Wikileaks Afghanistan War Logs 'a very very big story'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9842/
Wikileaks reveals civilian deaths caused and covered up by US military
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9843/
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Human Rights Watch (HRW): US: Confused, Alone, and in Legal Limbo
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/07/26-4
The End of (Military) History? The US, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/29-6
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Leakistan: The new insurgency
The New Republic
by Andrew J. Bacevich
07/25/10
The leaks are unlikely to affect the course of events on the ground. However, they may well affect the debate over the war here at home. In that regard, the effect is likely to be pernicious, intensifying the already existing inclination to focus on peripheral matters while ignoring vastly more important ones. For months on end, Washington has fixated on this question: what, oh what, are we to do about Afghanistan? Implicit in the question are at least two assumptions: first, that something must be done; and, second, that if the United States and its allies can just devise the right approach (or assign the right general), then surely something can be done. Both assumptions are highly dubious. To indulge them is to avoid the question that should rightly claim Washington’s attention: What exactly is the point of the Afghanistan war?
http://tinyurl.com/2763h2d
The WikiLeaks war logs change everything
Salon
by Dan Gillmor
07/26/10
Whatever our keepers of intelligence secrets do know, and whatever abuses they’ve done to our civil liberties to learn them, they must feel less sure today about keeping it all contained. When that many people have access to information, however compartmentalized their bosses may think they’ve made the system, some of it will get out, which leads to something else we should worry about. … The WikiLeaks war diary will absolutely spur our powerful institutions to look for increasingly draconian ways to clamp down on how we share information. What WikiLeaks represents is what governments and corporations fear: a threat to their cultures of secrecy and dominance in their domains...
http://tinyurl.com/2g7ugya
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Courage Is Contagious: Whistleblower Guidelines
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/2c588c698299fe58?hl=en
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WikiLeaks: Time to Celebrate, Time to Mourn
Jeff Cohen, Truthout: "It's a big win for Internet-based, indie media that WikiLeaks.org posted its 'Afghan War Diary,' based on 90,000 leaked US military records detailing a failing war in which US and allied forces have repeatedly killed innocent civilians. This on-the-ground material is vaster than the Daniel Ellsberg-leaked Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War and was much faster in reaching the public."
http://www.truth-out.org/wikileaks-time-celebrate-time-mourn61742
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Julian+Assange
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=insurgen
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Human+Rights+Watch
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Ellsberg
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+J.+Bacevich
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Dan+Gillmor
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Jeff+Cohen
Wikileaks reveals civilian deaths caused and covered up by US military
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9843/
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Human Rights Watch (HRW): US: Confused, Alone, and in Legal Limbo
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/07/26-4
The End of (Military) History? The US, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/29-6
--------
Leakistan: The new insurgency
The New Republic
by Andrew J. Bacevich
07/25/10
The leaks are unlikely to affect the course of events on the ground. However, they may well affect the debate over the war here at home. In that regard, the effect is likely to be pernicious, intensifying the already existing inclination to focus on peripheral matters while ignoring vastly more important ones. For months on end, Washington has fixated on this question: what, oh what, are we to do about Afghanistan? Implicit in the question are at least two assumptions: first, that something must be done; and, second, that if the United States and its allies can just devise the right approach (or assign the right general), then surely something can be done. Both assumptions are highly dubious. To indulge them is to avoid the question that should rightly claim Washington’s attention: What exactly is the point of the Afghanistan war?
http://tinyurl.com/2763h2d
The WikiLeaks war logs change everything
Salon
by Dan Gillmor
07/26/10
Whatever our keepers of intelligence secrets do know, and whatever abuses they’ve done to our civil liberties to learn them, they must feel less sure today about keeping it all contained. When that many people have access to information, however compartmentalized their bosses may think they’ve made the system, some of it will get out, which leads to something else we should worry about. … The WikiLeaks war diary will absolutely spur our powerful institutions to look for increasingly draconian ways to clamp down on how we share information. What WikiLeaks represents is what governments and corporations fear: a threat to their cultures of secrecy and dominance in their domains...
http://tinyurl.com/2g7ugya
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
Courage Is Contagious: Whistleblower Guidelines
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/2c588c698299fe58?hl=en
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WikiLeaks: Time to Celebrate, Time to Mourn
Jeff Cohen, Truthout: "It's a big win for Internet-based, indie media that WikiLeaks.org posted its 'Afghan War Diary,' based on 90,000 leaked US military records detailing a failing war in which US and allied forces have repeatedly killed innocent civilians. This on-the-ground material is vaster than the Daniel Ellsberg-leaked Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War and was much faster in reaching the public."
http://www.truth-out.org/wikileaks-time-celebrate-time-mourn61742
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Vietnam
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=WikiLeaks
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Julian+Assange
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=insurgen
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Human+Rights+Watch
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Ellsberg
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+J.+Bacevich
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Dan+Gillmor
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Jeff+Cohen
rudkla - 27. Jul, 10:29
