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By Braden Holly

President Hamid Karzai's half-brother, is getting paid by the CIA and that thousands of other officials are being paid off. That, in my mind, is corruption," said Pratap Chatterjee, an author and columnist for the Guardian. "A lot of the biggest money in Afghanistan is U.S. military and State Department contracts."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26984.htm



Why Amazon Caved, and What It Means for the Rest of Us

By Lauren Kirchner

Amazon Web Services dropped WikiLeaks material from its servers on Tuesday, a move that is widely assumed to be a direct response to pressure from the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26982.htm



Rightwing Nut Job Says: Assassinate Assange

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner

Web provocateur undermines war on terror, threatens American lives.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26986.htm



The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange

By David Samuels

Julian Assange and Pfc Bradley Manning have done a huge public service by making hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government documents available on Wikileaks -- and, predictably, no one is grateful.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26985.htm



History Will Win

By Julian Assange

The Cable Gate archive has been spread, along with significant material from the US and other countries to over 100,000 people in encrypted form. If something happens to us, the key parts will be released automatically.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26987.htm



Is WikiLeaks' Julian Assange a Hero?

By Democracy Now!

A debate between Steven Aftergood, a transparency advocate who has become a leading critic of WikiLeaks, and Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional law attorney and legal blogger for Salon.com.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26988.htm



John Pilger - Wikileaks - The War You Don't See

Audio

Award winning journalist John Pilger speaks on Australian radio about the absurdities put forward by members of the American government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26992.htm



Myth of "American Exceptionalism"

The Ultimate, Pernicious Howler

By Robert Becker

Beyond the '50's jingoism of "America, right or wrong," the right now stays this course, "America, never wrong." We must be special, the chosen elect, morally superior to every other country. Why else would an omnipotent God put us in charge? End of discussion. Frankly, the Roman Empire was more culturally tolerant.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26991.htm



Vietnam: The Last Battle

By John Pilger

Vietnam was allowed to join the World Trade Organization and qualify for World Bank loans provided it embraced the "free market," destroyed its free public services and paid off the bad debts of the defunct Saigon regime: money which had helped bankroll the American war. The reparations agreed by President Richard Nixon in the 1973 Paris Peace Accords were ignored.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26990.htm



Latin America's Twenty First Century Capitalism and the US Empire

By James Petras

Insofar as militarism defines the policies and strategies of the US Empire there is no remedy for the challenges of lumpen power in its 'backyard'. And Washington has nothing on offer to recapture a dominant presence in Latin America.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26989.htm



Cable reveals US behind airstrike that killed 21 children in Yemen

A diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks shows that the US military covered up the killing of dozens of civilians during a cruise missile strike in south Yemen in December 2009.

http://bit.ly/fl9WEL



Hillary Clinton rejects criticism of UK Army

The diplomatic cables said US officials and Afghan President Hamid Karzai believed UK forces were not up to the task of securing Helmand province.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11914818



Dozens Of Major Military Contractors Granted Legal Immunity

Taxpayers may be on the hook if U.S. military contractors in Iraq incur liability while carrying out their work.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/02/military-contractors-legal-immunity_n_791330.html



Cables reveal frank U.S. views on Latin America, from Argentina to Venezuela

The global fall-out over the leaked U.S. diplomatic cables continues to trickle into Latin America, where leaders are responding to a variety of disclosures that reveal frank opinions on governments with whom the United States has sometimes had tense relations.

http://lat.ms/gU9sfW



WikiLeaks cables: Seven key things we've learned so far

Some in the media glibly dismissed the US embassy cables at first, but such WikiScepticism is on the wane.

http://bit.ly/hHjjiQ



Wikileaks offline; faces triple threat

Although the site has lost its domain name service - meaning its web address Wikileaks.org no longer works - the site can still be accessed via its less user-friendly IP address.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/wikileaks-offline-faces-triple-threat-134238



Amazon's Wikileaks Takedown

As a society, we have reached a place where the only way to protect some sorts of speech on the Internet is through one of only a couple dozen core Internet organizations. Totally ceding decisions about control of politically sensitive speech to that handful of actors, without any legal process or oversight, is a bad idea

http://bit.ly/fEe7rq



State Dept. warning prospective recruits to steer clear of Wikileaks
http://bit.ly/hTmIPR



When it comes to Assange rape case, the Swedes are making it up as they go along

by Melbourne barrister James D. Catlin, who acted for Julian Assange in London in October.

http://bit.ly/ep9QVn


From Information Clearing House



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