HERE'S OCCUPY WALL STREET'S GREATEST SUPPORTER GLENN GREENWALD dropping a dime on America's top journalists for being elitists. He takes particular aim at the New York Times former executive editor Bill Keller, the son of a former Chevron CEO, and CNN talker Erin Burnett, fiance to a Citigroup executive, for being "scornful of Wall Street protesters."
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U.S. BANKS' BLOCKADE OF WIKILEAKS threatens to shut down the whistleblowing news agency that has helped trigger democratic revolutions around the globe.
In a press conference in London today, WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange said WikiLeaks could shutter as soon as January because of U.S. financial institutions'"extralegal" assault on its supporters' free speech.
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A YEAR AFTER INTRODUCING US TO BRADLEY MANNING, WIRED ATTEMPTS TO COME CLEAN BY RELEASING THE FULL chat logs between Adrian Lamo and the military analyst accused of spilling U.S. government secrets to WikiLeaks. But the chats' release only further muddy the tech publication's reputation.
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IT'S TELLING THAT AS THE MEDIA RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT BRADLEY MANNING'S MENTAL FITNESS there's nary a suggestion that the two U.S. helicopter pilots who neatly gunned down Iraqi civilians are sick.
That's because "crazy" depends largely on who has the power to define.
Republican Ron Paul Backs WikiLeaks' Right To Publish U.S. Government Documents
What Makes Bradley Manning Tick? The Psychology Of Whistleblowers
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LIGHTNING ROD JULIAN ASSANGE CALLS FACEBOOK A ''SPY MACHINE'' AND PEOPLE QUIVER AS THOUGH HE'S SAYING SOMETHING RADICAL. But any savvy citizen knows he speaks the obvious.
A database containing identifying information on an estimated 600,000 people is on its face a spy's ideal tool -- so much so that the Onion News Network spoofed the social network's relationship with the CIA. (Video embedded below.)
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ETHAN MCCORD IS ABOUT TO ENTER THE HISTORY BOOKS.
The 33-year-old Army specialist was one of six U.S. soldiers to first arrive at the horrific scene left when U.S. Apache gunners eviscerated a group of Iraqi men in an Iraqi suburb in July 2007. McCord was the soldier seen running with a 10-year-old boy in his arms on the now-notorious Collateral Murder video released last April by the radical transparency group WikiLeaks.
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WIKILEAKS IS MAKING FREE SPEECH A FASHION STATEMENT. The secrets-busting organization is now selling T-shirts and other gear to help finance its operation.
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WIKILEAKS' FOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE WEARS A LOT OF LABELS THESE DAYS: freedom fighter, anarchist, paranoid, cypherpunk, mad scientist, douchebag, rapist. Now add another to the list: cat tormentor.
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NOW COMES WORD THAT TWITTER MAY HAS DISTINGUISHED ITSELF AMONG THE BIG THREE SOCIAL MEDIA GIANTS AS BEING respectful of users' rights to privacy.
The San Francisco micro blogging platform has legally challenged a U.S. government order to provide details of account activities of Julian Assange, U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning and three WikiLeaks activists without informing the account holders.
"It appears that Twitter, as a matter of policy, does the right thing in wanting to inform their users when one of these comes in," said Rop Gonggrijp, a WikiLeaks computer programmer.
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NOW THAT JULIAN ASSANGE HAS INKED A PUBLISHING DEAL FOR his memoirs for a reported $1.5 million, let's hope he hires fancypants financial wizards to lock it up on a trust -- and away from any potential governments hoping to convict him for publishing secret government documents.
Assange has signed with Alfred A. Knopf in the US and Canongate to release his autobiography in spring 2011. "I don't want to write this book, but I have to," Assange told Britain's Sunday Times.
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THE QUICKEST WAY TO CORRUPT JULIAN ASSANGE? Turn him into a celebrity.
Here Assange makes a cameo on Australia's The Juice News which delivers a snap lesson on the Iraq War and its information campaigns.
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THEY TEACH YOU IN JOURNALISM 101 THAT SEX SELLS, and media coverage of Julian Assange proves the lesson again.
Despite a four-year record of revealing governmental criminality, the audacious Aussie who challenged the US military machine is becoming a perpetual punchline for which every joke is about sex. He's become the Arthur Kade of cryptography.
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WHAT IS BARACK OBAMA'S ROLE IN THE U.S. ASSAULT ON WIKILEAKS, the media nonprofit that's threatening the secrets of the world's lone surviving old world superpower?
About the only thing attributed to Obama himself about the whistleblowing media's release of U.S. diplomatic cables is that it was "deplorable." The president has uttered little else on the subject although U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has signaled the administration's intent to prosecute Julian Assange.
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WIKILEAKER JULIAN ASSANGE IS DUE IN COURT THIS AFTERNOON IN THE U.K. on his bid for bail while he fights extradition to Sweden for questioning on charges of sexual misconduct. Protesters who support Assange are expected outside the Westminster courthouse.
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MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: WAR HAS BROKEN OUT BETWEEN THE PEOPLE AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. Operation Payback is engaged.
At stake: the right of citizens to challenge those who hold power in our name but betray the democratic values for which they allege to risk our soldiers' lives.
Journalists keep reporting that Julian Assange is locked up in a British jail -- without bail -- for having sex in Sweden without condoms. But even on their face, those claims are absurd.
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JULIAN ASSANGE HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR YOUR SINS.
Officially, he was picked up for questioning in Sweden about charges of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. But unofficially he's being targeted by US authorities because he falls outside their influence to halt the release of documents detailing the country's machinations on the world theater. And we as citizens have been happy to feed off the junk food that the media serves up daily in lieu of substantive reports and debate on the world's dilemmas.
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THE ASSAULT ON WIKILEAKS CONTINUES, WITH THE LATEST NEWS THAT JULIAN ASSANGE'S SWISS BANK HAS CLOSED HIS ACCOUNT ALLEGING HE GAVE ''FALSE INFORMATION'' WHEN HE OPENED IT. The news came just as the organization's latest Internet servers in Sweden reported coming under heavy attack, British police report receiving an updated warrant for Assange's arrest and online bookies are taking bets on Assange's fate.
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FINALLY A POLITICIAN WITH GRASS ROOTS POWER SPEAKS UP AGAINST THE ASYMMETRICAL WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST WIKILEAKS BY THE U.S.
"In a free society we're supposed to know the truth," Paul said Thursday to Fox Business host former Judge Andrew Napolitano. "In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it."
The former Libertarian and Republican presidential candidate spoke in the strongest language of support for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that any U.S. politician has used to date.
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SO FAR, AT LEAST, THE U.S. DIPLOMATIC CABLES SPLASHED across the world's most prestigious publications thanks to WikiLeaks reveal nothing so much as the personality flaws of the world's ruling class and in some cases the women that populate their lives.
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IF YOU PAY CLOSE ATTENTION, YOU CAN SEE THE SHADOWS OF MILITARY SPOOKS serving notice to Julian Assange that the screws are tightening around him.
A Swedish prosecutor announced early Thursday that she was seeking an arrest warrant for the founder of WikiLeaks under the ruse of wanting to interrogate him on rape charges. No matter that the so-called "rape" was consensual sex without a condom, and that the accuser targeted Assange for a dalliance like a "groupie" does a "rock star," according to one newspaper account.
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IN 1971, DANIEL ELLSBERG LEAKED A TOP-SECRET internal government document about the Vietnam War known as The Pentagon Papers, which confirmed to the public for the first time what many people had long suspected: the US government had lied.
While Lyndon Johnson had told the public he intended to deescalate the war effort, the Pentagon Papers revealed what he was actually doing: massively escalating and authorizing bombing missions into Cambodia and Laos.
Ellsberg risked jail time, assassination, being accused of treason -- everything -- in order to expose the truth to the world. It was the first tangible evidence ever that the government had flat-out lied to the people.
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THE HIGH-STAKES GAME OF GOTCHA BETWEEN WIKILEAKS AND THE U.S. has given Americans an unvarnished glimpse into our military bureaucracy's killer instinct and the risks that comes with threatening its supremacy.
Barely four years old, the whistleblowing organization has proved a gallant David against earth's Goliath states, spilling secrets of nations engaged in war and of corrupt officials enriching themselves at the expense of unknowing populations.
Read 20 Quotes From Julian Assange, The "World's Most Dangerous Man."
New Psy Ops Name Illustrates Dark Art's Spin.
The Journalist & The Hacker: Wired's Kevin Poulsen Takes Heat For Enabling Adrian Lamo's Addiction To Press.
What Makes Bradley Manning Tick? The Psychology Of Whistleblowers.
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HE MAY APPEAR PALE AND LANGUID ON THE TV SCREEN, but Julian Paul Assange is single-handedly reviving the Herculean idea that one man can change the world.
The founder of WikiLeaks has become both hero and outlaw in the span of three years as his whistleblowing organization has disclosed criminal behavior by bankers and government leaders, as well as release the private emails of Sarah Palin and internal documents of the Church of Scientology.
Most controversially, in April WikiLeaks released a classified video depicting the unprovoked shootings of a group of Iraqi men. And last weekend, in collaboration with three prestigious newspapers, the group published an estimated 90,000 internal U.S. military documents detailing the war in Afghanistan and propelling Assange into the crosshairs of the world's lens.
"I'm sure that Assange is now regarded as one of the very most dangerous men," says Daniel Ellsberg, an admirer of Assange who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers, "and he should be proud of that."
With admiration, Ellsberg calls Assange "a danger to governments, to withholding wrongfully information..."
As the world grapples with the fallout of the weekend's revelations, here are some quotes to help discern what makes Assange tick:
Read New Psy Ops Name Illustrates Dark Art's Spin.
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Gets Backing From Iceland's Parliament.
The Journalist & The Hacker: Wired's Kevin Poulsen Takes Heat For Enabling Adrian Lamo's Addiction To Press.
What Makes Bradley Manning Tick? The Psychology Of Whistleblowers.
WikiLeaks Tape Reveals Hint That US Ground Soldiers Were Troubled By Discovery.
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THE U.S. MILITARY BRASS IS PERFORMING A LITTLE PSY OPS on its own, changing the name of its psychological operations to Military Information Support Operations.
The change is intended to make the propaganda branches sound "less ominous,"’ but the new terminology is ticking off service personnel who practice the manipulative arts to benefit the U.S.
"I'm a psyop officer in afghanistan (sic) right now," wrote Mindbender at Wired. "…By pigeon-holing us into 'information,' the new name is either an attempt to limit us to the misperceived notion of 'leaflets' and 'loudspeaker' (which is but a very small fraction of our full capability), or some Orwellian attempt at subterfuge.
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THE PERIPATETIC JULIAN ASSANGE MAY FINALLY HAVE CAUSE TO SETTLE DOWN. Iceland's parliament has unanimously approved its intention to draft sweeping new media laws just as WikiLeaks' founder reveals he's preparing to release a video of a U.S. air strike in Afghanistan that left as many as 140 people dead.
Supporters of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative hope it will turn the island into an international sanctuary for journalists.
What Makes Bradley Manning Tick? The Psychology of Whistleblowers
The Journalist & The Hacker: Wired's Kevin Poulsen Takes Heat For Enabling Adrian Lamo's Addiction To Press
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THE CONVICTED HACKER WHO TURNED U.S. ARMY SPC. BRADLEY MANNING, 22, in to federal authorities for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks has made a career out of seeking his name in the headlines.
Adrian Lamo has spent his short life pulling off high-wire electronic break-ins and then notifying journalists to document his tracks.
"If he's part of a big story he wants it to be known," said Wired's Kevin Poulsen, himself a convicted hacker who once faced a charge of espionage for possessing a classified document.
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E XCERPTS OF CHAT LOGS BETWEEN U.S. ARMY INTELLIGENCE ANALYST BRADLEY MANNING and convicted hacker Adrian Lamo reveal more about Manning than that he leaked the now-notorious video showing U.S. helicopter gunners slaying Iraqi men and Reuters journalists.
Manning's comments also reveal a naive, isolated and disillusioned idealist who may have had altruistic motives -- traits that are common among whistleblowers, according to research on the subject. Currently in custody in Kuwait, Manning also confided to Lamo that he had forwarded as many as 260,000 diplomatic cables to Wikileaks. Government authorities are now trying to hunt down Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing organization, even though he has denied receiving such cables on Twitter.
In the excerpts published by Wired.com, Manning comes off as a serious-minded military analyst who becomes disheartened after a commanding officer ignored his analysis that a group of Iraqi detainees posed no threat to the Iraqi Federal Police.
"He didn't want to hear any of it," Manning wrote to Lamo on approximately on May 25. (Wired did not know the exact dates of the chats and estimated.) "He told me to shut up and explain how we could assist the FPs in finding MORE detainees."
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IF YOU WATCH CLOSELY THE CLASSIFIED VIDEO RELEASED BY WIKILEAKS SHOWING US servicemen gunning down a group of Iraqi men, there's a hint that military higher-ups recognized immediately upon arriving at the scene that something went amiss during the US engagement.
At 15:15 on the uncut version of the chilling video that Wikileaks has posted to YouTube, just as American ground troops arrive at the corner where a pile of men lay dead from shots fired from an Apache helicopter, a call goes out to all troops engaged in the area.
"Bushmaster all elements: Which element called in Crazyhorse to engage the eight elem-eight men team on top of a roof?"
The question, asked with the slightest sense of miff, is the only clue that ground personnel had their own questions upon arriving at the scene where US military engaged a gathering of men that included two Reuters journalists. And it's immediately followed by defensive remarks from the Apache helicopter crew known as Crazyhourse One-Eight.
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TO THOSE UNSCHOOLED IN THE EUPHEMISMS OF WAR, there is no dispute that the Iraqi men gunned down by Crazyhorse One-Eight of the U.S. Military were murdered.
Armed with no weapons visible at least to the untrained eye, and paying no attention to an Apache helicopter flying overhead, the men are relaxed as they gather on a clear Bagdad day in an area where there had been exchanges between the U.S. military and Iraqi insurgents earlier in the day. Two Reuters journalists, one carrying a long-lensed camera, walks among them.
Up in the sky, two military men saw something entirely different: Armed enemy combatants. They report to commanding officers seeing "five to six individuals with AK-47s" and request permission to "engage." Permission granted.
"Just fuckin', once you get on 'em, just open 'em up,'' says one American fighter. Bullets from a 30 millimeter cannon fire rip through the air. Within minutes, the human targets are dead. "Oh yeah, look at them dead bastards," says the shooter. One of the injured tries to drag himself away. Minutes later, a van pulls up, a man gets out and tries to help the injured man inside.
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