Wikileaks Founder Assange on MSNBC

December 23, 2010 · Posted in Government · Comment

He nails it without knowing it: Terrorism = Initiation of violence or threat thereof = Government. =)

Tags: wikileaks

WikiLeaks – The Truth About The Rape Charges

December 18, 2010 · Posted in Foreign Policy · Comment

Tags: julien assange, wikileaks

Arab Opinion Polls: US and Isreaeli Governments Pose the Biggest Threats to the Middle East

December 1, 2010 · Posted in Foreign Policy · Comment

The predictable hypocrisy about WikiLeaks on the part of US neoconservatives is as pathetic as it is hilarious:

Noam Chomsky is always a great resource on objective evidence, logic, and facts in the realm of foreign policy.

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Iraq War Crimes Surface; Probably Greatest War-Leak in Military History

October 22, 2010 · Posted in Foreign Policy · Comment

Well, war is always a crime, so the headline wouldn’t really surprise anybody at this point I’m sure. I love this tweet on wikileaks’ twitter page:

Pentagon says it expects ‘nothing new’ in next Wikileaks dump. ‘Nothing new’ to THEM goes without saying.

So true!

Here’s the site:

At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports (’The Iraq War Logs’), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a ‘SIGACT’ or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.

The reports detail 109,032 deaths in Iraq, comprised of 66,081 ‘civilians’; 23,984 ‘enemy’ (those labeled as insurgents); 15,196 ‘host nation’ (Iraqi government forces) and 3,771 ‘friendly’ (coalition forces). The majority of the deaths (66,000, over 60%) of these are civilian deaths.That is 31 civilians dying every day during the six year period. For comparison, the ‘Afghan War Diaries’, previously released by WikiLeaks, covering the same period, detail the deaths of some 20,000 people. Iraq during the same period, was five times as lethal with equivallent population size.

Please donate to WikiLeaks at https://donations.datacell.com/ to defend this information.

Here’s the Democracy Now clip:

“Blood on the hands of Wikileaks” … says a military general. Excuse me, but YOU HAVE GOT TO BE F*****G KIDDING.

Tags: war, wikileaks

WikiLeaks on Afghan War – The Government’s Moral Bankruptcy Exposed

July 28, 2010 · Posted in Government · Comment

The Afghan war efforts led by the US armed forces are, as I have pointed out many times, nothing but your average and predictable war racket. Now over 90,000 (!!) classified reports have leaked.

Of course they will expose a boatload of knowledge that the government kept hidden and lied about, etc. Nothing surprising or newsworthy as far as that part is concerned.

I myself have unfortunately not yet made it through all those 90,000 reports, but apparently someone else has:

The documents are “not particularly new or illuminating,” Morrell said. The most recent “is at least six months old” and doesn’t reflect the current U.S.-Pakistan “partnership that is so vital to our success in Afghanistan.” This relationship “has been trending in the right direction for months, if not a couple of years now,” he said.

(That’s the government’s honesty and curiosity in action right there.)

But what’s really quite amazing to me is the following statement:

Pentagon Probe

The U.S. military has opened “a very robust investigation” with a team working “round the clock” to find “who’s responsible for breaking the law here and leaking this classified information,” Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said today on the CBS “Early Morning” show.

You see, these people are so enormously concerned about transparency and about their screw ups and errors and the millions upon millions of people murdered in its futile wars, that what they are really passionate and motivated about is to work “round the clock” to find who’s responsible for handing over a some pieces of paper with reports that could potentially – can you believe it – have documented what’s actually going on in this thing called reality.

Note how the focus is on finding who’s responsible for “breaking the law here”. No attempt to an argument from morality, not even one from effect. Just a plain and bland invocation of the code of law. This is how you lose the battle of ideas.

There couldn’t be a better and more recent example for the moral bankruptcy of the concepts of statism, the belief that a government is a good and necessary institution.

As the idea of statism dies out and as voluntaryism captures the hearts and minds of the majority, we will see more and more such plain, boring, and uninspiring “arguments” advanced by the those trying to hold together the foundations of the crumbling structure of aggression, irrationality, and indoctrination, in short – the government.