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janvier 07, 2011
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"Over the course of my visits to see Bradley in Quantico, it’s become increasingly clear that the severe, inhumane conditions of his detention are wearing on Manning. The extraordinary restrictions of Manning’s basic rights to sleep, exercise, and communicate under the Prevention of Injury order are unnecessary and should be lifted immediately."

— Protests grow over treatment of Bradley Manning - U.S. news - WikiLeaks in Security - msnbc.com

Tags: wikileaks Bradley Manning détention confinement Etats-Unis démocratie Droits de l'Homme torture Quantico prison

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janvier 04, 2011
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"In a letter dated Monday, Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR) argued that PFC Bradley Manning, who has been held in solitary confinement at the Marine Corps brig in Quantico for the past five months, may be the victim of political retribution. The group also suggested that the psychological damage Manning may be suffering from spending 23 hours a day alone may ruin his bid for a fair trial."

— Psychologists protest ‘inhumane, harmful’ treatment of Bradley Manning | Raw Story

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janvier 03, 2011
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"What WikiLeaks does, is inhabit the cracks in our democracy and their revelations hold up a mirror to those in authority and shows us all their true selves, speaking truth to power. For those, such as Rennie’s dining companion, who inhabit the world of the elite, courtesy of the taxpayer, we can see just how arrogant and out of date they are. Apart from the obvious, that if these guys were so good, we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in."

— The Hidden Meaning of the WikiLeaks Story - New Europe

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janvier 03, 2011
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"—SADDAM WISHED TO CONVEY AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO
PRESIDENT BUSH: IRAQ WANTS FRIENDSHIP, BUT DOES
THE USG? IRAQ SUFFERED 100,000’S OF CASUALTIES
AND IS NOW SO POOR THAT WAR ORPHAN PENSIONS WILL
SOON BE CUT; YET RICH KUWAIT WILL NOT EVEN ACCEPT
OPEC DISCIPLINE. IRAQ IS SICK OF WAR, BUT KUWAIT
HAS IGNORED DIPLOMACY. USG MANEUVERS WITH THE UAE
WILL ENCOURAGE THE UAE AND KUWAIT TO IGNORE
CONVENTIONAL DIPLOMACY. IF IRAQ IS PUBLICLY
HUMILIATED BY THE USG, IT WILL HAVE NO CHOICE
BUT TO “RESPOND,” HOWEVER ILLOGICAL AND SELF
DESTRUCTIVE THAT WOULD PROVE."

— Cable Viewer

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janvier 02, 2011
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"The U.S. is betraying one of its founding myths: freedom of information. And they are doing so now, because for the first time since the end of the cold war, they are threatened with losing worldwide control of information."

— WikiLeaks, Ideological Legitimacy and the Crisis of Empire

Tags: wikileaks mythe mythologie Etats-Unis information liberté liberté de la presse guerre froide

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décembre 30, 2010
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"Americans like to believe in American exceptionalism, that the United States is a force for good around the world, not just another country pursuing its interests via geopolitical horse-trading. This is part of why there is such a visceral public backlash against WikiLeaks — because it lays bare U.S. diplomacy in all its blunt, unromantic reality."

— U.S. Diplomats Aren’t Stupid After All - By Joshua Kucera | Foreign Policy

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décembre 30, 2010
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"The 1917 Act has a notorious history. It originally served to squelch opposition to World War I. It criminalized criticism of the war effort, and sent hundreds of dissenters to jail just for voicing their opinions. It transformed dissent into treason."

— My Parents Were Executed Under the Unconstitutional Espionage Act — Here’s Why We Must Fight to Protect Julian Assange | Civil Liberties | AlterNet

Tags: wikileaks 1917 Etats-Unis politique Espionage Act Julian Assange dissidence trahison patriotisme pacifisme guerre contestation

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décembre 28, 2010
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“If you gonna treat women as moral adult, and if you gonna take the issue of rape seriously, the person who’s engaging in what he thinks is consensual sex, has to be told “I don’t want this”. These women did not say “this is not consensual”, Assange was shocked (…) because he had no idea this wasn’t consensual sex. Miss A kept Assange in her home for the next four days and threw a party for him.”

YouTube - Naomi Wolf vs. Jaclyn Friedman: Feminists Debate on the Sexual Allegations Against Julian Assange

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décembre 27, 2010
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"And while it is clearly not run by journalists — and to a great extent relies on journalists at the New York Times, The Guardian and other news outlets to do the heavy lifting in terms of analysis of the documents it holds and distributes — I think an argument can be made that WikiLeaks is at least an instrument of journalism. In other words, it is a part of the larger ecosystem of news media that has been developing with the advent of blogs, wikis, Twitter and all the other publishing tools we have now, which Twitter founder Ev Williams I think correctly argued are important ways of getting us closer to the truth."

— Is What WikiLeaks Does Journalism? Good Question: Tech News «

Tags: wikileaks journalisme Premier amendement Etats-Unis Twitter débat démocratie information

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décembre 26, 2010
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He told the Sunday Times that he was forced to sign a deal worth more than £1m for his autobiography due to financial difficulties. “I don’t want to write this book, but I have to,” he said. “I have already spent £200,000 for legal costs and I need to defend myself and to keep WikiLeaks afloat.”

He will reportedly receive $800,000 dollars from Alfred A Knopf, his American publisher, while a British deal with Canongate is said to be worth £325,000. An estimated £1.1m will be generated from the deal, including serialisation, he said.

Legal costs for WikiLeaks and his own defence were approaching £500,000, he said. The decisions by Visa, MasterCard and PayPal to stop processing donations have cost the organisation £425,000, enough to fund WikiLeaks’ publishing operations for six months. At its peak the organisation was receiving £85,000 a day, he said.

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— Julian Assange to use £1m book deals for legal fight | Media | The Guardian

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décembre 26, 2010
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"WikiLeaks should be treated by our government as a terrorist organization, their goal from the start has been to damage the U.S standing in the world as the super power. For average Americans, lives are not yet directly impacted by the leaks, but the goal of the sites founder Julian Assange is to strip us of our credibility, and put us on the road to becoming a less powerful nation. Releasing classified documents is infuriating enough, but to have it masterminded by someone in another country screams espionage, and Assange should be captured, punished, and made an example of. Lives have been put in danger, and American diplomats, as well as our allies, have been compromised."

— Is WikiLeaks the Internet Al Queda? | What’s Hot Washington

Tags: wikileaks Al Qaeda terrorisme Etats-Unis diplomatie démocratie transparence

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décembre 26, 2010
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"Like many of the cables made public in recent weeks, those describing the drug war do not offer large disclosures. Rather, it is the details that add up to a clearer picture of the corrupting influence of big traffickers, the tricky game of figuring out which foreign officials are actually controlled by drug lords, and the story of how an entrepreneurial agency operating in the shadows of the F.B.I. has become something more than a drug agency. The D.E.A. now has 87 offices in 63 countries and close partnerships with governments that keep the Central Intelligence Agency at arm’s length."

— WikiLeaks Archive - Cables Show D.E.A.’s Global Reach - NYTimes.com

Tags: wikileaks DEA CIA FBI drogue corruption gouvernement révélation Etats-Unis