In the wake of Obama’s visit, the Irish government has abandoned its plans to discontinue U.S military stopovers in Shannon airport. The accepted narrative about President Obama’s “historic” visit to Ireland on Monday was that it was entirely symbolic, and more to do with seeking the Irish American vote in Obama’s reelection bid than with… [Read more…]
February 4, 2011
Israel Shamir’s recent article on CounterPunch, Redacting Corruption: The Guardian’s Political Censorship of Wikileaks, follows on from his previous piece, Paradigm in Belarus: The Minsk Election in a Wikileaks Mirror, in levelling some serious allegations against The Guardian newspaper and its journalistic practices. The earlier piece was an odd amalgam of politically questionable apologism for… [Read more…]
February 4, 2011
Observations about the cables referred to in Israel’s Shamir’s recent CounterPunch article, Redacting Corruption: The Guardian’s Political Censorship of Wikileaks raised some controversies about Shamir’s legitimacy as a publisher of Wikileaks’ cables. Shamir criticized The Guardian for redacting cables for political reasons, and published unredacted versions of those cables to support his case. The unredacted… [Read more…]
February 4, 2011
The exact character of the relationship between Israel Shamir and Wikileaks has been of much interest in recent weeks, given that Shamir himself is a person who has been associated with much controversy in the media. It has been assumed that, to the extent that Wikileaks and Shamir are associated, controversy that applies to Shamir… [Read more…]
February 4, 2011
A volley of blog posts over the last two months has brought to the attention of the public a connection between Wikileaks and Israel Shamir. The connection was the source of much controversy. Among the charges against Shamir brought by the blogosphere are that of “notorious antisemitism,” “holocaust denial,” “Neo-Nazism,” collaboration with dictatorships in the… [Read more…]
January 20, 2011
Cablegate reinforces suspicions of Irish government complicity in US rendition: US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks are gradually adding to a picture wherein the government of Ireland ignored public opposition to suspected US rendition flights through its territory, and looked for ways to co-operate with alleged US abuses while avoiding liability and political fallout. What… [Read more…]
January 20, 2011
State department cable reveals possible use of Irish IT infrastructure to pilot unmanned drones in Afghanistan. A recent article in Phoenix Magazine (behind paywall) conjectures that undersea fibre-optic cables channeled through sites in Ireland, revealed in Wikileaks release of 09STATE15113, are in fact part of the U.S. military infrastructure for piloting Predator Drones in Afghanistan… [Read more…]
January 12, 2011
In response to Glenn Greenwald’s coverage of the Wikileaks-Guardian-Tsvangirai controversy and the Guardian’s recent retraction, The Atlantic’s Max Fisher tweeted an interesting point, which throws into confusion the issue of exactly what time Wikileaks released the 09HARARE1004 cable: Max Fisher: @ggreenwald Not trying to start a fight, but WL time stamp looks to be older… [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…]
May 27, 2011
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