The massive obituaries to Daniel Ellsberg at the weekend in both New York Times and Washington Post were proof of the status he held in the United States.
Only Presidents get that size of obituary.
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Dan Ellsberg maintained until the last his “respectability” in society as the “good whistleblower”.
Yet the publication of papers from Chelsea Manning and others, similar in so many ways to Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers, became demonised, then criminalised, and Julian became the “bad whistleblower”, or more accurately publisher of whistleblowers.
Now Dan Ellsberg totally rejected this characterisation. It infuriated him and he actively fought against it, including at Julian’s extradition hearing, on which see below.
But how did this process of characterisation happen?
To me, the fundamental point is that the United States achieved consensus that the Vietnam War had been a terrible mistake. It was fought in the interests of colonialism, for the suppression of a nation, and was ultimately unwinnable.
Thomas Drake: The Edward Snowden revelations broke when I was serving as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. I experienced firsthand the reality that secrecy in the service of national security is sometimes necessary in our nation’s surveillance programs. Unfortunately, I also saw that claims of secrecy can be used by our intelligence agencies to spy on Americans without warrants and in violation of the Constitution.
"the government argues that upstream surveillance is too secret for Wikimedia’s case to go forward, invoking the “state secrets privilege” and claiming that any use of sensitive evidence to defend the case could hurt national security. In a split decision, a federal appeals court threw out the case citing state secrets."
President Joe Biden has followed in Donald Trump's footsteps in pursuing prosecution of Julian Assange. That's dangerous. By Stephen Rohde, constitutional lawyer, author and past chair of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, in Chicago Tribune 27 Sept 2022
<strong>Editorial:</strong> Priti Patel could have turned down the American request. By not doing so she dealt a blow to press freedom Fri 17 Jun 2022 17.34 BST
Kit Klarenberg Jun 18 /22
British Home Secretary Priti Patel has signed off on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the US. His legal team now has just 14 days to appeal the decision, which journalist Peter Hitchens rightly branded “a total and unmitigated disgrace” shaming Britain. If unsuccessful, he faces up to 175 years in a supermax prison.
That an FBI official who played a key role in concocting false accusations against Assange now "reports” or “analyzes” that very same case under the logo of NBC News says more about the institutional corruption of these news outlets than thousands of articles could ever get close to.
The WikiLeaks publisher, 50, who is being held on remand Belmarsh Prison in London while fighting extradition to America, was left with a drooping right eyelid and signs of neurological damage.
23Sep, 2021
Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, has called on the Prime Minister to use his Washington trip to negotiate the release of Australian journalist Julian Assange with his new partners in the AUKUS alliance.
“Mr Assange should be at home with his young family, watching his two little boys grow up,” Mr Wilkie said. “But instead he’s languishing in one of the United Kingdom’s most notorious prisons after recently losing a British High Court battle to stop the United States Government from expanding its appeal against an earlier refusal to allow his extradition. A full appeal hearing is expected next month.
Schweizer Monat , Februar 2020: The case of Wikileaks-founder Julian Assange epitomizes a contemporary fall from the rule of law. An indictment by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.
March 30th, 2019 By Whitney Webb The story behind the decision to shutter its Snowden archive suggests issues of cost were unlikely to have been behind the action.
Ledare i The Guardian 18 December 2020
<strong>Editorial:</strong> The US should never have brought the case against the WikiLeaks founder. This attack on press freedom must be rejected
By Maxine Walker The 18 December Guardian editorial on Julian Assange has been welcomed by many and shared widely. Although the Guardian has previously stated that it opposes Julian Assange’s extradition it has always been accompanied by so many attacks on the man, that it carried little weight. This is the first unequivocal statement that…
Dec 2020: Nils Melzer, the UN special rapporteur on torture, demanded an end to Assange's decade-long 'arbitrary detention' and called the Australian's imprisonment 'unlawful'.
During this week’s commemoration of the attacks on Japan, Nozomi Hayase spotlights the courage of two journalists — Wilfred Burchett and Julian Assange — who sacrificed their own freedom to expose war crimes.
War Crimes, Empire and the
Prosecution of the Free Press
By Nozomi Hayase
Special to Consortium News
Jag [Rolf Nilsson , vänsterpartist i Kristianstad] har tillskrivit [jan 2020] Vänsterpartiet om deras syn på hur fallet Assange hanteras och fått följande svar av politiske sekreteraren Olle Svahn:
”Vänsterpartiet har inte tagit något initiativ motsvarande brevet du länkar till och vad jag vet så finns inga förslag om att göra det. Vi ser inga anledningar i att tvivla på att det brittiska rättssystemet hanterar frågan korrekt och vi förutsätter att det kommer att agera enligt folkrätten och med respekt för Assanges mänskliga rättigheter.” (min kursivering).
ett öppet brev 3 december [2019] till “Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic, European Commission for Human Rights European Communion” (Europarådets kommissionär för mänskliga rättigheter) av förre socialdemokratiske riksdagsmännen professor Sven Britton, medlem i Tro och Solidaritet och Evert Svensson, tidigare mångårig ordförande för Broderskapsrörelsen och medlem i Tro och Solidaritet. Det publiceras efter tillstånd från Sven Britton.
Brevet har även skickats till inrikesminister Mikael Damberg. Det var Broderskapsrörelsen, numera Socialdemokrater för Tro och Solidaritet, STS, som 2010 bjöd in Assange till Sverige.
About Doctors for Assange We are a group of doctors from around the world that formed in October 2019 to voice our serious concerns about the health of Julian Assange and to condemn the violations of his right to be free from torture, right to health, and right to doctor-patient confidentiality. In the News ‘Julian […]
Toimittajajärjestöjen mukaan Assangen luovutus olisi iso ennakkotapaus, joka uhkaisi sanan- ja lehdistönvapautta. MTV:n juttu 23.2.2020 jossa haastateltavina Jrmo Mäkelä ja Heikki Patomäki
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Amazon is the leading cloud provider for the United States intelligence community. In 2013, Amazon entered into a $600 million contract with the CIA to build a cloud for use by intelligence agencies working with information classified as Top Secret. Then, in 2017, Amazon announced the AWS Secret Region, which allows storage of data classified up to the Secret level by a broader range of agencies and companies. Amazon also operates a special GovCloud region for US Government agencies hosting unclassified information.
| Roy Greenslade, The Guardian February 2, 2020: The aim of the charges is to halt whistleblowers and stop journalists giving them a platform.
Roy Greenslade is professor of journalism at City University and a Guardian columnist. He was editor of the Daily Mirror from 1990 to 1991
... Fight with the truth Skewed and partial e-mails do not disprove anthropogenic climate change. Gavin Schmidt of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studi...
Vad passar bättre på FN-dagen än att ta del av den Brittiska utlämningsprocessen mot Julian Assange. Han synes ha blivit berövad sina mänskliga rätti...
22 October, 2019. What we witnessed yesterday was a naked demonstration of the power of the state, and a naked dictation of proceedings by the Americans, writes Craig Murray.
Julian Assange, editor of Wikileaks, faces the danger of being handed over to the US. Since 2012 Assange has taken refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, the country that granted him the right to asylum. For a decade now, Assange has been the object of legal persecution and media harassment, largely under fabricated pretexts. Deep down, it is clear that Wikileaks is not
The Unity4J online vigil, which took place over the weekend, saw the participation of renowned activists, journalists, whistleblowers and even filmmakers who came together - despite vastly different personal and political backgrounds - to support efforts to reconnect and free WikiLeaks Editor-In-Chi
As part of a unique global event "First they came for Assange..." which on the 19th of June 2016 simultaneously took place in 14 cities worldwide, Brussels' ...
Slavoj ZiZek: Julian Assange has been silenced again, and the timing is most suspicious. With the Cambridge Analytica story dominating the news, it seems some powerful people have reasons to keep the brave WikiLeaks boss quiet right now.
SORM is the technical infrastructure for surveillance in Russia. It dates back to 1995 and has evolved from SORM-1 (capturing telephone and mobile phone communications) and SORM-2 (interception of Internet traffic, 1999) to the current SORM-3. SORM now collects information from all forms of communication, providing long-term storage of all information and data on subscribers, including actual recordings and locations. In 2014, the system was expanded to include social media platforms, and the Ministry of Communications ordered companies to install new equipment with Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) capability. In 2016, SORM-3 added additional classified regulations that apply to all Internet Service providers in Russia. The European Court for Human Rights deemed Russia's SORM legislation in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights in 2015 (Zakharov v. Russia).
WikiLeaks held a Reddit AMA[ask-me-anything] following the conclusion of the 2016 presidential election, and many users had tough questions for the controversial document sharing site
Hon tar över på statstelevisionen. Nyligen beslutade Hanna Stjärne, 45, att ge Guldspaden till kriminella Researchgruppen.
Researchgruppen har i media beskrivits som ett "journalistkollektiv", men i en större granskning kunde Fria Tider visa att det istället rör sig om ett rent kriminellt nätverk. Frontfigurerna är våldsdömda vänsterextremister som ägnar sig åt att kartlägga sina meningsmotståndare och behandlar de enorma mängder känsliga personuppgifter de har tillgång till som "tips om folk att misshandla".
Sept-2015: video interview w WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange... has opened up about his new book, 'The WikiLeaks Files,' speaking about the 'US empire' and telling RT's 'Going Underground' program that Washington had plans to overthrow Syria's government long before the 2011 uprising began.
"I see WikiLeaks as a library. We’re the librarians who can’t say no."—Julian Assange. Features many of WikiLeaks' publications, from Collateral Murder to Cablegate, Sony Archives to SpyFiles.
"One must keep in mind that the WikiLeaks cables don’t offer glimpses of the more covert activities of US intelligence agencies, and are likely only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Washington’s political interference in the region. Still, the cables provide ample evidence of US diplomats’ persistent, determined efforts to intervene against independent left governments in Latin America, using financial leverage, the manifold instruments available in the “democracy promotion” toolbox — and sometimes even through violent and illegal means." (Alexander Main and Dan Beeton work at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. They are contributors to The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire.)
8.2.2011 Sedan kort tid tillbaka finns nu hela häktningspromemorian i fallet Julian Assange. Den inkluderar förhör med de båda kvinnorna, plus förhör med hela nio vittnen. Flera av förhören är en juridisk-politisk bomb, eftersom det finns minst tre, fyra olika versioner av vad som hände. Det kommer att göra det mycket svårt för en svensk domstol att döma i fallet och åklagaren står därmed med mycket svaga kort.
Dagens Arena-ledare 8.4.2010, av Nisha Beshara. Mer i Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrike) och Wikileaks, som publicerade den 40 min långa hemligstämplade videon.
Den amerikanska militärledningen ackrediterad av Vita huset är de faktiska parter som i verkligheten iscensätter dödandet av både amerikanska unga män i tjugoårsåldern iklädda uniform samt fattiga civila i Mellanöstern. Wikileaks påvisar detta uppenbara
Wikileaks grundare Julian Assange är på sannolika skäl misstänkt för våldtäkt och ett ofredande mot två kinnor under sitt besök i Sverige. – Han är anhållen i sin frånvaro, bekräftar Maria Häljebo Kjellstrand, jourhavande åklagare i Stockholm, för DN.se.
Verkligheten snurrar och vänder fort. När jag vid lunchtid i fredags lämnade en krönika om sajtens Wikileaks och dess grundare Julian Assanges roll i medieutvecklingen (som publicerades i lördagens DN kultur) var han alltjämt symbolen för sajtens globala
. 22.8.2010. "Först kungörs att Assange på sannolika skäl (=den högre misstankegraden) är misstänkt för och anhållen i sin frånvaro bl a för våldtäkt. Lite senare är anhållningsbeslutet hävt och det finns inte längre skäl att misstänka honom för våldtäkt.
afp/svd aug 2010: Den thailändska regeringen har tagit bort tiotusentals dokument från internet under de senaste åren – främst på grund av förolämpningar mot kungahuset. Ett brott som i Thailand kan resultera i 15 års fängelse. En speciell it-brottsenhet
PLEASE TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THAT THE PEOPLE THAT INITIATED THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST ANNA ARDIN ARE RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS AND NAZIS!!! Everyone has the right to be ”innocent until proven guilty”, Anna Ardin too! Please remember that!
Frustrated investigators might have chosen to leak information that their superiors bottled up, perhaps averting the terrorism attacks. By Coleen Rowley and Bogdan Dzakovic October 15, 2010
By Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter October 22, 2010 | 5:35 pm | Categories: Bradley Manning, Wikileaks The secret-spilling website WikiLeaks released almost 400,000 U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War on Friday, marking the largest military leak in
SPIEGEL: You quit your job because of WikiLeaks. What will you do now? Schmitt: I will continue to do my part to ensure that the idea of a decentralized whistleblower platform stays afloat. I will work on that now. And that, incidentally, is in line with
What is Wikileaks? In 2006 a loose association of anti-censorship activists, lawyers and internet experts realised that the combination of the internet and sophisticated new anonymity tools could create a whistleblowers' haven where sensit
The Frago 242 War Logs, by Tom Burghardt 24 Oct, 2010 Called "Frago 242" reports for "fragmentary orders," the military files summarized thousands of events. When alleged abuse was committed by an Iraqi on another Iraqi, "only an initial report will be
The Guardian, 16 Oct 2010: "Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Austral
Opinion by Christian Whiton 25 Oct 2010: "First and foremost, it is important to understand that this is a serious challenge to our national security. It’s not about government transparency or free speech, which is the claim WikiLeaks and its leader, a ce
Sam Jones, The Guardian, 26 Oct 2010. "Christian Whiton says whistleblowing website presents serious challenge to national security after leak of Iraq war logs"
The Independent 26 Oct 2010: "We still haven't got to the bottom of the WikiLeaks story, and I rather suspect that there are more than just a few US soldiers involved in this latest revelation. Who knows if it doesn't go close to the top?"
"WikiLeaks is currently underoing scheduled maintenance. We will be back online as soon as possible. For status updates you can follow our twitter feed." (http://www.collateralmurder.com/)
The Reykjavik cable that Wikileaks published is an example of a reporting cable. The cable, dated January 13, memorialized meetings between U.S. and Icelandic government officials over that country’s Icesave banking scandal. The cable revealed that Icelan
27 November 2010 Last updated at 04:48 GMT Wikileaks: US warns allies on potential diplomatic leak War Logs website that organised some of the earlier Wikileaks Wikileaks has previously released documents relating to Iraq and Afghanistan The US has briefe
Wikileaks avslöjanden drabbar nu även i viss mån den ryska eliten. Av den senaste skörden offentliggjorda telegram framgår att Ryssland varit berett att avstå från att leverera mot S-300 missiler till Iran i utbyte mot USA:s godkännande av ett ryskt köp