The undeniable power of the Wikileaks website – releasing supposedly classified documents to allow transparency in the public domain – now makes a rather comical story in the New York Times: To the list of the enemies threatening the security of the United States, the Pentagon has added WikiLeaks.org, a tiny online source of information…
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Why Washington is scared of a website that doesn’t care about its secrets
The ground-breaking website Wikileaks – unafraid to publish pretty much any information that comes its way – is clearly a threat to the empire: This document is a classifed (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. “The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the U.S. government are providing sensitive…
How Wikileaks and Iceland are creating a space for real journalism
Iceland may soon become a safe haven for investigative journalists and media in repressive states looking to protect sensitive information. Once again, the website Wikileaks is a trail-blazer. Al-Jazeera reports:
Maybe Iceland will help investigative journalism
The campaigning website Wikileaks, recently out of action due to lack of funds, may soon have a new lease on life, thanks to the forward thinking of Iceland: In my role as WikiLeaks editor, I’ve been involved in fighting off more than 100 legal attacks over the past three years. To do that, and keep…
Wikileaks must survive for the sake of transparency
A black day for the crusading website Wikileaks: The anonymous whistleblower website Wikileaks, which has been a thorn in the side of governments and big business for three years, has shut down temporarily because it has run out of money. The document repository, founded by an Australian living in East Africa, has been the catalyst…
Fighting Australia’s impending web censorship farce
An important letter sent by Reporters Without Borders: The Hon Kevin Michael Rudd Prime Minister Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Australia Paris, 18 December 2009 Dear Prime Minister, Reporters Without Borders, an organisation that defends free expression worldwide, would like to share with you its concern about your government’s plan to introduce a mandatory Internet…
Our world isn’t the way forward, far from it, so think big
The Resist project has “asked many writers and political thinkers about their views on power structures, resistance and the future“. View interviews with Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky and Wikileaks.
When exposing government is a national service
Wikileaks, a fine website with a history of exposing documents the powerful would rather keep hidden, has released this: This significant, previously unpublished document (classified “RESTRICTED”, 2389 pages), is the UK military protocol for security operations, including counter-intelligence. The document includes instructions on dealing with leaks, investigative journalists, Parliamentarians, foreign agents, terrorists & criminals, sexual…
You can’t stop the real flow of information
The crusading website Wikileaks scores another win: Today Chief Justice Gordon Ward lifted a gag order which had prevented publishers and broadcasters from mentioning ‘corruption report’ and ‘WikiLeaks’ in the same sentence. The order, first issued on Saturday against 11 media companies, and reissued last night, has lead to bizarre press coverage, where WikiLeaks was…
How afraid are they, really?
The Islamic Republic blocks the whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks. The ugly face of a repressive and paranoid regime.