Archive - 2010-11 (November 2010)

Coverage in November 2010:

• 2010-11-01: The Big Issue: WikiLeaks founder is 'hero', says Afghanistan veteran and antiwar activist Joe Glenton.
• 2010-11-02: World Socialist: “The Iraq documents give a picture of the war that has been hidden until now” Interview with WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson.
• 2010-11-02: Periodismo Humano: Wikileaks, el Pentágono y la información, II. Part two of a series by war correspondent Olga Rodríguez.
• 2010-11-02: Huffington Post: Wikileaks Iraq documents raise critical questions. Human Rights First's international legal director Gabor Rona on the abuses revealed in the Iraq War Logs.
• 2010-11-03: Reason Gone Mad: "Enough About the War!" Bill Schein does a satirical take on the deafening silence of the US conversation about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• 2010-11-03: Tehran Times: Leaking the Truth. Chandra Muzaffar, President of JUST, writes in defense of WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning and Seymour Hersh.
• 2010-11-03: Svenska Dagbladet: Assange vill ha skadestånd. Julian Assange tells SvD he intends to sue the Swedish government for malpractice over handling of investigation.
• 2010-11-04: Open Democracy: Iraq, War and WikiLeaks: The Real Story. The tranche of American military documents released by the WikiLeaks project contains a wealth of detail about the coalition's indifference to civilian life. But the materials also tell a deeper story of “how” war has killed in Iraq, says Martin Shaw.
• 2010-11-04: Les Inrocks: Rencontre avec Julian Assange dans le bunker de WikiLeaks (A meeting with Julian Assange in the WikiLeaks bunker). Interview and teaser video for ARTE's new WikiLeaks documentary.
• 2010-11-04: El Universal: Wikileaks anuncia que revelará más documentos secretos. Report from Geneva press conference.
• 2010-11-04: Reuters: WikiLeaks urges U.S. to fully examine abuses Report from Geneva press conference.
• 2010-11-04: TSR: Julian Assange compte demander l'asile en Suisse. Report from Geneva press conference, including video interview with Julian Assange on TSR.
• 2010-11-04: 20 Minuten: Assange geisselt US-Haltung zu Folterungen. Report from Geneva press conference.
• 2010-11-04: Le Matin: Visite sous haute surveillance. A report from Julian Assange's visit to Geneva.
• 2010-11-05: Reuters: WikiLeaks urges U.S. to fully examine abuses. Report from Geneva press conference.
• 2010-11-05: TSR: Julian Assange compte demander l'asile en Suisse. Report from Geneva press conference, including a video interview with Julian Assange.
• 2010-11-05: The Telegraph: Wikileaks says US must open up. Report from Geneva press conference
• 2010-11-05: The Guardian: Iraqis take fight for 'torture' inquiry to high court. Public Interest Lawyers group, acting for more than 140 Iraqi civilians who allege they suffered torture and degrading treatment at the hands of British soldiers and interrogators, go to the High Court seeking a wide-ranging public inquiry.
• 2010-11-06: L'Express: WikiLeaks: La guerre contre le secret, une enquête de Luc Hermann et Paul Moreira. Review of the new ARTE Reportage documentary on WikiLeaks.
• 2010-11-08: Al Jazeera: No more rage against the machine. Mark LeVine on the public's lack of anger at the horrors revealed in the latest Wikileaks Iraq war logs.
• 2010-11-08: El Modernísimo: ¿El regreso de Estados Unidos al multilateralismo en materia de Derechos Humanos? A report on the UN UPR session on US human rights, and Julian Assange's conference at the UN on this occasion.
• 2010-11-09: Global Times: The Price of Truth is Always Worth Paying". An interview with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and Iraq veteran Josh Stieber about WikiLeaks and the Iraq War Logs.
• 2010-11-09: MediaLens: WikiLeaks: The Smear and the Denial, Part II. The continuation of an in-depth analysis of media reactions to WikiLeaks.
• 2010-11-09: Marianne: Wikileaks, qui veut la peau de Julian Assange? (Who Wants Julian Assange's head?) Flore Vasseur examines the media reaction to WikiLeaks.
• 2010-11-10: TIME magazine: Who Will Be TIME's 2010 Person of the Year?. Julian Assange is on the list. (And while you're there, vote for him in TIME's online poll!)
• 2010-11-10: Honolulu Weekly: Nixon's Ghosts. An interview with celebrated Pentagon Papers whisleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
• 2010-11-11: Consortium News: WikiLeaks Ban or Global Secrecy Act? David H. Kerby on Sen John Ensign's (R-NV) proposal to amend the Espionage Act and its implications.
• 2010-11-11: Truthout: The Things That Come Apart in War. Vietnam veteran Davidson Loehr on the realities of war and the WikiLeaks revelations.
• 2010-11-11: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin: Die gefährlichste Webseite der Welt (The Most Dangerous Website in the World). A 3-page special on WikiLeaks.
• 2010-11-11: Institute for Peace, Justice and Human Rights: Rapport de visite de M. Julian Assange en Suisse: Le témoin qui dérange, and Le fondateur de WikiLeaks à Genève, invité par l'IIPJDH. Two reports from Julian Assange's visit to Geneva in early November.
• 2010-11-12: Zero Anthropology: Wikileaks Roundup: Man of the Year, Assange the Swede, Blocked at Harvard, Telling the Truth. Maximilian Forte looks at "a short selection of Wikileaks-related articles from the past week or so that range from the amusing to the distressing."
• 2010-11-12: NY Law School: Wikileaks Has Committed No Crime The messenger shooters certainly don't seem able to find one.
• 2010-11-12: AFP: WikiLeaks registers company in Iceland. The new firm appears to be WikiLeaks' first known legal presence in a country.
• 2010-11-12: Army Times: 'Pentagon Papers' leaker to speak. Daniel Ellsberg will talk about standing up to government secrecy and WikiLeaks on Saturday in Honolulu.
• 2010-11-14: Noticiero Digital: Julian Assange, el derecho de conocer la verdad (Julian Assange and the right to know the truth). Simón Alberto Consalvi thinks that "No revolution will be more powerful and have more adherents than the revolution in transparency."
• 2010-11-15: Die Tageszeitung: Das Ideal der Selbstaufklärung (The Ideal of Self-Enlightenment). Peter Monnerjahn on journalism, WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs coverage, false objectivity, and why service to society requires us to take a stand.
• 2010-11-15: Tom Spender: WikiLeaks Puts ICC Credibility on the Line. Afghanistan war logs leaked by Wikileaks could eventually be used in a war crimes trial with Americans in the dock, according to Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
• 2010-11-15: In These Times: War News Unfit for Print. Andrew Oxford looks at how US media reporting of the WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs has been strikingly different from the rest of the world.
• 2010-11-16: Village Magazine: Learning to like WikiLeaks. Dara McHugh on shield laws and why whistleblowers are important.
• 2010-11-16: Reuters: Interview: UN expert urges full U.S. torture investigation. Incoming UN rapporteur for torture says "the United States has a duty to investigate every act of torture. Unfortunately, we haven't seen much in the way of accountability."
• 2010-11-17: TruthDig: Wars Went MIA from Midterm Debates. Jon Dillingham on the absence from the US public debate of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• 2010-11-17: Intellectual Conservative: Does Julian Assange deserve to die? Vasko Kohlmayer takes on Jonah Goldberg's infamous op-ed: "Every morally sane person must reply in the negative."
• 2010-11-18: JTurn: Next Up: The “War on Journalism”? Jonathan Lundqvist writes an analysis of war in the 21st century, the relationship between the media and the military, the internet as a new domain for warfare and the role of WikiLeaks and the free press.
• 2010-11-18: Svenska Dagbladet: Julian Assange överklagar häktning (Julian Assange appeals detention ruling). SvD talks to Swedish attorney Björn Hurtig and prosecutor Marianne Ny.
• 2010-11-18: Index on Censorship: Index on Censorship responds to Julian Assange allegations. "We are extremely concerned at the apparent conduct of the investigators. Anyone concerned about free speech and human rights will be alarmed."
• 2010-11-18: Death and Taxes: The Assassination of Julian Assange?"Will this “character assassination” once again stand in for actual assassination?" of an inconvenient person, asks Alex Moore.
• 2010-11-18: Deutsche Welle: Swedish court orders arrest of WikiLeaks founder DW reports on warrant request approval.
• 2010-11-18: Svenska Dagbladet: Julian Assange kommer att efterlysas. Report on Stockholm District Court granting warrant request.
• 2010-11-18: The Guardian: WikiLeaks founder faces Swedish detention. News report an a short overview of the case so far.
• 2010-11-18: VG Nett: Vil etterlyse WikiLeaks-gründer internasjonalt (International warrant sought for WikiLeaks founder). Report and interview with Julian Assange's Swedish attorney, Björn Hurtig.
• 2010-11-18: Svenska Dagbladet: Julian Assange begärs häktad (Arrest sought for Julian Assange). One of the first reports of the Swedish prosecutor's office latest game move.
• 2010-11-19: The Voice of Russia: WikiLeaks case – state interests or democratic values?. "According to Alexander Perendzhiyev, Deputy Chairman of the Association of military political analysts, it is unlikely that the charges against Assange are coincidence."
• 2010-11-19: Arab News: A Different War. "We have heard of “war on terror” but this is “war on one who exposes crimes”," writes Sam Silva.
• 2010-11-19: Channel 4: Julian Assange to fight order for arrest. The WikiLeaks founder is to challenge a Swedish prosecutor's "bizarre and exotic" request for an international arrest warrant, his lawyer Mark Stephens tells Channel 4 News.
• 2010-11-19: The Voice of Russia: The Voice of Russia: WikiLeaks, Part 1. Full-blown protection. Ignat Kulagin looks at one of the cases disclosed in the Iraq War Logs, where US troops fired on surrendering Iraqis.
• 2010-11-19: OWNI: [Live] L’avocat d’Assange dénonce une procédure “illégale”. The OWNI team are live-blogging the events and conducting their own research. Includes comments from attorney Mark Stephens, Interpol and the Pentagon.
• 2010-11-19: Le Monde: WikiLeaks : M. Assange fait appel de son mandat d'arrêt en Suède (Mr. Assange appeals against arrest warrant). Björn Hurtig tells AFP he has filed an appeal against the warrant. An appelate court will be expected to make a decision relatively quickly.
• 2010-11-19: AFP/ABC News: WikiLeaks boss to challenge warrant. Julian Assange's attorney Mark Stephens tells AFP that an appeal will be filed.
• 2010-11-20: ABC (Paraguay): Wikileaks: ¿qué importa al periodismo? (WikiLeaks: why does it matter for journalism?). ABC talks to a number of prominent Paraguayan journalists who agree that WikiLeaks serves both as an important source and an example for journalism.
• 2010-11-20: IT Wire: Assange pokes a tiger, tiger pokes back. "Julian Assange has done a lot to annoy authorities through his website WikiLeaks.[...] All of this way well be seen as 'tiger poking' by many authorities," writes David Heath.
• 2010-11-21: Financial Express: In Search of Truth. "Recall the extensive lies and twisting of facts that it resorted to prior to the invasion of Iraq. One might, however, say now that the truth has finally prevailed with the exposition of the facts from the originally recorded US files on Iraq by Wikileaks," writes Shamsher Chowdhury.
• 2010-11-22: Financial Times: Warrant for WikiLeaks founder condemned. Interview with Mark Stephens, Julian Assange's UK lawyer.
• 2010-11-22: LA Progressive: Swedish Justice on Trial in WikiLeaks Case. Tom Hayden on the Assange case: "The first line of defense will likely be in Sweden, where the state’s core identity could be on trial."
• 2010-11-22: Tercera Información: Continúa la persecución contra el fundador de Wikileaks. Aura Ribeiro thinks that someone is trying to silence Julian Assange.
• 2010-11-22: Pravda: Aussie man Assange and Swedish sex scandal. "Here is a question: Did the Australian really commit unlawful acts, or was it a setup of the U.S. intelligence services?"
• 2010-11-23: International Zeitschrift: Casualties of War: Including Civilians, Truth, and the Rule of Law. A remarkable analysis piece from law professor Ian Townsend-Gault on the political underpinnings of the Iraq invasion, the WikiLeaks revelations, and the folly of nations at war.
• 2010-11-23: The Telegraph: WikiLeaks release: Timeline of the key WikiLeaks revelations. John Swaine looks at nine WikiLeaks releases, including the Guantanamo Bay operating procedures, the Trafigura report, 'Climategate' emails, war logs and more.
• 2010-11-23: El Mundo: El destape en periodismo. Hernan Mira on investigative journalism and why WikiLeaks provides a much needed service in a free society.
• 2010-11-23: The Voice of Russia: WikiLeaks, Part 2: Extracts of GI reports. Ignat Kulagin's second installment looking at cases from the Iraq War Logs delves into civilian death incidents.
• 2010-11-24: Menos 25: Lluís Bassets: “El periodismo en papel, como negocio a gran escala, dentro de diez años no existirá”. Lluís Bassets, deputy director of El País, thinks that WikiLeaks is "great news for journalism."
• 2010-11-24: Uptown Almanac: More WikiLeaks Street Art Going Up on Valencia. Kevin Montgomery reports that the street artist known as "Sandwich" created a new display from "Collateral Murder" video stills.
• 2010-11-24: Reuters: Exclusive: Corruption charges to feature in WikiLeaks release. "Classified U.S. diplomatic cables reporting corruption allegations against foreign governments and leaders are expected in official documents that WikiLeaks plans to release soon, sources said on Wednesday."
• 2010-11-24: Bloomberg: Pentagon Warns House, Senate Defense Panels of More WikiLeaks Documents. Tony Capaccio writes that "The Pentagon warned the U.S. Senate and House Armed Services Committees that the website WikiLeaks.org “intends to release several hundred thousand” classified U.S. State Department cables as soon as Nov. 26," in conjunction with The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel.
• 2010-11-25: NRK: USA advarer om nytt Wikileaks-slipp fredag. "'The Foreign Ministry has been contacted by the United States on Wikileaks' forthcoming publication. We can not go into details on the content of the conversation,' the Foreign Ministry told politiken.dk.
• 2010-11-25: Ha'aretz: Israel, U.S. tense as WikiLeaks sets to release classified bilateral communiqués. "The United States Embassy in Tel Aviv has informed the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem that the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks was planning on releasing hundreds of thousands of American diplomatic cables, some of which might deal with Israel-America relations."
• 2010-11-25: CBC: WikiLeaks: Should sensitive diplomatic files be released? 87% of readers answer "yes" in CBC's poll.
• 2010-11-25: Politiken: Enhedslisten: WikiLeaks-stifter skal bo i København. Denmark's Unity alliance would like to extend Julian Assange an invitation to live in Copenhagen, as part of the Refuge Network initiative for persecuted writers.
• 2010-11-25: Sky News: Washington Braced For Millions Of Leaks. "Sky News understands the US ambassador to the UK, Louis Susman, has been seen going into Downing Street and the Foreign Office for what one source called 'contingency planning'."
• 2010-11-25: The Globe and Mail: U.S. warns Ottawa about fallout from pending WikiLeaks release. "The U.S. government has notified Ottawa that the WikiLeaks website is preparing to release sensitive U.S. diplomatic files that could damage American relations with allies around the world."
• 2010-11-25: Sydney Morning Herald: US briefs Canberra on secret files. "Australia has been briefed by the US on the imminent release by WikiLeaks of a huge tranche of diplomatic cables that sources say contain allegations of corruption and embarrassing behaviour by politicians worldwide."
• 2010-07-30: News.com.au: Four weeks on the run with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. An interview with SBS reporter Mark Davis, who did the Inside WikiLeaks documentary.