スペインの経済ニュースや社会ニュース, : Wikileaks articles in the Guardian newspaper in U.K.

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PDA's Newsbucket
- guardian.co.uk, Monday September 6 2010
- Jemima Kiss
? Did email and the internet kill the 9-5 workday? >> PC World? Google to simplify privacy policies >> NYT? Apple's Ping tops one million users in two days >> VentureBeat? Android this week: Angry Birds; Galaxy Tab >> GigaOM? iOS 4.1 confirmed for September on Apple's UK site >> Engadget? Xinhua seeks bigger niche in international news >> (...)
(...)myuibe on Flickr. Some rights reserved ? Efforts to oust Julian Assange as WikiLeaks leader >> Newsweek? Is Android surging because Apple is letting (...)

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Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Friday September 3 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukNews of the World faces fresh phone hacking chargeCalls for judicial inquiry after News of the World reporter is suspended Met asked to reveal what it knew about NoW hacking of officers' phonesLabour wants assurances that the inquiry into the scandal was not weakened Child performance laws set for review in wake of reality TV complaintsChildr

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hits out at 'baseless' rape allegations
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday September 2 2010
Video (3m 42sec): 'I am losing confidence in the Swedish justice system,' Australian founder of whistelblowing website says

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Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday September 2 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukReport links Cameron's media adviser to phone hackingNew York Times publishes allegations that Andy Coulson 'actively encouraged' unlawful practice while editor of News of the World BSkyB signs up 3 millionth HD subscriberMore than 30% of Sky's total subscriber base, which stood at 9.86 million at the end of June, now watching in high definiti
(...)on the case of the unaired Sherlock pilot. G2, P26 The Independent WikiLeaks founder rape case reopens. P11Ryder Cup coverage in doubt over BBC (...)

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Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday September 1 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukTrinny and Susannah return to TVTheir spoof online documentary, Trinny and Susannah: What They Did Next, has been snapped up by Channel 4 Company marketing messages to be regulated by ASAMessages on company websites and social media services such as Twitter to be subject to same rules as TV and newspapers ads ITN to open ITV News bureau in Du
(...)s website Poptropica is US online hit. P22 Wall Street Journal Europe Wikileaks founder to live in Sweden. P5Microsoft draws plans to expand in (...)

Technology

The Technology newsbucket: Flash+Android: good and bad, stopping leaks, and more
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday September 1 2010
- Charles Arthur
A leak in the office. Photo by indi.ca on Flickr. Some rights reserved A quick burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Darpa's Star Hacker Looks to WikiLeak-Proof the Pentagon >> Wired.com"Tomorrow's WikiLeakers may have to be sneakier than just dumping military docs onto a Lady Gaga disc. The futurists at Darpa are working on a project t
(...)that would make it harder for troops to funnel classified material to WikiLeaks — or to foreign governments. And that means if you work for (...)

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Sweden reopens investigation into rape claim against Julian Assange
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday September 1 2010
- Staff and agencies
A senior Swedish prosecutor reopened a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange today, in the latest twist to a puzzling case in which prosecutors of different ranks have overruled each other. Assange has denied the allegations and suggested they are part of a smear campaign by opponents of WikiLeaks – an online whistleblower that angered Washington by pu
(...)A senior Swedish prosecutor reopened a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange today, in the latest twist to a puzzling (...)

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange questioned by police
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday August 31 2010
- Associated Press in Stockholm
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been questioned by Swedish police over allegations of molestation, his lawyer said today. Leif Silbersky said police questioned Assange in Stockholm for about an hour last night and formally told him of the allegations against him. Silbersky said his client denied the accusations and hoped the prosecutor would drop the case. Police starte
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been questioned by Swedish police over allegations (...)

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Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday August 31 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukLocal TV group to file Project Canvas complaintSix TV, which owns local station licences for Oxford and Southampton, says Freeview on-demand venture could be 'poison pill' Deverell confirms Salford moveBBC North's chief operating officer has confirmed that he will be moving to Salford as relocation creates tension among BBC staff Channel 5 re

Business

Not much love lost between Wikipedia and WikiLeaks
- guardian.co.uk, Monday August 30 2010
- Andrew Clark
The not-for-profit trust behind the world's biggest on-line encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is none too thrilled at a constant assumption that it has something to do with the controversial whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. Just for the record, it does not. Sue Gardner, a former journalist for Canada's CBC broadcasting network, is executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation which r
(...)assumption that it has something to do with the controversial whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. Just for the record, it does not. Sue Gardner, a former (...)

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Open door
- guardian.co.uk, Monday August 30 2010
- Chris Elliott
Words that infuriate or just puzzle readers aren't always the ones you expect them to be. Drop "upcoming" or "incentivise" into a piece and you can bet on an irritated response or two. But there are other words, equally innocuous, that can jar and resonate in a much deeper way with a reader's psyche. Peacetime is such a one. "Why does the word 'peacetime' now appear so often i
(...)print and website space to the war logs? The documents released by WikiLeaks and given such prominence were not called the 'peace logs', and (...)

World news

South Korea press leak blamed on US state department analyst
- guardian.co.uk, Saturday August 28 2010
- Matt Apuzzo Associated Press, Washington
The Obama administration on Friday accused an analyst who worked at the state department of leaking top secret information about North Korea to a reporter. Steven Kim, who worked at the state department as an employee of a contractor, maintains his innocence. He was named in a federal indictment unsealed on Friday, and charged with illegally disclosing national defence inform

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Fidel Castro claims Osama bin Laden is a US spy
- guardian.co.uk, Friday August 27 2010
- Chris McGreal in Washington
Fidel Castro has more reason than most to believe conspiracy theories involving dark forces in Washington. After all, the CIA tried to blow his head off with an exploding cigar. But the ageing Cuban revolutionary may have gone too far for all but the most ardent believer in the reach and competence of America's intelligence agency. He has claimed that Osama bin Laden is in the
(...)The former Cuban president said he knows it because he has read WikiLeaks. Castro told a visiting Lithuanian writer, who is known as a (...)

Media

Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Friday August 27 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukMark Thompson to make vigorous defence of BBC in MacTaggart lectureBBC director-general expected to fight back against critics and set out vision of how technology will transform corporation's role STV spends £1m on legal battlesScottish ITV licensee also says it may charge for some TV shows online and is 'on track' to make £5.2m in digital re
(...)is 'on track' to make £5.2m in digital revenue this year WikiLeaks war logs posting 'will lead to free speech ruling'US supreme (...)

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WikiLeaks war logs posting 'will lead to free speech ruling'
- guardian.co.uk, Friday August 27 2010
- David Batty and agencies
US supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor has said the court is likely to have to rule on the issue of balancing national security and freedom of speech due to WikiLeaks posting a cache of US military records about the Afghan war. Sotomayor said the incident, which has been condemned by the Pentagon, was likely to provoke legislation in Congress that would require judicial scru
(...)the issue of balancing national security and freedom of speech due to WikiLeaks posting a cache of US military records about the Afghan war. (...)

Global

Alan Rusbridger profile
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday August 26 2010
- Alan Rusbridger
Alan Rusbridger has been editor of the Guardian since 1995. He is editor-in-chief of Guardian News & Media, a member of the GNM and GMG Boards and a member of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian and the Observer. Rusbridger's career began on the Cambridge Evening News, where he trained as a reporter before first joining the Guardian in 1979. He worked as a general rep
(...)Neil Hamilton, Jonathan Aitken, the Police Federation, Trafigura, freedom of information and Wikileaks. The paper was nominated newspaper of the year five times between (...)

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Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday August 26 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukSTV's pre-tax profits rise to £6mScottish ITV licensee says it expects TV ad revenue to increase by up to 10% in the third quarter Julian Assange investigated over one chargeSwedish police will question WikiLeaks founder over alleged molestation - but a second case against him has been dropped Richard Desmond in talks to buy Big BrotherDaily
(...)the third quarter Julian Assange investigated over one chargeSwedish police will question WikiLeaks founder over alleged molestation - but a second case against him has (...)

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Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday August 25 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukJohnston Press: first operating profit increase since 2006Owner of the Scotsman and the Yorkshire Evening Post says rate of decline in advertising revenues is continuing to ease BT ad banned by ASAThe advertising watchdog said the TV ad for BT broadband misled customers over the speed of the service BBC4 to air Anna Nicole Smith operaWork bas
(...)Brother winner goes straight back into the house. P19The two women accusing WikiLeaks founder of sexual assault deny being part of a smear campaign. (...)

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange still being investigated over one charge – prosecutor
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday August 25 2010
- Associated Press
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange no longer faces sex abuse charges in Sweden, after the country's chief prosecutor decided to investigate only one of two complaints against him, and not as a sexual offence. Assange – who has denied both accusations – is still suspected of molesting a woman on August 13, but molestation is not a sex crime under Swedish law, said Karin Rosander,
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange no longer faces sex abuse charges in Sweden, (...)

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Time's take on the 50 best websites
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday August 25 2010
- Jemima Kiss
Lists are always pretty exciting for the anally retentive, but doubly so when you're on them. This particular list is Time Magazine's 50 best websites... so who topped them all? Time took the diplomatic decision of listing all 50 rather than ranking them, so there's no overall winner. But it's an agreeable mix of familiar names and worthy new entrants, even if there is a predi
(...)Geographic (the site that has everything) and (phenomenon in its own right) Wikileaks. There's a mobile-optimised version (...)

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Prosecutors may decide today on charges against WikiLeaks founder
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday August 24 2010
- Nick Davies and Marie Louise Sjolie
Swedish prosecutors say they hope to announce today whether they will pursue two cases of alleged sexual assault involving Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Prosecutors say they are considering a complaint of sexual molestation from one woman, Ms A, who has previously been an active supporter of Assange. They say they are also still considering whether any offence may
(...)two cases of alleged sexual assault involving Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Prosecutors say they are considering a complaint of sexual molestation from (...)

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Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday August 24 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukWPP's first-half pre-tax profits rise 36%World's largest advertising group says recovery is stronger than expected, particularly in the US and UK TV ads skipped by 86% of viewersNearly 90% of people watching timeshifted shows fast-forward the ads, but TV remains the most memorable form of advertising Prosecutors to decide on Julian AssangeSwe
(...)today whether they will pursue two cases of alleged sexual assault involving WikiLeaks founder This week's featured media jobsTreasury Today - Graduate Trainee Financial (...)

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Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Monday August 23 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukMake or break for BBC's Mark Thompson as he prepares MacTaggart lectureDirector general must convince critics he is the right man to lead the corporation through a turbulent period WikiLeaks' Julian Assange in Swedish rape claim furoreStockholm's chief prosecutor makes it clear WikiLeaks founder has no rape charges to answer after hundreds of
(...)is the right man to lead the corporation through a turbulent period WikiLeaks' Julian Assange in Swedish rape claim furoreStockholm's chief prosecutor makes (...)

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denies rape allegations
- guardian.co.uk, Sunday August 22 2010
- Caroline Davies and agencies
Julian Assange, the secretive founder of the whistle-blowing WikiLeaks website, has today denied allegations of rape and sexual molestation and insisted he has never had non-consensual sex. The 39-year-old Australian – whose website was behind the biggest leak of US military documents in history – was the subject of a Swedish arrest warrant on Friday after separate complaints
Julian Assange, the secretive founder of the whistle-blowing WikiLeaks website, has today denied allegations of rape and sexual molestation and (...)

Technology

Does technology pose a threat to our private life?
- guardian.co.uk, Saturday August 21 2010
- Jemima Kiss
Are you in a relationship? What are your political views? And where did you go for breakfast this morning? What would once have been details of our lives known only by those we know and trust, many of us now willingly display online. From the surveillance entertainment of Big Brother to CCTV and celebrity magazines, the boundaries of what is regarded as appropriate to put in t

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Rape warrant against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange cancelled
- guardian.co.uk, Saturday August 21 2010
- David Batty and agencies
Swedish authorities have withdrawn an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, stating that the accusation of rape against him was unfounded. The move came just a day after a warrant was issued by Sweden's prosecutors' office in Stockholm in response to accusations of rape and molestation in two separate cases. "I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has
Swedish authorities have withdrawn an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, stating that the accusation of rape against him (...)

World news

Salil Shetty: Amnesty International's new voice in
the fight against injustice
- guardian.co.uk, Sunday August 15 2010
- Sarfraz Manzoor
Salil Shetty is no stranger to radicalism: his father was a campaigning journalist and his mother a feminist activist. Now, as the new secretary general of Amnesty International, he is in charge of the world's largest, most liberal human rights organisation. Speaking to the Observer in his first interview since taking up his new role last month, Shetty said: "My father was a j
(...)Amnesty and four other human rights organisations wrote to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, urging it to remove thousands of names from the leaked Afghanistan (...)

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Press freedom group joins condemnation of WikiLeaks' war logs
- guardian.co.uk, Friday August 13 2010
- Haroon Siddique
A group that campaigns for press freedom has become the latest organisation to condemn WikiLeaks for publication of the leaked Afghanistan war logs. In an open letter to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Reporters Without Borders accused him of "incredible irresponsibility" for publishing the tens of thousands of documents "indiscriminately". WikiLeaks initially withheld aroun
(...)that campaigns for press freedom has become the latest organisation to condemn WikiLeaks for publication of the leaked Afghanistan war logs. In an open (...)

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Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Friday August 13 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukPaul Jackson quits Capital for Australian groupGlobal Radio station chief to join Lachlan Murdoch's DMG Radio, and will be replaced by Galaxy's James Brownlow Kung fu master to combat 'hoodie culture' for Bravo TV seriesShaolin monk to teach inner-city youngsters martial arts in factual series echoing 1984 film The Karate Kid Media Talk: The
(...)appoints boss of BBC Worldwide as chief executive. BUSINESS, B5 The Times Wikileaks attacked over plan to release 15,000 more files. P3How a (...)

Wikileaks revealed that the number of deaths of the cinilians killed ny NATO forces in Afghanistan is more than 20'000. It is estimated from the data of the 15'000 files of the secret war logs in Afghanistan of the United States military not published at the Wikileaks.org.

World news
David Cameron comments hindered Pakistan aid, says ambassador
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday August 12 2010
- Alexandra Topping
The rift between Britain and Pakistan showed signs of reopening last night after Pakistan's ambassador to the UN claimed that comments by David Cameron in which he said Pakistan must not look "both ways" on terrorism had affected its efforts to raise funds for its flood-stricken people. Days after the Pakistani president, Asif Ali Zardari, stood with Cameron at Chequers and de
(...)world". His remarks followed the leaking of US military documents on the Wikileaks website in which Pakistani intelligence was accused of secretly helping the (...)
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Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday August 11 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukAirey set to leave as Desmond shakes up Channel FiveBroadcaster's chairman and chief executive expected to move to management role at RTL after restructure ASA watchdog bans 'offensive' anti-terror hotline radio advertBroadcast by Association of Chief Police Officers urged listeners to report neighbours who avoided company Afghanistan war log
(...)Officers urged listeners to report neighbours who avoided company Afghanistan war logs: WikiLeaks urged to remove thousands of namesHuman rights groups including Amnesty raise (...)
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Why raw data sites need journalism
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday August 11 2010
- John Keenan
According to Alfred Harmsworth, founder of both the Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, news is "what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; the rest is advertising". By this yardstick, Harmsworth would have agreed that the WikiLeaks Afghan war diary is a remarkable news event. But he would have had no truck with the argument mounted by WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange that the move (...)
(...)rest is advertising". By this yardstick, Harmsworth would have agreed that the WikiLeaks Afghan war diary is a remarkable news event. But he would (...)
Media
Today's media stories from the papers
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday August 10 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukMark Thompson likely to scrap pension top-ups for BBC bossesDirector general says BBC will review payouts to senior executives as he faces grilling over changes to final salary scheme Ofcom: relax media ownership rulesRegulator says government should allow single company to control newspapers, TV licence and radio station in local area BSkyB
(...)in Morocco. P21 Wall Street Journal Europe Rights groups join criticism of WikiLeaks. P1, 7Rise of the ebook. P13Skype joins big-name crowd on (...)
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Is WikiLeaks safe for sources after all?
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday August 10 2010
- Roy Greenslade
A Swedish newspaper has claimed that WikiLeaks is not fully protected by Swedish law and so it could be vulnerable to demands to reveal its sources. According to an article in Sydsvenskan, there are doubts about the validity of WikiLeaks' belief in the protections offered under Swedish legislation. The paper quotes Håkan Rustand, deputy to the acting chancellor of justice,
A Swedish newspaper has claimed that WikiLeaks is not fully protected by Swedish law and so it could (...)
World news
Afghanistan war logs: WikiLeaks urged to remove thousands of names
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday August 10 2010
- Matthew Weaver
Human rights groups have urged the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks to remove thousands of names from the leaked Afghanistan war logs over fears of "deadly ramifications" for the people identified. Five human rights organisations including Amnesty International and the Open Society Institute, have written to WikiLeaks to express their concerns about the biggest leak in US mili
Human rights groups have urged the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks to remove thousands of names from the leaked Afghanistan war logs (...)
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A martyr for peace remembered
- guardian.co.uk, Monday August 9 2010
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy
This is the anniversary of the guillotining in 1943 of Franz Jägerstätter, a peasant farmer from Upper Austria, by the German army in the prison at Brandenburg. His crime was that on religious grounds, as a member of the forces of the Thousand Year Reich, he refused to fight for Hitler and the Nazis. As the date of Pope Benedict's visit to Britain approaches and with it the b
(...)politics and the atrocity of their actions are revealed by Chilcot and Wikileaks alike, it is the peasant's action which is more urgent (...)
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Open door
guardian.co.uk, Monday August 9 2010
Chris Elliott
It is an age-old journalistic dilemma: the reporter discovers information that he or she believes is in the public interest to disclose, but the government says lives will be put at risk by doing so. To publish or not to publish? How do editors and reporters make that decision? How did journalists make it when working on the Afghan war logs published by the Guardian a fortnigh
(...)through the raw material of the documents, which were eventually published on WikiLeaks. Each approached the task slightly differently. There was immediate criticism from (...)
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A martyr for peace remembered
guardian.co.uk, Monday August 9 2010
Hugh O'Shaughnessy
This is the anniversary of the guillotining in 1943 of Franz Jägerstätter, a peasant farmer from Upper Austria, by the German army in the prison at Brandenburg. His crime was that on religious grounds, as a member of the forces of the Thousand Year Reich, he refused to fight for Hitler and the Nazis. As the date of Pope Benedict's visit to Britain approaches and with it the b
(...)politics and the atrocity of their actions are revealed by Chilcot and Wikileaks alike, it is the peasant's action which is more urgent (...)
Media
PDA's Newsbucket
guardian.co.uk, Monday August 9 2010
Jemima Kiss
? Demand Media files IPO >> WSJ? Demand Media's co-founder Shawn Colo >> Beet? Hewlett Packard chief resigns after sex harassment case >> Reuters? Washington's passion for Google cools >> FT? Review: Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus >> NYT Photo by Pop!Tech on Flickr. Some rights reserved. ? Apple and the war for the mobile market >> Wired?
(...)Mashable? Five things Google needs to fix in Android >> Wired? WikiLeaks to publish new documents >> AP? One Laptop Per Child (...)
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Mr Cameron doesn't understand Pakistan. Sadly, he is not alone
guardian.co.uk, Sunday August 8 2010
Jason Burke
A week before her death, travelling through the same lowland towns of the North-West Frontier province of Pakistan that are now half-buried under mud, Benazir Bhutto said to me: "Pakistan has changed Mr Burke, Pakistan has changed. And I need to learn about it once more." Bhutto had returned to her native land three months earlier and after an eight-year exile, a comeback in l
(...)the 9/11 attacks and the now defunct war on terror. The Wikileaks on the Pakistani security establishment's support for the Afghan Taliban, (...)
World news
Pentagon increases pressure on WikiLeaks to return military files
guardian.co.uk, Friday August 6 2010
David Batty
The Pentagon has demanded that WikiLeaks immediately erase the huge cache of secret US military files about the Afghan war it has posted online and hand over another 15,000 classified records in its possession. Condemning the whistleblowers' website for inciting the leaking of military secrets, the Department of Defence warned it would examine ways to compel WikiLeaks to "do t
The Pentagon has demanded that WikiLeaks immediately erase the huge cache of secret US military files about (...)
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Why Cameron should thank Pakistan
guardian.co.uk, Friday August 6 2010
Kapil Komireddi
How about some gratitude? That is the question Pakistanis can be forgiven for asking. Last week, as David Cameron was speaking with searing candour about Pakistan's dual role in the war against terror in Bangalore, having just concluded a lucrative sale of a fleet of jets to India, Pakistanis were busy mourning the dead in the worst air disaster in their country's history: 152
(...)to bomb it back to the stone age. We did not need WikiLeaks to confirm the fact that, in the war that followed, Pakistan (...)
Politics
David Cameron and Pakistan's Asif Ali Zardari show united front on terrorism
guardian.co.uk, Friday August 6 2010
Patrick Wintour and Paul Owen
David Cameron and the Pakistani president, Asif Ali Zardari, agreed today to regular top-level meetings between intelligence officials as the two leaders tried to put behind them claims by Cameron that Pakistan faced two ways on terrorism. After hour-long formal talks in Chequers that came at the end of two weeks of diplomatic tension, Cameron declared the relationship between
Politics
Diary
guardian.co.uk, Friday August 6 2010
Hugh Muir
• Battle rages over Conrad Black, the main question being: his successful appeal, is it a good thing? Some in his native Canada say not, and that in any event, having fought for a peerage, he should plan a future here rather than there. Others insist that even when his body was constrained by a correctional facility in Florida, his spirit remained in Canada. In Britain, (...)
(...)that there is not much good news coming out of Afghanistan. Think WikiLeaks, Canada and the Netherlands pulling out, and so on. But we (...)
World news
Intimidation and bombings silence Jalalabad's thriving record stores
guardian.co.uk, Thursday August 5 2010
Jon Boone in Jalalabad
Until recently, shoppers in the fetid underground shopping centre in central Jalalabad had the blare of Bollywood pop songs to contend with as well as the heat and humidity of the bazaar that sprawls underneath one of the Afghan city's busiest roads. But the screeching music has now gone, along with nearly all the crowded little kiosks that used to do a brisk trade in CDs and
Cardiff
Cardiff today: Community fun day, Festival of Flowers and flats meeting
guardian.co.uk, Thursday August 5 2010
Hannah Waldram
Good morning Cardiff Today, there will a community fun day in Canton starting at 11am and finishing at 3pm at Canton Community Hall. The fun day will include face painting, Dr Bike, police and fire services, and advice stands. There will also be a community fun day at the Western Leisure Centre from 10am-3pm as a chance for families to get involved for free, including a 5-a-
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Neocons are hypocrites on WikiLeaks
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday August 3 2010
Sunny Hundal
As soon as the WikiLeaks Afghanistan exposé came to light, it was obvious the usual suspects would start attacking the messenger than discussing the message. David Aaronovitch was quick off the mark, with others following soon enough – implying WikiLeaks was seriously damaging the war effort in Afghanistan. The rhetoric has now reached absurd levels. The US defence secretary
As soon as the WikiLeaks Afghanistan exposé came to light, it was obvious the usual suspects (...)
Politics
Zardari: International community is losing war against the Taliban
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday August 3 2010
Haroon Siddique and Lizzy Davies in Paris
The Pakistani president, Asif Ali Zardari, warned today that the international community was "losing the war against the Taliban", as he prepared to travel to the UK. The warning, in Le Monde, could further strain relations between Pakistan and the UK after David Cameron's comments while visiting India last week that Pakistan was looking "both ways" on militancy and exporting
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Burqas and bikinis
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday August 3 2010
Priyamvada Gopal
Reprising a legendary 1985 National Geographic cover, this week's Time magazine cover girl is another beautiful young Afghan woman. But this time there is a gaping hole where her nose used to be before it was cut off under Taliban direction. A stark caption reads: "What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan". A careful editorial insists that the image is not shown "either in (...)
(...)in opposition to it". The stated intention is to counterbalance damaging the WikiLeaks revelations – 91,000 documents that, Time believes, cannot provide "emotional truth (..
Media
PDA's Newsbucket
guardian.co.uk, Monday August 2 2010
Jemima Kiss
• The way we live now: Tweeting >> NYT• How to stop worrying and love Facebook Credits >> VentureBeat• What startups can learn from Apple's antennagate >> GigaOM• Google, China and the demands of real-time news >> GigaOM• Twitter passes 20 billionth tweet >> BBC• Q&A: Pinning photos to a map >> NYT• New Gmail design revealed in leaked (...)
(...)the iPad >> Ars Technica• US detains researcher and questions about Wikileaks >> CNet• I don't understand WSJ's cookie scaremongering (...)
World news
All the president's emails: General James Jones, David Gompert, Sonia Sotomayor, Robert Gibbs
guardian.co.uk, Monday August 2 2010
As seen by Oliver Burkeman
To: General James Jones, National Security Advisor , David Gompert, Acting Director of National Intelligence Subject: Re: Re: How to stop further military intelligence leaks, immediately I've gotta say, Jim, your "reassurance" that you'll be changing the password on the main CENTCOM intelligence database from "password" (...)
(...)Gibbs Subject: Line to take on WikiLeaks story Our position will be that these leaks pose grave danger (...)
Media
Today's media stories from the papers
guardian.co.uk, Monday August 2 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukWar logs: what did we learn?The Afghan war logs were unique collaboration between newspapers and a 'stateless' website. What did we learn from them? Martha Lane Fox: Thinking like a championThe UK's digital champion appears undaunted by the challenge of getting the last 10 million Britons online by 2012 despite having no money Is Sky's deal w
(...)P2How three of the world's largest newspapers spent weeks working with Wikileaks. MEDIA GUARDIAN, P4 The Independent Stephen Glover: What WikiLeaks is really (...)
Politics
Oiling the change of government
guardian.co.uk, Monday August 2 2010
The criticisms in your leader (30 July) of Gus O'Donnell, the cabinet secretary, are both unfair and unsubstantiated. I was one of those who helped in a minor way to draw up the draft chapter of the cabinet manual dealing with a hung parliament. The guidelines, which do no more than codify existing practice, neither facilitate coalition government, nor do they make it more (...)
(...)week that you published extensively the Afghanistan documents released to you by WikiLeaks. It is unfortunate, too, that you did not comment on the (...)
World news
US combat role in Iraq set to end on schedule, says Barack Obama
guardian.co.uk, Monday August 2 2010
Chris McGreal in Washington
Barack Obama declared today that he is on the brink of fulfilling a campaign promise to end US combat operations in Iraq – seven years after his predecessor's triumphalist pronouncement that the war was won and the mission accomplished. But the president warned that the plan to turn over military responsibility to the Iraqi government by the end of this month would not mean an
Stage
The Great Game: Afghanistan
guardian.co.uk, Monday August 2 2010
Andrew Dickson and Melissa Denes
Full marks for timeliness. A week after WikiLeaks, Nick Kent's Olivier-nominated production returns to north London. His cycle of 12 short plays, performed in three instalments, narrates Afghanistan's history from 1842 to the present. Some of the plays have been updated since their premiere last year. Amit Gupta's Campaign, a sly four-hander in which an oleaginous special advi
Full marks for timeliness. A week after WikiLeaks, Nick Kent's Olivier-nominated production returns to north London. His (...)
Media
Afghan War Logs: what did we learn?
guardian.co.uk, Monday August 2 2010
David Leigh
The Afghan war logs story has proved to be a global journalistic phenomenon. The Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel last week made history by simultaneously releasing stories about this huge classified US military archive. The logs hold 92,000 field reports, many of them ugly and grim. The three papers mined revelations about the cruel toll on civilians in the nine-y
(...)of so many western soldiers. The media trio did this work while WikiLeaks, a hitherto little-known organisation, simultaneously posted virtually the entire raw (...)
World news
Pakistan president will 'put David Cameron straight' over terror claims
guardian.co.uk, Monday August 2 2010
Simon Tisdall and Patrick Wintour
The row over David Cameron's claim that Pakistan is exporting terrorism threatened to escalate tonight as a senior Pakistani official revealed President Asif Ali Zardari planned to "put him straight" when he meets the prime minister at a showdown summit at Chequers on Friday. "David Cameron has been doing some plain talking. Now Zardari will be doing the plain talking," the of
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WikiLeaks and British lies in Ireland
guardian.co.uk, Monday August 2 2010
Gerry Adams
In June I stood in the Guildhall Square in Derry and watched as the relatives of the 14 innocent victims of the British Parachute Regiment expressed their delight at the Saville report's conclusion that the 14 were innocent victims. After Bloody Sunday, the British system and, to its shame, much of the British media, accused those who had been shot of being "gunmen" and (...)
(...)the 90,000 US military files that have been posted on the WikiLeaks website and carried in detail in a number of newspapers, including (...)
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All the president's emails: General James Jones, David Gompert, Sonia Sotomayor, Robert Gibbs
guardian.co.uk, Monday August 2 2010
As seen by Oliver Burkeman
To: General James Jones, National Security Advisor , David Gompert, Acting Director of National Intelligence Subject: Re: Re: How to stop further military intelligence leaks, immediately I've gotta say, Jim, your "reassurance" that you'll be changing the password on the main CENTCOM intelligence database from "password" (...)
(...)Gibbs Subject: Line to take on WikiLeaks story

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PDA's Newsbucket
guardian.co.uk, Monday August 2 2010
Jemima Kiss
• The way we live now: Tweeting >> NYT• How to stop worrying and love Facebook Credits >> VentureBeat• What startups can learn from Apple's antennagate >> GigaOM• Google, China and the demands of real-time news >> GigaOM• Twitter passes 20 billionth tweet >> BBC• Q&A: Pinning photos to a map >> NYT• New Gmail design revealed in leaked (...)
(...)the iPad >> Ars Technica• US detains researcher and questions about Wikileaks >> CNet• I don't understand WSJ's cookie scaremongering (...)
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Campaigners try to force MoD to court over Afghan killings
guardian.co.uk, Sunday August 1 2010
David Leigh and Ed Pilkington in New York
The prospect of a judicial review into previously covered-up civilian shootings in Afghanistan has opened up after human rights campaigners launched an attempt to take the Ministry of Defence to court. This follows the disclosure in the Guardian that a series of unusual civilian shootings involving two British army units, are documented in last week's WikiLeaks publication of
(...)shootings involving two British army units, are documented in last week's WikiLeaks publication of thousands of leaked US military files. A formal letter (...)
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Afghanistan: which way now?
guardian.co.uk, Sunday August 1 2010
Peter Beaumont
The Basra optionDuring the latter period of the British occupation of the Iraqi city of Basra, two questions emerged: whether the high profile of British troops actually provided a target and made the violence worse? And whether the escalating conflict in that area was a direct result of primarily military efforts to bring security to it? Soldiers in Afghanistan have raised th
Books
Anne Frank: was her diary intended as a work of art?
guardian.co.uk, Sunday August 1 2010
Robert McCrum
In a brilliant observation, Philip Roth once described Anne Frank as Kafka's "lost little daughter". Frank's diary of her sequestration in the secret annexe of 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam is surely one of the most compelling documents of 20th-century European history, a heartbreaking, at times uplifting, record of a young life scorched and then exterminated by the Nazis. Bu
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Julian Assange, monk of the online age who thrives on intellectual battle
guardian.co.uk, Sunday August 1 2010
Carole Cadwalladr
How many people had even heard of WikiLeaks a week ago? Or Julian Assange? And yet, seven days after the biggest intelligence leak of all time – the publication of over 75,000 files amounting to an entire history of the Afghanistan war – he is everywhere; in every newspaper, on every news broadcast, in what appears to be every country in the world. It's been an extraordinary (...)
How many people had even heard of WikiLeaks a week ago? Or Julian Assange? And yet, seven days after (...)
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WikiLeaks' Afghan story raises dilemma over safety of sources
guardian.co.uk, Sunday August 1 2010
Peter Preston
Plaudits first. WikiLeaks, the stateless site of secret data, seems like an information source turned irresistible force. And the Guardian, New York Times and Spiegel did a brilliant editing job last week as they took nearly 92,000 classified documents from WikiLeaks.org and turned them into a compelling commentary on the failures of the Afghan war. This is what journalism – (...)
Plaudits first. WikiLeaks, the stateless site of secret data, seems like an information source (...)
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WikiLeaks founder accuses US army of failing to protect Afghan informers
guardian.co.uk, Sunday August 1 2010
Carole Cadwalladr and Paul Harris
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has hit out at the US military, saying that it bears the ultimate responsibility for any deaths of Afghan informers in the wake of the publication by his organisation of 75,000 leaked files of American army secrets. Assange and WikiLeaks, the whistleblowers' website that publishes leaked documents from around the world, have come under increasi
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has hit out at the US military, saying (...)
World news
Zardari to visit UK as anger at Cameron boils over in Pakistan
guardian.co.uk, Sunday August 1 2010
Saeed Shah in Islamabad and Ian Black
Pakistan's president, Asif Zardari, arrives for an official visit to the UK on Tuesday with a continuing storm back home over David Cameron's comments about Pakistani attitudes to terrorism. Amid fears that security co-operation between Britain and Pakistan could be hit by the row, British officials sought today to play down the significance of the spat, insisting "no long-ter
Technology
WikiLeaks: look before you leak…
guardian.co.uk, Sunday August 1 2010
John Naughton
In the annals of the net, one of the sacred texts is John Gilmore's aphorism that "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it". Mr Gilmore is a celebrated engineer, entrepreneur and libertarian activist, who is regarded by the US Department of Homeland Security, the National Security Agency and men in suits everywhere as a pain in the ass. He was the (...)
(...)based on the stash of classified US military reports published on the WikiLeaks website. And of course in one sense this latest publishing coup (...)
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Islamabad's storm clouds
guardian.co.uk, Sunday August 1 2010
Peter Preston
Baron Prescott, one supposes, would call it a tower of tittle-tattle. If you don't believe dodgy dossiers on Iraq, then why get excited about tall tales that tie Pakistani military intelligence to Taliban terror? This was one WikiLeaks strand that nobody repeated with full confidence. Who were these secondhand sources slipping Nato bizarre allegations? Maybe

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Dave's salesman's patter demeans Britain
guardian.co.uk, Sunday August 1 2010
Nick Cohen
When PR men want to sell journalists a line, their favourite opening gambit is gross sycophancy. "Hey, I lurve your work," they smarm. "It's great to meet ya, you've been doing wonderful stuff." Reporters know they are lying. We suspect they have never read a damn word we have written. But we remain in danger of being flattered by their shameless eagerness to please into (...)
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Afghanistan's unjust war
guardian.co.uk, Saturday July 31 2010
Mark Vernon
Two things this week have made the hellishness of military violence painfully clear. The first, WikiLeaks' Afghanistan war logs, describes in detail the horror of civilian casualties and "friendly fire" incidents. The second, from the same theatre, is Sean Smith's chilling video of American marines in southern Helmand. Faced with these portraits of war, empathy for the people (...)
(...)week have made the hellishness of military violence painfully clear. The first, WikiLeaks' Afghanistan war logs, describes in detail the horror of civilian casualties (...)
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Pakistan's prime minister condemns David Cameron's terror claims
guardian.co.uk, Saturday July 31 2010
Saeed Shah
Pakistan's prime minister hit back today at remarks by David Cameron linking the country to the export of terrorism. Yousaf Raza Gilani, the normally conciliatory premier, used a speech to make the highest level response from Islamabad so far to Cameron's comments during his trip to India. Reports suggest that an official from the British high commission in Islamabad, possibly
(...)aiding the Taliban in the Afghan war logs published last week by WikiLeaks – had previously been presented as being crucial to stopping numerous terrorist (...)
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'Data journalism' and Wikileaks...
guardian.co.uk, Friday July 30 2010
Roy Greenslade
Why is "data journalism" a minority sport? Which newspaper's famous investigation rested on a year-long trawl through documents? Which even more famous investigation made the use of sources seem glamorous? All the answers can be found in my article, We should be thankful to Wikileaks, on the CNN (...)
(...)answers can be found in my article, We should be thankful to Wikileaks, on the CNN (...)
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WikiLeaks 'has blood on its hands' over Afghan war logs, claim US officials
Guardian Weekly, Friday July 30 2010
David Leigh
WikiLeaks and its editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, have come under attack from US officials and their allies for potentially endangering informants and troops in Afghanistan by posting the texts of thousands of leaked war logs. The US defence secretary, Robert Gates, claimed in Washington: "The battlefield consequences are potentially severe and dangerous for our troops, our
(...)WikiLeaks and its editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, have come under attack (...)
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WikiLeaks data: suspected army source sent back to US
guardian.co.uk, Friday July 30 2010
James Meikle and agencies
A US army private under investigation for allegedly leaking classified material to the WikiLeaks website has been transferred from Kuwait to the US amid growing White House and Pentagon anger over this week's revelations about the war in Afghanistan. Bradley Manning, who has already been charged with leaking a video and other material relating to the Iraq war, is now said to b
(...)US army private under investigation for allegedly leaking classified material to the WikiLeaks website has been transferred from Kuwait to the US amid growing (...)
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Media Talk: Wikileaks, HBO and Five

guardian.co.uk, Friday July 30 2010
Audio (30m 23sec): The extraordinary story behind the Afghanistan war logs, Sky's HBO deal, Desmond's plans for Five, and why Peter Salmon isn't heading to (...)
Media
Today's media stories from the papers
guardian.co.uk, Friday July 30 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukS4C 'not designed for a downturn', says ousted chief executiveOn Tuesday, Iona Jones told Maggie Brown how she proposed to deal with sharp cuts at Welsh broadcaster S4C. By the next evening, she was out of a job. Here is her last interview Daily Mail & General Trust: we were too bullish about our regional papersGroup that owns more than 10
(...)unit for tablet devices. P19 Wall Street Journal Europe Opinion: Are the Wikileaks revelations putting US or allies at risk? P12BSkyB strikes HD deal (...)
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Diary
guardian.co.uk, Friday July 30 2010
Hugh Muir
• What a fine old time they are having during the parliamentary recess. Dave strutting the foreign stage "plain speaking", telling it like it is. Others back in their constituencies, basking in their new and exalted status, enjoying the limelight, drinking it in. But there is less fun on offer for some, so spare a thought for Michael Gove and Nick Gibb, education head (...)
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It's no secret what Pakistan's been doing with the Taliban
guardian.co.uk, Friday July 30 2010
Tariq Ali
David Cameron's post-WikiLeaks remarks on Pakistan helping the enemy in the Hindu Kush shouldn't be taken too seriously. The carefully orchestrated "outburst" in India was designed to please his hosts and seal a few business deals (Cameron and Cable are fagging for the British arms industry). It's all part of the schmoozing. Pakistan's official

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Wikileaks: White House implores Assange to desist, but why should he?
guardian.co.uk, Friday July 30 2010
Roy Greenslade
The White House has implored WikiLeaks to stop posting secret Afghanistan war documents. President Obama's spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said the war logs jeopardised national security and put the lives of Afghan informants and US soldiers at risk. "I think it's important that no more damage be done to our national security," Gibbs told NBC's Today show today. The WikiLeaks edito
The White House has implored WikiLeaks to stop posting secret Afghanistan war documents. President Obama's spokesman, (...)
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Have you got what it takes to win the Bevins Prize?
guardian.co.uk, Friday July 30 2010
Roy Greenslade
I don't do awards. Let me qualify that. I do give space to some international press freedom awards because I consider them of crucial importance in helping to publicise heroic journalists, most of whom live and work in totalitarian states. I have also covered one British award, that given in memory of Paul Foot, because it champions investigative reporting. Today I'm pleased
(...)The Bevins Prize, which is particularly apposite in the wake of the Wikileaks revelations and the consequent importance of "data journalism". The award was (...)
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An innocent abroad? Plain-talking Cameron alarms FCO veterans
guardian.co.uk, Thursday July 29 2010
Nicholas Watt in Delhi
As waiters in livery dispensed chicken curry canapes and a selection of colourful Indian summer fruit juices from silver trays, a tinkle on a glass indicated the guest of honour had something important to say. David Cameron stepped up in front of the guests gathered in the drawing room of the British high commissioner's palatial residence in New Delhi to say he had made a (...)
(...)should not believe leaked US military documents. A central finding of the Wikileaks documents is that Britain and the US believe the Pakistani intelligence (...)
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Cameron fed Pakistan's victim complex
guardian.co.uk, Thursday July 29 2010
Mustafa Qadri
News of Cameron's visit may have been sidelined by Pakistan's worst-ever air disaster. Yet his speech in Bangalore, India, has fast become infamous here. It isn't so much the substance of his remarks that have raised our collective ire. We have already heard ad nauseum that Pakistan must end its double game of supporting both the militants and US-led forces in the region. No, (...)
(...)is out to get Pakistan. A similar sentiment has followed the voluminous WikiLeaks allegations of massive ISI support for the Afghan insurgency. Namely, that (...)
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Afghan war logs: Destroy insurgent sanctuaries in Pakistan, says Karzai
guardian.co.uk, Thursday July 29 2010
Jon Boone in Kabul
Hamid Karzai has called on Nato to destroy insurgent sanctuaries in Pakistan, escalating a war of words sparked by allegations the Taliban are receiving official Pakistani support made in this week's leak of US military intelligence documents. The Afghan president said the war on terrorism was not based in Afghanistan, "but rather this war is in the sanctuaries, funding centre
(...)charge in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus. The meeting was scheduled before the Wikileaks disclosures about failures in the Afghanistan war and the allegedly duplicitous (...)
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PDA's Newsbucket
guardian.co.uk, Thursday July 29 2010
Jemima Kiss
• New Kindle is smaller, lighter and mass market >> paidContent• Heather Brooke comes out batting for paid Times >> paidContent:UK• Doing the maths on Android vs Apple >> Wired• Facebook to pay $10m for Hot Potato >> TechCrunch• Eric Schmidt on Google's next tricks >> Digits• 15 developer women to follow on Twitter >> Mashable• Facebook (...)
(...)Mashable• Zynga and SoftBank in joint venture in Japan >> AllThingsD• WikiLeaks is the Pirate Bay of political intelligence >> Mashable• Top (...)
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Al-Qaida 'planned 9/11 style attack on Kabul'
guardian.co.uk, Thursday July 29 2010
Jon Boone in Kabul
It may be one of the more audacious terrorist plots to be hatched in Afghanistan, but it was certainly not the most original. The same al-Qaida masterminds behind 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington planned to commit a similar attack in the capital of the country that once harboured them, according to a file among US military intelligence documents published this week by (...)
(...)a file among US military intelligence documents published this week by the WikiLeaks website. Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaida's second in command, is (...)
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Failing to learn the lessons of Afghan history
guardian.co.uk, Thursday July 29 2010
Like Geoff Simmons (Letters, 27 July), we applaud WikiLeaks for exposing the bloody war in Afghanistan, and the Guardian for publishing it (Report, 26 July). The UK affection for US warmongering goes hand in hand with Cameron's further development of a war economy (Report, 25 July). Is this why the government wants to end universal jurisdiction, which allows the arrest of (...)
Like Geoff Simmons (Letters, 27 July), we applaud WikiLeaks for exposing the bloody war in Afghanistan, and the Guardian for (...)
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Today's media stories from the papers
guardian.co.uk, Thursday July 29 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukBSkyB buys UK rights to complete HBO TV catalogueBroadcaster gains exclusive rights to hit series including The Wire, Sex and the City and Boardwalk Empire BSkyB profits rise as HD takeup soarsCompany adds 429,000 new HD subscribers in second quarter, as broadband operation hits profitability for first time S4C chief Iona Jones quitsWelsh-lan
(...)Media to buy back £375m shares. Business P8 The Times Backlash over Wikileaks' publication of Afghan war logs. P1, 13World's oldest Twitter user (...)
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Barack Obama on The View - as it happened
guardian.co.uk, Thursday July 29 2010
Richard Adams
Preamble: If you've got an American history book, throw it away, it's useless. Future chronicles of American history will just say "Barack Obama appeared on The View" – everything else will be a footnote* to the first sitting US president on a daytime talk show, at 11am ET (4pm in the UK) today. According to CNN: "Obama to make history with appearance on The View" – which is t

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Today's media stories from the papers
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday July 28 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukDarren Childs to head UKTVBBC Worldwide Channels chief believed to be close to filling vacancy left by David Abrahams' move to Channel 4 Virgin Media revenue up 7%Virgin Media beats analyst expectations to add 9,100 new subscribers and grow revenue to £964m Mecom sees online revenue surge 47%European newspaper publisher Mecom has reported a p
(...)like Iran, to human perfection." P34 Also on MediaGuardian.co.uk todayWhy WikiLeaks turned to the pressDan Kennedy: That WikiLeaks went to the press (...)
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Afghanistan bus hit by roadside bomb
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday July 28 2010
Reuters
At least 25 Afghan passengers were killed and more than a dozen wounded when their bus was hit by a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan, the provincial governor said. The bus was on its way from Delaram district, about 430 miles from the capital, Kabul, when the bomb exploded. Nearly 20 people were wounded in the blast, some of them in serious condition, Ghulam Dastgir Azaad
(...)The incident came after the publication on Monday by the whistleblower group Wikileaks of tens of thousands of classified US documents which cast a (...)
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Afghan casualties
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday July 28 2010
Your observation that "some aspects of the coalition's recording of civilian deaths appear unreliable" (Editorial, 26 July) is an understatement. WikiLeaks' Afghan documents bear out Amnesty's long-standing concerns that neither Nato nor the US have coherent, consistent systems for accounting for the numerous civilian casualties in Afghanistan. The documents support our (...)
(...)recording of civilian deaths appear unreliable" (Editorial, 26 July) is an understatement. WikiLeaks' Afghan documents bear out Amnesty's long-standing concerns that neither (...)
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Death of UK soldier in Afghanistan may have been 'friendly fire' incident
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 27 2010
Adam Gabbatt
The death of a British soldier in Afghanistan yesterday is being investigated as a suspected "friendly fire" incident, the Ministry of Defence has said. The serviceman, who has not yet been named, died in the Sangin area of Helmand province, a spokesman for the ministry confirmed. He was serving with a group specialising in defusing roadside bombs when he died. "Initial repo
(...)informed. The Afghanistan war logs – based on secret military files passed to Wikileaks and published by the Guardian and two other international newspapers – shed (...)
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Kidnapped former Pakistan agent Colonel Imam pleads for life
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 27 2010
Saeed Shah in Islamabad
The former Pakistan intelligence agent known as the godfather of the Taliban emerged in a video today pleading for his life, four months after he was captured by an Islamic extremist group. One of the most famous former officers of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, Colonel Imam said his life was in danger unless the authorities meet his kidnappers demand to free a
(...)in the week that documents leaked to the Guardian by whistleblowing website Wikileaks appeared to show that the ISI continued to support the Taliban (...)
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Wikileaks' Afghanistan war logs: how our datajournalism operation worked
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 27 2010
Simon Rogers
Well, we always wanted stories from data: now we've got it. In spades. With bells on. The Wikileaks' Afghanistan war logs are a fantastic victory for investigative data basedjournalism, not only here at the Guardian but at the New York Times and Der Spiegel too. It's also datajournalism in action. What we wanted to do was enable our team of specialist reporters to get great hu
(...)data: now we've got it. In spades. With bells on. The Wikileaks' Afghanistan war logs are a fantastic victory for investigative data basedjournalism, (...)
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Secrets, lies and this dirty war
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 27 2010
I applaud the publicity you give to the 90,000 records of the Afghan war exposed by Wikileaks (Massive leak of secret files exposes true Afghan war, 26 July). This is a crucial antidote to the lies, platitudes and mantras fed to us by our political masters. It is easy in this context to note the categories of war crimes being perpetrated in Afghanistan in our name – the (...)
(...)give to the 90,000 records of the Afghan war exposed by Wikileaks (Massive leak of secret files exposes true Afghan war, 26 July). (...)
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Barack Obama enlists Afghan war leaks in support of policy switch
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 27 2010
Ewen MacAskill in Washington
Barack Obama today claimed the disclosures about the mishandling of the Afghanistan war contained in leaked US military documents justified his decision to embark on a new strategy. Obama, speaking from the Rose Garden after a meeting with congressional leaders to discuss funding for the war and other issues, deplored the leak, saying he was concerned the information from the
(...)be reviewed in December. The thousands of documents, sent to the website Wikileaks and published in the Guardian, the New York Times and Der (...)
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Afghanistan war logs: tensions increase after revelation of more leaked files
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 27 2010
David Leigh and Matthew Taylor
Tensions between the US, Afghanistan and Pakistan were further strained today after the leak of thousands of military documents about the Afghan war. As members of the US Congress raised questions about Pakistan's alleged support for the Taliban, officials in Islamabad and Kabul also traded angry accusations on the same issue. Further disclosures reveal more evidence of attem
(...)conference at the Frontline Club in central London yesterday, Julian Assange, of Wikileaks, the website which initially published the war logs, said: "It is (...)
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US military combats Wikileaks via Twitter
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 27 2010
Richard Adams
How does the US military's public relations combat the release of 91,000 gruesome war logs from Afghanistan through the Wikileaks website? By opening a new front on the social media battleground. Generals are often accused of fighting the last war – but not Admiral Mike Mullen, the most senior US military officer as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Mullen today made his
(...)the release of 91,000 gruesome war logs from Afghanistan through the Wikileaks website? By opening a new front on the social media battleground

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War logs are no surprise to Afghans
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 27 2010
Nushin Arbabzadah
Julian Assange's remarkable service to truth, transparency and democracy are appreciated on the ground in Afghanistan. Yet there was little in the WikiLeaks revelations that came as a surprise to Afghans and the local media mostly refrained from commenting, limiting their effort to reporting news of the publication of secret files. Only a few papers tried to take a clear stanc
(...)appreciated on the ground in Afghanistan. Yet there was little in the WikiLeaks revelations that came as a surprise to Afghans and the local (...)
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Helmand residents accuse Nato of deliberate attack on civilians
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 27 2010
Jon Boone in Kabul and Ali Safi in Kandahar
Survivors of an alleged Nato rocket attack on a small town in Helmand, which the Afghan government says killed 52 civilians, spoke today of their anger at what they claim was a deliberate air strike, despite coalition denials. The incident is alleged to have taken place last Friday in Regey, in the volatile Sangin district of Helmand. News of it came as a deluge of leaked US a
(...)that such incidents, including those uncovered by documents published this week by Wikileaks, cause huge damage. They have in the past caused major rows (...)
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Why WikiLeaks turned to the press
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 27 2010
Dan Kennedy
Of all the questions raised by the Afghanistan war logs, perhaps the most intriguing is this: why would an organisation as independent-minded and disdainful of the traditional media as WikiLeaks seek out those very media as partners rather than going it alone? My necessarily speculative answer is that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who's made a speciality of revealing embar
(...)an organisation as independent-minded and disdainful of the traditional media as WikiLeaks seek out those very media as partners rather than going it (...)
From the Guardian
Welcome to the 30 July edition
Guardian Weekly, Tuesday July 27 2010
Abby Deveney
The Guardian's Afghanistan War Logs have given us a remarkable week for news. We've sifted through the many pages of news, comment and analysis to bring you the highlights of secret documents that reveal the true failings of the Afghan war. We feature the main news story, a tale of human suffering and military mayhem, and two pages inside with the salient stories: a secret sq
(...)the documents that also suggest the long reach of Iran. We profile Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange, who obtained the 90,000 secret (...)
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Today's media stories from the papers
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 27 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukFive chief reassures staff as experts question strategyDawn Airey insists it is 'business as usual' as Richard Desmond's executives draw up plan for beleagured broadcaster BBC North director Peter Salmon not moving fully to SalfordExecutive leading relocation of more than 1,500 posts from London will rent flat near MediaCity:UK Wikileaks foun
(...)than 1,500 posts from London will rent flat near MediaCity:UK Wikileaks founder: more secrets to comeWhistleblowing site says it has a 'backlog' (...)
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Afghanistan war logs: Recriminations fly over alleged support for Taliban
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday July 27 2010
Ewen MacAskill in Washington, Saeed Shah in Islamabad and Jason Burke in Delhi
The leak of thousands of US military documents about the Afghanistan war yesterday placed a strain on Pakistan's relations with both Afghanistan and America. As members of the US Congress raised questions about Pakistan's alleged support for the Taliban, officials in Islamabad and Kabul also traded angry accusations on the same issue. The leaked documents suggest – but withou
(...)of the US military, a process that could take days or months. Wikileaks obtained the documents through a source within the Pentagon. The documents (...)
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WikiLeaks and the ISI-Taliban nexus
guardian.co.uk, Monday July 26 2010
Peter Galbraith
The WikiLeaks documents, splashed in the Guardian and several other papers, provide useful confirmation of what is readily discerned from public sources: the Afghanistan war is going badly, the Taliban are exceptionally brutal, US forces have not always attacked the right targets and elements in Pakistan continue to support the Taliban. The most striking feature of the documen
The WikiLeaks documents, splashed in the Guardian and several other papers, provide useful (...)
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Wikileaks: a new journal of the disasters in Afghanistan
guardian.co.uk, Monday July 26 2010
Philippe Sands
Nothing beats raw material for its capacity to home in on truth. These logs are unvarnished and brutal, and it will take some time to digest in full their implications. They describe the reality of the Afghan war, including, apparently, the widespread and increasing use of targeted killings. In particular, the logs describe the efforts of a secret commando unit, Task Force 373
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Afghanistan war logs: a game-changer for British politics?
guardian.co.uk, Monday July 26 2010
Eric Joyce
The Guardian's gripping publication and analysis of the WikiLeaks files on Afghanistan has a game-changing feel about it. The British public is aware that war can be messy. Commanders on the ground, and even the most junior soldiers, must make fast judgment calls in fluid situations characterised by great uncertainty. More often than not well-trained and disciplined troops wil
The Guardian's gripping publication and analysis of the WikiLeaks files on Afghanistan has a game-changing feel about it. The (...)
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Wikileaks condemned by White House over war documents
guardian.co.uk, Monday July 26 2010
Alexandra Topping
The White House today condemned whistleblower Wikileaks, accusing the website of putting the lives of US, UK and coalition troops in danger and threatening America's national security of the US after it posted more than 90,000 leaked US military documents about the war in Afghanistan. The documents have revealed unreported incidents

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange: more revelations to come
guardian.co.uk, Monday July 26 2010
Jo Adetunji
The Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, said today that the organisation is working through a "backlog" of further secret material and was expecting a "substantial increase in submissions" from whistleblowers after one of the biggest leaks in US military history. Speaking in London after his website published more than 92,000 classified military logs relating to the war in Afgh
The Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, said today that the organisation is working through (...)
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Wikileaks Afghanistan files: every IED attack, with co-ordinates
guardian.co.uk, Monday July 26 2010
Declan Walsh, Simon Rogers and Paul Scruton
The improvised explosive device (IED) is the Taliban's weapon of choice, a deadly yet effective counter to the technological superiority of their western adversaries in Afghanistan. It is the biggest single cause of deaths of British troops in Helmand and has proven impossible to completely counter. In their simplest form, IEDs are roadside bombs triggered by command wire, rad
(...)to penetrate the most thick-skinned armoured vehicle. Extracted from the full Wikileaks database, this spreadsheet provides a unique record of attacks since 2004. (...)
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Afghanistan war logs: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange – 'There appears to be evidence of war crimes'

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Afghanistan war logs: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange – 'There appears to be evidence of war crimes'
- guardian.co.uk, Monday July 26 2010
Video (5m 6sec): Thousands of leaked US military papers from Afghanistan contain evidence of possible war crimes that must be urgently investigated, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says at press conference in London
(...)Mashable• Top 20 sites to improve your Twitter experience >> Mashable• Wikileaks Afghanistan files: key incidents as a spreadsheet >> GuardianPhoto (...)

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Afghanistan war logs: Wikileaks founder rebuts White House criticism
- guardian.co.uk, Monday July 26 2010
- Alexandra Topping and Jo Adetunji
The founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks today defended his decision to publish thousands of secret US military files about the war in Afghanistan, faced with criticism from the White House for placing troops in danger. Julian Assange said his organisation was currently working through a backlog of further secret material and was expecting a "substantial increase in
The founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks today defended his decision to publish thousands of secret US military (...)

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Afghanistan war logs: a game-changer for British politics?
- guardian.co.uk, Monday July 26 2010
- Eric Joyce
The Guardian's gripping publication and analysis of the WikiLeaks files on Afghanistan has a game-changing feel about it. The British public is aware that war can be messy. Commanders on the ground, and even the most junior soldiers, must make fast judgment calls in fluid situations characterised by great uncertainty. More often than not well-trained and disciplined troops wil
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange: live
- guardian.co.uk, Monday July 26 2010
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange gives a press conference about the Afghanistan war logs at the Frontline club in LondonWikileaks founder Julian Assange gives a press conference at the Frontline club in London. This live stream is not controlled by the (...)
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange: more revelations to come
- guardian.co.uk, Monday July 26 2010
- Jo Adetunji
The Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, said today that the organisation is working through a "backlog" of further secret material and was expecting a "substantial increase in submissions" from whistleblowers after one of the biggest leaks in US military history. Speaking in London after his website published more than 92,000 classified military logs relating to the war in Afgh
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Wikileaks condemned by White House over war documents
- guardian.co.uk, Monday July 26 2010
- Alexandra Topping
The White House today condemned whistleblower Wikileaks, accusing the website of putting the lives of US, UK and coalition troops in danger and threatening America's national security of the US after it posted more than 90,000 leaked US military documents about the war in Afghanistan. The documents have revealed unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings and information
The White House today condemned whistleblower Wikileaks, accusing the website of putting the lives of US, UK and (...)
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The war logs can bring transparency to Afghanistan
- guardian.co.uk, Monday July 26 2010
- James Denselow
Human Rights Watch's Rachel Reid is entirely correct when she said that "accountability is not just something you do when you are caught". Yet the leaked US military files have the potential to do just this. Reading the files, what struck me was the lack of surprises. All the documents did was provide an official narrative to what has already been reported (and often vigorousl

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Today's media stories from the papers
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday June 29 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukApple sells 1.7m iPhone 4s in three daysChief executive Steve Jobs hails 'most successful launch in Apple's history' despite reported problems over phone reception Tycoons given go-ahead for financial takeover of Le Monde€100m promised to recapitalise bankrupt historic French daily; journalists approve bid as 'most coherent proposition' Ofcom
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WikiLeaks has a problem going mainstream
guardian.co.uk, Sunday June 27 2010
Colin Horgan
The story of WikiLeaks.org is the story of both the modern whistleblower and the structure of the modern media system. The site is now famous for embracing technology in order to protect sources behind material that might be damaging to institutions as varied as the Church of Scientology, Swiss banks and the US military. Yet despite shocking revelations and damaging material (...)
The story of WikiLeaks.org is the story of both the modern whistleblower and the (...)
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Hail to the whistleblowers
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday June 23 2010
James Denselow
James Madison (drafter of the US first amendment) once wrote that "government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both". This is certainly true of Afghanistan, where the US-led coalition has been able to avoid a true audit of the impact of its presence via tight control of the media combined with mani
(...)huge personal sacrifices to challenge the official narrative. Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, is well aware of the impact made by the film Collateral (...)
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange breaks cover but will avoid America
guardian.co.uk, Monday June 21 2010
Ian Traynor in Brussels
The elusive founder of WikiLeaks, who is at the centre of a potential US national security sensation, has surfaced from almost a month in hiding to tell the Guardian he does not fear for his safety but is on permanent alert. Julian Assange, a renowned Australian hacker who founded the electronic whistleblowers' platform WikiLeaks, vanished when a young US intelligence analyst
The elusive founder of WikiLeaks, who is at the centre of a potential US national security (...)
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Obama's liberal critics find their voice
guardian.co.uk, Saturday June 19 2010
Clancy Sigal
Until President Obama's first ever Oval Office address-to-the-nation the other night BP's chief executive Tony Hayward was winning the booby prize as "America's most clueless man" for his gaffe-prone TV interviews. But Obama is gaining fast. His self-exonerating speech, full of sparkling generalities and with no hint of frank accountability for his administration's (...)
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Today's media stories from the papers
guardian.co.uk, Friday June 18 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukSky Sports News to go behind paywall in battle with FreeviewSubscription model seen as best bet over long term, while analysts say Sky may load rival with poor content Peter Riddell to quit Times after 19 yearsVeteran journalist to leave as part of latest round of voluntary redundancies at the paper Nick Ferrari wins two Arqiva radio awardsFe
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WikiLeaks to release video of deadly US Afghan attack
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday June 16 2010
Chris McGreal in Washington
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks says it plans to release a secret military video of one of the deadliest US air strikes in Afghanistan in which scores of children are believed to have been killed. WikiLeaks announced the move in an email to supporters. It said it fears it is under attack after the US authorities said they were searching for the site's founder, Julian Assa
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks says it plans to release a secret military video of one (...)
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Pentagon hunts WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in bid to gag website
guardian.co.uk, Friday June 11 2010
Chris McGreal in Washington
American officials are searching for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks in an attempt to pressure him not to publish thousands of confidential and potentially hugely embarrassing diplomatic cables that offer unfiltered assessments of Middle East governments and leaders. The Daily Beast, a US news reporting and opinion website, reported that Pentagon investigators are try
American officials are searching for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks in an attempt to pressure him not to publish thousands of (...)
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Today's media stories from the papers
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday June 8 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukBSkyB wins £318m settlement from Hewlett-PackardThe sum is a final settlement over 'woeful' contract with the HP subsidiary Electronic Data Systems Torchwood to return for fourth seriesThe Doctor Who spin-off show has been given the green light after the BBC secured US funding Marketing Society awards Waitrose top prize for budget rangeMarket
(...)Apple's drive for ebooks. P5Hacker blows whistle on army analyst over Wikileaks video. P15BSkyB wins £318m in EDS case. P24Interview with The Wire (...)
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Hacker turns in US soldier over WikiLeaks Iraq video
guardian.co.uk, Monday June 7 2010
Chris McGreal in Washington
A US army intelligence analyst has been arrested in Iraq after being turned in by a convicted hacker for allegedly leaking a classified video of US troops Iraqi shooting civilians to the WikiLeaks website. Bradly Manning, 22, was arrested after boasting in instant messages and emails to a high-profile former hacker, Adrian Lamo, that he passed on the video, which shows a
(...)leaking a classified video of US troops Iraqi shooting civilians to the WikiLeaks website. Bradly Manning, 22, was arrested after boasting in instant (...)

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Tate makes surveillance an art form
guardian.co.uk, Friday May 28 2010
Leah Borromeo
A new show called Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera opens at Tate Modern this week. It features images made surreptitiously or without the explicit permission of the subject. It is the history of spying with a lens in just over 250 photographs. But there's an elephant in the museum. As you move from room to room laid out with videos and photographs by the likes
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Wikileaks founder has his passport briefly confiscated
guardian.co.uk, Monday May 17 2010
Jemima Kiss
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange had his passport confiscated when he returned to his native Australia last week, according to The Age. Arriving at Melbourne, immigration staff told Assange his passport was looking worn and would be cancelled. Thirty minutes after his passport was returned to him, a police officer then searched his bags and questioned him about his computer ha
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange had his passport confiscated when he returned to (...)
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Labour's Ben Bradshaw: live webchat
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday May 4 2010
• Ben Bradshaw is live online now Secretary of state for culture, media and sport Ben Bradshaw joins us at 12.30pm today for a 30-minute, pre-election webchat. We've been fielding questions from you through yesterday's blogpost and through Twitter using the #bradshawmg hashtag, so join us at 12.30pm to hear Bradshaw's responses. We may not have time to get through all your q
(...)badly constructed attempts to penalise illegal file sharing, including blocking Google or Wikileaks if they inadvertently host copyrighted documents. What can be done to (...)
From the Guardian
Corrections and clarifications
The Guardian, Saturday April 24 2010
Corrections and clarifications column editor
• With many events around the country cancelled or curtailed due to flight disruption caused by the Icelandic volcano, readers of today's Guide are urged to check with venues before setting out for events listed this week. To take one: the Guide previews HBO Weekend at BFI Southbank, London (Film, page 21) – but since this item went to press, things have changed, with a (...)
(...)April). It was by Toby Leigh. • In a story headlined Who watches WikiLeaks? (10 April, page 32) the Swiss bank Julius Baer (or Bär) (...)
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PDA's Newsbucket
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday April 21 2010
Jemima Kiss
Photo by SFTHQ on Flickr. Some rights reserved • Chinese online games shut down for quake mourning day >> PC World• Facebook deletes Wikileaks fan page >> Valleywag• Will Google fly into travel search with $1bn acquisition? >> paidContent• Google: US demanded user info 3,500 times in six months >> Wired• @GeeknRolla: Developers must look beyond iPhone &
(...)shut down for quake mourning day >> PC World• Facebook deletes Wikileaks fan page >> Valleywag• Will Google fly into travel search (...)
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War journalists have a right to safety
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday April 21 2010
David Schlesinger
When Wikileaks published the harrowing video of the deaths in Iraq of my colleagues Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his assistant and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, the world finally had the transparency it should have had about this tragedy. It was impossible for me to watch and not feel outrage and great sorrow – but this is not about trying to tell anyone else what to feel. This is ab
When Wikileaks published the harrowing video of the deaths in Iraq of my (...)
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Crimes without punishment
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday April 14 2010
J Patrice McSherry
Three episodes reported recently challenge President Obama's preference to "look forward, not back" regarding the question of accountability for human rights crimes committed during the Bush administration. On 9 April, the Times reported on a signed declaration by Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to secretary of state Colin Powell during the Bush era, charging that Bush, vi
(...)Guardian did). The third explosive story was the 5 April posting by Wikileaks of a classified military video showing a US helicopter gunship killing (...)
Politics
Election 2010: Liberal Democrats promise tax avoidance crackdown
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday April 14 2010
David Leigh
The Liberal Democrats have promised to find more than £12bn by cracking down on tax concessions and loopholes. Some would come from restricting pension contribution reliefs and some from a so-called mansion tax on £2m-plus houses. The rest would be found, they claim, through an assault on Britain's sophisticated tax avoidance industry. A Guardian investigation last year found
(...)Oakeshott revealed under privilege in parliament that they were still available on Wikileaks. In one of Barclays' most notorious deals, it bought an undersea (...)
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The 'Obama doctrine': kill, don't detain
guardian.co.uk, Sunday April 11 2010
Asim Qureshi
In 2001, Charles Krauthammer first coined the phrase "Bush Doctrine", which would later become associated most significantly with the legal anomaly known as pre-emptive strike. Understanding the doctrine with hindsight could lead to a further understanding of the legacy that the former administration left – the choice to place concerns of national security over even the most (...)
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Out of one nation's catastrophe comes a clarion call for honesty
The Observer, Sunday April 11 2010
Henry Porter
Sitting at the bottom of the mountain in Iceland, there was time enough last week to reflect on this country's importance in the struggle between the world's internet users and state secrecy, never better represented than by publication by Wikileaks of a video showing the slaughter of more than a dozen people by an American helicopter gunship in Baghdad. Iceland is proposing r
(...)internet users and state secrecy, never better represented than by publication by Wikileaks of a video showing the slaughter of more than a dozen (...)

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US must deliver justice on friendly fire
guardian.co.uk, Saturday April 10 2010
Jim Boumelha
The release last Monday of the US military video Collateral Murder by Wikileaks has already being dubbed a landmark equal to the Abu Ghraib pictures. It could not have come at a more appropriate time as global organisations of journalists commemorate today a similar slaughter of journalists that took place at the hands of the US army seven years ago. Just before noon on 8 (...)
The release last Monday of the US military video Collateral Murder by Wikileaks has already being dubbed a landmark equal to the Abu Ghraib (...)
Politics
Digital economy bill backlash dominates e-election debate
guardian.co.uk, Friday April 9 2010
Jemima Kiss
Only one thing mattered to the UK's digital constituency this week: the digital economy bill. The election date announcement meant the #debill, as it is referred to on Twitter, was hurried through parliament before the election. An ambitious bill designed to kickstart the UK's broadband-enabled future and tackle internet piracy, it deserved more scrutiny than two hours' late-n
(...)ignoring the clumsy clauses that could theoretically block sites including Google and Wikileaks if anyone claims they are used for copyright infringement. Steps designed (...)
Media
Guardian Viral Video Chart: Just blend the darn iPad thing, will you?
guardian.co.uk, Friday April 9 2010
Jemima Kiss
The Viral Video Chart has always been a combination of digital detritus, music video pop-phernalia and water cooler highlights, and this week is no exception. (Last week wasn't either, but I forgot to write it. Oopsy.) And then there's the very big bunch of wake-up call... Guardian Viral Video Chart. Compiled by Unruly Media 1 Will It Blend? - iPadStill arguably the best and
(...)attacked a group of men holding not 'weapons', but camera equipment. RIP Wikileaks. Lest we forget that the site - and publication of this kind (...)
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Who watches WikiLeaks?
The Guardian, Friday April 9 2010
Chris McGreal in Washington
It has proclaimed itself the "intelligence service of the people", and plans to have more agents than the CIA. They will be you and me. WikiLeaks is a long way from that goal, but this week it staked its claim to be the dead drop of choice for whistleblowers after releasing video the Pentagon claimed to have lost of US helicopter crews excitedly killing Iraqis on a Baghdad str
(...)have more agents than the CIA. They will be you and me. WikiLeaks is a long way from that goal, but this week it (...)
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Wikileaks: reaction to the Collateral Murder video
guardian.co.uk, Thursday April 8 2010
Richard Adams
"Wikileaks has had more scoops in three years than the Washington Post has had in 30," tweets the internet guru Clay Shirky, and he has a point. The latest and perhaps the most famous (or infamous) is the graphic video Wikileaks unveiled this week of a US Army attack in Iraq in 2007 that left 12 people dead, including two employees of Reuters. The US magazine Mother Jones has (...)
(...)Wikileaks has had more scoops in three years than the Washington Post (...)
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Today's media stories from the papers
guardian.co.uk, Thursday April 8 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukDigital economy bill rushed through in wash-upGovernment inserts amendment criticised as over-broad which may have potential to block sites such as Wikileaks Fears grow for British film-maker missing in Pakistan's tribal areaBriton set out to interview country's Taliban leaders 6 Music makes strong showing as Nick Ferrari earns record five So
(...)as over-broad which may have potential to block sites such as Wikileaks Fears grow for British film-maker missing in Pakistan's tribal (...)
Technology
Digital economy bill rushed through wash-up in late night session
guardian.co.uk, Thursday April 8 2010
Charles Arthur
The government forced through the controversial digital economy bill with the aid of the Conservative party last night, attaining a crucial third reading – which means it will get royal assent and become law – after just two hours of debate in the Commons. However it was forced to drop clause 43 of the bill, a proposal on orphan works which had been opposed by photographers. T
(...)Hemming protested that this could mean the blocking of the whistleblower site Wikileaks, which carries only copyrighted work. Stephen Timms for the government said (...)
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Internet provider defies digital bill
The Guardian, Thursday April 8 2010
Charles Arthur
One of the UK's three biggest internet service providers has vowed not to co-operate with measures to combat file-sharing set out in the government's controversial digital economy bill, expected to receive royal assent within days. TalkTalk, with more than 4 million UK internet users, said that "many draconian proposals remain" in the bill, including some that would allow cont
(...)scrutiny and limited debate". MPs and Lords complained that sites such as Wikileaks or even Google were at risk of being blocked under an (...)
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PDA's Newsbucket
guardian.co.uk, Thursday April 8 2010
Jemima Kiss
• Foursquare moves to stop users cheating >> Venturebeat• China tightens rules on internet cafes >> Independent• This VC has $6.4 billion. Want some? >> Venturebeat• Digital Economy Bill: Quick guide to all 45 measures >> paidContent• Bebo faces closure or sale by AOL as members log off >> Guardian• Online ads show signs of pickup >> WSJ• (...)
(...)launches style guide of future >> Valleywag• Five bizarre things about Wikileaks' founder >> Valleywag• Google, AOL patent win affirmed by appeals (...)
Technology
Was your MP at the Digital Economy bill's second reading? Find out...
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday April 7 2010
Charles Arthur
Was your MP at the Digital Economy bill second reading and debate on Tuesday evening? Almost certainly not - but you can find out for sure by using http://www.didmympshowupornot.com/, where you feed in your postcode and through the magic of the Guardian's Politics API and TheyWorkForYou's API, can tell you if the MP for your constituency turned up at the reading. It's not perf
(...)of its content is copyrighted. I'm far more concerned, personally, about Wikileaks, which does nothing but hold copyrighted information - such as the unprovoked (...)

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IFJ demands investigation into killing of Reuters media pair
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday April 7 2010
Roy Greenslade
The International Federation of Journalists has called on President Barack Obama to open a fresh investigation into the actions of the US army, which has been implicated in killings of journalists in Iraq. This follows the release of a shocking video film - which can be seen here - of a 2007 helicopter gunship attack on civilians, including two media staff. "This is evidence
(...)Saeed Chmagh – were among the victims. The controversial film was released by Wikileaks and reignites the controversy over US army attacks on journalists during (...)
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Grim truths of Wikileaks Iraq video
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday April 7 2010
Douglas Haddow
On Monday Wikileaks, a Sweden based non-profit website that publishes leaked documents pertaining to government and corporate misconduct, released a classified US military video from 2007 that shows an Apache helicopter attacking and killing a group of Iraqi civilians. The incident rose to prominence because two of those who died were Reuters personnel – photographer Namir (...)
(...)On Monday Wikileaks, a Sweden based non-profit website that publishes leaked documents pertaining (...)
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PDA's Newsbucket
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday April 7 2010
Jemima Kiss
• As Kevin Rose restarts Digg he faces an unsocial problem >> GigaOm• The rise and fall of Bebo >> paidContent• iBooks and private APIs >> Marco.org• Chrome growing faster than rivals >> Mashable• Exclusive: Inside YouTube's war room >> Mashable• Two year old finds it easy to use iPad >> Mashable• Mike Moritz regrets: He never patched (...)
(...)your startup being kicked off Google >> Venturebeat• Profile: Who are Wikileaks? >> BBC• Nokia, others seen following Apple in tablet push (...)
Technology
Digital Economy bill: liveblogging the crucial third reading
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday April 7 2010
Charles Arthur
Will it pass or will it get derailed? The committee stage/third reading of the Digital Economy bill is due to be debated tonight. This has two sides going to war - no, not the Tories and Labour, but the "creative industries" (emphasis on "industry") and the digital rights groups (emphasis on "rights"). You can watch it if you like live over at the Parliament site - but then o
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Pass notes No 2,758: Wikileaks
The Guardian, Tuesday April 6 2010
Age: Three. Appearance: Feared by the bad, loved by the good. It's the modern equivalent of Robin Hood? Sort of, yes. Today's most valuable currency is information and Wikileaks' raison d'etre is to take the stuff our politicians, financiers, religious leaders and other powerful yet shadowy types don't want us to know and share it out as widely as possible. It is run by The
(...)Hood? Sort of, yes. Today's most valuable currency is information and Wikileaks' raison d'etre is to take the stuff our politicians, financiers, (...)
World news
Wikileaks reveals video showing US air crew shooting down Iraqi civilians
The Guardian, Monday April 5 2010
Chris McGreal in Washington
A secret video showing US air crew falsely claiming to have encountered a firefight in Baghdad and then laughing at the dead after launching an air strike that killed a dozen people, including two Iraqis working for Reuters news agency, was revealed by Wikileaks today. The footage of the July 2007 attack was made public in a move that will further anger the Pentagon, which has
(...)people, including two Iraqis working for Reuters news agency, was revealed by Wikileaks today. The footage of the July 2007 attack was made public (...)
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Wikileaks in the crosshairs
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday March 31 2010
Joseph Huff-Hannon
As far as "national security threats" go, real or imagined, it's likely that few Americans lose much sleep over Wilkileaks, the website that publishes anonymously sourced documents which governments, corporations, and other private or powerful organisations would rather you not see. It would appear the US security apparatus does not feel the same way. On Friday of last week, e
(...)Kop-like instances of surveillance of himself and other members of the Wikileaks team, likely carried out at least in part by members of (...)
Technology
Liberal Democrats say Digital Economy bill should wait for next government
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday March 30 2010
Charles Arthur
Protestors at Parliament objecting to the provisions of the Digital Economy bill.Photo by amilm on Flickr. Some rights reserved The Liberal Democrats have called for the Digital Economy bill to be scrapped and re-introduced afresh in the next Parliament, and say they will oppose its rushed passage if, as expected, it is speeded through to become law in the "wash-up" ahead of a
(...)being blocked by ISPs. That could mean that a site such as Wikileaks, which acts as a conduit for documents leaked anonymously by whistleblowers, (...)
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China and the internet: Tricks to beat the online censor
The Guardian, Thursday March 25 2010
Charles Arthur, technology editor
The biggest challenge for someone inside China who wants to get around the Great Firewall is the teleological one: how do you search for information that is itself banned? Of necessity - because the Chinese government monitors internet use inside the country, and the data passing across the fibre-optic cables at three points where it goes international - such knowledge tends (...)
(...)they do." Today, the site suggests that Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Twitpic and Wikileaks are blocked; the BBC and Wikipedia are "partially blocked"; but Google (...)
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Digital economy bill: what you need to know
The Guardian, Monday March 22 2010
Charles Arthur
The murmuring in parliament is that the digital economy bill will get its second reading on Tuesday 6 April – the day that Gordon Brown is expected to hop into a car and head over to the palace to ask for the dissolution of parliament. The timing is precise: by getting its second reading in the Commons, the bill becomes eligible to go into the "wash-up" – the dirty process by (...)

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Anger over rushed digital economy bill leads to online lobbying effort
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday March 17 2010
Charles Arthur
The rushed process of getting the digital economy bill through Parliament – it had its first reading in the Commons on Tuesday night, having just had its third (and final) reading in the Lords on Monday night – has prompted an angry groundswell of people using 38 Degrees to lobby their MPs to block it. The newly-created page on the 38 Degrees site lets people find their MP via
(...)prevention of online copyright infringement" - could be used to block sites like Wikileaks (which after all exists for the reposting of material from organisations - (...)
Technology
Microsoft backs down over online 'spy guide'
guardian.co.uk, Thursday February 25 2010
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent
Microsoft has been forced to backtrack after it closed down a whistleblowing website after it published a leaked version of the company's "spy guide". The American software giant took action on Wednesday against the Cryptome website - which has been running since 1996 - for publishing a copy of the Microsoft Global Criminal Compliance Handbook, a document explaining how law en
(...)keep tabs on various aspects of surveillance and cryptography. Similar to the Wikileaks website - which had to shut down temporarily due to a lack (...)
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In the line of fire: 'toothless' PCC and the cost of libel
The Guardian, Wednesday February 24 2010
David Leigh
Today's comprehensive report by MPs on privacy and the media recommends a series of changes to Britain's libel laws and to the regulation of newspapers, reserving some of its strongest language for the Press Complaints Commission, which it describes as "toothless". To toughen the PCC, it suggests that the body should be able to levy fines or even suspend newspaper publicati
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Iceland's fight for press freedom
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday February 16 2010
Alda Sigmundsdóttir
Back in November I attended a meeting in Reykjavik with the editors of WikiLeaks, hosted by an association called the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI). Under discussion was the presentation of a new parliamentary resolution that would amend laws to allow Iceland to grant a high level of protection for journalists, press sources and whistleblowers, and to combat "libel (...)
(...)in November I attended a meeting in Reykjavik with the editors of WikiLeaks, hosted by an association called the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI). (...)
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WikiLeaks editor: why I'm excited about Iceland's plans for journalism
The Guardian, Monday February 15 2010
Julian Assange
In my role as WikiLeaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off more than 100 legal attacks over the past three years. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions. We've become good at it, and never lost a case,
In my role as WikiLeaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off more than 100 (...)
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Today's media stories from the papers
guardian.co.uk, Monday February 15 2010
Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.ukSky closes in on deal to buy Virgin Media TV channelsSatellite broadcaster would take over services including Virgin 1 and Living, leaving Virgin free to focus on core businesses Noel Edmonds cues up quizshow featuring monkeyBeat the Monkey among five formats being touted to broadcasters by Feel Good Television Murdoch blamed for MySpace woes
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Iceland aims to become haven for investigative journalism
guardian.co.uk, Friday February 12 2010
Jason Deans
Iceland is aiming to become a global haven for investigative journalism, with the country's parliament expected to vote through legislation protecting sources, guaranteeing freedom of speech and ending libel tourism. Supporters liken the initiative to the offshore financial havens that corporations use to avoid government tax regimes – only for free speech. The Icelandic Mo
(...)blogger for Harvard University's Nieman Journalism Lab. And the people behind Wikileaks have been involved in drafting the law. The text of the (...)
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Iceland plans future as global haven for freedom of speech
guardian.co.uk, Friday February 12 2010
Mark Tran
Iceland intends to become a bastion for global press freedom under a package of laws proposed by opposition MPs to defend freedom of speech, and protect sources and fight libel tourism. With the help of Wikileaks, the online whistleblowing site, the MPs have launched the Icelandic Modern Media Intiative, with the goal of turning the country into a global haven for investigat
(...)speech, and protect sources and fight libel tourism. With the help of Wikileaks, the online whistleblowing site, the MPs have launched the Icelandic Modern (...)
Technology
Tech Weekly: The iPad analysed and Amazon's ebook war

guardian.co.uk, Tuesday February 2 2010
Audio (32m 48sec): Nick Carr joins us to look at the launch of Apple's iPad - what does the future have in store? And literary agent Clare Alexander explains the background in the 'Great Book War' between Amazon and publishers (...)
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Dig deep for Wikileaks
guardian.co.uk, Friday January 29 2010
Emily Butselaar
Wikileaks, the whistleblowers' home, has been temporarily shut down while its management tries to raise funds. Its tremendous success has meant the site has often struggled under the volume of users. It has faced down governments, investment banks and the famously litigious Church of Scientology but paying its operating costs (circa $600,000) has proved its undoing. As of to
(...)Wikileaks, the whistleblowers' home, has been temporarily shut down while its management (...)

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Wikileaks temporarily shuts down due to lack of funds
guardian.co.uk, Friday January 29 2010
Matthew Weaver
The whistleblowing website Wikileaks has temporarily shut down because of a lack of funds. The site, which has been a major irritant to governments and big businesses since it launched in 2007, says it cannot keep going without more public donations. Wikileaks' organisers announced the suspension in a statement on its site. "To concentrate on raising the funds necessary to ke
The whistleblowing website Wikileaks has temporarily shut down because of a lack of funds. The (...)
Television & radio
Watch this
The Guardian, Thursday January 28 2010
David Stubbs, Will Hodgkinson, Rebecca Nicholson, Martin Skegg
The Culture Show 7pm, BBC2 A packed edition, which ranges from the staid to the startling. Andrew Graham-Dixon visits Chris Ofili's show at Tate Britain and also Michael Landy's Art Bin project, an installation at the South London Gallery consisting of a wheelie bin in which artworks will be deposited over the coming weeks. Mark Kermode joins Peter Jackson to discuss his new
(...)new film The Lovely Bones. Jacques Peretti explores whistle-blowing internet site Wikileaks, and most intriguingly, Paul Mason encounters philosopher Slavoj Zizek and his (...)
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The Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Does journalism exist?
guardian.co.uk, Monday January 25 2010
Alan Rusbridger
Thank you for inviting me to give this lecture in honour of the memory of Hugh Cudlipp. Ask any British journalist who were their editor-heroes over the last 30 or 40 years and two names keep recurring. One is Harry Evans. The other is Hugh Cudlipp. Why were they so admired? Because they seemed to represent the best of journalistic virtues – courage, campaigning, toughness, c
Technology
Developers dismayed as No.10 blocks free postcode file
guardian.co.uk, Friday January 22 2010
Charles Arthur
Web developers have cried foul after the government appeared to rule out the possibility of a free copy of the Postcode Address File (PAF) – which contains geographical data about the locations of every Royal Mail delivery address in the UK – being made available to non-profit and community websites. Coming the day after the launch of data.gov.uk, a website which brings togeth
(...)information about users' surroundings. Last September the PostZon file was leaked on Wikileaks – but developers shunned it on the basis that they could be (...)
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Hackers of the world unite
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday January 13 2010
Mark Fonseca Rendeiro
The 26th edition of the world's largest annual hacker conference, 26C3, took place in Berlin last week. With about 2,500 attendees, a combined total of 9,000 participants worldwide (via live streams), and an array of features that no other conference in the world can match, it was very much a milestone. A bit on the word "hacker", as I know the term might be bothering some of
(...)one. Among the attendees at the 26C3 conference were the people behind wikileaks, the wiki clearinghouse for leaked documents. In its first few years wikileaks...
Technology
The best Christmas present of all: a network free from control
The Observer, Sunday December 27 2009
John Naughton
THE TEMPTATION, of course, is to sum up the decade in terms of brands. Thus the noughties could be seen as the period of Google's inexorable rise, of Apple's metamorphosis into a music and mobile phone colossus, of Amazon's increasing dominance, of mushrooming user-generated content (Flickr, Blogger) and social networking (MySpace, Facebook, Twitter), of the emergence of (...)
(...)enabled garage bands to get their music to potential fans. Twitter and Wikileaks made it much more difficult for governments and corporations to keep (...)
Law
Serious Fraud Office to investigate Kaupthing bank
The Guardian, Wednesday December 16 2009
Simon Bowers
The Serious Fraud Office has announced an official investigation into suspected UK frauds linked to the Icelandic bank Kaupthing, which collapsed in October last year. The SFO's white-collar crime unit said the inquiry would include successful efforts by Kaupthing's UK subsidiary, Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, to attract British savers to its high-interest Edge savings
(...)summary of the bank's loan book was published on internet site Wikileaks earlier this year, prompting widespread criticism of Kaupthing. Many multimillion-euro (...)
Media
The buzz around Trafigura and Carter-Ruck is getting louder again on the web
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday December 16 2009
Mercedes Bunz
In May, Trafigura's lawyers announced that they had brought libel proceedings against the BBC over its Newsnight broadcast on Trafigura. Now, the BBC's Trafigura feature has disappeared from its website as the broadcaster agreed to publish an appropriate apology. But as reporting about the company involved in toxic waste dumping scandals in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast vanish (...)
(...)Newsnight report to YouTube are blogged, the video has been published on Wikileaks and the keywords "Trafigura" and "Carter-Ruck" are all over Twitter (...)
Technology
The 100 essential websites
The Guardian, Wednesday December 9 2009
Jack Schofield, Bobbie Johnson, Charles Arthur, Stuart O'Connor, Mercedes Bunz, Vic Keegan, Keith Stuart, Greg Howson, Chris Salmon and more
Andy Warhol talked of a time when everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. With hindsight, however, he might have wanted to revise that down to about five minutes. On today's web, phrases such as "here today, gone tomorrow" seem to involve ridiculously long timescales. People who moaned that blogging represented a move to shorter attention spans – 250-to-350-word posts rather
World news
9/11 re-enacted: Wikileaks publishes September 11 pager messages
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday November 25 2009
Matthew Weaver
The unfolding secret story of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon is being told today when more than 500,000 intercepted pager messages, many from US officials, are published online in the order in which they were sent. The mass live leak began at 8am GMT and will continue for 24 hours until all of the messages are seen as they were sent on September 11
(...)as they were sent on September 11. The experiment by whistleblowing website Wikileaks includes pager messages sent on the day by officials in the (...)

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Wikileaks publishes 570,000 messages capturing chaos of 9/11
The Guardian, Wednesday November 25 2009
Ed Pilkington
The mental and emotional storm that struck America on 11 September 2001 with the attacks on New York and Washington has been recreated with the release of more than half a million pager messages sent on that day. The whistleblowing website Wikileaks published the messages over a 24-hour period beginning on Tuesday at dawn, releasing them in batches in chronological order as if
(...)half a million pager messages sent on that day. The whistleblowing website Wikileaks published the messages over a 24-hour period beginning on Tuesday (...)
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The Iraq inquiry sideshow
guardian.co.uk, Monday November 23 2009
Chris Ames
Andrew Gilligan has returned to haunt the government on Iraq. His revelations in the Sunday Telegraph and today's Telegraph tell us a lot about the attitude of the military before and after the invasion and provide more evidence that it was planned from early 2002, whatever Tony Blair said. But they are perhaps as significant for what they tell us about Sir John Chilcot's (...)
Technology
OS mapping data: a new landscape unfolds
The Guardian, Thursday November 19 2009
Charles Arthur
The Free Our Data campaign has scored a major victory, with the announcement by the government that it intends to make Ordnance Survey maps free for use online by any organisation – including commercial ones – at resolutions more detailed than commercial 1:25,000 Landranger maps from April next year. The announcement of the opening of a consultation on the plan by Gordon Brown
Technology
Breakfast briefing: Free Our Data's big win, Apple's big seller and more
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday November 18 2009
Charles Arthur
• First up, in case you've missed it (and you might well have), the Free Our Data campaign has had a significant victory. The prime minister Gordon Brown yesterday announced that from April Ordnance Survey map data, including "mid-range" maps (roughly, starting from 1:10,000 and up), electoral boundary data, administrative data, postcode location (basically like that (...)
(...)electoral boundary data, administrative data, postcode location (basically like that leaked to Wikileaks) will be free for use without restriction. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, (...)
Technology
What should you do with that email full of salaries?
The Guardian, Wednesday November 11 2009
Ping! It's another email arriving in your inbox. However this one is rather different: it's called "salary review" and it's come from a company you once communicated with, though you've got no association with them – no friends, no business. And attached is a spreadsheet called "company salaries". The bottom of the email has standard boilerplate stuff: "If you are not the (...)
(...)someone else? KevinJump • Assuming it's a PLC, post a copy on Wikileaks and delete the mail from your inbox, then email someone at (...)
Technology
Do friends let friends hack into extremist groups' websites?
The Guardian, Wednesday October 28 2009
A friend who's into hacking says he's found a flaw in the website of a political group whose views you both detest. The flaw, your friend explains, would let you hack into the site and change everything around. Then you, with your expertise, could change the front page, leave scripts that would capture login details, and do pretty much anything. You're interested – but the (...)
(...)I'd say, "Go for it", and hand her a link to Wikileaks. To be honest, I'd do the same whatever the political (...)
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In praise of… Wikileaks
The Guardian, Thursday October 22 2009
Editorial
A brown paper envelope for the digital age, Wikileaks.org is now home to more than 1m documents that governments and big business would rather the public did not see. The site – similar to Wikipedia in style, but otherwise independent of it – serves as an uncensorable and untraceable depository for the truth, able to publish documents that the courts may prevent (...)
A brown paper envelope for the digital age, Wikileaks.org is now home to more than 1m documents that (...)
Politics
Diary
The Guardian, Wednesday October 21 2009
Hugh Muir
As a second comprehensive list of BNP members and sympathisers is thrust into the blogosphere, some are wondering whether the panellists selected by the BBC to join Nick Griffin on Question Time shouldn't be a little grittier? Littlejohn declined an invitation, but nothing is set in stone. One or two of those scheduled to appear could always develop colds, swine flu, dropsy (...)
(...)a point, Lord Copper. For while it is for those named on Wikileaks to comment on the list's veracity, what we can tell (...)
Politics
BNP insists 'member list' is a hoax as army chiefs denounce extremists
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 20 2009
Robert Booth
Nick Griffin, the leader of the BNP, denounced some of the country's most distinguished military figures today, saying they were in the same bracket as Nazi war criminals for their role in "pursuing the illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan". Griffin reacted after former army chiefs, including General Sir Mike Jackson and General Sir Richard Dannatt, attacked the far-right's us
Politics
BNP controversy – live
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 20 2009
Matthew Weaver
10am: Revulsion at the BNP has reached a new pitch today as it finds itself at the centre of three controversies.• A detailed membership list containing names, addresses and telephone numbers was published on the internet this morning. The list has provoked intense interest online.• A group of distinguished former generals have fired a broadside at the party accusing it of (...)
(...)to be discriminatory. 10.38am: The BNP's membership list, published by Wikileaks, does not include a peer as the Guardian reported this morning. (...)

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PDA's Newsbucket
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 20 2009
Mercedes Bunz
UK cops to be kitted out with smartphones >> The Register Crime mapping for English and Welsh police forces >> National Policing Improvement Agency Right to report: How hyper-local sites are changing local news >> BBC The social network Foursquare - Face-to-Face Socializing Starts With a Mobile Post >> The New York Times LEAKED: Details of the Face
(...)Monitor Social Media Buzz >> MediaPost.com Twitter, Google SideWiki & Wikileaks Can't Be Gagged! >> Inventorspot Windows Mobile: where's (...)
Politics
BNP membership spreads beyond Essex, East Midlands and Pennine heartlands
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 20 2009
Robert Booth, Helen Pidd, Simon Rogers
When Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National party, makes his debut on BBC1's Question Time on Thursday night, viewers will have a better idea about who his party represents than ever before. The online publication in the small hours on Tuesday of a series of leaked spreadsheets, which appear to contain party membership data gathered up until 15 April, reveal the cl
(...)spokesman, Simon Darby, said the party has. The data, published on the Wikileaks website, suggests a typical supporter is most likely to live in (...)
Politics
BNP membership list appears on Wikileaks
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday October 20 2009
Robert Booth
A detailed membership list of the British National party containing names, addresses and telephone numbers was published on the internet this morning. The list, which contains thousands of names, was published on Wikileaks, a website that purports to be a clearing house for information to be published anonymously. The source of the data remains unclear but it appears to show
(...)this morning. The list, which contains thousands of names, was published on Wikileaks, a website that purports to be a clearing house for information (...)
World news
Revealed: Trafigura-comissioned report into dumped toxic waste
The Guardian, Saturday October 17 2009
David Leigh
After a five-week legal battle the Guardian can finally publish details of the Minton Report, a scientific study commissioned by oil trading company Trafigura about its own waste dumping in west Africa that had been leaked to the newspaper. The report contains damning evidence of the potentially toxic nature of the waste Trafigura dumped in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. The d
(...)the possession of others, including Greenpeace, Norwegian Television and the whistleblowing website, Wikileaks. Last night Pierre Lorinet, Trafigura's chief financial officer, told The (...)
World news
How the Trafigura story came to be told
The Guardian, Friday October 16 2009
Staff reporter
Tonight's decision by Trafigura's lawyers to lift the injunction on the Minton report marked the end of an extraordinary five-week battle to keep the document secret that threatened to bring the courts into collision with parliament. It was on 11 September that Carter-Ruck, the libel specialists employed by the London-based trading company, first went to court to get an emerge
(...)The report was meanwhile published in other European countries – and on the Wikileaks website – often used by whistleblowers to publish information banned by the (...)
Technology
Web activists protest as Royal Mail threatens over postcode lookup service
guardian.co.uk, Monday October 5 2009
Charles Arthur
Web activists warned yesterday that sites which help people to find jobs and to discover planning applications in their area face legal threats from the Royal Mail to a two-man company. The Royal Mail claims that the site, ernestmarples.com, is breaking the law by piggybacking on other online sites which offer free access to its database which holds a list matching the UK's 1.
Technology
Was the leak of Royal Mail's PostZon database a good or bad thing?
The Guardian, Wednesday September 23 2009
Unusually, it might be neither. Last week Wikileaks posted a link to a copy of a database, in comma-separated variable form, which Royal Mail has confirmed is a copy of its PostZon product , which contains a longitude/latitude pair, NHS ward and county location for every one of the UK's 1.8m postcodes. Given that Royal Mail charges from £50 (for a single user annual licence) t
Unusually, it might be neither. Last week Wikileaks posted a link to a copy of a database, in (...)
Technology
Full UK postcode location file turns up on Wikileaks: is that useful?
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday September 16 2009
Charles Arthur
Wikileaks is hosting what it says is a copy of the entire UK postcode list, last updated on July 8 2009, that contains "all 1,841,177 UK post codes together with lattitude [sic] and longitude, grid references, county, district, ward, NHS codes and regions, Ordnance Survey reference, and date of introduction. The database ... is over 100,000 pages in size." The 230MB file, zipp
Wikileaks is hosting what it says is a copy of the entire (...)
Technology
Don't write it down: Ordnance Survey kept no notes of talks with 'expert'
The Guardian, Friday September 11 2009
Charles Arthur
You have an important study that will be part of your case to a government minister considering the future of your organisation. You have found someone to review it. Would you commission them without swapping letters or email, and without taking any notes of their observations afterwards? If you're Ordnance Survey, then it seems yes, you would. In a response to a Freedom of In
(...)government of the reorganisation – apparently revealed in a document available via the Wikileaks website – is also inconclusive, as it assumes growth targets that will (...)
Technology
Ordnance Survey business model costs appear in leaked presentation
The Guardian, Wednesday September 2 2009
Charles Arthur
Ordnance Survey estimates that moving to a free data model would cost government a total of £367.1m in its first five years, compared with £181.2m for its present plans to move to a hybrid model, according to a leaked briefing to its minister. The briefing, marked "Confidential advice to Ministers – For the minister and private office only", appeared on the Wikileaks website
(...)to Ministers – For the minister and private office only", appeared on the Wikileaks website, and seems to have been made prior to OS's (...)

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On our radar
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday September 1 2009
liberty central
Gmail may hand over IP addresses of journalists to a property developer seeking to identify critics [Wikileaks], Google mulls fighting the case [InformationWeek] Victims of newspapers' privacy intrusions are revealed [Guardian] London bus with 16 CCTV cameras inside [Boing Boing] Travelers arriving at US borders may soon be confronted with their laptops being searched
(...)IP addresses of journalists to a property developer seeking to identify critics [Wikileaks], Google mulls fighting the case [InformationWeek] Victims of newspapers' privacy intrusions (...)
Business
Confidential Kaupthing corporate loan details leaked on the internet
The Guardian, Tuesday August 4 2009
Simon Bowers
Confidential loan details relating to failed Icelandic bank Kaupthing and its largest customers have been leaked on the internet, revealing some of the risks the bank was taking just weeks before the Icelandic financial meltdown last October. The 210-page presentation, showing a snapshot of outstanding corporate loans of more than €45m (£38m) as of September 25, has been poste
(...)than €45m (£38m) as of September 25, has been posted on the Wikileaks website. Many of the largest exposures are to British-based businesses (...)
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A censorship model
guardian.co.uk, Sunday August 2 2009
John Ozimek
Be careful what you wish for, that's the old proverb, and as new and different censorship regimes evolve around the world I begin to wonder whether we Brits haven't been a little harsh on the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) – our own homegrown attempt to expunge child porn from the internet. Over a decade ago, the UK's Internet Service Providers' Association decided that it ne
(...)abroad. During the last 12 months, a series of documents leaked to Wikileaks – has shown that without exception, every single block list has included (...)
Sustainability
Holding the UK's major corporations to account
guardian.co.uk, Monday July 27 2009
Corporate taxation is one of the fundamental issues in British society that rarely gets discussed in mainstream media. A large but twilight industry has grown up in recent years of offshore tax havens and arcane avoidance schemes. They benefit large corporations and rich individuals, but cost governments billions in lost taxes. The facts about corporate tax avoidance rare
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Read all about it
The Guardian, Monday July 6 2009
Oliver Luft
In little over two years Wikileaks has enabled anonymous web users to upload more than 1.2m confidential documents and incurred the wrath of the US military, several national governments and the Church of Scientology. Journalists revel in the gold mine of unfettered, highly sensitive information, yet the website has also been criticised for its unwillingness to edit or filter (...)
In little over two years Wikileaks has enabled anonymous web users to upload more than 1.2m (...)
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On our radar
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday June 30 2009
liberty central
E-borders scheme could cause "travel chaos", the UK Chamber of Shipping warns MPs [BBC] Documents detailing the Home Office's response to the landmark ruling by the European Court of Human Rights on the retention of DNA samples – details timelines and interim steps. [calm, almost too calm] Liberty Clinic examines the search and seizure of photographic equipment [liberty
(...)protests against Counter Terrorism Act 2008 by taking photographs [Daily Police Photo] Wikileaks reveals the Italian government's secret internet censorship list, 287 sites (...)
UK news
Ministry of Defence blocks Wikileaks
guardian.co.uk, Thursday June 25 2009
David Leigh
The Ministry of Defence is trying to block all internet access to the whistleblowing site Wikileaks from thousands of its own computers after discovering that dissidents have been using it to leak copies of British military manuals. Newly obtained MoD emails reveal alarm over the discovery that Wikileaks is freely publishing manuals that are used by patrols in Iraq. One email
(...)Defence is trying to block all internet access to the whistleblowing site Wikileaks from thousands of its own computers after discovering that dissidents have (...)
Kable
MoD blocks Wikileaks
Kable, Thursday June 25 2009
GC News
The move follows the discovery that dissidents have been using it to leak copies of British military manuals, reports The Guardian. MoD emails released after a freedom of information request reveal alarm over the discovery that Wikileaks is freely publishing manuals that are used by patrols in Iraq. One email says: "There are thousands of things on here, I literally mean thou
(...)after a freedom of information request reveal alarm over the discovery that Wikileaks is freely publishing manuals that are used by patrols in Iraq. (...)
Politics
Diary
The Guardian, Wednesday June 24 2009
Hugh Muir
It will doubtless take some time for John Bercow to sweep his new broom into the darkest recesses of the Commons, but he can do little to address the parallel difficulties in the House of Lords. There, the suspicion lingers, the shame endures. One woman peer just can't face it. "The other day I got into a taxi outside the Houses of Parliament and the cabbie looked at me in (...)
(...)yet. • But then everyone is at it. Look at Europe, look to Wikileaks for advice apparently given to staff in the commission's trade (...)
World news
China backs down over controversial censorship software
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday June 16 2009
Jonathan Watts in Beijing
The Chinese government appears to have backed down in the face of public opposition to its plans for mandatory installation of censorship software on all new computers. The Green Dam Youth Escort program, which restricts access to pornography and politically sensitive websites, was due to be compulsorily incorporated in the hard drives of all new machines sold after 1 July, bu
(...)take control of an individual's computer and a defective pornography algorithm. Wikileaks has published what it claims is the initial bidding document to (...)

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Channel 4, BBC Radio 4 and Guardian win at Amnesty International awards
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday June 3 2009
Mark Sweney
Channel 4, BBC Radio 4 and the Guardian were among the winners at the Amnesty International Media Awards last night. The 18th annual awards, presented across 10 categories, aim to celebrate the achievements of journalism covering human rights abuses around the world. Channel 4 News and the programme's producer, ITN, took the top prize in the TV news category for a report on t
(...)The Forgotten People. Amnesty International's new media award was won by Wikileaks for Julian Assange's Kenya: The Cry of Blood - Extra Judicial (...)
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Stop press - and then what?
guardian.co.uk, Monday April 13 2009
Clay Shirky
This is an extract from Clay Shirky's article, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable. The full essay can be read here. If you want to know why newspapers are in such trouble, the most salient fact is this: Printing presses are terrifically expensive to set up and to run. This bit of economics, normal since Gutenberg, limits competition while creating positive returns to scal
Business
Barclays denies whistleblower was forced out
The Guardian, Monday April 6 2009
Felicity Lawrence and David Leigh
A Barclays bank executive claims to have been made redundant after raising issues relating to one of the bank's tax avoidance schemes. The claims are being denied by Barclays. The bank confirms that it called in outside lawyers last month to hold discussions about written allegations from the sacked banker, but says "no evidence has been found" to back them. A source familiar
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Caught in the act
The Guardian, Thursday April 2 2009
Chris Williams
At about 7am on a Monday in February, police arrived at the Sheffield home of a man wanted in connection with the country's largest animal rights extremism case. He was arrested, his home searched and computer equipment seized. The man, an IT worker who can't be named, is now on police bail on suspicion of offences under the Serious Crime Act 2007. But his case has prompted fe
Business
Barclays tax documents: how Matthew Oakeshott told their lordships what we couldn't
The Guardian, Friday March 27 2009
Felicity Lawrence and David Leigh
For the last week they have been one of the internet's worst kept secrets. They have been blogged about, debated on bulletin boards, twittered over and even published in their entirety on a whistleblowers website. Until now, however, the Guardian has been banned from telling you as much. Under the terms of an injunction obtained by Barclays, newspapers have been prevented doin
(...)documents are widely available on the internet from sites such as Twitter, wikileaks.org, docstoc.com and gabbr.com. Yet the Guardian had to (...)
Business
US banks pull out of $11bn Barclays tax avoidance partnerships
The Guardian, Friday March 27 2009
David Leigh and Felicity Lawrence
Two out of three US banks have terminated their involvement in a wide-ranging tax-avoidance scheme operated by Barclays. The banks had taken loans from Barclays amounting to $11bn (£7.6bn), which they were due to hold for another year. But sources at Bank of America and BB&T confirmed yesterday that transactions under Project Knight have been terminated prematurely
(...)banning the paper from revealing that they were also available online on Wikileaks. That ban was exploded yesterday when the Liberal Democrats' Treasury spokesman, (...)
Business
Lib Dem spokesman dodges gag order to reveal Barclays tax documents
guardian.co.uk, Thursday March 26 2009
David Leigh
Liberal Democrat spokesman Lord Oakeshott used parliamentary privilege today to blow a hole in a gag order obtained by Barclays Bank over its tax avoidance scheme. The documents detailing the schemes, previously leaked to the Lib-Dems, were now available on Wikileaks.org and other websites, he told a Lords debate on tax avoidance. Barclays had previously obtained a high court
(...)the schemes, previously leaked to the Lib-Dems, were now available on Wikileaks.org and other websites, he told a Lords debate on tax (...)
Media
PDA's Newsbucket
guardian.co.uk, Saturday March 21 2009
Jemima Kiss
• BBC Trust adds £30m to BBC Online's annual budget >> paidContent:UK• Google's Street View offers sights and scenes but grows its monopoly >> Guardian• Flip Video bought by Cisco for $590m in stock >> TechCrunch• Iran blogger dies in Evin prison >> BBC• Ballmer still waiting for Yahoo call #2 >> Wired• The browser wars continue >> (...)
(...)gt; Econsultancy• Do Digg and Google News operate whitelists? >> Econsultancy• WikiLeaks exposes Australian web blacklist >> Wired• Gmail's new 'undo (...)
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Wikileaks taken offline after publishing Australia's banned websites
guardian.co.uk, Thursday March 19 2009
Oliver Luft
Whistleblowing website Wikileaks has gone offline just hours after publishing what appeared to be a complete list of the websites banned by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). The list appeared to show all the websites that those living in Australia are prohibited from accessing by the domestic authorities, but the communications minister, Stephen Conroy,
Whistleblowing website Wikileaks has gone offline just hours after publishing what appeared to be (...)
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The secret documents
The Guardian, Tuesday March 17 2009
Editorial
The documents we extract today describing Barclays' complex transactions to avoid paying tax are extraordinary. These are memos from the heart of the tax-avoidance machine of one of the world's biggest banks, and they shine a light on a complex and secretive world. Some people argue that tax avoidance is no different from taking out an Isa or writing a will. But there is a (...)
(...)several countries have to rely on moles tipping off websites such as Wikileaks or information dumped on to CD-Rom. But with this particular (...)

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Intelligence failures crippling fight against insurgents in Afghanistan, says report
The Guardian, Friday March 6 2009
Peter Beaumont
A highly critical analysis of the US-led coalition's counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan has raised serious questions about combat operations in both countries - and the intelligence underpinning them. The confidential document presents a bleak picture of a counterinsurgency effort undermined by intelligence failures that at times border on the absurd. Based on scores o
(...)institute for US Joint Forces Command in November and leaked to the Wikileaks website, reveals the case of Dutch F-16 pilots in Afghanistan (...)
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PDA's Newsbucket
guardian.co.uk, Thursday February 19 2009
Jemima Kiss
• Wikileaks forced to leak its own secret info >> Wired• Sixty great how-to sites and resources >> Mashable• Memo to TechCrunch: make love not war, because negativity sucks >> Econsultancy• All atwit over nothing? >> Econsultancy• The TechCrunch 2008 year in review >> TechCrunch• Video interview with Travis Katz of MySpace >> TechCrunch UK• (...)
(...)Wikileaks forced to leak its own secret info >> Wired• Sixty (...)
Business
Isles of plenty
The Guardian, Friday February 13 2009
Tax gap reporting team
A hoard of banking files from the Caymans – one of the most secretive British tax havens – are being supplied to the US authorities by a whistleblower who claims they detail worldwide tax avoidance. The Cayman Islands – Caribbean territories under ultimate UK control – are currently the target of reformers. Alastair Darling was yesterday challenged in the Commons over allegat
(...)two Julius Baer officials. Last year Elmer posted some documents on the Wikileaks website, which specialises in material from whistleblowers. Julius Baer got the (...)
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PDA's Newsbucket
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday February 10 2009
Jemima Kiss
• Are Twitter's creators living in the last dreamworld on Earth? >> New York Magazine• Gmail: 90 tools and tips to make you a Gmail pro >> ghacks• Subscription model works for web video - baseball, at least >> Beet.TV• Dan Lyons: Growing rich by blogging is a high-tech fairy tale >> Newsweek• PeoplesMusicStore lets you set up a record store >> (...)
(...)EBay ex-CEO Whitman plans run for California governor >> Reuters• Wikileaks publishes $1bn of congressional reports >> PC World• And now… (...)
Technology
Bloomberg: Steve Jobs seeking liver transplant
guardian.co.uk, Friday January 16 2009
Charles Arthur
Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant to treat a consequence of the neuroendocrine cancer he was treated for in 2004, according to the financial news service Bloomberg. The story, which is unconfirmed, quotes unnamed "people who are monitoring his illness"; in a phone call, Jobs apparently told the organisation "Why don't you guys leave me alone - why is this important
(...)spared you one of the more ludicrous medical ones that was on Wikileaks - which even Wikileaks didn't believe, since the timings, quite apart (...)
Technology
100 top sites for the year ahead
The Guardian, Thursday December 18 2008
Charles Arthur, Jack Schofield, Victor Keegan, Aleks Krotoski, Keith Stuart, Greg Howson, Mike Anderiesz and Michael Cross
The online world has changed dramatically even since we last drew up a list of 100 useful sites in December 2006. In the interim, there has been a revival of the browser wars - with Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari making surprising inroads into the Windows monopoly, and offering a new vision of what browsing can be like. Many of the sites listed here were not available when
Technology
The new top 100 sites: survivors and MIA
guardian.co.uk, Thursday December 18 2008
Charles Arthur
We've published our new list of 100 great sites on the internet - with the usual broad focus, taking in 22 categories. The last time we did this, almost exactly two years ago in December 2006, mapping was starting to push its way into the consciousness; Google had released the useful version of its mapping API in June 2006, creating the potential for much better mashups. (And
(...)Popurls the second.)Reference: Wikipedia, of course. But welcome the new player, Wikileaks - using much the same technology to spread information that others might (...)
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Yoga going underground
guardian.co.uk, Saturday November 29 2008
Musab Bora
Last week, the national council issued an edict stating Muslims in Malaysia should not practise yoga, as its Hindu origins might erode the Muslim faith. As news of the fatwa spread across the globe, the president of Malaysia intervened, saying there was no harm in yoga as long as any ritual chanting was avoided. What was not reported, however, was the the activity that had tak
(...)were conducted to ensure joints remained unsupple. Secret guides were posted on Wikileaks to show how to feign stiffness and ill-health. Malaysia's (...)
World news
FBI on the trail of hackers after Palin's emails made public
The Guardian, Friday September 19 2008
Bobbie Johnson in San Francisco
FBI officials and secret service investigators were trying yesterday to track down hackers who broke into an email account belonging to US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Information from the account, including her emails, digital photos and online address book, was posted on the internet on Tuesday, after an unidentified individual guessed the password to the Alaska
(...)account. Screenshots and information were made available on the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, which defended its decision saying the hack proved Palin was violating (...)
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Wikileaks posts a hack of Palin's e-mail account
guardian.co.uk, Thursday September 18 2008
Elana Schor
Wikileaks, the online clearinghouse of classified information that has caught the Guantanamo Bay prison, Northern Rock, and a major Swiss bank in its crosshairs, has posted hacked data from Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's private e-mail account. The alleged hack was pulled off by "loosely affiliated" members of an anti-Scientology group, according to Wikil
Wikileaks, the online clearinghouse of classified information that has caught the Guantanamo (...)

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FBI investigates Sarah Palin's Yahoo account after hackers break in
guardian.co.uk, Thursday September 18 2008
Bobbie Johnson in San Francisco
FBI investigators are examining an email account belonging to the vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, after hackers broke into it and posted contents on the internet. Screenshots and photographs taken from the account — which was hosted by Yahoo — were put online yesterday after being sent to the whistleblowing website Wikileaks. The images showed a sequence of messages
(...)Yahoo — were put online yesterday after being sent to the whistleblowing website Wikileaks. The images showed a sequence of messages between Palin — the governor (...)
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Wikileaks touts information on Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez
guardian.co.uk, Thursday August 28 2008
Jemima Kiss
The whistle-blowers' website Wikileaks has marked a change in strategy, calling for media organisations to bid for what it claims is exclusive and confidential information that gives insights into the government of Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan president. Wikileaks claims to offer a confidential and high-profile platform for documents that will help expose corruption and
The whistle-blowers' website Wikileaks has marked a change in strategy, calling for media organisations to (...)
Technology
What does the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta) really mean for you and I?
guardian.co.uk, Thursday July 10 2008
Charles Arthur
This morning in the print section I've written about the G8's efforts to introduce Acta, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Like all trade agreements, it's being negotiated in secret; this is so the horse-trading that goes on, where some clause or other is dropped in return for an easing of (say) a dispute over steel tariffs/dumping doesn't become public (because otherwi
(...)get done (if Acta is ratified according to the draft version from Wikileaks, which we don't know if it has, and if (...)
Technology
The right to peer inside your iPod
The Guardian, Thursday July 10 2008
Charles Arthur
The heads of the G8 governments, meeting this week, are about to ratify the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta), which - it's claimed - could let customs agents search your laptop or music player for illegally obtained content. The European Parliament is considering a law that would lead to people who illicitly download copyrighted music or video content being thrown (...)
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@Future of Journalism: Crowds and amateurs - New ways of getting stories
guardian.co.uk, Friday June 20 2008
Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Crowd sourcing is already a reality in today's journalism world. Since the July 2005 Tube bombings in London, we've grown used to news organisations using amateur photography and video of major news events. Now the wisdom of the crowd is becoming a source for generating stories as well as reacting to them. Guardian News & Media's head of news, business and sport Paul (...)
Technology
When will BT start its next ad-serving trial with Phorm?
The Guardian, Thursday June 12 2008
Charles Arthur
"Very soon", according to a BT spokesman, although he declined to say precisely how soon, for fear of leaving a hostage to fortune. The second trial of Phorm's server-side adware system has been much delayed since BT's relationship with Phorm came to light in February; it transpired that the broadband provider did not get the permission of the 36,000 customers who were (...)
(...)beta.bt.com/bta/forums A document that has surfaced at the Wikileaks site, and confirmed to be valid by BT, claims that in (...)
Technology
Few people detected Phorm in BT's secret trials
guardian.co.uk, Friday June 6 2008
Jack Schofield
"An internal British Telecom report on a secret trial of an ISP eavesdropping and advertising technology found that the system crashed some unsuspecting users' browsers, and a small percentage of the 18,000 broadband customers under surveillance believed they'd been infected with adware," says Wired blogs. It's commenting on a January 2007 report at Wikileaks (PDF) which (...)
(...)says Wired blogs. It's commenting on a January 2007 report at Wikileaks (PDF) which looks like a photocopy of a BT Retail Technology (...)
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Wikileaks defies 'great firewall of China'
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday March 19 2008
Mark Sweney
Whistleblower website Wikileaks has made 35 censored videos of civil unrest in Tibet available in a bid to get round the "great firewall of China". Wikileaks said that posting the videos was a "response to the Chinese Public Security Bureau's carte-blanche censorship of YouTube, the BBC, CNN, the Guardian and other sites" that had carried sensitive video footage about Tibet.
Whistleblower website Wikileaks has made 35 censored videos of civil unrest in Tibet available (...)
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'Life and death struggle' in Tibet
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday March 19 2008
Matthew Weaver
China described the protests in Tibet as a "life and death struggle with the Dalai clique" as pro-Tibet protests spread across the world and calls for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics increase. Scroll down and refresh for updates, reaction and your chance to comment 9.45am Dramatic images of Tibetan protesters on horseback and demonstrators claims of beatings have been
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Bank drops lawsuit against Wikileaks
guardian.co.uk, Thursday March 6 2008
Mark Sweney
The Swiss bank pursuing legal action in the US against whistleblowing website Wikileaks has dropped its lawsuit days after a judge reversed a decision to shut down the website for publishing leaked documents. Julius Baer had been pursuing court action against Wikileaks after the website published documents about the bank's offshore accounts. In court papers filed yesterday th
The Swiss bank pursuing legal action in the US against whistleblowing website Wikileaks has dropped its lawsuit days after a judge reversed a decision (...)

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PDA's newsbucket
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday March 5 2008
Jemima Kiss
Demand Media buys Pluck The firm run by former MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt said on Tuesday it has purchased web media syndication company Pluck as part of an expansion of its Internet social media business. Source: Reuters Nielsen says mobile ads growing, consumers respond About 23 percent of US mobile phone users have seen advertising on their cell phones in the last
(...)easily use the AIM instant messaging network. Source: Wired Swiss bank drops Wikileaks' lawsuit Julius Baer has dropped its lawsuit against Web site Wikileaks.org...
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Tech Weekly podcast
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday March 5 2008
Jemima Kiss
For your technological delight and delectation - we've recorded 37 minutes and 55 seconds of Tech Weekly podcast, led by the superlative Aleks Krotoski. • Launch the audio player now. I interview Stephen Balkam of the Family Online Safety Institute, and Charles Arthur speaks to True Knowledge to find out how they are creating a more intelligent search service. freeagentcen
(...)freelance accounts nightmares, and we dabble in a bit of discussion over Wikileaks and the tiff between Microsoft and the EU. Feedback, as always, (...)
Technology
Tech Weekly podcast, March 4: Safe surfing, better searching
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday March 4 2008
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent
It's that time again: the Tech Weekly podcast is ready for your listening pleasure. · Launch the audio player We're always hearing about safer surfing: trying to save us from all the bad things on the web. But what's actually going on? We hear from the Family Online Safety group for more. And, given the power of Google, how do you make search better? We find out from the foun
(...)s news on Microsoft's EU fine, the fall and rise of Wikileaks, the death of Netscape and a US government plan to seek (...)
Technology
Tech Weekly: Online safety and artificially intelligent search

guardian.co.uk, Tuesday March 4 2008
Audio (37m 55sec): Safe web surfing and a search to end inappropriate (...)
Technology
US judge reverses Wikileaks injunction
guardian.co.uk, Monday March 3 2008
Jemima Kiss
Whistleblowing website Wikileaks is back online in the US after an extraordinary about-turn by the judge who closed the site just over two weeks ago. After a three-hour hearing on Friday, Judge Jeffrey White reversed a previous injunction by the Swiss bank Julius Baer against Wikileaks, which had published documents concerning the bank's offshore accounts. Judge White had pre
Whistleblowing website Wikileaks is back online in the US after an extraordinary about-turn (...)
World news
News in brief
The Guardian, Monday March 3 2008
Cab driver charged over story of abandoned babyA New York cab driver who dropped off a six-month-old baby at a fire station, claiming that she had been left in his car, has been charged with making up the story. Klever Sailema had been hailed as a hero in a case that has captivated the city after pictures of the baby girl were published. Police now say the baby was given to (...)
(...)speech groups. Judge Jeffrey White withdrew an injunction he had issued against wikileaks.org, saying his ruling might have violated the first amendment of (...)
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We're picking a path through a minefield, tin hats awry
The Guardian, Monday March 3 2008
Emily Bell
What happens when anyone can publish anything, about anyone, anywhere at any time? It is an interesting philosophical and legal minefield which we pick our way through on a daily basis, tin hats awry. One thing in a world of uncertainty is certain - the old levers of control are inadequate - and this is becoming apparent to the most obtuse controller. Even the relatively codif
(...)surface outside conventional channels. Take, for instance, the US controversy around the Wikileaks website which posted documents relating to accounts in a Cayman Islands (...)
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PDA's Newsbucket
guardian.co.uk, Friday February 29 2008
Jemima Kiss
Wikileaks judge may think again over decision to close site The Californian district court judge who ordered the closure of the whistleblowers' site Wikileaks will today hear further representations and has indicated that he may backtrack over what free speech groups have called 'an overreaching legal attack'. Source: Guardian More Robin Williams at TED Robin Williams did a sp
Wikileaks judge may think again over decision to close site The Californian (...)
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Wikileaks judge may think again
guardian.co.uk, Friday February 29 2008
Jemima Kiss
The Californian district court judge who ordered the closure of the whistleblowers' site Wikileaks will today hear further representations and has indicated that he may backtrack over what free speech groups have called "an overreaching legal attack". Judge Jeffrey White ordered the immediate closure of the US version of the site two weeks ago, acting on an injunction from the
(...)Californian district court judge who ordered the closure of the whistleblowers' site Wikileaks will today hear further representations and has indicated that he may (...)
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PDA's Newsbucket
guardian.co.uk, Thursday February 28 2008
Jemima Kiss
Blog network MyKinda has writers going unpaid there are worrying signs coming from Romania-based blog network MyKinda that suggest the young startup is facing some of the same cash flow issues that plagued BlogNation. Source: TechCrunch Under the bonnet of Android Google says they are driving the Android initiative because they want to see internet-style development on mobile
(...)world of structured, machine readable data, he says. Source: Read/Write Web Wikileaks gets legal help after domain name deletion A website that specializes (...)

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Major US groups file motion on behalf of Wikileaks users
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday February 27 2008
Elana Schor in Washington
The anonymous internet phenomenon Wikileaks.org today won two influential allies in its fight against a US court order shutting down the website. Wikileaks disclosed secret documents on Guantanamo Bay, Northern Rock and other controversial issues before a Swiss bank won a legal injunction that blocked its US server last week. But two groups that frequently challenge the Bush
The anonymous internet phenomenon Wikileaks.org today won two influential allies in its fight against a (...)
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Freedom of information
guardian.co.uk, Monday February 25 2008
Dan Gillmor
What does a Swiss bank that does business in the Cayman Islands have in common with a Hong Kong actor who jets around the globe? They are object lessons this month in a reality that anyone handling information needs to understand. Like toothpaste squeezed from a tube, information, once out in the wild, is all but uncontainable. The Julius Baer Bank is a protagonist in the now-
(...)uncontainable. The Julius Baer Bank is a protagonist in the now-famous Wikileaks case. The bank's lawyers managed to persuade a US federal (...)
From the Guardian
Whistle while you work
The Guardian, Saturday February 23 2008
David Leigh and Jonathan Franklin
A secretive Swiss bank landed an apparently novel censorship blow against the internet this week. Anyone who tried to call up wikileaks.org, a global website devoted to publicising leaked documents, found themselves frustrated. The site simply wasn't there any more. The Julius Baer bank in Zurich succeeded in hamstringing the shadowy individuals behind the website by the simpl
(...)blow against the internet this week. Anyone who tried to call up wikileaks.org, a global website devoted to publicising leaked documents, found themselves (...)
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Setting the controls to Max
guardian.co.uk, Thursday February 21 2008
Frank Fisher
What do the Max Gogarty story, the Wikileaks outrage, Lord Falconer's genuinely demented plan to retrospectively censor the entire internet, and the UK government's continued demands that ISPs disconnect and blacklist filesharers without legal process all have in common? The internet of course, but more. The demand that the internet be controlled. We've heard the demand from a
What do the Max Gogarty story, the Wikileaks outrage, Lord Falconer's genuinely demented plan to retrospectively censor the (...)
World news
Julius Baer's court order springs a leak
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday February 20 2008
Elana Schor in Washington
The US court order shutting down the website Wikileaks today appeared to backfire on the Swiss bank that sought the legal action, as bloggers and other fans of the site gave new life to leaked documents the bank was working to suppress. In addition to international Wikileaks versions that were unaffected by the shutdown order, "mirror" copies of the website sprouted like weeds
The US court order shutting down the website Wikileaks today appeared to backfire on the Swiss bank that sought the (...)
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PDA's newsbucket
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday February 19 2008
Jemima Kiss
Chinese search engine censured Baidu.com has been censured by a government-sponsored watchdog for allegedly helping spread sexually explicit photos that appear to feature several Hong Kong stars. Source: AP UK download sales on the rise Sales of music downloads could exceed £160m this year thanks to a pick-up in album buying and the launch of new online stores. Source: Guardia
(...)paid downloads on iTunes after striking a deal with Apple. Source: Guardian Wikileaks vows to defy court gag An international website that claims to (...)
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Wikileaks is still live, and kicking
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday February 19 2008
Jemima Kiss
Photo by Shht! on Flickr. Some rights reserved. It was inevitable, given the nature of the site, that the 'whistleblowing service' Wikileaks would find itself the subject of a legal injunction. From the start, the site had readied itself by setting up servers in Belgium and India as well as the US but, as they said yesterday, they "never expected to be using the alternative
(...)was inevitable, given the nature of the site, that the 'whistleblowing service' Wikileaks would find itself the subject of a legal injunction. From the (...)
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Whistleblowing website vows to defy court gag
The Guardian, Tuesday February 19 2008
Jemima Kiss
An international website that claims to blow the whistle on corporate and governmental fraud vowed yesterday to defy attempts by a US court to close it down. Wikileaks allows whistleblowers to anonymously post documents in an attempt to expose corruption and wrongdoing. Its owners said yesterday that a Californian judge had ordered that the site be taken offline last week, (...)
(...)yesterday to defy attempts by a US court to close it down. Wikileaks allows whistleblowers to anonymously post documents in an attempt to expose (...)
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Tuesday's Meda Briefing
MediaGuardian, Tuesday February 19 2008
THE GUARDIANWhistleblower website Wikileaks faces shutdown by US court. P8 Orange and Vodafone revive UK network sharing deal. P24 Experian considers putting price comparison website PriceGrabber up for sale. P24 Toshiba expected to pull plug on HD DVD format. P27 THE INDEPENDENTSony's Blu-ray wins next generation DVD format war. P36 Experian considers putting price (...)
THE GUARDIANWhistleblower website Wikileaks faces shutdown by US court. P8 Orange and Vodafone revive UK (...)
Technology
Incredibly, Wikileaks is deleted from the internet via DNS
guardian.co.uk, Monday February 18 2008
Charles Arthur
Wikileaks has certainly annoyed some people with its determination to publish leaked documents from all over. And finally, it properly annoyed someone who had the money for lawyers. A US district court judge ordered Wikileaks.org deleted from the DNS (domain name server) by its Californian host Dynadot following a complaint from a Swiss and a Cayman Island bank. (Update: the (...)
Wikileaks has certainly annoyed some people with its determination to publish leaked (...)

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Whistleblowers' site taken offline
guardian.co.uk, Monday February 18 2008
Jemima Kiss
The whistleblowers' favourite Wikileaks.org has been forced offline after a ruling by a court in California that ordered a permanent injunction against the site. The case was brought by the Swiss bank Julius Baer after the site published documents concerning its offshore accounts. We're looking in to this now and speaking to Wikileaks shortly; in a statement they said they ha
The whistleblowers' favourite Wikileaks.org has been forced offline after a ruling by a court (...)
World news
Leaked rules detail rewards and penalties at Guantánamo
The Guardian, Friday November 16 2007
Ewen MacAskill in Washington
The inner workings of the Guantánamo detention camp, ranging from items allowed in cells to how many witnesses should be present for cavity searches, have been revealed in a Pentagon manual leaked on the internet.The manual covers almost every aspect of life at the base, from arrival to burial - with a graphic showing how Muslims should be buried.Although the manual (...)
(...)still held in Guantánamo.The leaked manual first appeared on Wikileaks, a website that invites people to send in sensitive documents. The (...)
World news
Manual exposes divide-and-rule tactics in Camp Delta
guardian.co.uk, Thursday November 15 2007
Ewen MacAskill in Washington
A detailed insight into the inner workings of the Guantánamo detention camp, ranging from items allowed in cells to how many witnesses should be present for cavity searches, is provided in a leaked Pentagon manual.See the full manual here (pdf) More than 350 prisoners are still held in Guantánamo. The manual covers almost every possible aspect of life at the base,
(...)been made since then, he said. The leaked manual first appeared on Wikileaks, a web site that invites people to send in sensitive documents. (...)
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Wikileaks - whistleblowing made easy
The Guardian, Monday September 17 2007
Jenny Kleeman
Got a secret you're burning to tell the world? Don't want anyone to know it comes from you? Go to Wikileaks.org, an online mouthpiece for anonymous whistleblowers, designed to bring down corrupt governments and greedy corporations through mass collaboration.Wikileaks uses the same wiki technology as Wikipedia, so anyone can add to it, and boasts an extra layer of wizardry to (...)
(...)Don't want anyone to know it comes from you? Go to Wikileaks.org, an online mouthpiece for anonymous whistleblowers, designed to bring down (...)
World news
UK attacks Kenya over role in search for missing £1bn
The Guardian, Saturday September 1 2007
Xan Rice in Nairobi, Duncan Campbell and Michael White
The Foreign Office launched an attack last night on the Kenyan government over its handling of the corruption investigation into the Moi regime, reported yesterday by the Guardian. It also emerged yesterday that many other members of the Kenyan establishment are suspected of corruption involving a total of more than £1bn.In a sharply worded response to the report on the (...)
(...)international risk consultant Kroll in 2004 but never published until the website Wikileaks released it this week."There is enough information now to blow (...)
World news
The looting of Kenya
The Guardian, Friday August 31 2007
Xan Rice in Nairobi
The breathtaking extent of corruption perpetrated by the family of the former Kenyan leader Daniel Arap Moi was exposed last night in a secret report that laid bare a web of shell companies, secret trusts and frontmen that his entourage used to funnel hundreds of millions of pounds into nearly 30 countries including Britain.The 110-page report by the international risk (...)
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Nice place for a leak
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday February 7 2007
David Batty
Psst! Want to blab a secret? And I don't mean any old secret like the affair you had with the girl in accounts, your secret tryst with the milkman or that time you nicked a tube of Smarties from the corner shop. No, we're talking about seriously classified government info - like the classified footage of the 'friendly fire' incident that killed a British soldeir in Iraq.
(...)that killed a British soldeir in Iraq. Well a new website called Wikileaks claims to provide a service where whistle blowers can safely upload (...)
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Whistleblowers go all Wikipedia and the day the internet almost broke
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday February 7 2007
Mark Sweney
A Wikipedia-style website set up to encourage anonymous whistleblowers to air secrets has itself been exposed before launch. The website, called Wikileaks, has high goals and aims to be, according to a mission statement on its website, to be "an uncensorable Wikipedia". "Our primary interests are oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the M
(...)to air secrets has itself been exposed before launch. The website, called Wikileaks, has high goals and aims to be, according to a mission (...)
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The demand for on-demand TV
guardian.co.uk, Friday January 5 2007
Jemima Kiss
Yet another thing 2007 will be the year of is on-demand TV, at last. I'm part of the 63% of the population that would prefer to watch on-demand TV, though I'd probably prefer it on my computer screen that my dodgy old TV. Tiscali has just released the results of its first TV trends report. Now that the Italian telecoms firm has taken over IPTV firm Homechoice in the UK, th

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