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2011: Year of Resistance
You say protests are outmoded because the corporate media ignores them (unless they’re corporate sponsored). I say the corporate media is outmoded because it ignores protests.
The intelligence analyst suspected of leaking US diplomatic cables is being held in solitary confinement
As Julian Assange emerged from his nine-day imprisonment, there were renewed concerns about the physical and psychological health of Bradley Manning, the former US intelligence analyst suspected of leaking the diplomatic cables at the centre of the storm
George Monbiot: These astroturf libertarians are the real threat to internet democracy
They are the online equivalent of enclosure riots: the rick-burning, fence-toppling protests by English peasants losing their rights to the land. When MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and Amazon tried to shut WikiLeaks out of the cyber-commons, an army of hackers responded by trying to smash their way into these great estates and pull down their fences. In the WikiLeaks punch-up the commoners appear to have the upper hand. But it’s just one battle. There’s a wider cyberwar being fought, of which you hear much less. And in most cases the landlords, with the help of a mercenary army, are winning.
Andrew Gavin Marshall: Wikileaks and the Worldwide Information War — Power, Propaganda, and the Global Political Awakening
The recent release of the 250,000 Wikileaks documents has provoked unparalleled global interest, both positive, negative, and everywhere in between. One thing that can be said with certainty: Wikileaks is changing things.
Robert Scheer: From Jefferson to Assange
All you need to know about Julian Assange
WikiLeaks founder threatens to release entire cache of unfiltered files
At the centre of a tightening web of death threats, sex-crime accusations and high-level demands for a treason trial, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange threatened to unleash a thermonuclear device of completely unexpurgated government files if he is forced to appear before authorities.
Neal Ascherson: WikiLeaks Cables are Dispatches from a Beleaguered America in Imperial Retreat
There’s more to the WikiLeaks dispatches than leaks. Look behind them, at the writers, and you see the loyal rearguard of America: an imperial power in retreat.
There was a tradition in our Foreign Office that a retiring ambassador could blow off steam. In a final, exuberant telegram to Whitehall, he could say exactly what he thought of the country he was leaving, and of the folly of the Foreign Office in ignoring his advice.The best telegrams were treasured by young diplomats. But they began to leak into the press. And a few years ago this privilege was suppressed.
David Samuels: The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange
Julian Assange and Pfc Bradley Manning have done a huge public service by making hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government documents available on Wikileaks — and, predictably, no one is grateful. Manning, a former army intelligence analyst in Iraq, faces up to 52 years in prison. He is currently being held in solitary confinement at a military base in Quantico, Virginia, where he is not allowed to see his parents or other outside visitors.
Wikileaks set to release new Iraq war logs ‘seven times bigger than the first’
Wikileaks has announced it is to release a second batch of Iraq war logs which will be seven times bigger than the first.
In a defiant posting on its official Twitter account, the websites founders said it was under intense pressure over the disclosure but vowed to press ahead anyway.