Time to Sanction the Kremlin’s Ministry of Truth
When media platforms obey their paymasters’ orders to become complicit in their crimes, they are no longer media.
Julian Assange
The Anatomy of an Evolving Threat: Publication of Classified Information
Fast-paced technological advances have, for decades, been causing wrenching changes to national security and international affairs that are generally unappreciated until a crisis arrives. And eve...
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Is Jemima Khan Using Relativism to Defend Polygamy?
Back at the Sunday Times, Jemima Khan writes that polygamy is on the rise among Muslims in Great Britain....
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Ayman al Zawahiri’s New Video Messages
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri released a new two-part installment of his video series focusing on Egypt, which was posted on Oct. 24. It seems there was a delay in releasing this installment,...
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Wake Up Call for Swedish Social Democrats: Julian Assange is Friendly with Dictators!
This is what you get from reading Karin Olsson's impassioned defense of her country&#...
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Read Me If You Can: Censorship Today
You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom Nick Cohen (London: Fourth Estate, 2012) If I complacently accept the idea that...
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Bradley Manning is No Gay Hero
From 1916, when the United States military first expressly prohibited homosexuals, until the 1993 passage of "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT), gay men and women were considered psychologi...
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Israel’s Unity Deal and Lebanon
The surprise unity deal struck between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz has spurred a flurry of speculation, including in the Arab media, about its ultima...
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Caucus
On Oct. 14, 2010, two Israeli businessmen sat down to a lavish supra, or feast, in the Georgian Black Sea resort town of Batumi. Rony Fuchs and Ze’ev Frenkiel were there at the behest of Ni...
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Over There: The Occupiers, Seen from Europe
Viewing the Occupy Wall Street movement from post-Communist Europe, I can’t stop thinking of October 1917. This date, when the Bolsheviks seized power from the Russian Provisional...
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What Drives Celebrity Anti-Semitism?
In a span of several weeks, a motley group of celebrities ranging from the composer of "Zorba the Greek" to a British fashion designer to an American television actor - as well as the Australian...
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No Gitmo for Julian Assange, State Department Says
State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley wrote the following on his Twitter page early this morning: The claim by the lawyer for #JulianAssange that his client could g...
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Julian Assange Isn’t Going to Gitmo
Here is a new myth about Guantanamo. The attorneys for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claim that if Assange is extradited to Sweden he may end up detained in Cuba. The Guardian (UK) reports:...
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How to Get Julian Assange
Julian Assange is the impresario of the WikiLeaks cyber-war against the United States. By disclosing national defense secrets allegedly purloined by a rogue soldier, he has damaged American comba...
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WikiLeaks: Fishing With Dynamite
Pity the U.S. diplomats in the field, whose jobs presumably require that they now compose classified cables reporting back to Washington on local responses to the blunter aspects of their own wik...
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I’ll See Your Cyberwar and Raise You One Subpoena
Referring to the feckless cease-and-desist letter the State Department's Harold Koh sent to Wikileaker Julian Assange, Jonah aptly...
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The Art and Romance of the Diplomatic Cable
With Wikileaks's most recent release of official U.S. documents, I experienced again one of the best things about having left government service: I don’t have to read State Department...
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Is There a Right to Know?
Why redact anything? That is the question that springs to mind in reading the self-justification offered by the New York Times for lending its megaphone to Wikileaks. The paper is now pu...
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Julian Assange’s Narrative Shouldn’t be the Media’s
The world is once again anticipating a massive leak of classified documents by WikiLeaks. The U.S. State Department is so concerned that it has published a letter addressed to the head of WikiLea...
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Misreporting Iraq’s Casualties
Early Friday evening I received a link, via email, to this story at ABC News’s website by Russell Goldman and Luis Martinez. The opening sentences read (emphasis added):...