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…]
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…]
January 25, 2011
In a development which may cast new light on yesterday’s incidents at Quantico military prison, NBC reports that “U.S. military officials” indicated that Bradley Manning was placed on suicide watch last week by Brig Commander James Averhart, in a violation of procedure. NBC: The officials told NBC News, however, that a U.S. Marine commander did… [Read more…]
January 4, 2011
Submitted by x7o on Tue, 04/01/2011 – 02:57 A solid, if colourful, commentary from ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern, which criticizes the Obama administration Afghanistan War strategy on the basis of information divulged in diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks. Highly recommended reading, which goes beyond the Wikileaks surface story, and puts Cablegate to genuine use, placing… [Read more…]
July 20, 2011
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