jamie griffiths

This page is my personal gathering place for links of interest on Wikileaks. Some for and some against. It is fascinating to witness the degree of vitriolic anger coming from those against.  So far the scenario I find the most perverse is Hilary Clinton's outrage... She was personally responsible for instructing US diplomats to spy on foreign UN representatives, and yet she has the nerve to condemn Wikileaks... and she is a Democrat. 'Ordinary', courgeous, intelligent people can save us from these corrupt politicians by exposing how they operate. Wikileaks is the manifestation of a massive cultural push to reclaim society back from its quasi-political corporate rulers, back towards transparency and honesty.  To reclaim education. To reclaim politics. To reclaim goodness. The 60's had the hippies.. despised at the time by the status quo and now generally appreciated for all that they stood for. Today is a new wave of cultural revolt. This time we are also fighting for goodness and love... for conscious growth... but also for planetary survival... to prevent climate change... to say "no" to planetary plundering and to the right for affordable education and free speech. To begin to redress the massive divides between the rich and poor. Capitalism is a flawed system. State communism in Russia collapsed into tyranny. Why do we think Western democracies are too pure to become corrupted, and incapable of collapse also? A simmering cultural revolution in the west has boiled over the edge of the pan.

NEWEST LINKS POSTED AT TOP OF THIS LIST

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/19/wikileaks-white-house-state-department


Jan 10 2011: Tunisian activists receive cyber-support from Anonymous
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/01/20111614145839362.html


Jan 7 2011: Twitter Subpoena REUTERS: US Justice Dept secretly subpoenas Twitter on Dec 15th 2010 to provide them secretly with all data on Wikileaks top personnel. Twitter fights back and succeeds in getting US court to rule that they can reveal the existence of the subpoena which they announce to the media on Jan 7th 2011.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/07/twitter/subpoena.pdf


Jan 7 2011: Twitter Subpoena GUARDIAN: US demands private records from Twitter of Icelandic MP, Birgitta Jonsdottir, who is a Wikileaks supporter.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/08/us-twitter-hand-icelandic-wikileaks-messages
Jan 4 2011: Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky discussing Wikileaks on Australian radio (no video)
Melbourne, Australia (downloadable mp3) 12min 40sec
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/local/melbourne/201012/r686931_5132145.mp3



Wikileaks Central - an info website http://wlcentral.org/

Dec 28 2010 'Democracy Now' Online TV
Noam Chomsky interviewed about Wikileaks, plus recap of current situation.
http://www.zcommunications.org/wikileaks-the-economy-us-midterm-elections-climate-change-haiti-and-more-by-noam-chomsky
http://www.democracynow.org

Dec 20 2010: Article on the illegal "secular fatwa" against Assange & what should be done in the US courts to counter it. I suggest you read the article and then watch the video clip.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/charles-glass/secular-fatwa-on-julian-assange
... and here's the video of people that think they are normal good citizens calling on public TV in the USA for Assange's covert assassination. 

 

Dec 19 2010: Mark Levine, Professor of History at UC Irvine.
His view on the need for government transparency worldwide.  Mark LeVine is a professor of history at UC Irvine and senior visiting researcher at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University in Sweden.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2010/12/2010129102245193184.html

Wikileaks and the First Amendment.
Obama threatens to curtail freedom of the press.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/16/julian-assange-wikileaks-eric-holder

Der Spiegel (German Newspaper)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/topic/wikileaks_diplomatic_cables
 
BBC Wikileaks cables at a glance
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11914040

Wikileaks Latest News collected on one page
http://newsblogged.com/wikileaks-latest-news-real-time-updates

BBC News (UK) Wikileaks basic background info
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11862320

Iceland sues Visa and Mastercard for refusing to process Wikileaks donations.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/301340

Blog on the philosophy of Policing. Summary of Wikileaks cables.
http://anthropoliteia.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/a-wikileaks-crib-sheet-part-1/

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_War_documents_leak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_documents_leak

Law experts say WikiLeaks in the clear (ABC)
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2010/s3086781.htm

WikiLeaks are a bunch of terrorists, says leading U.S. congressman (Mail Online)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333879/WikiLeaks-terrorists-says-leading-US-congressman-Peter-King.html

Cyber guerrillas can help US (Financial Times)
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d3dd7c40-ff15-11df-956b-00144feab49a.html#axzz17QvQ4Ht5

Amazon drops WikiLeaks under political pressure (Yahoo)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101201/tc_afp/usdiplomacyinternetwikileakscongressamazon

"WikiLeaks avenged by hacktivists" (PC World):
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/212701/operation_payback_wikileaks_avenged_by_hacktivists.html

US Gov shows true control over Internet with WikiLeaks containment (Tippett.org)
http://www.tippett.org/2010/12/us-gov-shows-true-control-over-internet-with-wikileaks-containment/

US embassy cables culprit should be executed, says Mike Huckabee (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/us-embassy-cables-executed-mike-huckabee

WikiLeaks ditched by MasterCard, Visa. Who's next? (The Christian Science Monitor)
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/1207/WikiLeaks-ditched-by-MasterCard-Visa.-Who-s-next

Assange's Interpol Warrant Is for Having Sex Without a Condom (The Slatest)
http://slatest.slate.com/id/2276690/