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Current Status of Wikileaks

The Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has repeatedly attacked WikiLeaks this week in a bizarre manner

(NEW YORK) - An extrajudicial blockade imposed by VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Bank of America, and Western Union that is designed to destroy WikiLeaks has been in place since December 2010.

The EU Commission is considering whether it will open a formal investigation, but two lawsuits have been filed.

Is Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Just Parroting Nonsense?

I can’t say whether Whitehouse believes what he says, or if he just figures it’s best to parrot the propaganda in order to get votes.

(RICHMOND, R.I.) - Last night I talked to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse to remind him of some of the US assaults on Iran, like installing the Shah, shooting down an Iranian airliner, providing weapons and intelligence to Iraq for war against Iran.

And throughout all of this Iran did nothing to us.

Tell the Nobel Committee: Award Bradley Manning the 2012 Peace Prize

As Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsburg has said, Bradley Manning is a hero.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Pfc. Bradley Manning was just nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize!¹

Last week, Major General Linnington gave the final recommendation for Manning to face court martial on all 22 charges, including the vindictive aiding the enemy charge.

CNN Drops the Bomb on Bush- World`s Worst War Criminal

Iraq is nothing but one great big crime scene.

(SALEM) - CNN has revealed (not that most people will drop from shock) that President Bush and his teammates issued 935 false statements to the U.S. public about the security risk posed by Iraq in the two years following 9/11.

The information evolves from a study released Tuesday by two nonprofit journalism groups proving that the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information.

In Support of PRESS TV

British media regulator OFCOM have removed Iranian Press TV Ltd’s broadcasting license, with SKY satellite being the first to remove Press TV.

(MELBOURNE, Aust.) - The Guardian — Press TV, the Iranian state broadcaster’s English-language outlet, has been forced off the air in the UK after Ofcom revoked its licence for breaching the Communications Act.

Ofcom found that Press TV’s practice of running its editorial oversight from Tehran, Iran‘s capital, is in breach of broadcasting licence rules in the UK.

Sensitive Documents in Haditha Massacre Found in Baghdad Junkyard

Who need Wikileaks when this is the modus operandi of our own armed forces?

(SALEM) - Sensitive documents detailing the alleged massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians by Marines at Haditha, Iraq, that happened just over six years ago, were recently discovered in a trailer parked in a Baghdad junkyard, by a New York Times reporter.

Reams of documents were being burned by an Iraqi as fuel to cook a dinner of smoked carp. In its recent departure from Iraq, U.S. forces apparently failed to destroy some of the most sensitive documents imaginable.

Julian Assange & Bradley Manning`s Defense Fund

The US response to Assange's release of secret documents was to prohibit banks and PayPal transfer funds; now there is a way to help.

(EUGENE) - You might recall that when Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers to the press, no one in the press was prosecuted for releasing the information.

When Bush's chief advisor, Karl Rove and Cheney's chief advisor, Scooter Libby, outed an undercover agent by talking to the press, which resulted in the deaths of a dozen of her secret contacts, destroyed her career, and made her a death target for life, Bush waved his wand and it was all okay.

Where`s the support for the WikiLeaks whistleblower?

Today Obama has still done nothing about the massacre. And he is still holding Bradley Manning without trial.

(RICHMOND, R.I.) - The whistleblowers who exposed the mishandling of remains of deceased American soldiers were rightly praised for revealing the outrage.

Compare this to President Obama’s treatment of a suspected whistleblower in an earlier crime. Instead of requiring an investigation of a massacre outed in a WikiLeaks video, Obama ordered the arrest of 22-year-old PFC Bradley Manning.

Manning the American Conscience

Today Obama has still done nothing about the massacre. And he is still holding Bradley Manning without trial.

(RICHMOND, R.I.) - The whistleblowers who exposed the mishandling of remains of deceased American soldiers were rightly praised for revealing the outrage. Compare this to President Obama’s treatment of a suspected whistleblower in an earlier crime.

In April 2010 WikiLeaks released a video recording of American soldiers in helicopters happily shooting a dozen unarmed people walking on a Baghdad street (www.collateralmurder.com). They even killed the wounded Reuters newsman Saaed Chmagh and two rescuers who tried to help him.

Liam Fox faces fresh questions on Sri Lanka links

Defence secretary accused of running 'maverick foreign policy' in Sri Lankan Development Trust dealings involving Adam Werritty.

(LONDON) - Liam Fox faced fresh accusations of running a shadow foreign policy after it emerged he was involved in setting up a private investment firm to operate in Sri Lanka in apparent contravention of UK government policy, with his controversial friend Adam Werritty as its key contact.

The defence secretary was intimately involved in negotiations with the Sri Lankan regime as recently as last summer, according to Lord Bell, his friend of 30 years, agreeing a deal that allows the Sri Lankan Development Trust to operate in the country in the same period in which he now says he withdrew his involvement.