My following article appeared in yesterday’s ABC Unleashed: More than five years after the start of the Iraq war, the country remains mired in conflict. The Washington Post highlighted the quagmire this week: Attacks against U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces soared across Baghdad in the last week of March to the highest levels since…
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Starving the “liberated”
Yet another scoop from Wikileaks: The U.S. military says it is taking steps to alleviate conditions at the Iraqi-run city jail in Fallujah after recent visitors found a filthy, overcrowded facility where prisoners had to provide their own food. The episode demonstrates how far Iraq’s judicial and penal institutions still have to go under U.S.…
The Tibetan word is getting out
China continues to restrict media access to its citizens over the brutal crackdown of Tibetan protesters, but a new international poll finds massive support for the Tibetan cause: A poll of three western and three Asian countries finds widespread criticism of Chinese policies toward Tibet. This critical view is held by large majorities in all…
Must have missed the first day of training
The Wikileaks website has released before information about American activities in Iraq, but now two new documents have surfaced. One discusses the “Lessons Learned” from the battle of Mosul in July 2004 and the other analyses similar lessons from the battle of Samarra in 2004. The American army are portrayed as utterly incapable of waging…
Banking for the rich boys
After the recent legal dramas over the Wikileaks website, the team is back with another top leak: A confidential memo obtained by Wikileaks shows that not only has the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission created an insider trading loophole big enough to drive a truck through, but that Wall Street is taking full advantage of…
The right to say whatever
Recently we discovered that leading investigative website Wikileaks was deemed too controversial by a Californian judge and made temporarily unavailable (though not any more.) Now, another case that challenges the idea of free speech online. A reader explains: sott.net is one of my favourite alternative news sites, and some sleazy sex cult guy is suing…
Don’t mess with internet freedom
Following the recent attempted closure of the Wikileaks site by a California judge, the move has spectacularly backfired. The story received international media coverage. Here’s the legal low-down.
The Orwellian censorship of Wikileaks
The following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: Internet censorship is something we normally associate with countries such as Iran or China, but increasingly Western governmental and legal authorities are aggressively restricting the ability of users to view information unimpeded. Such is the story with Wikileaks, one of the most essential websites launched in…