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…]
July 18, 2011
In what is now a regular occurrence, a large media outlet published on Monday a calculated perception-management article on a figure centrally involved in the ongoing Wikileaks story. WL Central addresses the mendacity. New York Magazine‘s Steve Fishman profile on Bradley Manning was hyped for several months, and, as happened with Vanity Fair’s much anticipated… [Read more…]
July 18, 2011
A recent article by Steve Fishman in New York Magazine trots out more salacious gossip about Bradley Manning’s sexuality, in what is now a sustained media campaign to discredit the military whistleblower. On foot of the Fishman article, WL Central examines the more insidious aspects of this trend. Bradley Manning’s sexuality is irrelevant. For anyone… [Read more…]
May 27, 2011
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…]
November 15, 2010
Wanting once to escape from a world where curiosity was no virtue, I made a circuitous approach to philosophy and higher learning. It was only gradually clear to me what universities were for. It seems I come late to most things in life. As late as my early 20s I felt as if my choices… [Read more…]
July 18, 2011
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