From Analysing WikiLeaks: Bruce Sterling’s plot holes | The Economist: What is most intriguing about the WikiLeaks saga is not the pathology of hacker culture as envisioned by Mr Sterling’s fecund imagination, but the possibility that Julian Assange and his confederates have made dull liberal principles seem once again sexily subversive by exposing power’s reactionary… [Read more…]
December 30, 2010
Today, Huffington Post published an article by Nick Davies, from the Guardian, in response to Bianca Jagger’s Huffpost article. Jagger had been critical of Davies’ role in the publication in The Guardian of the details from the police investigation report on the allegations against Julian Assange. In his article today, Davies states that the publication… [Read more…]
December 28, 2010
The Executive Director for the Rosenberg Children’s Fund and long time activist, Robert Meeropol, made a statement last week urging support and defense of Julian Assange in anticipation of the use of the US Espionage Act against him. Meeropol’s own experiences with the Espionage Act have led him to extend particular criticisms of its use… [Read more…]
December 16, 2010
I’ve had a tough day today, taking in the full implications of Glenn Greenwald’s post (see also Heather Brooke’s piece) on the detention conditions of Bradley Manning. This came to me on a bus, the third time I found myself fighting back tears. It is rough; I am no draftsman of subtle verse. But I… [Read more…]
December 14, 2010
This morning during the Order of Business in Seanad Éireann, the Irish Senate, Senator David Norris, who is tipped to run for President of Ireland during the next presidential election, made the first substantive statement by any Irish politician to date on Wikileaks and the events of the last three weeks. Of particular interest is… [Read more…]
December 8, 2010
On November 13th 2010, Burma’s most famous political prisoner, Aung San Suu Kyi, was released from house arrest. She had been confined to her house for almost 15 years. The event provoked an outpouring of feeling across the world. People rejoiced because she had been set free, and her great spirit of endurance was celebrated.… [Read more…]
December 6, 2010
Extremist opposition to Wikileaks by American career politicians may not be entirely out of a stated concern for American national security. A credible argument can be made that, instead, some political self-interest might be involved [R]ead George Bush’s favorite philosopher: there’s a famous definition in the Gospels of the hypocrite, and the hypocrite is a… [Read more…]
December 4, 2010
The Falsehood: Wikileaks’ release of 250K diplomatic cables constitutes an act of treason against the United States, and renders Julian Assange and other Wikileaks staffers liable to charges punishable by capital punishment. The Explanation: This falsehood is quite straightforward, and has become a talking point in the mainstream media since Cablegate broke. It finds form… [Read more…]
December 4, 2010
The Falsehood: While claiming to be an organization interested in global justice, Wikileaks is really a virulently anti-American organization. The Explanation: This falsehood is quite straightforward. Its propagation in the media, especially the U.S. media, has vastly increased since Sunday 29 November, on which date Wikileaks began its Cablegate releases. The falsehood normally relies on… [Read more…]
December 30, 2010
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