The Wall Street Journal – a News Corporation outlet – is again engaging in aggressive damage control for the Murdoch empire by attacking Wikileaks. WL Central addresses the mendacity. It appears that the Wall Street Journal – which publishes from News Corp’s Celanese Building headquarters in New York city – is suing for the title… [Read more…]
July 18, 2011
A new article by the Guardian’s James Ball fleshes out David Leigh’s allegation that Wikileaks is to blame for the arrest of Bradley Manning. Last week’s release of the unredacted Lamo-Manning chat logs contained more information on the means by which Bradley Manning is alleged to have leaked information to Wikileaks. For a year now,… [Read more…]
January 30, 2011
Bill Keller, the New York Times’ executive editor, published an enormous article on the 26th of January about the New York Times’ dealings with Wikileaks. The article develops further the running story of Wikileaks’ relationship with its media partners, the subject of a Vanity Fair piece earlier in the month. Much has been made of… [Read more…]
December 30, 2010
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 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…]
November 30, 2010
The first wave of Wikileaks’ Cablegate ground ashore Sunday night. (To search, visit rpgp.org’s full text search site.) Coverage has been generally good. I have found Der Spiegel and The Guardian‘s websites invaluable. Gregg Mitchell’s blog at The Nation has cut a lively path through some of the most interesting stories. WLcentral continues to be… [Read more…]
July 20, 2011
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