7254b107deb0d1c00fe5e49ee5dba5e0Facebook SyndicationFinFoWL's Facebook Wall2013-08-24T06:29:56-07:00http://www.facebook.com/favicon.icohttps://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xfa1/t5.0-1/188088_473174439363798_443969735_n.jpg<![CDATA[ ]]>873f329a6acb6d5b568e06de3bce61a12013-08-24T14:29:56+01:002013-08-24T14:29:56+01:00FinFoWL Snowden muutti maailmaa www.hs.fi Tietovuotojen kesä heilutti suurvaltasuhteita ja jätti jälkensä netinkäyttäjien mieleen.]]><![CDATA[ 'I have never spoken with, worked with, or provided any journalistic materials t...]]>f3027d723dbaa4b5fd61f2cde94501c02013-08-24T09:42:06+01:002013-08-24T09:42:06+01:00FinFoWL Glenn Greenwald reports: The Independent this morning published an article - which it repeatedly claims comes from "documents obtained from the NSA by Edward Snowden" ... Snowden says: "It appears that the UK government is now seeking to create an appearance that the Guardian and Washington Post's disclosures are harmful, and they are doing so by intentionally leaking harmful information to The Independent and attributing it to others. The UK government should explain the reasoning behind this decision to disclose information that, were it released by a private citizen, they would argue is a criminal act."
Snowden: UK government now leaking documents about itself | Glenn Greenwald www.theguardian.com Glenn Greenwald: The NSA whistleblower says: 'I have never spoken with, worked with, or provided any journalistic materials to the Independent.']]><![CDATA[ ]]>a6512d8154cacaf2628f8f3a555636282013-08-22T17:10:21+01:002013-08-22T17:10:21+01:00FinFoWL "He Wanted To Help America": Manning Attorney in First Extended Interview After 35-Year Sentence www.democracynow.org Just after Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday — and before Manning’s announcement of a gender transition earlier today — independent journalist Alexa O’Brien sat down with Manning’s attorney, David Coombs, for his first interview about the case. O’Brien was one of only…]]><![CDATA[ ]]>ebcf8007bc441b6ec3f62e6e12dfa9ca2013-07-30T18:48:05+01:002013-07-30T18:48:05+01:00FinFoWL Manning faces 100+ yrs in jail on other charges: LIVE UPDATES rt.com Manning found not guilty of aiding the enemy, but guilty on 19 other counts including five counts of theft and "wantonly cause to be published on the internet intelligence belonging to the US government."]]><![CDATA[ ]]>23a0e9800075849267726310e45d6b7b2013-07-15T19:01:30+01:002013-07-15T19:01:30+01:00FinFoWL Timeline Photos Wikileaks tweeted
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/356804981153726464]]><![CDATA[ ]]>d35d5f2c4f8f5082c7cd28093a98244e2013-07-12T17:09:46+01:002013-07-12T17:09:46+01:00FinFoWL Statement by Edward Snowden to human rights groups at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport wikileaks.org Edward Joseph Snowden delivered a statement to human rights organizations and individuals at Sheremetyevo airport at 5pm Moscow time today, Friday 12th July. The meeting lasted 45 minutes. The human rights organizations included Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch and were given the opportu...]]><![CDATA[ ]]>15eba6d835f8d8444956437bce507d302013-07-11T09:11:21+01:002013-07-11T09:11:21+01:00FinFoWL London's costs spiral upwards as Assange stakeout sees no end rt.com London officials are facing scrutiny over the spiraling cost of maintaining a 24-hour police watch outside of the Ecuadorian embassy, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has now resided for a year.]]><![CDATA[ ]]>608bb7faf7456f6ce2fafc1a34ef06772013-07-10T08:18:37+01:002013-07-10T08:18:37+01:00FinFoWL Key witness in Bradley Manning trial: Guantánamo files just 'baseball cards' www.guardian.co.uk Former chief prosecutor Colonel Morris Davis says WikiLeaks detainee files contained information already available publicly]]><![CDATA[ ]]>d6fd86a6fd08a97fe21eb4e8a6e0fc862013-07-10T08:18:10+01:002013-07-10T08:18:10+01:00FinFoWL Exclusive: Ecuador’s Foreign Minister on Snowden, Assange & Latin American Resistance to U.S. Spying www.democracynow.org Amidst new revelations of U.S. spying in Latin America and ongoing diplomatic tensions over the asylum efforts of Edward Snowden, we are joined by Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño. Speaking from Quito, Patiño addresses the confusion over Ecuador’s ties to Snowden’s asylum bid after initial...]]><![CDATA[ ]]>0f0b05398330f8df5a1b0ef8ac0a00e42013-07-03T20:44:00+01:002013-07-03T20:44:00+01:00FinFoWL WikiLeaks says MasterCard lifts 'financial blockade' rt.com MasterCard’s financial blockade against WikiLeaks has been lifted more than two years after the credit card company first took measures to keep their customers from supporting the anti-secrecy website.]]><![CDATA[ "#Snowden has raised red flag in time, revealing that US elite have mechanisms w...]]>7a864a3c8fe2a3a0f1a2beb82239cace2013-07-02T21:30:57+01:002013-07-02T21:30:57+01:00FinFoWL Venezuela ready to help Snowden, but final decision with people - Maduro to RT rt.com Caracas is ready to help NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but will “leave the decision to the people” when considering his request for asylum, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has told RT Spanish in an exclusive interview.]]><![CDATA[ Julian Assange can have his shot at the Senate after the Australian Electoral Co...]]>f7b0cfe460dc3d9c53d3f37d80dfd5122013-07-02T21:14:25+01:002013-07-02T21:14:25+01:00FinFoWL Wikileaks Party registered for election www.theage.com.au Julian Assange can have his shot at the Senate after the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) gave the tick to the Wikileaks Party fielding candidates at the upcoming election.]]><![CDATA[ "In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Br...]]>9c6f2f57ab8f9898de3589ffa9c418c52013-07-02T07:19:13+01:002013-07-02T07:19:13+01:00FinFoWL -Edward Snowden, Monday, July 1st, 2013
Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow wikileaks.org One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never will. I trusted them with my life and they re...]]><![CDATA[ ]]>b95e9a64c6ad199b92be733749f41c122013-06-21T22:24:50+01:002013-06-21T22:24:50+01:00FinFoWL Icelandic WikiLeaks collaborators targeted by Obama administration — RT USA rt.com The Obama administration has admitted to spying on two Icelandic citizens with ties to WikiLeaks in the latest revelation pertaining to both the US government’s widespread surveillance practices and its war against the whistleblower website.]]><![CDATA[ ]]>3d6b04078c1c5c314dcaca3caad127c02013-06-17T07:35:32+01:002013-06-17T07:35:32+01:00FinFoWL Ecuador’s FM in UK to talk Assange fate rt.com Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino is in the UK to discuss the future of Julian Assange on the eve of the first anniversary since the WikiLeaks founder has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London avoiding extradition to Sweden.]]><![CDATA[ ]]>8134bf36b47683e4045a297ec71802112013-06-16T20:44:33+01:002013-06-16T20:44:33+01:00FinFoWL The Wikileaks Documentary -- Full Version
A well made high budget documentary full of information.]]><![CDATA[ Ecuador's foreign minister is off to London for talks regarding WikiLeaks' Julia...]]>0029210bf851dd5318a938efe9b943432013-06-16T08:28:04+01:002013-06-16T08:28:04+01:00FinFoWL He will meet Assange at the embassy later on Sunday and hold talks with Foreign Secretary William Hague on Monday."
The ex-CIA man who blew the lid off America's vast NSA public surveillance net - is promising more explosive revelations. Edward Snowden's supporters are mob...]]><![CDATA[ Assange Statement on the First Day of Manning Trial
Monday 3rd June 2013, 22:00...]]>7d4259171dc2268e347bd8ddc91018842013-06-04T07:24:49+01:002013-06-04T07:24:49+01:00FinFoWL Monday 3rd June 2013, 22:00 GMT
Statement by Julian Assange
As I type these lines, on June 3, 2013, Private First Class Bradley Edward Manning is being tried in a sequestered room at Fort Meade, Maryland, for the alleged crime of telling the truth. The court martial of the most prominent political prisoner in modern US history has now, finally, begun.
It has been three years. Bradley Manning, then 22 years old, was arrested in Baghdad on May 26, 2010. He was shipped to Kuwait, placed into a cage, and kept in the sweltering heat of Camp Arifjan.
"For me, I stopped keeping track," he told the court last November. "I didn’t know whether night was day or day was night. And my world became very, very small. It became these cages... I remember thinking I’m going to die."
After protests from his lawyers, Bradley Manning was then transferred to a brig at a US Marine Corps Base in Quantico, VA, where - infamously - he was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment at the hands of his captors - a formal finding by the UN. Isolated in a tiny cell for twenty-three out of twenty-four hours a day, he was deprived of his glasses, sleep, blankets and clothes, and prevented from exercising. All of this - it has been determined by a military judge - "punished" him before he had even stood trial.
"Brad’s treatment at Quantico will forever be etched, I believe, in our nation’s history, as a disgraceful moment in time" said his lawyer, David Coombs. "Not only was it stupid and counterproductive, it was criminal."
The United States was, in theory, a nation of laws. But it is no longer a nation of laws for Bradley Manning.
When the abuse of Bradley Manning became a scandal reaching all the way to the President of the United States and Hillary Clinton’s spokesman resigned to register his dissent over Mr. Manning’s treatment, an attempt was made to make the problem less visible. Bradley Manning was transferred to the Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
He has waited in prison for three years for a trial - 986 days longer than the legal maximum - because for three years the prosecution has dragged its feet and obstructed the court, denied the defense access to evidence and abused official secrecy. This is simply illegal - all defendants are constitutionally entitled to a speedy trial - but the transgression has been acknowledged and then overlooked.
Against all of this, it would be tempting to look on the eventual commencement of his trial as a mercy. But that is hard to do.
We no longer need to comprehend the "Kafkaesque" through the lens of fiction or allegory. It has left the pages and lives among us, stalking our best and brightest. It is fair to call what is happening to Bradley Manning a "show trial". Those invested in what is called the "US military justice system" feel obliged to defend what is going on, but the rest of us are free to describe this travesty for what it is. No serious commentator has any confidence in a benign outcome. The pretrial hearings have comprehensively eliminated any meaningful uncertainty, inflicting pre-emptive bans on every defense argument that had any chance of success.
Bradley Manning may not give evidence as to his stated intent (exposing war crimes and their context), nor may he present any witness or document that shows that no harm resulted from his actions. Imagine you were put on trial for murder. In Bradley Manning’s court, you would be banned from showing that it was a matter of self-defence, because any argument or evidence as to intent is banned. You would not be able to show that the ’victim’ is, in fact, still alive, because that would be evidence as to the lack of harm.
But of course. Did you forget whose show it is?
The government has prepared for a good show. The trial is to proceed for twelve straight weeks: a fully choreographed extravaganza, with a 141-strong cast of prosecution witnesses. The defense was denied permission to call all but a handful of witnesses. Three weeks ago, in closed session, the court actually held a rehearsal. Even experts on military law have called this unprecedented.
Bradley Manning’s conviction is already written into the script. The commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces, Barack Obama, spoiled the plot for all of us when he pronounced Bradley Manning guilty two years ago. "He broke the law," President Obama stated, when asked on camera at a fundraiser about his position on Mr. Manning. In a civilized society, such a prejudicial statement alone would have resulted in a mistrial.
To convict Bradley Manning, it will be necessary for the US government to conceal crucial parts of his trial. Key portions of the trial are to be conducted in secrecy: 24 prosecution witnesses will give secret testimony in closed session, permitting the judge to claim that secret evidence justifies her decision. But closed justice is no justice at all.
What cannot be shrouded in secrecy will be hidden through obfuscation. The remote situation of the courtroom, the arbitrary and discretionary restrictions on access for journalists, and the deliberate complexity and scale of the case are all designed to drive fact-hungry reporters into the arms of official military PR men, who mill around the Fort Meade press room like over-eager sales assistants. The management of Bradley Manning’s case will not stop at the limits of the courtroom. It has already been revealed that the Pentagon is closely monitoring press coverage and social media discussions on the case.
This is not justice; never could this be justice. The verdict was ordained long ago. Its function is not to determine questions such as guilt or innocence, or truth or falsehood. It is a public relations exercise, designed to provide the government with an alibi for posterity. It is a show of wasteful vengeance; a theatrical warning to people of conscience.
The alleged act in respect of which Bradley Manning is charged is an act of great conscience - the single most important disclosure of subjugated history, ever. There is not a political system anywhere on the earth that has not seen light as a result. In court, in February, Bradley Manning said that he wanted to expose injustice, and to provoke worldwide debate and reform. Bradley Manning is accused of being a whistleblower, a good man, who cared for others and who followed higher orders. Bradley Manning is effectively accused of conspiracy to commit journalism.
But this is not the language the prosecution uses. The most serious charge against Bradley Manning is that he "aided the enemy" - a capital offence that should require the greatest gravity, but here the US government laughs at the world, to breathe life into a phantom. The government argues that Bradley Manning communicated with a media organisation, WikiLeaks, who communicated to the public. It also argues that al-Qaeda (who else) is a member of the public. Hence, it argues that Bradley Manning communicated "indirectly" with al-Qaeda, a formally declared US "enemy", and therefore that Bradley Manning communicated with "the enemy".
But what about "aiding" in that most serious charge, "aiding the enemy"? Don’t forget that this is a show trial. The court has banned any evidence of intent. The court has banned any evidence of the outcome, the lack of harm, the lack of any victim. It has ruled that the government doesn’t need to show that any "aiding" occurred and the prosecution doesn’t claim it did. The judge has stated that it is enough for the prosecution to show that al-Qaeda, like the rest of the world, reads WikiLeaks.
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people," wrote John Adams, "who have a right and a desire to know.”
When communicating with the press is "aiding the enemy" it is the "general knowledge among the people" itself which has become criminal. Just as Bradley Manning is condemned, so too is that spirit of liberty in which America was founded.
In the end it is not Bradley Manning who is on trial. His trial ended long ago. The defendent now, and for the next 12 weeks, is the United States. A runaway military, whose misdeeds have been laid bare, and a secretive government at war with the public. They sit in the docks. We are called to serve as jurists. We must not turn away.
Assange Statement on the First Day of Manning Trial wikileaks.org As I type these lines, on June 3, 2013, Private First Class Bradley Edward Manning is being tried in a sequestered room at Fort Meade, Maryland, for the alleged crime of telling the truth. The court martial of the most prominent political prisoner in modern US history has now, finally, begun.]]><![CDATA[ Turkey is going to ban facebook and twitter. wikileaks forum will help em to fin...]]>3b9f6e8d474c0df03df5358d0f8908732013-06-02T11:27:31+01:002013-06-02T11:27:31+01:00FinFoWL Turkey to ban Twitter and Facebook - Page 1 www.wikileaks-forum.com Turkey to ban Twitter and Facebook - Page 1]]><![CDATA[ Julian Assange, Greg Barns and Omar Todd in the Ecuadorian Embassy, London ]]>94be2dcd4779996404a6e6c228dec7982013-05-30T19:21:12+01:002013-05-30T19:21:12+01:00FinFoWL Timeline Photos Julian Assange, Greg Barns and Omar Todd in the Ecuadorian Embassy, London]]><![CDATA[ AP: ECUADOR SAYS UK VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS OF WIKILEAKS' ASSANGE - Patino said t...]]>6f780bd7c00f3153972c667a2893dad62013-05-29T08:19:21+01:002013-05-29T08:19:21+01:00FinFoWL NewsWires : euronews : the latest international news as video on demand www.euronews.com NewsWires | euronews : International and European news all available as video on demand]]><![CDATA[ Show your support for the WikiLeaks Party!]]>4c847f2bfe88f140e203141e6a46c3122013-05-26T09:46:08+01:002013-05-26T09:46:08+01:00FinFoWL WikiLeaksParty
Official WikiLeaks Party page. Authorised by: Matt Watt, Secretary, 9/288 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065 Victoria, Australia www.wikileaksparty.org.au]]><![CDATA[ ]]>55620bc733cbe41b32be0863483c1ec22013-05-26T09:36:00+01:002013-05-26T09:36:00+01:00FinFoWL Julian Assange Sues Military Over Bradley Manning Trial Secrecy www.huffingtonpost.com WASHINGTON -- A coalition of activists and journalists, including WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Department of Defense and the military judge overseeing the case of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning.]]><![CDATA[ WikiLeaks Party - A new force on the political block]]>0dae0e4e17f497b7884646c94ca4c2242013-05-26T09:23:10+01:002013-05-26T09:23:10+01:00FinFoWL
https://www.wikileaksparty.org.au/blog/a-new-force-on-the-political-block.html www.wikileaksparty.org.au]]><![CDATA[ "The government on Tuesday dropped one charge against Pfc. Bradley Manning, the...]]>9a682dbefd4bdc7e1d82b1d656fc3c202013-05-23T12:38:44+01:002013-05-23T12:38:44+01:00FinFoWL The judge said prosecutors had decided not to pursue the charge that Private Manning, 25, had leaked a classified State Department cable in February 2010 knowing it could harm the United States. A military legal spokesman said prosecutors told the court Tuesday that they had accepted Private Manning’s plea to the lesser offense of leaking the cable. A conviction would have added eight years to his sentence."
Maryland: One Less Charge in Wikileaks Case www.nytimes.com The government on Tuesday dropped one charge against Pfc. Bradley Manning, the confessed source of vast archives of government documents made public through WikiLeaks.]]><![CDATA[ " WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said messages he got from a British agency in...]]>e139d4724891494eed967a707329a1f22013-05-21T07:35:41+01:002013-05-21T07:35:41+01:00FinFoWL The messages from the Government Communications Headquarters, obtained through an official request for information, included discussions by the government eavesdropping agency that speculated he was being framed by Swedish authorities seeking his extradition for questioning on rape allegations, The Guardian reported Sunday."
WikiLeaks' Assange says messages include speculation he was framed www.upi.com WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said messages he got from a British agency included speculation he was framed by Swedish officials seeking his extradition.]]><![CDATA[ Mr Assange is the only candidate announced so far, but campaign director Greg Ba...]]>ec40382f37cce8961357af17958d3d892013-04-06T20:35:53+01:002013-04-06T20:35:53+01:00FinFoWL WikiLeaks bid for Senate www.theage.com.au There are a lot of uncertainties about Julian Assange's bid for a seat in the Australian Senate.]]><![CDATA[ ]]>56ba9b03c7c45e806a2512e1343d2e9c2013-04-04T12:55:30+01:002013-04-04T12:55:30+01:00FinFoWL Prosecutor in Julian Assange case suddenly steps down www.dailydot.com A lawyer for one of Assange's accusers has also been fired.]]>
