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Naomi Wolf Anti-Feminist of the year
Her eyes are blue because she's a quart low Just when you think she’s plumbed the depths of stupidity, she grabs a shovel and starts digging: Why is Rape Different? As Swedish prosecutors’ sex-crime allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange play out in the international media, one convention of the coverage merits serious scrutiny. We know Assange by name. But his accusers - the two Swedish women who have brought the complaints against him - are consistently identif

Poll: Assange 2010's 'Most Intriguing'
Published: Dec. 31, 2010 at 3:30 AM Atlanta-based CNN.com said Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was chosen by visitors as the "Most Intriguing Person" of 2010. UPI/Hugo Philpott ATLANTA, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Atlanta-based CNN.com said Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was chosen by visitors as the "Most Intriguing Person" of 2010. The news organization said Assange received 25 percent of the votes in the online poll, with runners-up including President Barack Obama, Facebook mastermind Mark...

"Many Arab officials are US spies in their own countries"
"... Top Officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency, says Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks. “These officials are spies for the US in their countries,” Assange told Al Jazeera Arabic channel in an interview yesterday. The interviewer, Ahmed Mansour, said at the start of the interview wh...

TSA Harassment!!! (Comedy)
Please read our About Page, our Disclaimer, and our Comments Policy. Please note: InformationLiberation is neither liberal or conservative. When one takes the time to research the "liberal elite," whom the Conservatives oppose, and the "conservative elite," whom the liberals oppose, one finds both "elite" are one and the same. "Liberal" or "Conservative" is not a substantive choice, it is only the carefully crafted illusion of a choice, for both parties come together when they are instructed to....

Manning chat logs contain no smoking gun, Wired editors claim
Wired editors claim"> Stumble This! Editors with Wired Magazine have finally come forward to say that the chat logs in their possession contain no further evidence of a Conspiracy between Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the soldier accused of leaking 250,000 US State Department cables. In his Monday column, Salon's Glenn Greenwald suggested that Wired Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen committed "one of the worst journalistic disgraces of the year" by withholding the majority of chat logs that co...

Dave Winer: America's Tienanmen and Blogger of the Year 2010
First, previous Blogger of the Years. In 2001, I chose a BOTY by nominating several people and letting the readers vote. That year, the choice was Joel Spolsky, who went on to do many great things, such as the Joel on Software books and the Stack Overflow website. Then in 2007, I named NakedJen as the BOTY. To Jen, being a blogger means being vulnerable, exposing who you are, and standing by yourself. A blogger is a sole practitioner, who sticks his or her neck out, but does it with conviction...

Newsweek's Julian Assange Christmas Photos Are Really Quite Magical
One of the many faces of possibly being extradited, via Robert King/Newsweek ​Did anyone ever watch the sentimental, autobiographical Truman Capote short called "A Christmas Memory"? In it, an orphaned boy lives with a group of elderly relatives, one of whom is his best friend, an eccentric, childlike old woman known as "Sook." They gallivant through the hills and dales together, buying whiskey and making fruitcase and chopping down their very own Christmas Tree. That kind of sums up how...

A WikiLeaks Christmas: Julian Assange gets festive
He may be under virtual House Arrest, but Wikileaks founder Julian Assange managed to enjoy a very Merry Christmas all the same....

American Indians benefited in 111th Congress
By any measure, 2010 was a banner year on Capitol Hill for American Indians. And a huge factor was the pending Retirement of a lone senator — Byron L. Dorgan, North Dakota Democrat. After years of trying, Congress passed several landmark bills for Indians, including laws overhauling tribal Health Care and Law Enforcement and settling a 15-year Legal Battle over lost Royalties for mismanaged Indian lands. Congress continued parceling out $2.5 billion in economic-stimulus money to tribes and...

Chris Meserole: Obama and the New Liberalism
What a year. From the Earthquake in Haiti to the rescue of the Chilean Miners, 2010 certainly wasn't lacking for compelling human drama. Nor was it lacking for politically transformative events. Indeed, given three stories in particular—the passage of ObamaCare, the extra-judicial authorization to assassinate an American Citizen, and the Wikileaks Controversy—this year may well go down as the year 21st century Liberalism, with all its attendant complexity, fully came into its own....

Montana's "Inquisition" and Wikileaks
So you are a little girl in grammar school in 1917. Your name is Christine Shupp and you live near Melville in Sweet Grass County. Every morning after the pledge of allegiance to the flag, the teacher makes you, alone, kneel down on the floor and kiss the flag. It is because you are German. You are a rancher in Rosebud County and you call WWI "a Millionaire's war" and you are dragged off by neighbors to jail. You're in a saloon and call war time food regulations "a big joke" and you are sentence...

World Kiss
Goodbye, 2010; I’m not so sorry to see you go. You did have your moments, what with the Chilean Miners and all. I had fun, on Tuesday, moderating a year-in-review chat with Hendrik Hertzberg, Larissa MacFarquhar, and Richard Brody, even if we didn’t get to the question about Richard’s beard. (We’ve posted a transcript.) And all of us here have had fun putting together The New Yorker’s year-end lists. Here’s a final one, with just one item: the kiss of the year...

The Year In Rearview
By Carl Look, for my part, the year 2010 cannot go away fast or far enough. Between the crappy cynical pandering by Teabaggers to the lowest common denominator of a minority of the American electorate to the Health Issues I dealt with to the fact that my mom is racing the end of the year to end first, this has been a pretty shitty ride. So in my inimitable Fashion, fuck the bad, let's focus on the good stuff! 1) Healthcare Reform -- it was nast...

2010 in Review: Words and phrases of the year
From political upheaval to carnivorous couture, 2010 kept us guessing (except for Paul The Octopus, who always seemed to know what was going to happen). Still, some things remained predictable. People love a good animal story (especially if it has eight arms and predicts the outcome of sporting matches) and anything breast-related. We hate excess (see Rob Ford’s election campaign, the downfall of BP’s CEO) and anything that makes us late (Airport Security crackdowns, Toronto’s ...

Winner or Loser?
While I’m on the subject of BP. In the aftermath of the Deep Horizon blowout BP’s CEO Tony Hayward left the company, i.e. was fired, with a severance package of more than $18 million. Among the wealthy there is some level of earnings at which it’s no longer about the money, at least not about what the money can buy. Money becomes merely a way of keeping score. Although he’s left BP, Mr. Hayward remains a director of the Corus Group and of Tata Steel. Actions taken on hi...

Ohio man accuses Owsley deputy of assault
[...]The Lawsuit says the band was told to shut down. Adkins, who was not drunk, wanted to see the rest of the performance and asked "quietly and calmly" that the band be allowed to continue playing, the Lawsuit said. Immediately after he made the request, Havicus hit Adkins in the face with an expandable baton, the Lawsuit says. [...] Please read our About Page, our Disclaimer, and our Comments Policy. Please note: InformationLiberation is neither liberal or conservative. When one takes the tim...

San Juan County*s insurance pool settles for $75k in unlawful arrest claim
[...]Toni Michele of Friday Harbor alleged deputies Nikki Rogers and Brad Korth illegally searched her home, used excessive force and falsely arrested her on March 21. Her Lawsuit, filed July 20 in U.S. District Court in Seattle, alleged unlawful search and seizure, unlawful Imprisonment, negligence and assault. She filed suit after her damage claim for $250,000 was rejected by county officials. Michele told Rogers there had been a verbal argument but there were no injuries and no property damag...

If Only WikiLeaks Existed Before the Iraq War Began: Die Zeit, Germany
Here’s an interesting question: would the release of internal White House documents before the Iraq War began have prevented the Bush Administration from going ahead with it? According to columnist Ulrich Ladurner of Germany’s Die Zeit, not only is it likely that the war would have been prevented - but Julian Assange may well have won the Nobel Peace Prize. For Die Zeit, Ulrich Ladurner writes in part: Julian Assange has been much reviled for his dogma that everything should b...

We Are Change Colorado Arrested for Free Speech
A caravan of Denver's finest Truthers travels to Colorado Springs joining the Colorado Springs chapter to Protest Oliver North's "Freedom Congress". 2 members arrested, 2 others were assaulted. Great time was had by all!! - Sparks vs. The TSA Please read our About Page, our Disclaimer, and our Comments Policy. Please note: InformationLiberation is neither liberal or conservative. When one takes the time to research the "liberal elite," whom the Conservatives oppose, and the "conservative elite,"...

More Assange
Nick Davies of The Guardian: Jagger also insists that she has a right to know who leaked the file to the Guardian and says that the leak was part of “an obvious effort to conduct a smear campaign” against Assange. Setting aside for a moment the head-splitting hypocrisy that a supporter of Wikileaks wants to hunt down the source of a leak, there are two similar problems with this claim. First, Jagger has no idea who leaked that file (and made no attempt to find out). Second, if she ...

Assange claims Arab officials spy on their own countries for the CIA
In an interview with al-Jazeera's Arabic language network on Wednesday, Wikileaker Julian Assenge claimed to have names of Arab Diplomats who are spying on their own countries for the CIA. “These officials are spies for the U.S. in their countries,” Assange said, according to Qatar's Peninsula newspaper. More: The interviewer, Ahmed Mansour, said at the start of the interview which was a continuation of last week’s interface, that Assange had even shown him the files that contained the

China shuts down 60,000 porn sites and arrests 5,000 people in massive censorship crackdown
Critics have accused the Chinese Government of deepening the crackdown, launched last December, and said Censorship had blocked many sites with politically sensitive or even user-generated content. Please read our About Page, our Disclaimer, and our Comments Policy. Please note: InformationLiberation is neither liberal or conservative. When one takes the time to research the "liberal elite," whom the Conservatives oppose, and the "conservative elite," whom the liberals oppose, one finds both "el...

Many Arab officials have close CIA links: Assange
DOHA: Top Officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency, says Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks. “These officials are spies for the US in their countries,” Assange told Al Jazeera Arabic channel in an interview yesterday. The interviewer, Ahmed Mansour, said at the start of the interview whic...

Your pick for Most Intriguing Person of 2010 is ...
He's been called a criminal, a spy and a champion of the First Amendment. Some think he’s a villain. Some see him as a hero. The only thing that’s beyond debate: Julian Assange has more intrigue than the pulp section of a bookstore. Wikileaks' mastermind, the guy who everyone loved to hate or loved to defend, got the most first-place votes (25%) on CNN.com's “Most Intriguing Person” poll for 2010. Following Assange were: 10. Antoine Dodson, whose thoughts a...

Top Brand Winners and Losers of 2010
June 29: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks in Duluth, Ga. This year, the winners and losers all come down to two things: the importance of Target Market and the importance of brand. Bottom line, no company and no individual will ever be all things to all people. What matters is that the company or individual is the right things to the right people. Tiger Woods - Late last year everyone seemed to be predicting the demise of this legendary golfer. I didn’t. Not because I have psyc...