If the US is serious about enforcing human rights, it should start with pressuring its client states. Take Colombia: CERAC is a private intelligence “think tank” in Colombia. This previously unreleased CERAC archive contains recent interviews, court transcripts and recordings into recent state-sanctioned killings and murders in Colombia. The material describes the legal instruments crafted…
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Kiddie porn is only the beginning
Let’s not believe that the Australian government will only block sites that are deemed “illegal”: It has been revealed that ACMA has blacklisted a page on the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.org that contains a leaked copy of the Danish blacklist of banned websites.
How dirty does it need to be?
A real terror threat buried? Wikileaks reports: It has all the makings of a great story. But outside of the US state of Maine and select counter-terrorism circles, you won’t have heard about it. For this is a story with all the right ingredients but one wrong ingredient. On the right side is a leaked…
The failing campaign
Wow: Wikileaks has cracked the encryption to a key document relating to the war in Afghanistan. The document, titled “NATO in Afghanistan: Master Narrative”, details the “story” NATO representatives are to give to, and to avoid giving to, journalists… The encryption password is progress, which perhaps reflects the Pentagon’s desire to stay on-message, even to…
The logic of “liberation”
A confidential NATO report from January reveals that civilian deaths from the war in Afghanistan have increased by 46% over the past year. The 12 page report was authenticated and released today in full by the transparency group Wikileaks.
Pulling back the official curtain
Wikileaks hits the jackpot again: Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation, from the U.S. relationship with Israel to abortion legislation.…
We kill to liberate, clearly
Wikileaks shames the vast majority of mainstream journalists once again by releasing thousands of pages of active insurgency and counterinsurgency doctrine from the US, UK and Indian military. The conclusions? When “we” commit terrorism, it’s self-defence. When “they” do it, it’s terrorism. As usual, most corporate journalists simply republish whatever the Pentagon gives them. They…
Far from universal or united
A dysfunctional organisation, often the only body to at least try and solve the world’s problems, is painfully inadequate: Wikileaks has released over 600 United Nations investigative reports, over 70 of which are classified “Strictly Confidential”. The reports expose matters from allegations of hundreds of European peace-keepers abusing refugee girls to generals in Peru using…
Is this future of our society?
A key Wikileaks editorial: British courts continue to disgrace Enlightenment values. This month saw a secret UK court hearing, with secret participants, produce a secret order to secretly gag the population, the terms of which are secret and the revelation of which is punishable by upto 15 years of imprisonment. How many of these orders…
The hammer approach
Wikileaks has released the secret internet censorship lists of Thailand’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT). The list was obtained by advisory board member CJ Hinke, director of Freedom Against Censorship Thailand. The 1,203 newly blocked websites are located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy,…