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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. http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/10/not-a-good-day-for-wikileaks-attacked-by-human-rights-organizations-julian-assange-target-of-international-trackdown/
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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." http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikileaks_releases_91000_afghanistan_war_documents.php

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

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/07/wikileaks-may-have-just-changed-the-media-too/60377/ The website Wikileaks has published more than 90,000 leaked U.S. military records about the war in Afghanistan. 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.

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

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/02/wikileaks-will-fund-itself-via-flattr-pirate-bay-founders-startup/ Mike Butcher is the European Editor for TechCrunch. A former grunge rock drummer, he became a long time journalist, and has since written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. Mike is also a co-founder and shareholder of TechHub, a co-working space/service/community with several locations... → Learn More 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. That’s lead to outages when funds became scarce, for whatever reason.
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