileaks war logs are significant. But will the media war cheer-leaders be listening? Is it the death of war? In Vietnam the horror of fighting was brought to TV screens in real time. Such was the reaction that American citizens withdrew their consent. In the 1980s computers…
What if Wikileaks does nothing at all?
What if the political elite dismisses public opinion so greatly that revelations by groups such as Wikileaks simply change little or anything in public policy? A GritTV discussion with Jay Rosen and Michael Otterman.
Navigating the Wikileaks leak, from the man himself
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on ABC TV Lateline last night: TONY JONES: You said in your press conference that you and the conventional journalists you’d worked with had only managed to read between one and 2,000 of the reports properly. Is that correct? JULIAN ASSANGE: Yeah, that is true. To read and to read them…
How the Wikileaks story came together
The Wikileaks controversy is still swirling. Official Washington is fuming. The Guardian’s investigation’s editor explains the importance of the Afghan war logs and why his paper featured them so prominently. A partnership between old and new media gave this story its global significance (and amen to that). Perhaps the most fascinating insight into this yarn…
Wikileaks? Nothing to see here, move on please
CNN’s Anderson Cooper publishes on his website this almost hilarious spray against Wikileaks by Clint Van Winkle, the author of Soft Spots: A Marine’s Memoir of Combat and Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder: We sent troops to Afghanistan to avenge the 9/11 attacks and few people objected. Now, the Nation is having second thoughts. People want…
Don’t even think about bombing Iran after Wikileaks release
Another angle of the Wikileaks information dump is the way in which it may be used to justify military action against Tehran. Foreign Policy’s Marc Lynch explains and refutes that bogus comparison (neo-cons and the Zionist lobby, are you listening?) Most of the response to the WikiLeaks Afghanistan document release thus far has focused on…
Did Australia cover-up Afghan deaths?
The Australian Wikileaks connection: Classified US Defence Department documents leaked to the WikiLeaks website this week suggest the Australian Defence Force covered up the killing of an Afghan policeman by Australian troops. Buried among the 90,000 intelligence documents is a log entry about the killing of an Afghan man by an Australian mentoring and reconstruction…