The leak of the so-called “Kissinger Cables” has shown that while the US expected Indonesia would invade what was then Portuguese Timor in 1975, it did not wish to be implicated in the affair. A cable dated August 16, 1975 said that the US’ “only secret” regarding Portuguese Timor was its desire not to become […]
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‘We’ve exposed the worlds secrets. Been attacked by the powerful. For 500 days now I’ve been detained without charge, but that hasn’t stopped us’ (Julian Assange in the opening to The Julian Assange Show). The Assange story has fascinated people around the world – so much so that we now have documentaries, shows and […]
‘Heaven knows, I’m not comparing the internet to a hurtling death trap. But the internet has its destructive side just as the automobile does … As with the car, criticism of the internet’s shortcomings, risks, and perils has been silenced, or ignored’ (Lee Siegel) . The cyborg-ish figure of the terminator (the T-800) blurred […]
The leaking of more than 91,000 US military intelligence files on the war in Afghanistan via the whistleblower website Wikileaks has, in all, told us some of what was known, much of what was suspected and all of which was feared by citizens of the states that are contributing to the war. What might have […]