Osama Bin Laden what really happened to his body?

Internal emails from the intelligence firm Stratfor, which offers services to major international corporations, as published by WikiLeaks, suggest that Osama bin Laden’s body may have been brought to America after he was killed by US Navy Seals. The emails were obtained in an attack on Stratfor’s servers by the Anonymous movement. In one email, […]

Julian Assange the man and the sound of suffering

Though Julian Assange is a household name now, little was known about him before July 2010, when he dominated breaking international headlines when his site WikiLeaks published a trove of classified U.S. documents about the Afghanistan war. What kind of man is Assange, who founded WikiLeaks in 2006, and in 2010, was voted Person of […]

Julian Assange WikiLeaks hero or hellion?

Since the summer of 2010, Julian Assange has become a pop culture fixture, a self-appointed champion of free speech, the suspect in a Swedish sex crimes investigation and a man who says he’s keeping afloat a financially strapped Web operation that has mightily ticked off the U.S. government. Assange’s final stage in an extradition fight […]

The irony of Bradley Manning and his act of conscience

President Obama tried for months to extend U.S. military involvement in Iraq beyond the December 31, 2011 deadline. Negotiations between Obama and the Iraqi government broke down when Iraq refused to grant criminal and civil immunity to U.S. troops. It was after seeing evidence of war crimes such as those depicted in “Collateral Murder” and […]

Wikileaks – Bradley Manning calls for a new judge

A hearing for Bradley Manning, the Army private suspected of being behind the biggest intelligence leak in U.S. history, began Friday morning but almost immediately went into recess after Manning’s attorney asked the investigating officer to recuse himself. Attorney David Coombs said Lt. Col. Paul Almanza, the presiding officer, should step down. Among Coombs four […]

Julian Assange and WikiLeaks comeback

In the past few days, the WikiLeaks saga has taken two sharp turns. On Thursday, 287 documents appeared on the WikiLeaks site about the global surveillance and arms industry. The dump provided many documents to mine, and it’s still unclear what they might all mean. The Washington Post and other outlets called it a comeback […]

WikiLeaks cable portrays IAEA chief as in US court concerning Iran nuclear program

The new chief of the UN nuclear agency, Yukiya Amano, is portrayed in leaked US diplomatic cables as “solidly in the US court” on Iran. A 2009 American diplomatic cable indicates Amano to be in lockstep with key aspects of US policy. The cable reportedly stated: “Amano reminded [the] ambassador on several occasions that he […]

Julian Assange to be extradited to Sweden

Julian Assange, the 40-year-old founder and public face of the website WikiLeaks, lost his battle Wednesday to stay in the United Kingdom and avoid extradition to Sweden to face questioning over sex charges. Since the summer of 2010, when WikiLeaks began releasing reams of classified U.S. intelligence documents, Assange has stoked the ire of top […]

WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning

The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks said it was suspending publishing classified US diplomatic files to focus on fundraising “to ensure our future survival”. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that because of a financial “blockade” mounted by Visa, Mastercard and other companies, it was “now forced to temporarily suspend its publishing operations and aggressively fundraise”. He said […]

Occupy protests spread to cities worldwide

Thousands of people across the world railed against corporate power, grinding poverty, and government cuts as the Occupy Wall Street movement spread to the streets of Europe, Asia and Australia. United for Global Change — the central site for the movement organizing worldwide protests — said 951 cities in 82 countries were to take part […]