background preloader

Wikileaks

Facebook Twitter

#Wikileaks #OVH répond. Not A Good Day For Wikileaks: Attacked By Human Rights Organizations, Julian Assange Target Of International Trackdown. It’s been several days since Wikileaks went from being an obscure whistle-blower Web site to one that has attracted international attention, not to mention condemnation.

Not A Good Day For Wikileaks: Attacked By Human Rights Organizations, Julian Assange Target Of International Trackdown

The latest meme going around right now is that Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief and de facto “face” of Wikileaks, has lost his standing with people, organizations, and governments that otherwise would be on his side, all things being equal. Even more pronounced: the U.S. government is trying to convince its foreign allies to limit his travel and bring criminal charges against him. The day started with word that several human rights organizations had publicly asked Wikileaks to take greater care in blocking the names of civilians that appear in its published documents.

“There was no consideration about civilian lives,” said the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. It gets worse for Assange & Co. Though isn’t it all a bit of a fool’s errand? WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange. The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic.

WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange

The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in. This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall Australian man named Julian Paul Assange, with gray eyes and a mop of silver-white hair, arrived to rent the place. Assange was dressed in a gray full-body snowsuit, and he had with him a small entourage. “We are journalists,” he told the owner of the house. Eyjafjallajökull had recently begun erupting, and he said, “We’re here to write about the volcano.” Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts.

Iceland was a natural place to develop Project B. Assange also wanted to insure that, once the video was posted online, it would be impossible to remove. Assange typically tells would-be litigants to go to hell. “That’s for you,” she said. Kabul War Diary. Wikileaks Releases 91,000 Afghanistan War Documents Online. The wiki-based site for whistler-blowers, Wikileaks, today released what it called "an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.

Wikileaks Releases 91,000 Afghanistan War Documents Online

" "The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related detail. " WikiLeaks Drops 90,000 War Docs; Fingers Pakistan as Insurgent Ally. Turns out “Collateral Murder” was just a warmup.

WikiLeaks Drops 90,000 War Docs; Fingers Pakistan as Insurgent Ally

WikiLeaks just published a trove of 77,000 mostly-classified U.S. military documents — out of over 90,000 it obtained — that details a strengthening Afghan insurgency with deep ties to Pakistani intelligence. WikiLeaks’ release of a 2007 Apache gunship video sparked worldwide outrage, but little change in U.S. policy. This massive storehouse taken, it would appear, from U.S. Central Command’s CIDNE data warehouse — has the potential to be strategically significant, raising questions about how and why America and her allies are conducting the war. Not only does it recount 144 incidents in which coalition forces killed civilians over six years. WikiLeaks May Have Just Changed the Media, Too - Science and Tech. The website Wikileaks has published more than 90,000 leaked U.S. military records about the war in Afghanistan.

WikiLeaks May Have Just Changed the Media, Too - Science and Tech

Marc Ambinder has a lot more about the content of the classified archive, but there's another fascinating aspect to the story: Wikileaks gave the New York Times, Guardian, and Der Spiegel access to the archive several weeks ago. The rogue, rather mysterious website provided the raw data; the newspapers provided the context, corroboration, analysis, and distribution. "Wikileaks was not involved in the news organizations' research, reporting, analysis and writing," Times editors said in an online note. "The Times spent about a month mining the data for disclosures and patterns, verifying and cross-checking with other information sources, and preparing the articles that are published today. " Unlike the Pentagon Papers situation, we're "watching the traces of a major story unfold in real time," said C.W.

This story -- and the organization behind it -- is obviously singular. Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks will fund itself via Flattr, Pirate Bay founder’s startup. WikiLeaks, the Sweden-based organisation that publishes anonymous leaks of secret material (most recently 90,000 documents about the War in Afghanistan) has until now, relied on donations to fund its activities.

WikiLeaks will fund itself via Flattr, Pirate Bay founder’s startup

That’s lead to outages when funds became scarce, for whatever reason. But today WikiLeaks is unleashing a potentially devastating strike against criitics which could see it become an almost unstoppable force in the world’s media. It’s joined Flattr. Flattr is another Sweden-based outfit with close links to The Pirate Bay as the the brainchild of a group of people formerly associated with The [infamous] Pirate Bay, including Peter Sunde.

Flattr has a micropayments business model based on the idea of people tipping content they like, Digg or perhaps Facebook Like buttons – but this time with real money. Users can “Flattr” content by setting up a Flattr account which sets a a monthly fee — a minimum €2 — that they are willing to contribute for any kind of online content. WikiLeaks.