The word as virus: Myth-making in the syndication age Submitted by GMason on Sun, 03/18/2012 My general theory since 1971 has been that the Word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host…
Julian Assange and his former German cohort Daniel Domscheit-Berg blame each other for the circulation on the Internet of the identities of secret informants from diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks. Now, with lives in danger, the organization risks quickly losing credibility. This story of two bickering computer nerds vying for a place in history —…
DINNER WITH…. JENNIFER ROBINSON
The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired By Glenn Greenwald Wired/AP Kevin Poulsen and Bradley Manning For more than six months, Wired‘s Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed — but refuses to publish — the key evidence in one of the year’s most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as…
The First Swedish woman involved in the Julian Assange rape investigation may have stopped cooperating with the prosecution — and moved to the West Bank. According to Australian site Crikey, Anna Ardin, identified back in August by a Swedish paper as one of Assange’s accusers, “may have ceased actively co-operating with the Swedish prosecution service…
The ongoing WikiLeaks saga The truth is out there, but what does it all mean? On this episode of The Listening Post, we turn our attention to figures involved in the WikiLeaks Afghan war logs and the debate over what the US government should do about it.