Let's hope the WikiLeaks cables move us closer to open diplomacy | Peter Singer
At Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson, who was president of the university before he became president of the United States, is never far away. His larger-than-life image looks out across the dining hall at Wilson College, where I am a fellow, and Prospect House, the dining facility for academic staff, was his family home when he led the university. So when the furore erupted over WikiLeaks' rece
The death of universities | Terry Eagleton
Academia has become a servant of the status quo. Its malaise runs so much deeper than tuition fees Are the humanities about to disappear from our universities? The question is absurd. It would be like asking whether alcohol is about to disappear from pubs, or egoism from Hollywood. Just as there cannot be a pub without alcohol, so there cannot be a university without the humanities. If history, ph
WikiLeaks and Israel Shamir | Andrew Brown
WikiLeaks is represented in Russia and Scandinavia by a father and son team with a disturbing record of antisemitism WikiLeaks's spokesperson and conduit in Russia has been exposed in the Swedish media as an anti-semite and Holocaust denier; his son, who represents the organisation in Sweden and is handing out stories to selected papers there, has been involved in an earlier scandal where a story
The redistribution of hope
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The White House report on Afghanistan is very bleak indeed.
The Obama administration’s long-awaited review of its Afghanistan war strategy—or at least the unclassified five-page summary of it released Thursday—is a bleaker document than it may seem at first glance. On the one hand, it contains much talk of “significant progress” and “notable” gains in U.S. and NATO military operations. On the other hand, there’s at least as much mention of the remaining “c
Get your act together or risk losing US ally, EU foreign policy chief tells leaders
The paper by Catherine Ashton, the EU's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, defines what she sees as the key elements of the strategic relationship between the US and Europe. Photograph: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images The paper by Catherine Ashton, the EU's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, defines what she sees as the key elements of the strateg
How Arab governments tried to silence WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks may be breaking new ground to promote freedom of information by releasing leaked US diplomatic cables, but Arab governments have been resorting to old tricks to ensure that nothing too damaging reaches their subjects. Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Morocco have all tried to stem the flow of Wiki-revelations, whether the subject is corruption, authoritarianism or simply the embarrassment of ha
Pakistani Role Is Suspected in Revealing U.S. Spy’s Name (Published 2010)
Pakistani villagers protesting last Thursday against U.S. drone strikes.Credit...B.K.Bangash/Associated Press WASHINGTON � The Central Intelligence Agency’s top clandestine officer in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, was removed from the country on Thursday amid an escalating war of recriminations between American and Pakistani spies, with some American officials convinced that the officer’s cover w
10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange
Documents seen by the Guardian reveal for the first time the full details of the allegations of rape and sexual assault that have led to extradition hearings against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. The case against Assange, which has been the subject of intense speculation and dispute in mainstream media and on the internet, is laid out in police material held in Stockholm to which the Guar
WikiLeaks cables: Cuba's 'best friends forever' ignore human rights
Australia, Canada and several European countries have stopped pressuring Cuba over human rights in the hope of winning commercial favours from Havana, according to confidential US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. The western governments continued to pay lip service to concerns about political prisoners and censorship, but in reality were appeasing the island's communist rulers, said Jonath
Steven Spielberg was target of Arab League boycott, WikiLeaks cable shows
Steven Spielberg was blacklisted by the Arab League's Central Boycott Office after making a $1m (£570,000) donation to Israel during the 2006 conflict in Lebanon. A US embassy memo released by WikiLeaks reveals that during a meeting of the group in April 2007, diplomats or representatives from 14 Arab states voted to ban all films and other products related to Spielberg or his Righteous Persons Fo
Scores die as drones renew attack on Pakistan's Khyber
Nearly 60 people have been killed in a series of attacks by US drones in the past 24 hours in Pakistan's Khyber tribal district, officials say. At least 50 died in three unmanned air strikes in the Tirah Valley, a day after seven others were killed nearby. Security officials say all the dead in the attacks are militants - a claim that cannot be independently confirmed. Meanwhile, the CIA has withd
Lebanon braced for bloodshed over report into Rafik Hariri killing
More than six months of menacing political rhetoric is likely to reach a potent day of reckoning in Lebanon soon when indictments are handed down after a five-year investigation to determine who killed the fragile state's former leader Rafik Hariri. The indictments are almost certain to implicate at least three members of the militia group and political powerhouse Hezbollah in the 2005 assassinati
CIA chief in Pakistan leaves after drone trial blows his cover
The officer, named in Pakistan as Jonathan Banks, left the country yesterday, after a tribesman publicly accused him of being responsible for the death of his brother and son in a CIA drone strike in December 2009. Karim Khan, a journalist from North Waziristan, called for Banks to be charged with murder and executed. In a rare move, the CIA called Banks home yesterday, citing "security concerns"
The Anonymous WikiLeaks protests are a mass demo against control | Richard Stallman
The Anonymous web protests over WikiLeaks are the internet equivalent of a mass demonstration. It's a mistake to call them hacking (playful cleverness) or cracking (security breaking). The LOIC program that is being used by the group is prepackaged so no cleverness is needed to run it, and it does not break any computer's security. The protesters have not tried to take control of Amazon's website,
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