"WikiLeaks has a history of releasing information that — whatever you may think about how it was acquired — proves authentic and often reliable. We know that because, to my knowledge, no one has proved any of their documents fraudulent despite having great incentive and opportunity to do so. People and agencies whose documents have been leaked have, in arguing over them, conceded (usually tacitly) that they are what WikiLeaks purports them to be."READ MORE
Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage.Read more
The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial "Copenhagen accord", the unofficial document that emerged from the ruins of the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009.
Assange noted that Wikileaks also has material on Russian companies and politicians, pharamceutical companies, industrial espionage by the US, the energy industry, environmental issues, and finance.Staff problems have exacerbated the ongoing analysis of all this data including the defection of some staffers who objected, on moral grounds, to the previous revelations concerning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It seems to me that the most significant revelations from the massive WikiLeaks document dump is the apparent extent of Iran’s nefarious role in Iraq. Remember how we were always being told that the Bush administration was exaggerating the extent of Iranian influence with the Shia militia groups in order to push along a neocon plot to attack Iran? Well, an initial reading of the documents conducted by the New York Times indicates there wasn’t much exaggeration at all.Will Barack Obama admit extent of Iran's role in Iraq, laid bare by WikiLeaks?
Come to think of it, None other than Vice President Joe Biden said as recently as August:Iranian influence in Iraq is minimal. It’s been greatly exaggerated.So exactly how does that statement square with this from the NYT?The reports make it clear that the lethal contest between Iranian-backed militias and American forces continued after President Obama sought to open a diplomatic dialogue with Iran’s leaders and reaffirmed the agreement between the United States and Iraq to withdraw American troops from Iraq by the end of 2011.
The reports in the archive disclosed by WikiLeaks offer an incomplete, yet startlingly graphic portrait of one of the most contentious issues in the Iraq war — how many Iraqi civilians have been killed and by whom.A Grim Portrait of Civilian Deaths in Iraq
The reports make it clear that most civilians, by far, were killed by other Iraqis.
In Iraq the situation was different. Terrorists alienated the population with their brutality, while the government and U.S. forces offered brighter and more viable alternatives. By the time the surge started, Awakening tribes were already chasing down al-Qaeda.Realities, rules, relationships won't help surge succeed
WikiLeaks claims it aims to protect civilians in wartime. Instead it has endangered untold numbers of Afghans who are willing to help fight the Taliban. It says its actions can bring transparency to government, but these leaked reports may ultimately cause less information to be tracked and shared.WikiLeaks and 'War Crimes'
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