Archive - 2010-10 (October 2010)

• 2010-10-01: PBS: Daniel Ellsberg: The most dangerous man in America. Introduction and trailer to the new PBS documentary.
• 2010-10-06: Salon: Times Square bomber: Cause and effect in the War on Terror. Glenn Greenwald on how the US "actions in the Muslim world -- ostensibly undertaken to combat Terrorism -- do more than anything else to spur Terrorism and ensure its permanent continuation."
• 2010-10-15: Los Angeles Times: WikiLeaks and 9/11: What if? FBI special agent Coleen Rowley and former FAA special agent and whistleblower Bogdan Dzakovic on how WikiLeaks could have averted the 9/11 attacks by giving frustrated investigators an outlet to make their findings public.
• 2010-10-17: Salon: How propaganda is disseminated: WikiLeaks Edition. Glenn Greenwald's point-by-point analysis on "how the U.S. government and American media jointly disseminate propaganda."
• 2010-10-18: Reuters: Pentagon cautions news media on WikiLeaks documents. "News organizations should be cautioned not to facilitate the leaking of classified documents with this disreputable organization known as WikiLeaks," Pentagon spokesman Col. David Lapan said.
• 2010-10-22: Fabius Maximus: The US government successfully smears Wikileaks, while America sleeps. "US government operations grind down Wikileaks and its best known member, Julian Assange. All smoothly done. But such success requires our disinterest and passivity. Fortunately for our rulers, these are notable characteristics of most 21st century Americans."
• 2010-10-23: The New York Times: WikiLeaks Founder Gets Support in Rebuking U.S. on Whistle-Blowers. Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg joins Julian Assange at Iraq War Logs release press conference.
• 2010-10-23: El País: Cómo navegar por los 'papeles de Irak' (How to navigate the Iraq War Logs). El País guide to WikiLeaks' "Diarydig" app.
• 2010-10-23: Juanelo: WikiLeaks cartoon on the Pentagon reaction to the Iraq War Logs release.
• 2010-10-24: El País: Cita secreta con el hombre que hace temblar al Pentágono (A secret meeting with the man who makes the Pentagon tremble). An in-depth interview with Julian Assange by Joseba Elola.
• 2010-10-24: El País: ANÁLISIS: Los 'papeles' del conflicto iraquí: La rutina del horror (Analysis: The Iraq conflict documents: The normalcy of horror). Miguel Gonzáles on the Iraq War Logs.
• 2010-10-24: El País: Los crímenes de Irak se revelan al mundo (The crimes in Iraq are revealed to the world). Walter Oppenheimer on the revelations in the Iraq War Logs.
• 2010-10-24: Roads to Iraq: WikiLeaks documents in the Arab media. English translations of Arab media coverage of Iraq War Logs release.
• 2010-10-24: The First Post: WikiLeaks latest: Assange has helped serve the truth. "What Assange has achieved is to shift the axis of the information war by the range and depth of his revelations. And authority seems unable to absorb this," writes Robert Fox
• 2010-10-25: Der Spiegel: A 'Dumb' War: Taking Stock of the Iraq Invasion. A three-part analysis by Alexander Smoltczyk and Bernhard Zand.
• 2010-10-25: Truthout: Now We Know. William Rivers Pitt on the undeniable proof that the WikiLeaks Iraq Logs brought about what many had suspected about the war.
• 2010-10-26: Huffington Post: Julian Assange: God of War Chaz Pazienza on the Iraq War Logs. Considerable corrections in the comments.
• 2010-10-26: Arab News: WikiLeaks affair: Why the truth matters. Osama Al Sharif on the significance of the Iraq War Logs release.
• 2010-10-27: The Nation: WikiLeaks and war spending. Laura Flanders: "The free press failed this weekend, with the Sunday talk shows ignoring the Iraq War Logs in order to talk horse race strategy for the upcoming elections."
• 2010-10-28: Die Tageszeitung: "Die Medien sind ein Desaster". German version of the El País interview with Julian Assange.
• 2010-10-28: The Hindu: More Iraq Lies Exposed. The Hindu editorial on the WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs revelations.
• 2010-10-28: The Intelligence: Ist Julian Assange ein Verräter? (Is Julian Assange a traitor?). "Wikileaks deserves full respect, support and protection. Australia has, by following the demands of the United States, enacted the betrayal of a citizen."
• 2010-10-28: BTC News: Celebrate 'Turn Yourself In To The FBI Day'. Weldon Berger on the latest censorship attempts and proposals against WikiLeaks.
• 2010-10-28: Foreign Policy: Popping the Military's Classification Bubble. "The vast majority of the WikiLeaks documents on Afghanistan shouldn't have been classified. I should know, I wrote some of them," writes Scott Bohlinger.
• 2010-10-28: BBC: US soldier on aftermath of WikiLeaks Apache attack . The BBC interviews former soldier and current IVAW activist Ethan McCord about the Apache attack and how what he saw impacted his life. (video included)
• 2010-10-28: The Vibe: Wikileaks Iraq War Logs – the first findings. "The publication of the US incidence military reports by Wikileaks brings some harsh truths to our attention," writes Georg Hoehne.
• 2010-10-29: AFP: Arab League urges action on WikiLeaks revelations. "These documents and what they have unveiled... constitute a crime equivalent to crimes against humanity and violations against the Iraqi people," said Ahmed ben Helli, the Cairo-based organisation's deputy security general.
• 2010-10-29: Antiwar / Tribune Media Services: Defying A Superpower. Robert Koehler applauds WikiLeaks for the bravery to bring the truth about Iraq into the light.
• 2010-10-29: The Atlantic: On 'Treason' and Julian Assange. James Fallows points out that foreign citizens can't by definition commit 'treason' against the US, as some have accused.
• 2010-10-29: Harper's: The Washington Post and WikiLeaks. Scott Horton debunks the WaPo's claim about the Iraq War Logs that "we've heard this all before."
• 2010-10-29: Salon: Jonah Goldberg wonders why Jason Bourne hasn't killed Julian Assange. Alex Pareene on the latest neocon fantasy.
• 2010-10-29: Salon: The wretched mind of the American authoritarian. "Decadent governments often spawn a decadent citizenry." Glenn Greenwald on Jonah Goldberg's "wondering" why Julian Assange hasn't been assassinated yet.
• 2010-10-29: CounterPunch: Xbox vs. WikiLeaks John Grant on Bradley Manning and Julian Assange: "They’re sticking their necks way out for us. We need to support them."
• 2010-10-30: American Journalism Review: Spreading Leaks Before WikiLeaks. Mark Feldstein: "In the 1970s, the course of greatest impact was Jack Anderson's column. Today, it is WikiLeaks. The lesson then, and now, is that when mainstream journalism doesn't uncover abuses, more radical muckraking activists will, sometimes influencing events in ways politicians and generals do not anticipate."
• 2010-10-30: La Vanguardia: ¿Quién teme a Wikileaks? (Who Is Afraid of WikiLeaks?). Manuel Castells on the impact of WikiLeaks, the Iraq War Logs and the establishment's reaction.
• 2010-10-31: Huffington Post: Let's Rally to Restore Peace. Marjorie Cohn on America's forgotten wars and the lack of media reactions to the WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs revelations.
• 2010-10-31: Boston Globe: US must accept responsibility. Globe editorial urges accountability for torture and abuse revealed in WikiLeaks disclosures.
• 2010-10-31: Zero Anthropology: WikiLeaks's Iraq War Logs: The US Goverment's Crisis of Legitimacy. Maximilian Forte on the Pentagon and State Department's reaction to the release of the Iraq War Logs.
• 2010-10-31: New Europe: Assuaging Assange: Taking WikiLeaks Seriously Report on the Iraq War Logs and the EU Parliament's ALDE Group (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) intention to raise the issue of torture and abuse at the EU-US Lisbon summit in November.