“Talking to Julian Assange is intellectually exciting”
DINNER WITH…. JENNIFER ROBINSON
Wikileakes: Scottish Authorities Freed al-Megrahi in 2009 were Naive & Complicit
Leaked U.S. State Department cables show that a British government minister advised Libya in 2008 on how to win the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds. The cables were released by the WikiLeaks website and obtained by Britain’s Telegraph newspaper. The leaked cables say then Labor Party Foreign Office minister…
Tunisia: WikiLeaks a catalyst, both a trigger and tool for political outcry
The First WikiLeaks Revolution Tunisians didn’t need any more reasons to protest when they took to the streets these past weeks — food prices were rising, corruption was rampant, and unemployment was staggering. But we might also count Tunisia as the first time that WikiLeaks pushed people over the brink. These protests are also about…
Brazil : The doublecross of ex-president “Lula” da Silva
Brazil, and not the U.S., is the main cop on the beat.
WikiLeaks: Israeli tactics in Gaza “Starve the Palestinians”
Cable from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv says Israeli officials wanted Gaza’s economy ‘functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis.’
Diplomatic Channels: The Israeli Security Concept leads to War
The US’s failure under Barack Obama to impose peace between Israel and the Palestinians makes a new war likely In March 1973 the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir visited US president Richard Nixon in Washington. He told her that the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was prepared to negotiate a full treaty, and Meir assured him…