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WIKILEAKS News, May 11, 2012

Before Wikileaks: the Pentagon Papers
The Tennessean
On May 11, 1973, nearly two years after instigating a governmental crisis, Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst, had all charges of espionage and theft of government documents dropped. US District Judge Matthew Byrne was scathing in his remarks about ...
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Fujitsu in $60m datacentre upgrade
ZDNet Australia
[2011] #WikiLeaks rally fires up Sydney (VID+PICS) http://t.co/Sbm4186x #Assange supporters: "We demand free speech, hands off WikiLeaks!" Shadow Comms Minister Malcolm Turnbull has indicated he may let #NBN contracts run full term.
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Analysts believe friction over water disputes with India may escalate
Business Recorder (blog)
Although Pakistan has opened up its borders for enhanced trade with India, water disputes remain unresolved which several analysts, including US officials as noted in Wikileaks, believe may well be the reason for a war between the two countries.
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Mainstream political science masks Western clientelism
Asia Times Online
Take the case of Egypt, dealt with in multiple chapters in Owen's book, although without once referring to the WikiLeaks revelations that Mubarak was an "indispensable Arab ally" and that the US had "astonishingly intimate military" relations with ...
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The Simpsons go Gaga for season finale
Chicago Tribune
... that have appeared on the show throughout its 23 years on air, including Elizabeth Taylor, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, late King of Pop Michael Jackson, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and earlier this season, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
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Finding bin Laden -- more Agatha Christie than '24'
CNN International
From the secret summaries of Qahtani's Guantánamo interrogations made public by WikiLeaks, it appears that it was only after the weeks of abuse that he told interrogators that the operational commander of 9/11, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, had introduced him ...
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Why the FBI should be worried about Bitcoin
ZDNet (blog)
Sites such as Wikileaks, Free Software Foundation and Freenet accept donations in Bitcoin. There are no historical records of account owners or their actual location. There are no monitoring capabilities in place to identify suspicious monetary ...
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Time Breastfeeding Cover Sparks Debate, George Clooney's $15M Obama Fundraiser ...
PolicyMic
Alex Marin's story on the First Amendment and Facebook "Like" buttongot retweeted by WikiLeaks (1.5 million followers!); Cameron English'sobesity article got retweeted by Reason (85K followers); and Stephen Robert Moorse's article on non-profit ...
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Above the Law: US Crimes during The War on Terror
World Policy Institute (blog)
The case of suspected Wikileaks leaker Bradley Manning is one such example. Even before Manning was charged with espionage for his alleged theft of classified documents given to Wikileaks, he was held for months, without clothes, under solitary ...
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World Policy Institute (blog)
Our guns and butter economy
HeraldNet
Later, diplomatic cables uncovered by Wikileaks showed, as Fortune magazine put it, "American officials act(ing) as de facto pitchmen for US-made weapons." The result is that America has become the true "Lord of War," as the arms dealer motto goes.
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Tiny Guinea-Bissau has big role in drug smuggling, and seems likely to keep it
McClatchy Washington Bureau
... making government and military officials particularly vulnerable to the temptation of narcotics-fueled corruption,” a US diplomat reported to the State Department in 2009, according to a cable made public last year by the WikiLeaksWebsite.
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McClatchy Washington Bureau
Ethiopia: Development over democracy (analysis)
Afrika
Read more > New York (USA) — US diplomatic cables disclosed last month by WikiLeaks cited an Ethiopian jour... Read more > Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the steadily worsening climate of harassment and intimida... Read more > Nairobi (Kenya) ...
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Underwear bomb plot: British and US intelligence rattled over leaks
The Guardian
Cables released by WikiLeaks exposed the scale of US covert involvement in the Arab world's poorest country. In 2009 the Saudi deputy interior minister, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, told General James Jones, President Obama's national security adviser: ...
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The Guardian
ExxonMobil vs. Dodd-Frank
BusinessWeek
... social spending covenants, while keeping his countrymen and political foes in the dark about how large Chad's newfound riches were, according to Department of State cables disclosed by WikiLeaks and through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Committee of Suspect Journalists; Press Watchdog Fails Journalism for ...
Mareeg
Wikileaks Ethiopia Files: Ethiopia Bombs Itself, Blames Eritrea by Thomas C. Mountain cpj.org/blog/2011/09/in-ethiopia-case-a-response-to-wikileaks.php). Talk about failing “Journalism for Beginners 100”, where you write a report and don't even check ...
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Voters not concerned at Yingluck's gaffes
The Nation
Those that portray Yingluck as a hapless puppet would do well to read the Wikileaks documents that cover former US ambassador Eric John's meetings with Yingluck, after the last meeting (in 2009) he reported to Washington that she had become "far more ...
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Simon Rogers, editor, the Guardian Datablog and Datastore
The Guardian
He was closely involved in the Guardian's exercise to crowdsource 450000 MP expenses records and the organisation's coverage of the Afghanistan and IraqWikileaks war logs. Previously he was the launch editor of the Guardian's online news service and ...
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The Guardian
Edward Wasserman | Facing no heat, watchdogs take a nap on leaks
The Courier-Journal
And there's the biggest case, the court martial of Bradley Manning, the Army private accused of engineering the mammoth dumps of US military and diplomatic data that WikiLeaks, the online whistleblower network, turned over to leading newspapers in 2010 ...
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The Simpsons go Gaga for season finale
IBNLive.com
... that have appeared on the show throughout its 23 years on air, including Elizabeth Taylor, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, late King of Pop Michael Jackson, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and earlier this season, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
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U.S. exporting guns-and-butter economy
The Coloradoan
Later, diplomatic cables uncovered by Wikileaks showed, as Fortune magazine put it, “American officials act(ing) as de facto pitchmen for US-made weapons.” The result is that America is the leading arms supplier to the developing world and responsible ...
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World Press Freedom Day
AllAfrica.com
After all, you are currently trying to prosecute Julian Assange, the Founder of Wikileaks, for disclosing hundreds of thousands of classified documents." True, but even prosecutions of this type are limited in several ways, mainly through procedural ...
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Akufo-Addo Is Still The Greatest Threat To Peace In Ghana.
GhanaWeb
The most damning of them all being the Wikileaks cable that points to his penchant to smoke marijuana early in the morning! Having clearly lost the political space, the only option they think of is exploring the military means to subvert the will of ...
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Driving Oklahoma
CounterPunch
... let's hear it for Private First Class Braaaaaadley Maaaaaanning who, if he actually did release the classified documents of American war crimes to WikiLeaks, is a great patriot and that most rare specie on earth, an American CITIZEN — someone who ...
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First look: Lady Gaga drops into Springfield
NEWS.com.au
... to have have appeared on the show in its 23 years on air. Elizabeth Taylor, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the late King of Pop Michael Jackson, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange have all become Simpsons guests.
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Towards radicalization
GreaterKashmir.com
A leaked diplomatic cable on Wikileaks pertaining to the funding of religious groups created quite a flutter in Pakistan. According to the US Embassy in Pakistan, the Sunni Ittehad Council----“formed in 2009 to counter extremism.
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Disaster in the Sahel Fighting in Mali Adds Chaos to Troubled African Region
Spiegel Online
US embassy documents released by Wikileaks in the fall of 2010 revealed just what a hopeless battle Mali's army was fighting within its own country. In these documents, American diplomats described an attack by al-Qaida fighters against Malian soldiers ...
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Spiegel Online
Kasukuwere speaks on succession
The Zimbabwe Mail
In an exclusive interview with The Financial Gazette, Kasukuwere also blew the lid off on the long-standing perception that he is at the helm of a group of young leaders in ZANU-PF, named in WikiLeaks disclosures last year as the "Young Turks" and the ...
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Riyadh steps up as moles derail Al-Qaeda plots
The Daily Star
“Internal has an external head,” the GIP chief Prince Muqrin, the youngest surviving son of the kingdom's founder Ibn Saud, explained to US diplomats in 2009, according to a Riyadh embassy cable released by WikiLeaks. Prince Muqrin went on to tell how ...
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The Daily Star
New Zealand: Land sale to Chinese company provokes opposition
World Socialist Web Site
US embassy cables released in 2010 by WikiLeaks exposed the steady increase in secretive military and intelligence co-operation between the US and New Zealand. The cables also revealed that senior New Zealand defence officials were deeply concerned ...
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Good buddies
Gulf Daily News
US State Department internal communications released by WikiLeaksas part of the 2010 United States diplomatic cables leak, claim that the Qatari government manipulates Al Jazeera coverage to suit political interests. Rumour has it that the media mogul ...
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Lady Gaga to witness The Simpson's finale!
Galatta.com
The list also includes Elizabeth Taylor, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Michael Jackson, Tony Blair (former British PM) and Julian Assange (Wikileaks founder). Lady Gaga to witness The Simpson's finale !
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Galatta.com
2012-05-06 WikiLeaks News Update: Nabeel Rajab arrested; US ...
2012-05-06 WikiLeaks News Update: Nabeel Rajab arrested; US planned to destabilize Ecuadorian President; Other news. Submitted by m_cetera on Sun, ...
wlcentral.org/node/2582
Ecuador, Brazil WikiLeaks news | Dear Kitty. Some blog
From WikiLeaks News: Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show that the U.S. Government had plans to conspire with the current Bank of Guayaquil ...
dearkitty1.wordpress.com/.../ecuador-brazil-wikileaks-news/
WikiLeaks News" - Dynasty Metals & Mining Inc. - DMM
WikiLeaks News: Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show that the U.S. Government had plans to conspire with the current Bank of Guayaquil president ...
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Ecuador, Brazil WikiLeaks news - Topix
Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show that the U.S. Government had plans to conspire with the current Bank of Guayaquil president Guillermo Lasso to ...
www.topix.com/forum/world/ecuador/TDK9V6J53866OJG7H
This Day in WikiLeaks: May 2012
WL Central is looking for reporters to help cover WikiLeaks news. Peter van Buren, who was fired from the State Department in part for linking to a WikiLeaks ...
thisdayinwikileaks.blogspot.com/2012_05_01_archive.html
This Day in WikiLeaks, 05/01/12
WikiLeaks News: A new book shows that major Latin American newspapers which had access to WikiLeaks cables did not print them because doing so would ...
www.wikileaks-forum.com/index.php?topic=10913.0
Bradley Manning Support Network » Update 5/8/12: WikiLeaks ...
“site specific, experimental, documentary theater piece examining the conditions of solitary confinement that Bradley Manning was held in without charge in ...
www.bradleymanning.org/.../update-5812-wikileaks-truck-per...
Anonymous to Launch TYLER, WikiLeaks on ... - News - Softpedia
The Anonymous hacktivist community has released a new video to reveal the initiation of TYLER, an operation part of Project Mayhem 2012. “With censorship ...
news.softpedia.com/.../Anonymous-to-Launch-TYLER-WikiL...
2012-05-02 #WikiLeaks News Update: Latin America refused to ...
2012-05-02 #WikiLeaks News Update: Latin America refused to publish cables; " World Tomorrow" episode 3; Other news ...
wikileaks.theblogger.com.au/.../2012-05-02-wikileaks-news-u...
News: Wikileaks' Julian Assange Interviews Tunisian President ...
The interview is the third installment of part of the controversial TV program “ Julian Calendar: The World Tomorrow,” which airs on Russia Today (RT) – a ...
wlnew.blogspot.com/.../wikileaks-julian-assange-interviews.ht...
Before Wikileaks: the Pentagon Papers
... SUBSCRIBE · STAFF. News · Communities · Sports · Business · Entertainment · Life · Opinion · Obituaries · Help .... Before Wikileaks: the Pentagon Papers ...
www.tennessean.com/.../Before-Wikileaks-Pentagon-Papers
WikiLeaks News... | Facebook
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work , study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, ...
www.facebook.com/wikileaks/.../292752770810583?...
Data in the News - Wikileaks - The Data Journalism Handbook
Data in the News: Wikileaks. figs/incoming/03-GG.jpg. Figure 40. TheWikileaks War Logs (The Guardian). It began with one of the investigative reporting team ...
datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/case_studies_6.html
Twitter / @Szymon_Stasiak/NEWS WORLD
WikiLeaks News wikileaksnews #wikileaks Assange interviews Hezbollah chief in Russian TV debut: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday m...
twitter.com/Szymon_Stasiak/news-world
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