Browsing All posts tagged under »Bradley Manning«
Journalist, Hacker, Spy, Racketeer
What if Wikileaks, from the start, had announced itself as an anonymous group of hackers whose work aimed at producing an open access archive of leaked, stolen, and otherwise illegally obtained and illegally reproduced documents? Chances are that in a conflict with the U.S. or any other government, Wikileaks’ activists would have found themselves in […]
The Excuse is Wikileaks. The Object is Freedom of Speech. The Subject is Authoritarianism.
January 8, 2011 by Maximilian Forte
If you were asked which regime is described by the following actions and characteristics, what would you answer? A regime that produces a death list of citizens abroad to be executed by its secret intelligence service, without arrest, without trial by a jury. A regime that conducts surveillance at home and then uses that information […]
Wikileaks Roundup: Man of the Year, Assange the Swede, Blocked at Harvard, Telling the Truth
November 12, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
A short selection of Wikileaks-related articles from the past week or so that range from the amusing to the distressing: Who is more popular than Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, and the Chilean miners combined? And leading in votes for TIME Magazine’s 2010 Person of the Year award, ahead of Lady Gaga, and Jon Stewart and […]
Wikileaks’ Iraq War Logs: The U.S. Government’s Crisis of Legitimacy
October 31, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
Further to the Pentagon’s response to the Wikileaks Iraq War logs, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and senior military adviser to President Obama, apparently had no qualms about posting the following in Twitter–posted without remorse, apology, or disgrace over the release of documentation (from his own troops) of multiple U.S. war […]
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January 23, 2011 by Maximilian Forte
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