December, 2010

• 9 December

  Don’t Shoot Messenger for Revealing Uncomfortable Truths

  WIKILEAKS deserves protection, not threats and attacks. IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win." His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch's expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of …

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• 9 December

  Euro collapse ‘possible’ amid deepening divisions over bail-out

  

    It is feasible that the euro will not survive the current sovereign debt crisis sweeping Europe, one of the Treasury's leading independent forecasters has said. Greek prime minister George Papandreou and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso speaking to the press on Monday Photo: BLOOMBERG Under questioning from MPs on the Treasury Select Committee, Stephen Nickell, a member of the …

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• 9 December

  Leaks Suggest Iran Is Now Winning in the Middle East By Juan Cole

  Iran is winning and Israel is losing. That is the startling conclusion we reach if we consider how things have changed in the Middle East in the two years since most of the WikiLeaks State Department cables about Iran’s regional difficulties were written. Lebanon’s Sunni prime minister, once a virulent critic, quietly made his pilgrimage to the Iranian capital last …

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• 6 December

  WikiLeaks cables claim al-Jazeera changed coverage to suit Qatari foreign policy

  

  WikiLeaks cables claim al-Jazeera changed coverage to suit Qatari foreign policy The Qatari prime minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, offered a deal which was not agreed with Egypt over al-Jazeera, US embassy cables claim. Photograph: Getty Qatar is using the Arabic news channel al-Jazeera as a bargaining chip in foreign policy negotiations by adapting its coverage to suit other …

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• 6 December

  WikiLeaks Server Goes Down, Julian Assange Facing ‘Hundreds Of Death Threats’, By JOHN HEILPRIN

  WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange turned increasingly to Switzerland on Sunday, dodging a barrage of threats online and in the real world to keep access to a trove of U.S. State Department cables under a Swiss Web address. The elusive founder of the website WikiLeaks said he faced "hundreds of death threats." The site hinged on the Swiss Pirate Party's wikileaks.ch …

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• 6 December

  Obama’s Israel Policy:

    Speak Softly and Carry a Very Big Carrot By Maidhc Ó Cathail Even those familiar with the long and shameful history of America’s appeasement of Israel were taken aback by the Obama administration’s extraordinary offer to Netanyahu. In exchange for a paltry one-off 90 day freeze on illegal settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem), Israel …

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• 4 December

  Cable reveals US behind airstrike that killed 21 children in Yemen By Eric W. Dolan

  

  A diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks shows that the US military covered up the killing of dozens of civilians during a cruise missile strike in south Yemen in December 2009. The secret cable from January 2010 corroborated images released earlier this year by Amnesty International, implicating the US in the use of cluster bombs. The cable was sent by Yemen's …

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