Julian Assange returns to court

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

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

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

Wikirebels - The Documentary

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Wikileaks: a Big Dangerous US Government Con Job?

by fotosera

It is almost too perfectly scripted to be true. A discontented 22-year old US Army soldier on duty in Baghdad, Bradley Manning, a low-grade US Army intelligence analyst, described as a loner, a gay in the military, a disgruntled “computer geek,” sifts through classified information at Forward Operating Base Hammer. He decides to secretly download US State Department email communications from the entire world over a period of eight months for hours a day, onto his blank CDs while pretending to be listening to Lady Gaga. In addition to diplomatic cables, Manning is believed to have provided WikiLeaks with helicopter gun camera video of an errant US attack in Baghdad on unarmed journalists, and with war logs from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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"What do I think of Wikileaks? I think it would be a good idea!" (after Mahatma Gandhi’s famous quip on ’Western Civilisation’)

Disclosures and leaks have been a feature of all times, but never before has a non state- or non- corporate affiliated group done this at the scale Wikileaks managed to with first the ’collateral murder video’, then the ’Afghan War Logs’ and now ’Cablegate’. It looks like we have now reached the moment that the quantitative leap is morphing into a qualitative one. When Wikileaks hit the mainstream early in 2010, this was not yet the case. In a sense, the ’colossal’ Wikileaks disclosures can simply be explained as a consequence of the dramatic spread of IT usage, together with a dramatic drop in its costs, including those for the storage of millions of documents. Another contributing factor is the fact that safekeeping state and corporate secrets - never mind private ones - has become rather difficult in an age of instant reproducibility and dissemination. Wikileaks here becomes symbolic for a transformation in the ’information society’ at large, and holds up a mirror of future things to come. So while one can look at Wikileaks as a (political) project, and criticize it for its modus operandi, or for other reasons, it can also be seen as a ’pilot’ phase in an evolution towards a far more generalized culture of anarchic exposure, beyond the traditional politics of openness and transparency.

Read the 12 these's on Wikileaks by Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE

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WikiLeaks is anti-democratic

If, as it claims, WikiLeaks has set in motion mechanisms for further disclosures that cannot be disabled, then the peoples and elected governments of all countries are powerless against it. Where is the democracy in this? Whose freedom has been enhanced? Who elected WikiLeaks and to whom is it answerable?

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Johann Hari: We will never unlearn or unknow the great truths Julian Assange has brought us

...we will never unlearn or unknow the great truths Julian Assange has brought us. The hysterical state-power hacks saying he is “a terrorist” should go tell it to all the tortured Iraqis, all the terrorized Honduran democrats, and all the bombed Yemenis whose story he has – at last – brought out from the sealed-away world of Top Secret cables.

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Julian Assange: from hero to martyr

Where’s Stieg Larsson when you need him? This plot was made for him. A crusading truth-teller reveals shocking secrets about the covert operations of the richest and most powerful empire in the world. He is also a legendary hacker. Not surprisingly, the cabal decides he must be taken out. He goes into hiding. His powerful enemies, including the CIA and the Pentagon, launch a dirty-tricks campaign. He’s accused of unrelated, trumped-up criminal charges, and his home country issues an international warrant for his arrest. The bad guys lean on another country to arrest and extradite him. He might even wind up as a prisoner in the United States. Or he could do time in a Swedish jail, where he will be forced to eat large quantities of pickled herring.
read the article from Margaret Wente


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