Wikileaks

This shameful abuse of Bradley Manning

March 2011
Daniel Elsberg

The WikiLeaks suspect's mistreatment amounts to torture. Either President Obama knows this or he should make it his business.

Wikileaks: Media Challenging Authority

December 2010

Wikileaks is a threat to powerful institutions because it adheres to the principles of an independent media, challenging authority and power.

Secrecy, Truth, & the Struggle for Peace & Justice: Reflections on the WikiLeaks Revelations

December 2010

The WikiLeaks saga demonstrates that secrecy plus power results in corruption and crime, and that an informed citizenry is essential to prevent our's from becoming a society where civil liberties are a pipe dream and torture is the norm.

Wikileaks: War, diplomacy and the search for Ban Ki-Moon's toothbrush

December 2010

The wikileak cables do not include shocking revelations that reverse our understanding of global issues, but they are an ineffably sad body of evidence that President Obama’s promise to change US' interaction on global stage remains unfulfilled.

Wikileaks Shows No "New Mind-Set" in US Foreign Policy

December 2010
Paul Jay, senior editor The Real News

Wikileaks have confirmed that Obama's promise of a new kind of diplomacy in the Middle East have little signs of substance.

The Wikileaks Afghan War Diary: More Evidence of a Failed Mission

August 2010

The leaks just fill in details of what we already knew: that the Afghan War is too costly to continue.

It's no secret what Pakistan's been doing with the Taliban

August 2010

British politicians "shock" over wiki-leaks shouldn't be taken seriously: Pakistan's ties to the Taliban have never been a secret.

Pentagon Papers 2.0: Afghanistan

July 2010

The Wikileaks Papers provide a treasure trove of new evidence of what we already knew: this war has already failed.