MEDIA IGNORE RELEASE OF SECRET WAR LOGS
October 25, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
While revelations about torture, civilian deaths, and out-of-control private contractors contained in the latest WikiLeaks documents — nearly 400,000 of them — made international headlines over the weekend, they were given short shrift by U.S. broadcast and cable news services. Germany’s Der Spiegel observed on Sunday: “Neither the Afghanistan war nor Iraq are issues in [...]
LITTLE LIGHT SHED ON JOURNALIST KILLINGS IN IRAQ
October 25, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
The war logs released by WikiLeaks on Friday shed little additional light on the deaths of journalists killed by the U.S. military during the Iraq War. Britain’s Guardian newspaper, which was given prior access to the documents, reported that they show that reporter Asaad Kadhim, who worked for the U.S. funded TV station al-Iraqiya, and [...]
SWEDEN’S PIRATE PARTY OFFERS ASYLUM TO WIKILEAKS
July 28, 2010 by admin · 6 Comments
Sweden’s Pirate Party, which currently hosts the Pirate Bay, the BitTorrent site that has repeatedly clashed with the movie and record industries and government authorities over alleged copyright infringement, has offered to give the controversial WikiLeaks.com a safe harbor. The offer came after WikiLeaks released more than 90,000 secret U.S. government documents about the war [...]