Posts Tagged ‘Salon’
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Alex Gibney: Julian Assange has become like “those he despises”
Salon So Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director of “Taxi to the Dark Side,” “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and many other political and social documentaries, has made a fascinating film about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks that has already pissed off a … |
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Julian Assange declines meeting with Benedict Cumberbatch
Salon It is no secret that Julian Assange, the shadowy founder of WikiLeaks who remains out of the public's gaze within London's Ecuadorian embassy, does not like “The Fifth Estate,” a film based on his life. In January, he called the film “a massive propaganda … |
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Julian Assange: The government is a vindictive loser
Salon Assange, Manning and WikiLeaks, by making public in 2010 half a million internal documents from the Pentagon and the State Department, along with the 2007 video of US helicopter pilots nonchalantly gunning down Iraqi civilians, including children, and … |
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Government plays secrecy games in Manning trial
Salon This week, another pretrial hearing is taking place at Fort Meade in the court martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier who the United States military is prosecuting for disclosing information to WikiLeaks. It begins today and will take place over a period of at … |
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The soldier will only be permitted to give limited evidence on his motives for …
Salon In a potential blow to his defense, Pfc. Bradley Manning has been largely denied the opportunity to present evidence about his motives for leaking documents to WikiLeaks in his upcoming trial. Manning's defense attorney David Coombs has argued in the … |
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Manning denied a whistleblower defense
Salon In a potential blow to his defense, Pfc. Bradley Manning has been largely denied the opportunity to present evidence about his motives for leaking documents to WikiLeaks in his upcoming trial. Manning's defense attorney David Coombs has argued in the … |
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5 signs the UFO community can't take a joke
Salon AlterNet Fresh off Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard joking about the coming apocalypse in the year 2012, Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev has made a quip about alien invasions — sparking fevered speculation from the fringes of the Internet. |
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Nobel Peace Laureates condemn prosecution of Bradley Manning
Salon For those citizens worldwide who do not have direct, intimate knowledge of war, yet are still affected by rising international tensions and failing economies, WikiLeaks releases attributed to Bradley Manning have provided unparalleled access to important facts … |
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Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel support the soldier …
Salon For those citizens worldwide who do not have direct, intimate knowledge of war, yet are still affected by rising international tensions and failing economies, WikiLeaks releases attributed to Bradley Manning have provided unparalleled access to important facts … |
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Skype hands over information on teen Wikileaks fan
Salon Skype, the Microsoft-owned online calls site, has shown scant regard for protecting user privacy. According to Russia Today, the company handed over sensitive account data pertaining to a teenage WikiLeaks fan from Holland to a Texas-based private … |










