UCF Students to Campaign for Release of Soldier Tied to WikiLeaks
Members of the University of Central Florida chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) will take part in a national campaign to free alleged whistle-blower Private First Class Bradley Manning.
U.S. Aid to Egypt, Who Decides How It’s Spent?
The protests in Egypt have prompted renewed questions about the U.S.’s aid to the country, an issue that the U.S. government has also pledged to reconsider. We’ve taken a step back and tried to answer some basic questions, such as how as much the U.S. has given, who has benefited, and who gets to decide how its all spent.
WikiLeaks Fingers Kingston Mayor, PM’s Wife
The Jamaica government remains tight-lipped about diplomatic cables that have revealed an alleged alliance between don Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke and Mayor of Kingston Desmond McKenzie who tried to dissuade US officials from seeking the extradition of the wanted man.
WikiLeaks: Obama Pressured Spain Not to Pursue Bush Tortures
A cable released in the recent dump of WikiLeaks documents shows that US diplomats teamed up with Republican lawmakers–including a former Republican Party Chairman–to put pressure on Spanish officials to drop a criminal probe into the Bush administration’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
Intelligence Leaks and World Diplomacy
President Barack Obama and the U.S. government are scrambling this week to defuse some explosive intelligence leaks posted on the website Wikileaks. The release of more than 250,000 classified State Department documents forced the Obama administration into damage control, trying to contain fallout from unflattering assessments of world leaders and revelations about backstage U.S. diplomacy.
Is Wikileaks the New Abolitionist? (Video)
Wikileaks, a web based international watchdog group is preparing to release more than 15,000 classified military documents related to the war in Afghanistan. This, following more than 70,000 reports released last month. Wikileaks has claimed that it delayed the release of the latest reports, as part of a “harm-minimization process,” in an effort to redact any information that they felt was objectionable.
The War in Afghanistan, Not what we pictured
Yesterday our government sold us a war, and we bought it because the picture they painted was serene and secure. Today, we see that picture coming into the light, and we find it is not what we imagined it to be. Tomorrow they will ask for our continued support for this war, and they will continue to present us with pictures in an effort to entice our favor, but we should no longer be blinded by the darkness of the pictures they portray.
The WikiLeaks War Logs in Context
This morning, The New York Times, England’s The Guardian and Germany Der Spiegel published reports on what been termed the “War Logs”– nearly 92,000 documents about the war in Afghanistan made public by WikiLeaks. The documents suggest that Pakistan intelligence service has been aiding the Taliban and the Afghan insurgency.
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