Wikileaks ignites revolution

in global media coverage

You may think Wikileaks is old news. But take a gander at a typical Google news alert for 'Wikileaks':

Wikileaks: Pakistani Military Taught to Dislike US
Voice of America
The 2008 cables obtained by the WikiLeaks website and other media organizations discusses classes for military officers at Pakistan's National Defense University. In one cable, a US military officer who attended classes at the military university said ...
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WikiLeaks Is Not Happy with Its Frontline Treatment
The Atlantic Wire
By John Hudson 10:09 AM ET On Tuesday night, PBS-Frontline aired a sweeping documentary on WikiLeaks exploring the role of Bradley Manning in the organization and the controversy surrounding the group's mission. Already, the documentary has divided ...
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The Atlantic Wire
West feared Zim civil war in 2008 - WikiLeaks
The Zimbabwean
HARARE - The international community had made contingency plans for a possible civil war in Zimbabwe in 2008 as parties haggled over a power-sharing formula following disputed presidential polls. (Pictured: Mugabe and Tsvangirai) A leaked diplomatic ...
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Obama to address British Parliament...WikiLeaks: Pakistan military trained in ...
9&10 News
The cable, obtained by WikiLeaks, suggests that anti-American sentiment is deeply ingrained in the military, which has received more than $10 billion in American aid since 2001. EL RENO, Okla. (AP) — More deadly storms in the central US, ...
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WikiLeaks: Zardari would have handed over AQ Khan if 'he had his way'
The Express Tribune
In a separate meeting, former President Pervez Musharraf had also assured the US ambassador that Pakistan had no plans to release AQ Khan. PHOTO: FILE Co-chariman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Asif Ali Zardari, had told the United States (US) ...
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The Express Tribune
US persuaded Turkey, France to stop Pakistan-bound ships: WikiLeaks
The Nation, Pakistan
The United States had persuaded Turkey and France in 2008 to stop ships navigating in their respective territorial waters with consignments for Pakistan, claims WikiLeaks. The Turkish government had demanded proofs from the US instead of evidence and ...
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The Nation, Pakistan
WikiLeaks: How Najib overcame the Kartika dilemma
Free Malaysia Today
Details of the confidential cable sent in 2010 were leaked by WikiLeaks to popular blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin who had published the cable in his Malaysia Today website today. “That the GOM (government of Malaysia) chose to cane three anonymous women, ...es both the GOJ's paralysis over the issue as the Golding administration flails for new legal points on which to delay a decision, as well as the PNP's (People's National Party) determination to use the issue as a means of ...
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Free Malaysia Today
WIKILEAKS flashback
Jamaica Gleaner
"The imbroglio illustrates both the GOJ's paralysis over the issue as the Golding administration flails for new legal points on which to delay a decision, as well as the PNP's (People's National Party) determination to use the issue as a means of ...
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DPM, US Embassy Responds To WikiLeaks Report
The Bahama Journal
By Sasha L. Lightbourne Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette said he is not bothered by a leaked report from WikiLeaks, which detailed how the prime minister reportedly had no confidence in Mr. Symonette becoming the leader of the Free National ...
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EDITORIAL - WikiLeaks, transparency and the right to know
Jamaica Gleaner
We do not, of course, mean to equate these WikiLeaks cables with either the Pentagon Papers or the Watergate secrets revealed by the Washington Post's Deep Throat source. However, they help to shine light on important aspects of public policy, ...
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Defending diplomacy against WikiLeaks
Jamaica Observer
This reality has triggered a spate of disparate assessments of the impact of Wikileaks' release of thousands of US confidential diplomatic dispatches. The consequences for the conduct of diplomacy are far-reaching and go beyond US fundamental values of ...
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WikiLeaks: The Unknown Prisoners Of Guantanamo (Part Two of Five)
The Public Record
By Andy Worthington As I explained last week in the first part of this five-part series, one of the great publicity coups in WikiLeaks' recent release of classified military documents relating to the majority of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo was ...
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The Public Record
Pakistan army's next generation 'anti-American, devout Muslims'
Telegraph.co.uk
The Pakistan Army's next generation of leaders are anti-American, devout Muslims who believe in wild conspiracy theories, a senior United States Army colonel told State Department officials in a cable released by WikiLeaks. By Dean Nelson, South Asia ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
PM briefed a dozen times on WikiLeaks
iT News
Dr McCarthy noted that Australia was referenced in 200 of the 12600 cables released by Wikileaks to date. Dr McCarthy chaired a Wikileaks taskforce which included the departments of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Defence, Attorney-General's and Foreign ...
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Terrorism very real: ASIO chief
Sydney Morning Herald
Mr Irvine, who rarely speaks in public, also discussed the role of ASIO - the only intelligence agency given a statutory role to spy on Australian citizens - in relation to WikiLeaks and the leaking of hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables. ...
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Frontline on Wikileaks
Boing Boing
PBS Frontline aired an episode on the Wikileaks saga tonight: "WikiSecrets." You can watch the video online here, and you can also buy a DVD or download via iTunes. Casual reactions I'm reading from journalists on Twitter who have followed the story ...
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Twitter says to protect users' right to self-defense
Reuters
WikiLeaks' Twitter page is seen on a computer screen in Singapore January 9, 2011. A US court has ordered Twitter to hand over details of the accounts of WikiLeaks and several supporters as part of a criminal investigation into the release of hundreds ...
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Reuters
WikiLeaks: Karachi gangs outnumber police
Foreign Policy (blog)
A 2009 WikiLeaks cable released yesterday adds new context to the discussion following last weekend's assault on a Pakistani naval base in Karachi. The Cable, signed by Consul General Stephen Fakan, surveys the threat posed by the city's armed ...
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Foreign Policy (blog)
Wikileaks Says Posada's Pardon Followed Bribe
Ahora.cu
By Eva Barajas / redaccion@ahora.cu / Tuesday, 24 May 2011 09:07 The Wikileaks website has revealed that former Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso was bribed into pardoning terrorists Luis Posada Carriles, Guillermo Novo, Pedro Remón and Gaspar ...
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Visa revocation a fitting penalty
Jamaica Gleaner
The Gleaner's recent series pertaining to WikiLeaks' disclosure of the American embassy's cables has revealed stuff about corruption in Jamaica that we already knew existed. The difference is the weight carried by this source of information - Jamaicans ...
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The truth is beyond opinion
BusinessWorld Online
It tackled the motion, "This House believes that the world is better off with WikiLeaks." The Debates, facilitated by Tim Sebastian, the award-winning former BBC correspondent and interviewer, were based on a centuries-old format, refined by the famous ...
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Views of WikiLeaks controversy vary depending on age, politics of the ...
Media Newswire (press release)
The recent WikiLeaks controversy represents a crucial step in citizen journalism, and its portrayal in the media largely depends on the age and ideology of the reporting newspaper, TV station or online site, a graduate class at Eastern Michigan ...
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Pakistan snubbed US over Hafeez Saeed?
Washington Bangla Radio
Islamabad, May 24 (IBNS): The lack of cooperation from Pakistani government allowed alleged 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafeez Saeed to avoid being questioned by American interrogators, secret US diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks say. ...
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Bran: Documents show 'true democracy' denied to Bahamians for years
Bahamas Tribune
By PAUL G TURNQUEST CITING the close working relationship between the leaders of the PLP and FNM in recently revealed Wikileaks documents, DNA leader Branville McCartney said it should now be painfully obvious that "true democracy" has been denied to ...
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Pakistani politician jokes about charming the religious with "long beards ...
Real Time News, India
The wikileaks cable has given a rare glimpse of the hard-nosed practicality of Pakistani administrators. Speaking to the Bryan Hunt, Principal Officer at the US Consulate in Lahore, Shahbaz Sharif, chief minister of the Punjab province, ...
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UAE must "understand the needs" of big neighbors like Iran to survive: Wikileaks
Real Time News, India
A cable leaked by Wikileaks reports the UAE Central Bank governor Sultan Nasser al-Suweidi as urging the US not to ask for "impossible things" if it wants cooperation from the gulf state, sandwiched between Saudi Arabia on the south and Iran on the ...
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Trial by twitter
BBC News
The decision was taken following pressure by journalists and activists covering the extradition hearing of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Lord Judge said: "The use of an unobtrusive, hand-held, virtually silent piece of modern equipment for the ...
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BBC News
India's political prince battles criticism
Fox News
But a series of electoral setbacks, an embarrassing Wikileaks revelation and his accusation, without proof, that police killed and raped protesting farmers in an opposition-led state has left some questioning whether Gandhi has the skill, experience or ...
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Military Orders Millions of Employees to Spy on Each Other
Gizmodo
Sam Biddle —The faces at the Pentagon are still mighty red since WikiLeaks. And they don't want a repeat. A new directive from the Department of Defense aims at squelching leaks—by deputizing a massive number of employees as involuntary snitches. ...
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High Tide: From Iranian And Venezuelan Defiance To Khodorkovsky Conviction Upheld
Wall Street Journal (blog)
(Jakarta Post) Uganda's president named a new prime minister, a move that shocked analysts because of allegations raised in WikiLeaks cables saying he took bribes from Italian oil giant Eni SpA. Both he and Eni denied the allegations. ...
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US dissatisfied over Pak attitude at UN: WikiLeaks
Pakistan Observer
Chennai—As Pakistan continued to vote against US positions and interests at the United Nations despite its ties with Washington, the US Mission to the UN expressed apprehension that other member states would be emboldened to do the same. ...
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We have no right to be surprised
DAWN.com
I'm certainly disgusted and alarmed to learn from WikiLeaks via Dawn.com that the US special operations forces deployed secretly on joint operations with Pakistani troops as early as 2009, but I'm not surprised. Are you? You shouldn't be. ...
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DAWN.com
Obama accused “prejudicing” Bradley Manning's trial
The Voice of Russia
Ann Clwyd – the chairwoman of the parliamentary group on human rights - accuses Mr. Obama for prejudicing the trial of the alleged WikiLeaks source – Bradley Manning. It seems that the Manning problem is to become one of the most significant threats to ...
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The Voice of Russia
Uganda names bribes-claim minister new PM
Reuters
Mbabazi was one of two ministers the US ambassador to Uganda, Jerry P. Lanier, urged his government to impose travel bans on over corruption, according to cables posted on WikiLeaks last year. [ID:nLDE6B911I] "The president described Amama Mbabazi as ...
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Arab Media Forum 2011 Tackles Region's Unfolding Revolts
Huffington Post (blog)
Another prickly issue was a session on the media's use of Wikileaks cables and whether they translated into open source information or misleading data, and, the price paid for such public disclosures. "It's very valuable historical information," said ...
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'Duplicitous' Pakistani military faces growing calls for accountability
The National
Much of the content of the new leaks was already in the public domain before the original WikiLeaks revelations in November 2010. What is notable, however, is the timing of the fresh releases. Coming so soon after the killing on May 2 of Osama bin ...
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The National
Data Leakage During a Time of Economic Recession
informIT
In many ways, we have the proliferation of data leak sites such as Wikileaks and Cryptome to thank for putting the issue in the forefront of the news and in the minds of business executives. The Wikileaks' publications and the bonanza of media coverage ...
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Blogs12 new results for Wikileaks

NewsDaily: Anti-Americanism rife in Pakistan army institution ...
By Zeeshan Haider
Officers received training biased against the United States at a prestigious Pakistan army institution, according to Wikileaks, underscoring concerns that anti-Americanism in the country's powerful military is growing amid strains with ...
NewsDaily: Top Headlines - http://newsdaily.com/?q=Save+Us+From+Berlusconi
Pam's House Blend:: Facebook posts show WikiLeaks suspect's anger ...
By Pam Spaulding
WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning was a passionate gay-rights activist who angrily chafed against the military's ban on openly gay service members, an archive of the jailed U.S. Army private's Facebook page, examined by The Lookout , ...
Pam's House Blend - Front Page - http://www.pamshouseblend.com/
Tim's El Salvador Blog: The El Salvador WikiLeaks cables
By Tim
WikiLeaks has provided some 942 US diplomatic cables related to El Salvador to the online periodical El Faro. The cables cover the time period from 2003 through 2008 under the Bush administration in Washington and the Flores and Saca ...
Tim's El Salvador Blog - http://luterano.blogspot.com/
Frontline on Wikileaks | MyGeist
By cool
PBS Frontline aired an episode on the Wikileaks saga tonight: “WikiSecrets,” produced by Martin Smith. You can watch the video online here, and you can also buy a DVD or download via iTunes. Casual reactions I'm reading from journalists ...
MyGeist - http://mygeist.com/
Media Law Prof Blog: Wikileaks and National Security
By Media Law Prof
The WikiLeaks website has dominated global media headlines since June 2010, when it first released a series of documents speaking to national security issues. Since then, WikiLeaks administrators have overseen two further series of ...
Media Law Prof Blog - http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/media_law_prof_blog/
Wikileaks. Cable 48368 « IDL Reporteros
By admin
Wikileaks. Alberto Fujimori. Miércoles, 25 Mayo de 2011. Últimas: ¿Quién pagó a los chuponeadores? | Wikileaks. Cable 68387 | Wikileaks. Cable 60170 | Wikileaks . Cable 48368 | Wikileaks. Cable 38338 |. Wikileaks. Cable 48368 ...
IDL Reporteros - http://idl-reporteros.pe/
Wikileaks: U.S. Cables on the Mohawks « The Speed of Dreams
By Enaemaehkiw Túpac Keshena
The US Embassies in Montreal and Quebec monitored Mohawks and Indigenous activists. In a series of cables released by Wikileaks in May, the US Ambassadors in Canada make it clear that no one wants to fight the Mohawks. ...
The Speed of Dreams - http://bermudaradical.wordpress.com/
Salam Fayyad on Qatar: from Wikileaks | SHOAH
By admin
Salam Fayyad on Qatar: from Wikileaks. Posted on25 May 2011. NOVANEWS. It is hilarious when small US puppets, like this Salam Fayyad, thinks that they can sway US policies. ”PA Prime Minister Fayyad, meeting with Under Secretary of the ...
SHOAH - http://www.shoah.org.uk/
Shalala, Gunn, WikiLeaks Spox at 'Lean' PR Seminar
By nospam@example.com (Jack O'Dwyer)
Final speaker is Birgitta Jonsdottir, Member of Parliament of Iceland and a “ Wikileaks volunteer” who was a spokeswoman for the controversial group. Members of Seminar include Kathleen Matthews, executive VP, global communications, ...
O'Dwyer's Blog: Covering PR,... - http://www.odwyerpr.com/blog/
Anti-Americanism rife in Pakistan army institution: Wikileaks ...
By admin
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Officers received training biased against the United States at a prestigious Pakistan army institution, according to Wikileaks, underscoring concern that anti-Americanism in the country's powerful military is ...
American Think Tank - http://www.americanthinktank.net/
Was US ignorant about Bhutto's security fears: WikiLeaks | MAARS News
By Debaman Guin
Benazir Bhutto had returned from exile after 8 years to contest for the Pakistan elections and was quite fearful about her security. She asked the US to evaluate her security and if needed suggest additional resources to provide the ...
MAARS News - http://news.maars.net/
WikiLeaks: How Najib overcame the Kartika dilemma « Hornbill Unleashed
By Hornbill Unleashed
Details of the confidential cable sent in 2010 were leaked by WikiLeaks to popular blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin who had published the cable in his Malaysia Today website today. “That the GOM (government of Malaysia) chose to cane three ...
Hornbill Unleashed - http://hornbillunleashed.wordpress.com/
Web1 new result for Wikileaks

Ex-WikiLeaks spokesman attacks Assange gag orders | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former WikiLeaks spokesman has condemned Julian Assange for demanding workers for the website sign confidentiality agreements ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-wikileaks-idUSTRE74B7D020110512