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(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 12, 2011
Leaked WikiLeaks Confidentiality Agreement: Neither 'Draconian' Nor 'Extraordinary' A leaked confidentiality agreement that those doing "business" with WikiLeaks are expected to sign was obtained and published by the New Statesman. The New Statesman and other news organizations believe they have uncovered another aspect of the WikiLeaks organization that indicates it is unfit to be trusted by whistleblowers.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Grand Jury Investigation Into WikiLeaks Another Government 'Fishing Expedition' A federal grand jury is meeting at 11 am EST in Alexandria, Virginia. The grand jury is being employed to "build" a case against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who just won a gold medal for peace and justice from the Sydney Peace Foundation.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 9, 2011
US Dept of Treasury Freezes Palestinian Solidarity Activist's Bank Accounts Right before Mother's Day weekend, the US government froze the bank accounts of Hatem Abudayyeh, a long-time Palestinian solidarity activist and organizer, and his wife, Naima. Abudayyeh is one of twenty-three activists from the Midwest in the US, who has been the subject of an FBI Grand Jury investigation since September of last year.

SHARE        Saturday, May 7, 2011
WSJ Launches WikiLeaks-Imitation Website to Further Solidify Role as Gatekeeper With the creation of this new "leaks portal," it appears the Wall Street Journal, like other traditional media, is setting this up because it believes it needs a digital platform for accepting news tips from sources instead of having sources go through a traditional system that may mostly exist offline.

(5 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 6, 2011
Celebration Photos Just as Likely to Inflame 'Terrorists' as Bin Laden Death Photos What makes anyone think photos of celebration at Ground Zero or the White House on the day bin Laden was killed won't inflame the Middle East or haven't already provoked some cell of terrorists to plan a new scheme for attacking America?

SHARE        Thursday, May 5, 2011
The Hunger Strikers of Guantanamo as Detailed in Files Released by WikiLeaks Hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay are known to have engaged in hunger strikes at the prison in protest of conditions and their prolonged confinement without trial. A recent report from Jason Leopold of Truthout.org details how, as of March, detainees continue to participate in hunger strikes with the hope that the conditions of their detention will improve.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, May 3, 2011
US Hosts World Press Freedom Day in the Midst of Prosecuting Media Publisher WikiLeaks Today, the United States hosts World Press Freedom Day. The day, which was proclaimed to be May 3 by the UN General Assembly in 1993, is supposed to be an occasion for informing citizens of violations of press freedom. When it was announced in December 2010 the US would be hosting World Press Freedom Day, WikiLeaks had just partnered with a few media organizations to release the US State Embassy Cables.

(7 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 2, 2011
A Targeted Killing: World as a Battlefield Mindset Gets 'Bastard' Bin Laden What's remarkable about the operation is not that Bin Laden is dead but rather the fact that he was killed by a targeted military operation.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 27, 2011
The Guantanamo Children: These Aren't What You'd Call 'Little League' Terrorists Article 1 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as "every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier." However, the US and the Pentagon does not care about child rights. Fourteen or forty years old, detainees are terrorists and should be treated as such.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, April 26, 2011
New York Times, NPR Collude with Pentagon on Release of Gitmo Files Michael Calderone reports "representatives from NPR and the Times visited the White House and spoke with Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell and members of Joint Task Force Guantanamo." And, "The news organizations agreed to some redactions requested by government officials but not all of them."

SHARE        Monday, April 25, 2011
The Gitmo Files: What Can Be Found in a File Months after news organizations reported the Guantanamo Files might be WikiLeaks' next release , the files are now posted on the WikiLeaks website . Nearly 800 documents, memoranda from Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO), the combined force in charge of the Guantanamo Bay prison to US Southern Command in Miami, Florida.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 23, 2011
Ethan McCord & James Spione Talk About New Film on 'Collateral Murder' Video A new short documentary called, "Incident in New Baghdad," premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on Sunday. The film tells the story of Iraq war veteran Ethan McCord, a soldier who appears in the "Collateral Murder" video rescuing two wounded children.

(11 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 22, 2011
Repeat Law Breaker Obama Condemns Bradley Manning's Contempt for the Rule of Law At a fundraiser for President Barack Obama at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, a group of progressive supporters of Bradley Manning paid tens of thousands of dollars to attend and disrupt the event. Someone with the group managed to confront President Obama on Manning.

SHARE        Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Will Pentagon's Transfer to Ft. Leavenworth Further Isolate Bradley Manning? The Pentagon's decision to transfer the alleged whistleblower to WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning, caught Manning's defense by surprise. Manning's move was not reported to his defense counsel until "twenty minutes before the Pentagon's press briefing." Is it possible he is being moved because the Bradley Manning Support Group has been successfully mobilizing people to protest his detention at Quantico?

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, April 19, 2011
State Dept. Spokesman's Newspeak on Whether US is Undermining Syria Government The Washington Post's coverage of US State Embassy cables that suggest the US has been secretly backing Syrian opposition groups snowballed into a big story today. With the regime gunning down more protesters, senior Obama Administration officials took the opportunity to rehash the talking point that the disclosure of information obtained by WikiLeaks could endanger lives.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 18, 2011
'Official History' of the Bay of Pigs Still, Fifty Years Later, Classified Under a CIA Embargo The more sunshine on the past half century's activities and operations, the more likely we are to reign in a rogue element that has been given carte blanche for far too many barbarous foreign policy experiments. If proper legal channels cannot get the information disclosed, then a courageous person should draw inspiration from alleged whistleblower Bradley Manning and just leak the remaining classified material already.

SHARE        Sunday, April 17, 2011
Podcast: WikiLeaks Helpful in Showing Colombia Government's Failure to Demobilize Right-Wing Paramilitaries The guest for this episode of "This Week in WikiLeaks" was Edward Fox, who is with Colombia Reports . He has been editing and organizing releases of the US State Embassy cables that deal with Colombia. On the show, we will talk about how the cables are impacting Colombia, what has been revealed and discuss some specific revelations.

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 15, 2011
At US Chamber of Commerce, US Government Strategy for "Identity Ecosystems" in Cyberspace Unveiled The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), which some believe could establish and require Internet users to have ID on the Internet, was unveiled today at the US Chamber of Commerce.

(11 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 14, 2011
The Israel Cables: Gaza is 'Hopeless for Now' Violence has escalated significantly in the past month between Israel and Hamas. The Itamar attack, which involved the stabbing of five members of a Jewish family by two individuals whom were believed to be Palestinians, and arms found, which Israel believed were being smuggled from Iran, inflamed tensions further. As some suggest Operation Cast Lead II has begun, WikiLeaks cables on Israel are being released.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 11, 2011
WikiLeaks Demonstrates Where Citizens Must Apply Pressure to Advance Media Reform and Justice A National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR) put on by Free Press took place over the weekend. Thousands of attendees gathered to discuss the state of media and democracy in the US and how best to fight for better media. One was continuously mentioned throughout the conference: WikiLeaks.

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