background preloader

Omarbenkhye

Facebook Twitter

State Department To Columbia University Students: DO NOT Discuss WikiLeaks On Facebook, Twitter. UPDATE: On Monday, John H. Coatsworth, the SIPA Dean, reversed the university's earlier position, affirming that students "have a right to discuss and debate any information in the public arena...without fear of adverse consequences. " Wired obtained the email: Freedom of information and expression is a core value of our institution. Thus, SIPA's position is that students have a right to discuss and debate any information in the public arena that they deem relevant to their studies or to their roles as global citizens, and to do so without fear of adverse consequences Talking about WikiLeaks on Facebook or Twitter could endanger your job prospects, a State Department official warned students at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs this week. An email from SIPA's Office of Career Services went out Tuesday afternoon with a caution from the official, an alumnus of the school.

Philip J. This is not true. Stephen D. Rap News 6 - Wikileaks' Cablegate: the truth is out there. Resources. Open Letter to Amazon.com. To Customer Service and Jeff Bezos, I’m disgusted by Amazon’s cowardice and servility in abruptly terminating its hosting of the Wikileaks website, in the face of threats from Senator Joe Lieberman and other Congressional right-wingers. I want no further association with any company that encourages legislative and executive officials to aspire to China’s control of information and deterrence of whistle-blowing. For the last several years, I’ve been spending over $100 a month on new and used books from Amazon.

That’s over. I understand that many other regular customers feel as I do and are responding the same way. So far Amazon has spared itself the further embarrassment of trying to explain its action openly. If you’d like to read further analysis of your cowardice, I suggest you see this excellent article by Glenn Greenwald. Yours (no longer), Daniel Ellsberg.

Kabels. WikiLeaks Cables: Pfizer Targeted Nigerian Attorney General to Undermine Suit over Fatal Drug Tests. This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. JUAN GONZALEZ: As the world continues to focus on [Julian Assange’s] case, we’ll focus on the content of the thousands of State Department cables that WikiLeaks is continuing to publish. One of the cables reveals that the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer hired investigators to dig up dirt on Nigeria’s former attorney general last year in an effort to pressure him to drop a $6 billion lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit stems from a notorious 1996 drug experiment Pfizer conducted on sick children in Nigeria. The high-profile case has been compared to the plot of the Academy Award-winning movie The Constant Gardener that was based on the bestselling novel by John le Carré.

AMY GOODMAN: In 1996, Pfizer’s researchers selected 200 children at an epidemic hospital in Nigeria for an experimental drug trial. About a hundred of the kids were given an untested oral version of the antibiotic Trovan. We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Cablegate wiki. State Department To Columbia University Students: DO NOT Discuss WikiLeaks On Facebook, Twitter. Open Letter to Amazon.com. US diplomats spied on UN leadership | World news. Washington is running a secret intelligence campaign targeted at the leadership of the United Nations, including the secretary general, Ban Ki-moon and the permanent security council representatives from China, Russia, France and the UK.

A classified directive which appears to blur the line between diplomacy and spying was issued to US diplomats under Hillary Clinton's name in July 2009, demanding forensic technical details about the communications systems used by top UN officials, including passwords and personal encryption keys used in private and commercial networks for official communications. It called for detailed biometric information "on key UN officials, to include undersecretaries, heads of specialised agencies and their chief advisers, top SYG [secretary general] aides, heads of peace operations and political field missions, including force commanders" as well as intelligence on Ban's "management and decision-making style and his influence on the secretariat".

Pope Francis I. Pope Francis I: The modest son of a Beunos Aires railwayman who has only one lung. Born in December 1936 in Buenos Aires, Bergoglio is the son of an Italian railway worker He became a priest at 32, nearly a decade after losing a lung due to respiratory illnessHe was leading the local Jesuit community within four yearsIn 2010, Bergoglio challenged the Argentine government when it backed a gay marriage billHe prefers to travel on the underground and when he goes to Rome he flies economy class By Tara Brady Published: 20:34 GMT, 13 March 2013 | Updated: 23:41 GMT, 13 March 2013 Of all the contenders to replace Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires was little mentioned.

The 76-year-old reportedly received the second most votes after Joseph Ratzinger, the last pope, in the 2005 papal election. And as a representative of South America's Catholics - who make up an estimated 40 per cent of the 1.2 billion strong church, he was widely supported on a massive scale. His personal style is said to be the antithesis of Vatican splendour. 'Let's not be naive. Jorge Mario Bergoglio: The first Pope from the developing world: Third non-Italian in a row shows shifting balance of power. First Pope from outside Europe in more than a milleniumHe is also the first Jesuit to be elected to the PapacyPoints to rising economic influence of Latin America By Steve Doughty Published: 20:36 GMT, 13 March 2013 | Updated: 00:57 GMT, 14 March 2013 The choice of a Pope from Latin America is a powerful symbol of the shift of influence in Roman Catholicism from the old to the new world.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio is the third Pontiff in a row who is not from Italy and the first in more than a millennium from outside Europe. His election to the Papacy signals the importance of the burgeoning strength of the church in Latin America and in Africa, now home to a growing proportion of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. Balance of power: Newly elected Pope Francis I waves to the waiting crowd from the central balcony of St Peter's Basilica It also points to the rising economic influence of Latin America where Brazil has joined the list of booming nations with fast-rising levels of wealth. Pope Francis: 13 key facts about the new pontiff | World news. What we know about Pope Francis • He likes to travel by bus. • He has lived for more than 50 years with one functioning lung.

He had the other removed as a young man because of infection. • He is the son of an Italian railway worker and a housewife. • He trained as a chemist. • He is the first non-European pope in the modern era. • He claims that adoption by homosexuals is a form of discrimination against children but believes that condoms "can be permissible" to prevent infection. • In 2001 he washed and kissed the feet of Aids patients in a hospice. • He speaks fluent Italian, as well as Spanish and German. • Until now he has been living in a small flat, eschewing a formal bishop's residence. • He told Argentinians not to travel to Rome to celebrate if he was appointed but to give their money to the poor instead. • He is believed to have been the runner-up in the last papal conclave in 2005. • He has co-written a book, in Spanish, called Sobre el Cielo y la Tierra (On Heaven and Earth).

Pope Francis: 13 key facts about the new pontiff | World news. Papal conclave: New Pope is a 76-year-old Argentine: Jorge Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, announced to the world as 266th pontiff. Electors sent up white smoke at 6pm GMT indicating that a new Pope had been chosen after two days of votingNew Pontiff unveiled as Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, taking title Pope Francis IPope Francis appeared before thriving crowds on the balcony of St.Peter's Basilica at 7:15pm GMTHe is the first non-European Pope and also the first Jesuit Pope having spent his life in Argentinian capitalCriminal complaint was filed against him 2005 accusing cardinal of conspiring with the Argentinian junta in 1976Son of a railway worker who only has one lung and speaks Italian, Spanish and German Vatican said he took the name Francis after St.

Francis of Assisi because he is a 'lover of the poor'Barack Obama described him as a 'champion of the poor and the most vulnerable among us' By Mario Ledwith and Hannah Roberts and Steve Doughty Published: 09:34 GMT, 13 March 2013 | Updated: 09:13 GMT, 14 March 2013 Scroll down for video By Tara Brady (Our Father... Hail Mary... Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio becomes 266th pontiff and takes name Pope Francis | World news. The cardinals of the Roman Catholic church on Wednesday chose as their new pope a man from almost "the end of the world" – the first non-European to be elected for almost 1,300 years and the first-ever member of the Jesuit order. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, becomes Pope Francis – the first pontiff to take that name – an early indication perhaps of a reign he hopes will be marked by inspirational preaching and evangelisation.

But the cardinals' choice risked running into immediate controversy over the new pope's role in Argentina's troubled history. In his book, El Silencio, a prominent Argentinian journalist alleged that he connived in the abduction of two Jesuit priests by the military junta in the so-called "dirty war". He denies the accusation. The new pope appeared on the balcony over the entrance to St Peter's basilica more than an hour after white smoke poured from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel, signalling that the cardinals had made their choice. Cablegate Resources. Contents 1. Introduction2. Data Resources3. Revelations4. WL Central Coverage 1. A momentous release by WikiLeaks of 251,287 US diplomatic cables started on November 28, 2010 in conjunction with The Guardian, Le Monde, El País, Der Spiegel and The New York Times.

"The cables show the extent of US spying on its allies and the UN; turning a blind eye to corruption and human rights abuse in "client states"; backroom deals with supposedly neutral countries; lobbying for US corporations; and the measures US diplomats take to advance those who have access to them," said WikiLeaks on the introduction page for the release. Besides exposing questionable practices on behalf of world governments, the cables constitute an immense gift to history and contemporary journalism, presenting a dynamic and systematic picture of world diplomacy, in the painstaking detail required by the U.S. 2.

Since the beginning, an array of useful web resources have sprung up to aid the exploration of the Wikileaks data. Julian Assange answers your questions | World news.