Julian Assange's The World Tomorrow: Slavoj Zizek & David Horowitz (E2) Ecuador offers Wikileaks founder Assange residency. 30 November 2010Last updated at 06:52 ET The Wikileaks founder is facing sexual assault allegations in Sweden - accusations that he strenuously denies Ecuador has offered Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, residency in the country.
Deputy Foreign Minister Kintto Lucas said his country's government wanted to invite Mr Assange to Ecuador to give him the opportunity to speak publicly. He said Ecuador was concerned about some of the alleged American activities revealed by Wikileaks. Earlier this year Sweden refused an application from Mr Assange, who is Australian, for residency there. "We are open to giving him residency in Ecuador, without any problem and without any conditions," Mr Lucas said. "We are going to try and invite him to Ecuador to freely present, not only via the internet, but also through different public forums, the information and documentation that he has," he said. Brazilian revelations. Amaga WikiLeaks con ventilar a Stratfor.
The Fourth Estate Forfeiting Its Own Press Freedoms: WikiLeaks & The New York Times February 8, 2012 · 0 Comments Source: NYTX By Chris Spannos: While the world waits for Britain’s Supreme Court ruling on Julian Assange’s appeal against Sweden’s attempt to extradite the WikiLeaks’ editor, U.S. military prosecutors have ordered a court-martial for Private Bradley Manning who, in a tragic case, is accused of leaking the largest cache of classified information in U.S. history—more than 700,000 documents including a military video—and giving them to WikiLeaks.
Manning faces 22 charges, including aiding the enemy, and could be imprisoned for life if found guilty of the latter charge. As these two different but historic courtroom dramas unfold one of today’s greatest challenges to freedom of the press is quietly evolving in the background. Press freedoms have experienced many old and new challenges but never before on such a scale as presented by WikiLeaks and the wilful submission of these freedoms by The Times. Keller wrote that this first meeting was off the record. The Continued Controversy over "WikiLeaks: Secrets and Lies" The Times's Dealings With Julian Assange. Bill Keller Needs to Drop the Snark and Do Serious Journalism « Samir Chopra. Over at the New York Times, Bill Keller, who has been doing his best to make sure it will be hard to take him for a serious journalist, writes a piece–bursting to the seams with snark–on Wikileaks.
Keller thinks he is providing a serious evaluation of the fallout of Wikileaks (most particularly, its leaking of a gigantic corpus of military and diplomatic secrets last year). But Keller–whose trafficking in superficiality has been embarassingly on display for all too long on the NYT’s Op-Ed’s pages–simply cannot be bothered with seriously engaging with the issues that Wikileaks raised. Like: the need for transparency for those in power (as opposed to the privacy rights of individuals); the relationship of journalists with politicians; and most importantly, the all-too-evident eagerness of modern journalists to roll over and play faithful stenographer or megaphone for Wall Street, Capitol Hill and the Pentagon. And it’s not much.
Roughly: Wikileaks exposed too much. Like this: