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WikiLeaks: The Movie |
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This documentary, made in English, is by STV, the Swedish equivalent of the BBC.
With thanks to Stop the War Coalition. |
Beating the Bomb
Madd Movies, 2010; 70 mins; www.beatingthebomb.com
WikiLeaks |
| Nobel Peace Prize for Assange? ‘Arrest a set up, info bomb on standby’ |
The LeaksFind out what has been revealed in the leak of 250,000 US diplomatic cables: Visit http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-us-embassy-cables Wikileaks: the truth is not treasonBy Ryan Gallagher, OpenDemocracy, December 3, 2010 “There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.” – Joseph Pulitzer. At approximately 6pm on Wednesday, Amazon ousted wikileaks.org from its servers after concerted and aggressive political pressure from America’s Homeland Security Committee. The move came after three solid days of ‘Cablegate’ – the largest intelligence leak in history. 251,287 dispatches from more than 250 US embassies and consulates, to be published slowly but surely in the weeks and months ahead. Among them are allegations of corruption, cover-ups and secret collusion between US and UK officials; dirty tactics exposed on a grand scale. Politicians, diplomats and corporations across the world must now be trembling. Could they be next? As international reaction testifies, the repercussions of Cablegate are massive. Wikileaks is changing the world without invitation, and the political establishment does not approve. A global witch-hunt for Julian Assange, Wikileaks’ co-founder and figurehead, is now in full swing. Assange should be “hunted” and “executed” say prominent American politicians, who want him extradited and charged under the country’s 1917 Espionage Act, a law introduced to combat socialists and pacifists during the Red Scare. “Obama should put out a contract [to have Assange assassinated] and maybe use a drone or something,” said Professor Tom Flanagan, a former advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. While in France, the birthplace of the Enlightenment, Wikileaks was described as a “threat to democracy”. … Read on: http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/ryan-gallagher/wikileaks-truth-is-not-treason |
| Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal “Profound Hatred for Democracy on the Part of Our Political Leadership” |
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World-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky talks about the release of more than 250,000 secret U.S. State Department cables by WikiLeaks. |
Avoiding Nuclear Destruction: By The Skin Of Our Teeth
By Karl Grossman, OpEdNews.com
… thanks should be given for something that never happened decades ago: the use as planned of bases built all over the United States armed with BOMARC and Nike Hercules nuclear-tipped missiles.
It was the 1950s and 60s and the U.S. feared Soviet bombers might strike major American cities and various strategic targets. So a scheme was hatched to deploy nuclear-tipped missiles. These were early anti-aircraft missiles seen as unable to score direct hits. Thus, the plan was to have the nuclear warheads on the BOMARC and Nike Hercules missiles detonate when the missiles reached a formation of Soviet bombers, blowing the formation apart — although also raining radioactivity down below.
The nuclear warheads on the BOMARC and Nike Hercules missiles had massive power. The tip on the BOMARC had the equivalent of 10 kilotons of TNT. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had the power of 13 kilotons. The Nike Hercules warheads ranged up to 30 kilotons. …
I had the eerie experience recently of walking around two former nuclear-tipped missile sites — a BOMARC base in Westhampton and a Nike Hercules base in Rocky Point, both on Long Island, New York. (The BOMARC program was run by the Air Force and named for its developers — BO for Boeing and MARC for Michigan Aerospace Research Center. The Nike program was run by the Army and named for the Greek goddess of victory, although in this scheme it would have been a potentially suicidal victory.)
I was making a TV documentary on the BOMARC and Nike bases set up on Long Island and elsewhere in the New York Metropolitan Area with Soviet bombers headed for New York City as the major concern.
The documentary, which I did as chief investigative reporter for WVVH-TV in New York, has been broadcast in recent weeks, and WVVH has also put it up on YouTube. …
Karl Grossman is on the Advisory Board of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. CAAB has been involved with GN for many years.
Read the rest of this article here: www.OpEdNews.com
| Marches, protests and demonstrations change history |
| History shows that protest works, say Lindsey German, national convenor of Stop the War Coalition, and Independent journalist Johann Hari. With a government determined to destroy public services and the welfare state, while still justifying billions spent every year on the war in Afghanistan and on weapons of mass destruction, we need a lot more marching and direct action. |
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On the evening of 10 November, following that day’s huge demonstration against education cuts, Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes declared MP Simon Hughes that change only came about by the power of reason and debate.
“Rational debate wins arguments, not protest,” said Hughes. It was, of course, his forebears in the Liberal party before the First World War who refused point blank to grant women the vote. … All the major gains achieved in Britain _ from the vote for workers and women, the right to join trade unions, the right to demonstrate, the welfare state itself – were only granted as a result of protest, campaigning and struggles until they were won. Many of those involved made great sacrifices, from the Tolpuddle martyrs transported to Australia for trying to form a union, to the suffragettes who went on hunger strike for their cause. We should remember this when listening to the outrage about the broken windows of the Conservative Party headquarters on Millbank, when it was occupied by students on the anti-cuts demonstration. … Read Lindsey German’s article in full here: |
| Chalmers Johnson: Last days of the American Republic? |
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This is an interview with Chalmers Johnson. Although done in 2008, what he says is more pertinent today than ever. He talks about his book ‘ Nemesis – the last days of the American Republic’ |
| Chomsky says Bush & Obama beholden to corporate interests |
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MIT Professor Noam Chomsky, introduced as the eighth most-cited human being in history after Marx, Lenin, Shakespeare, Aristotle, the Bible, Plato, and Ford during an interview earlier this week … said the U.S. was defeated in Iraq of achieving its chief war aim which was securing preferential access to Iraq’s oil reserves. And Mr. Chomsky speculated that President Barack Obama is trying to salvage some form of victory in Afghanistan lest he’s slaughtered by the right-wing propaganda system. During the discussion Chomsky also chastised Obama for enriching the very same people who created the financial meltdown. The first part of the interview focused on the problem with U.S. foreign policy, which Chomsky said is rooted in Amercia’s rise as a global power after WWII when U.S. planners came together to outline a “grand area” that would be completely under U.S. control and within which the U.S. would not tolerate any expression of sovereignty that interfered with their global designs, which included the Western Hemisphere, East Asia, Eurasia, and the former British colonies, especially the Middle East with its energy reserves. Planners determined early on that if “they could control Middle East oil they could control the world.” The same essential policy remains intact which is why the U.S. has 800 bases around the globe and spends as much on the military as the rest of the world combined. … www.examiner.com/geopolitics-in-national/chomsky-says-bush-and-obama-beholden-to-corporate-interests |
