Showing posts with label assange. Show all posts
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Thursday, 13 January 2011

Julian Assange returns to court

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will fight to remain in Britain at a hearing set for next month

Friday, 31 December 2010

Alternet: 8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media

Wikileaks: History Is The Only Guidebook Civilization Has (Daniel Schmitt at re:publica 2010)
Here are the bogus narratives that keep appearing in newspapers and on the airwaves, according to alternet.org:
1. Fearmongering that WikiLeaks revelations will result in deaths.
2. Spreading the lie that WikiLeaks posted all the cables.
3. Falsely claiming that Assange has committed a crime regarding WikiLeaks.
4. Denying that WikiLeaks is a journalistic enterprise.
5. Denying a link between Ellsberg's Pentagon Papers and WikiLeaks, despite Ellsberg's support of the site.
6. Accusing Assange of profiting from WikiLeaks.
7. Calling Assange a terrorist.
8. Minimizing the significance of the cables.

Read the article on alternet.org