Israel destroyed Syria nuclear reactor: WikiLeaks

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...

Julian Assange, the Rosenberg Case and the Espionage Act of 1917
Rumors are swirling that the United States is preparing to indict Wikileaks leader Julian Assange for conspiring to violate the Espionage Act of 1917. The modern version of that act states among many, many other things that: "Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States" causes the disclosure or publication of this material, could be subject to massive crim...

Wikileaks: a Big Dangerous US Government Con Job
The story on the surface makes for a script for a new Oliver Stone Hollywood thriller. However, a closer look at the details of what has so far been carefully leaked by the most ultra-establishment of international media such as the New York Times reveals a clear agenda. That agenda coincidentally serves to buttress the agenda of US geopolitics around the world from Iran to North Korea. The Wikileaks is a big and dangerous US intelligence Con Job which will likely be used to police the Interne...

Julian Assange Seeking First Sentence for Book
Via Twitter, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is seeking input for the first sentence of his book. Here's what I came up with. As the cell door closed behind me and I faced the cold, dank space, I began to contemplate the brunt of the awesome power of government, once it has descended to unleash its wrath. Guess I better not give up my day job. What are your ideas? ...

Important Update on Wired and Lamo Chat Logs: No Unpub Material on Assange
Source: Greg Mitchell @ The Nation 11:55 Seemingly important updates by the Wired folks tonight saying they reviewed the chat logs and found NO unpublished Manning references to Assange.  This leads BoingBoing to suggest in a new piece (see earlier one just below) that this undermines some of Lamo's claims and will make it harder to go after Assange in this matter. Read more: https://www.thenation.com/blog/157348/blogging-wikeleaks... https://m.boingboing.net/2010/12/29/lamomanning-wikileak... W..

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 ...

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...

If imprisoned or killed, Assange reportedly prepared to out CIA-linked Arab leaders
Source: Raw Story Middle Eastern leaders who've become friendly with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could face severe retribution from their local populations if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is killed or jailed for a lengthy amount of time. That's because, in a recent interview with Arabic news network Al Jazeera, Assange allegedly warned that he had a document which reveals the identities of officials who voluntarily cultivated relationships with the CIA. "These officials are spie...

Assange: Many Arab Officials Work With CIA
Source: CBS Less than 2,000 of the purported 250,000 diplomatic cables in Wikileaks possession have been made public. There has been plenty of speculation as to what's left, since the revelations thus far have been a broad mix of both gossipy and inflammatory information. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Al Jazeera network Wednesday that some of things he is holding back could be downright explosive, reports the Emptywheel website. Assange said: "Top Officials in several Arab countries have...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

Quiet spy expulsions won't spoil the party
MADRID, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Plans by Russia and Spain to celebrate in 2011 each other's cultures remain intact despite tit-for-tat expulsions of alleged spies in the past several weeks. Russia quietly expelled two Spanish Diplomats last week on charges of spying, a Spanish Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Political attache Ignacio Cartagena and first secretary Borja Cortes-Breton were sent home from Moscow. But Spain did the same last month to two Russians, sending them home for "activities incompa...

Moscow unveils 90 years of spying secrets
Soviet spy Veteran Grigor Vardanyan looked at Kim Philby's immaculately-kept pipe and sighed. "He was such a cultured man," the former agent said of one of Britain's most notorious turncoats. "So educated. So well prepared. He served our cause until the end." Such fond memories were being murmured through the great halls of Moscow's World War II museum as Russia's foreign intelligence service, in a rare exhibition, revealed the tools it has been using for the past decades to outsmart the West...

North Korea's Follow-on Follies
Busy as North Korea may be lobbing artillery shells at a South Korean island, it's also making time to fire orders at its 23 million people about its dictator-in-the-wings. You may recall that in September the NoKos awarded Kim Jong Un, the youngest son of ailing dictator Kim Jong Il, with the rank of Daejang, equivalent to a U.S. four-star general. Given that the pudgy putative plutocrat has never served in uniform, his fellow citizens -- as well as Pyongyang's 1 million Troops -- could probabl...

Tech at Night: ALA, Wikipedia, Astroturf, Net Neutrality
Earlier this week I mentioned a story at Safe Libraries exposing American Library Association Astroturf promoting the radical Free Press agenda on Net Neutrality. Now, the ALA does not come into this debate with clean hands. The ALA has taken stands before, notably to protect Terrorists from being caught by the FBI. But now they’re getting aggressive. On the heels of this story about ALA astroturfing on Wikipedia, the ALA is attempting retaliation. They are attempting to block the Safe L...

America Has Gone Away
Today the press is a Propaganda ministry for the government. Any member who departs from his duty to lie and spin the news is expelled from the fraternity. A public increasingly unemployed, broke and Homeless is told that they have vast enemies plotting to destroy them in the absence of annual Trillion-dollar expenditures for the Military/security complex, wars lasting decades, no-fly lists, unlimited spying and collecting of dossiers on citizens supplemented by neighbors reporting on neighbor...

2011: Year of upheaval
5. President Obama and both parties will talk about the Deficit but only fight for modest action. However, a potential global Bond Market crash could force far more dramatic Deficit reduction, creating a revolutionary political climate as all things sacred are forced onto the table during another Financial Crisis. 6. The jobless rate at the end of 2011 will remain near 9 percent. The real jobless rate will remain near 16 percent. The cover story of Time Magazine in December 2011 will be titled...

Showing Their True Colors
“Everything looks worse in black and white.” - a lyric from “Kodachrome” by singer Paul Simon The last picture ever to be developed with Kodachrome film was slated to be processed today at the lone processing lab still handling this film — Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kan. A year after Kodak announced that it was retiring Kodachrome film, after nearly 75 years of production (making it the oldest and longest-running film in production of all time), the last shipment

WikiLeaks backers say Zimbabwe websites shut down
LONDON | Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:10pm EST LONDON (Reuters) - Cyber Activists say they have brought down Zimbabwean government websites after the president's wife sued a newspaper for publishing a Wikileaks cable linking her with illicit diamond trading. President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace is suing a private newspaper for $15 million for publishing details from U.S. cables on Wikileaks saying she gained "tremendous profits" from illicit diamonds. The activists, acting under the name Anonymous, sai...

Bradley W. Bloch: How Is Leaking Like Getting a Job?
Noam Scheiber has a much-read piece at The New Republic positing that Wikileaks "will be the death of Big Business and Big Government." In short, the Thesis is that in the age of WikiLeaks, everyone is a potential leaker, and the larger the company or government agency, the more potential leakers it has. As tightening security is of limited effectiveness, there will be downward pressure on the size of organization so that they are: Small enough to avoid wide-scale alienation, which clearly exc...

What's in the Manning/Lamo WikiLeaks Chat Logs?
Glenn Greenwald has been warring with Wired over Wired's supposed responsibility to release more of the chat logs between arrested-but-not-convicted alleged WikiLeaker Bradley Manning and Adrian Lamo, the man to whom he supposedly confessed his Crime and who turned him in. Here is Wired explaining why they have released all they ought, and why Greenwald is a hypocrite, a bad Journalist, and any number of other yucky things. Here is Greenwald's response to Wired (including suggestive accusations...

WikiLeaks backers say Zimbabwe websites shut down
President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace is suing a private newspaper for $15 million for publishing details from U.S. cables on Wikileaks saying she gained "tremendous profits" from illicit diamonds. The Activists, acting under the name Anonymous, said in a statement on their website: "We are targeting Mugabe and his regime in the ZANU-PF who have outlawed the free press and threaten to sue anyone publishing WikiLeaks." The Zimbabwean government web portal www.gta.gov.zw was unreachable on Thursda...

U.S. jobless claims hit lowest level in more than two-years
Reuters has compiled a multimedia showcase of some of 2010's top stories, including the BP Oil Spill, Korean tensions, the Earthquake in Haiti, violence in Greece, Pakistan floods, and the arrest of Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange. Video WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New claims for Unemployment Benefits dropped more than expected last week to touch their Lowest Level in more than two years, suggesting the labor market recovery was gaining strength. Initial claims for state Unemployment... WASHINGTO...