When Julian Assange walked out of an CNN interview after a journalist asked questions about his role in the organisation, it seemed both petty and justified. The Iraq war logs deserve serious examination but Assange himself is clearly a legitimate line of questioning:
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The Pentagon bathes in blood on a daily basis
With customary passion, Robert Fisk on the real significance of the Wikleaks Iraq dump: As usual, the Arabs knew. They knew all about the mass torture, the promiscuous shooting of civilians, the outrageous use of air power against family homes, the vicious American and British mercenaries, the cemeteries of the innocent dead. All of Iraq…
They torture, we ignore
How we built a Western-backed, torturing nation: How the newly released US military files reveal an instruction to ignore detainee abuse by Iraqi authorities.
Of course Iran wants to challenge Washington on the streets of Iraq
Why are we surprised that Iran worked to influence events in Iraq after the 2003 invasion? Wikileaks shows the extent of Tehran’s understandable role. When America invades a country, it’s called liberation. When Iran “meddles” in Iraq’s internal affairs, it’s called terrorism.
Thank you for outsourcing and protecting our imperial wars
Private mercenaries have been integral to the “war on terror”, so much so that Western aid groups are warning the Afghan government that without them the country will miss billions of dollars in aid: More than a billion dollars worth of aid projects in Afghanistan will have to be cancelled by the end of the…
Wikileaks Iraq logs reveals democracy an after-thought (at best)
Mmm: In a telling, if not surprising finding, Der Spiegel reports that, in the 391,832 documents, the word “democracy” appears only eight times—improvised explosive devices are mentioned 146,895 times.
Does Obama really want to know that his army kill innocents?
What a government with accountability would do is determine what its soldiers may have done in war and investigate. Not stonewall or ignore or deny. “Our boys”, from Britain, America and Australia, have committed countless abuses in the last ten years in the “war on terror”: The UN has called on Barack Obama to order…
Australia misses the Wikileaks story entirely
So the Australian government is not interested in investigating any potential war crimes in Iraq but the messenger who brought the news. Don’t be surprised: Defence Minister Stephen Smith says the release of almost 400,000 US documents about the Iraq War could create a security risk for Australia. The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has published classified…
What Iraq looked like for Iraqis in 2006
The UK Guardian unpacks the latest Wikileaks Iraq logs, interactively: 17 October 2006 was a typical day in one of the bloodiest years of the Iraq conflict – 136 dead Iraqis, 10 dead Americans and hundreds of violent incidents. Watch the 24 hours of carnage unfold, log by log, minute by minute.