Thursday, December 2, 2010

WikiLeaks #2

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Attorney Confirms WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange in Britain, Responds to U.S. Attacks


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Jeremy Scahill: WikiLeaks Cables Confirm Secret U.S. War Ops in Pakistan


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Is WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange a Hero? Glenn Greenwald Debates Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News


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Here's how real journalists respond to the attacks on WikiLeaks

The only point of leaking documents is to expose “corruption,” and by exposing such “corruption” then prompt “reform and change.”

The WikiLeaks Cables: Small Revelations That May Cause a Big Idea to Take Hold

The article says:
- They are not an attack on America's foreign policy interests that have endangered innocent people.
- They are not a reckless and dangerous action that puts at risk the cause of human rights.
- They do not amount to one of the sorrier moments in the history of hyperbole (or is it hysteria?), deemed the September 11 of world diplomacy.
- They are also not "top secret" since between 2 and 3 million government employees are cleared to see this level of "secret" document, and some 500,000 people have access to the Secret Internet Protocol Network (SIPRnet) where the cables were stored.

What makes the leaked cables so important: they provide another opportunity to turn the spotlight on the war in Afghanistan.

A tipping point, some say.

The funny thing about tipping points is that you never know what fact, image, or story will bring things to a critical mass -- what small moment will cause a big idea to finally take hold.

"We need to prepare ourselves," wrote Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point, "for the possibility that sometimes big changes follow from small events, and that sometimes these changes can happen quickly... Look at the world around you. It may seem an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push -- in just the right place -- it can be tipped."

The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange


WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord



WikiLeaks' 'insurance' file aimed at ensuring work goes on

Assange says it's aimed at ensuring secrets will be released if he's shut down; site continues to face technical issues


WikiLeaks: Brazil tried to distance itself from U.S. war on terror


Senators unveil anti-WikiLeaks bill



Julian Assange answers your questions


How the US media is dumping on WikiLeaks - and censoring the cable disclosures


Should WikiLeaks' Julian Assange be tried for espionage?



State Department To Columbia University Students: DO NOT Discuss WikiLeaks On Facebook, Twitter

Talking about WikiLeaks on Facebook or Twitter could endanger your job prospects, a State Department official warned students at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs this week.


How WikiLeaks altered the way we see the world in just a week



Europe officials target Assange, WikiLeaks

The Swiss strip Julian Assange of a key fundraising tool, and British media report an arrest warrant is in the hands of Scotland Yard, putting more heat on the WikiLeaks founder.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40526303/ns/us_news-wikileaks_in_security



Hero or terrorist, the Assange effect represents a real grassroots Internet rebellion

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/12/08/2010-12-08_hero_or_terrorist_the_assange_effect_represents_a_real_grassroots_internet_rebel.html


Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths



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