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What's said about sausage and journalism must also be true of foreign policy: that if you knew how it was produced, you wouldn't want to consume it.
"Why haven't all the bloggers who were jailed in Egypt over the years or elsewhere been recognized?"
It's hard to imagine that Frontline could cause even deeper trouble for Bradley Manning, but the picture it paints of Julian Assange forms the heart of the U.S. government's attempt to prosecute him under the Espionage Act.
The next Osama bin Laden may not be one bearded man hiding in a walled fortress but instead a group of highly skilled, faceless men behind computers. Cyberterrorism, while still largely science fiction, lurks around the corner.
WikiLeaks has managed to insert itself as an intermediary between news sources and the news media, relegating the latter to a secondary role on some of the biggest stories of the past year.
The Detainee Assessment Briefs that WikiLeaks began releasing on April 24 offer an opportunity for us to confront the flimsy evidence our government has compiled to support their indefinite detention at Guantánamo.
That "our man in Kabul" heads a criminal state is anything but breaking news, yet what remains a mystery is America's continual support for the brothers Karzai as the U.S. neglects promoting Afghans whose power isn't derived from drugs, guns and money.
Some who leak to the media are has-beens or wannabes who don't want to admit to the blogger/journalist/aggregator that they don't know anything about the topic under discussion.
More than a quarter of a century later, 1984 remains unpunished and all the issues around it unresolved. The Sikhs need more than a Gandhian verbal apology.
NPR reported on hundreds of alleged terrorists who were released from the notorious prison at Guantanamo Bay where they'd been held since 2002. Prison...
As the latest set of documents revealed by Wikileaks demonstrates, the military's ability or willingness to truly vet its secret informant evidence does not inspire confidence. The result is that we may well be imprisoning the wrong people.
There is a craven disconnect between the eagerness of leading editors to exploit the important news revealed by WikiLeaks and their efforts to distance themselves from both the website and Bradley Manning.
If the "velvet revolutions" that swept Eastern Europe in 1989 tolled the death knell for the Soviet empire, then the "jasmine revolutions" now spreading across the Middle East may well mark the beginning of the end for American global power.
While it's fun to watch Arnold say things like "Hasta la vista, Baby" through clenched teeth on a movie screen, the fictional war between humans and robots has taken on a new dimension these days.
I'm not arguing that Shiites have a lot in common with rodents and insects. But you wouldn't know it by watching Bahrainis and Saudis snuff them out with barely a peep from Western and majority-Sunni Arab nations.
There's no doubt it would have embarrassed the government again if Manning had the bad manners to lose his mind under prolonged exposure to the regime at Quantico.
So... there I was minding my own business, swimming around in my own self-induced fatigue -- so many deadlines, so many commas, apostrophes and period...
A book about WikiLeaks recently published in England by editors of The Guardian sheds an entirely new light on the Goldstone report.
The Most Dangerous Man in the World is a new unauthorized biography on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Award winning investigative journalist Andrew Fowler did a Q & A via email.
The mistreatment of Private Manning is reprehensible. But what matters more is that the indignities and abuses he is enduring are merely commonplace.
About Wikileaks
WikiLeaks is an international nonprofit organization that publishes otherwise classified or unavailable documents online for public use. Since its launch in 2006, the group claims to have published millions of documents, many relating to the U.S. led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also relating to economic crises and American diplomatic cables. Many of its documents have been published and analyzed by leading news outlets, including the U.K.'s Guardian, the New York Times and New York Daily News. WikiLeaks also runs a lively Twitter account and Facebook page. Founder Julian Assange was arrested in 2010 in connection with a sex crimes investigation.
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