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How to Find Wikileaks and Follow Cablegate

Updated to 06 January 2011 There has been massive and orchestrated attack on the hosting of Wikileaks files, from a distributed denial of service, to Amazon dumping Wikileaks because they felt their underwear moisten after a call from Senator Joe Lieberman, to everyDNS effectively blaming Wikileaks for the denial of service, and now Julian Assange […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Here It Comes! Next Wikileaks Release, More on the Human Terrain System

Update: CORRECTION–Today. The Iraq War Logs were released this evening. At the moment, the service is badly overloaded. Tomorrow will bring the much anticipated release of hundreds of thousands of U.S. military documents from the Iraq war. We can expect them to contain information about the Human Terrain System, and I will be combing through […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Heroism in Doubt: Canadian War Mythology Takes a Hit from Wikileaks

The Toronto Sun, a notoriously right wing tabloid, said of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that it had become “unhinged,” that the CBC has “truly lost its collective mind over the WikiLeaks release of the Afghan war logs.” Another piece in the Sun concluded, “leave it to the CBC to smear our troops.” What egregious act […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Diary Dig: Searching the Wikileaks Afghan War Diary Made Easy

Here is an extremely useful web site for searching through the Afghan War Diary, using search terms of your choosing You don’t need to download the entire records, and run time consuming searches on your hard drive. (rather than just category, event type, region, affiliation, date)…effectively “Googlizing” the records, which is what some of us […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Visual Intelligence: IED Attacks from Wikileaks’ Afghan War Diary

This is probably my favourite YouTube video for the year–an astonishing application of the raw data from the Afghanistan war logs released by Wikileaks. It is deceptively simple, but as an amateur video editor I can only begin to imagine the formidable knowledge and skills required to animate this data, and to send a message […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Continued: Debating the Pros and Cons of Wikileaks’ Afghan War Diary

In today’s online issue of CounterPunch, you can find my article dealing just with the Wikileaks release that it called the Afghan War Diary, now the Kabul War Diary. The article was originally two, and originally destined for Al Jazeera Arabic. This is an overview of the CP article, followed by a link to a […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Revealing the Human Terrain System in Wikileaks’ Afghan War Diary

This is the fourth and final item in my mini-series on Human Terrain Teams as recorded in Wikileaks’ Afghan War Diary. The other articles were: Human Terrain Teams in Wikileaks’ Afghan War Diary: Raw Data Wikileaks’ Afghan War Diary: Problems to Note, More to Come on Human Terrain Teams Human Terrain System in Wikileaks’ Afghan […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Human Terrain System in Wikileaks’ Afghan War Diary: Searching for Evidence of the Positive

One question we have to ask ourselves is how the managers of the Human Terrain System can use these same records leaked via Wikileaks to make a positive case for the program embedding civilian social scientists with military units. Most of these records were written after the occurrence of the action that is reported, with […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Wikileaks’ Afghan War Diary: Problems to Note, More to Come on Human Terrain Teams

First, in the interest of full disclosure, I am a financial donor to Wikileaks, and another member of this team, John Stanton, has released his own publications to Cryptome, whose founder was also a co-founder of Wikileaks. This is a very big moment in time, endlessly fascinating from any number of angles, and sure to leave a […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Human Terrain Teams in Wikileaks’ Afghan War Diary: Raw Data

The following items were extracted from Wikileaks’ newly released Afghan War Diary. The files were downloaded from the raw HTML dump, and then searched using “HTT” –there were no results when using HTS or HTAT as search words. While we reserve commentary and analysis for an upcoming post, we welcome readers to not only copy […]