WikiLeaks: Gitmo Guards’ Rewards System for Detainees Backfires

May 7 2011 by rowan wolf in GUEST AUTHOR, HEALTH & MEDICINE, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, INEQUALITY |1 Comment

By Michael Busch. Reposted from FPIF. The story of Yasser Talal Al Zahrani offers one of the most mysterious, and ultimately tragic, narratives in the “Gitmo Files” published by WikiLeaks this past week. The son of “a senior official in the Saudi Interior Ministry, reportedly holding the rank of abid, or brigadier,” the seventeen-year-old al [...]

In Blow to Press Freedom, Justice Department Moves to Seize WikiLeaks Twitter Accounts

March 15 2011 by Antifascist in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, CIA + GOVT CRIMES, DOMESTIC POLICIES, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, OBAMA, POLICE & REPRESSION, Tom Burghardt |No Comments

by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… In a new blow to press freedom and internet users’ privacy rights here in the heimat, Obama’s Justice Department won a significant victory on Friday. As part of the secret state’s campaign against whistleblowers and transparency advocates, U.S. Magistrate Theresa Buchanan granted federal prosecutors access to WikiLeaks-related Twitter accounts.

Julian Assange: At the Forefront of Twenty-First Century Journalism

March 8 2011 by rowan wolf in FEATURED, GUEST AUTHOR, Headline, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, MEDIA |No Comments

By Kevin Zeese. Republished from Truthout. If there were ever a doubt about whether the editor in chief of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is a journalist, recent events erase all those doubts and put him at the forefront of a movement to democratize journalism and empower people.

“The WikiLeaks Threat” and Other Tales from the Dark Side

March 7 2011 by Antifascist in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, CIA + GOVT CRIMES, DOMESTIC POLICIES, FEATURED, RIGHTWING & BIZ PROPAGANDA, SCUM WATCH, Tom Burghardt |No Comments

by Tom Burghardt Simulposted with Antifascist Calling It all began with news that WikiLeaks would soon shine a spotlight on the thieves dominating the global financial sector, those self-styled “masters of the universe” reigning over capitalism’s Borg hive. Scant months later, as a result of hubris and egomaniacal greed, an enormous window was smashed open [...]

Telling the Story of WikiLeaks

March 1 2011 by rowan wolf in Headline, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, MEDIA |No Comments

By Hannah Gurman. Republished from FPIF. “Scientific journalism.” That is the phrase WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange uses to describe what he does. By posting source documents directly on the Internet, readers no longer need to rely on the journalists’ interpretations. Instead, they can read the evidence for themselves and draw their own conclusions.

As Clinton Hawks ‘Freedom to Connect,’ Justice Department Shields ‘War on Terror’ Fraudsters, Targets WikiLeaks

February 21 2011 by Antifascist in CIA + GOVT CRIMES, DOMESTIC POLICIES, Headline, OBAMA, POLICE & REPRESSION, Tom Burghardt, US MILITARY |No Comments

While Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was praising the role that the internet played in toppling oppressive regimes (ironically enough, close U.S. allies), the Justice Department was in court in Alexandria, Virginia seeking to invade the privacy and political rights of WikiLeaks supporters even as it shields well-connected “War on Terror” fraudsters. Scarcely batting an [...]