US Diplomats Are Pushing Monsanto's Dubious Products.

According to Truth-out: "Dozens of United States diplomatic cables released in the latest WikiLeaks dump on Wednesday reveal new details of the US effort to push foreign governments to approve genetically engineered (GE) crops and promote the worldwide interests of agribusiness giants like Monsanto and DuPont..."

Via Truth-out.org.

Glenn Greenwald: Supporters of Bradley Manning Risk Jail for Refusing to Testify in WikiLeaks Probe

Noam Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Profound Hatred for Democracy on the Part of Our Political Leadership"

Wikileaked: Hemmelig Amerikansk Efterretningsrapport fra 2008 omhandlende Wikileaks.

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Daniel Ellsberg and Julian Assange Talk WikiLeaks.

Amnesty Internationale kritiserer behandlingen af Bradley Manning.

Whistlebloweren Bradley Manning, den amerikanske soldat der forsynede Wikileaks med de kontroversielle ambassadetelegrammer, bliver fortsat tilbageholdt på en amerikansk militærbase uden rettergang og under kritisable forhold iflg. menneskerettighedsorganisationen Amnesty International som skriver på deres hjemmeside, at Manning “har været tilbageholdt i en sparsomt møbleret enecelle uden en pude, lagner og personlige ejendele siden juli.” Manning er endvidere under specielt opsyn begrundet med risiko for selvmord. Dette bekymrer Amnesty International som på organisationens hjemmeside skriver følgende: “Vi er bekymrede for, at betingelserne som Bradley Manning er blevet påført, er unødvendigt hårde og ensbetydende med inhuman behandling fra de amerikanske autoriteters side. Manning er ikke blevet dømt for nogen forbrydelse men de militære autoriteter forekommer at bruge alle tilgængelige midler for at straffe ham mens han er i detention. Dette underminerer USA's forpligtelse til princippet om formodet uskyldighed”.

Empire - Information wars.

Wikileaks: Et interessant indblik i den Saudi-Arabiske kongefamilies økonomi.

LONDON (Reuters) - When Saudi King Abdullah arrived home last week, he came bearing gifts: handouts worth $37 billion, apparently intended to placate Saudis of modest means and insulate the world's biggest oil exporter from the wave of protest sweeping the Arab world.

But some of the biggest handouts over the past two decades have gone to his own extended family, according to unpublished American diplomatic cables dating back to 1996.

The cables, obtained by WikiLeaks and reviewed by Reuters, provide remarkable insight into how much the vast royal welfare program has cost the country -- not just financially but in terms of undermining social cohesion.

Raw Story: "‘Royal welfare’ costs Saudis tens of billions every year, leaked cables reveal."

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Wikileaks: U.S. intelligence collaboration with Omar Suleiman “most successful”

New cables released by Wikileaks reveal that the U.S. government has been quietly anticipating as well as cultivating Omar Suleiman, the Egyptian spy chief, as the top candidate to take over the country should anything happen to President Hosni Mubarak. On Saturday, this expectation was proved correct when Mubarak named Suleiman to the post of vice-president making him the first in line to assume power.

An intelligence official who trained at the U.S. Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg, Suleiman became head of the spy agency in 1993 which brought him into close contact with the Central Intelligence Agency. Recently he took up a more public role as chief Egyptian interlocuter with Israel to discuss the peace process with Hamas and Fatah, the rival Palestinian factions.

Wikileaks: Egypt - U.S. intelligence collaboration with Omar Suleiman “most successful”

Putins Palace.

A Russian version of Wikileaks calling themselves RuLeaks, has publicised a series of pictures which allegedly depict Vladimir Putin's private castle in Russia.

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Glenn Greenwald: What WikiLeaks revealed to the world in 2010

The generally interesting blogger Glenn Greenwalds round-up of the most important stories that were revealed by wikileaks in 2010.

Glenn Greenwald debates WikiLeaks with Frances Townsend on CNN



Julian Assange interviewed on Al-Jazeera.

Top officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency, says Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks founder Assange told Al Jazeera network that he is prepared to release all the explosive information in his possession to the public after "he has been done away with. "These officials are spies for the US in their countries," Assange told Al Jazeera Arabic channel in an interview yesterday.

The interviewer, Ahmed Mansour, said at the start of the interview which was a continuation of last week's interface, that Assange had even shown him the files that contained the names of some top Arab officials with alleged links with the CIA.

Assange or Mansour, however, didn't disclose the names of these officials. The WikiLeaks founder said he feared he could be killed but added that there were 2,000 websites that were ready to publish the remaining files that are in possession of WikiLeaks after "he has been done away with"."

Amerikanske Diplomater Udspionerede FN-ledelse.

Citat fra den engelske avis The Guardians' Wikileaks dækning:

"Washington is running a secret intelligence campaign targeted at the leadership of the United Nations, including the secretary general, Ban Ki-moon and the permanent security council representatives from China, Russia, France and the UK.

A classified directive which appears to blur the line between diplomacy and spying was issued to US diplomats under Hillary Clinton's name in July 2009, demanding forensic technical details about the communications systems used by top UN officials, including passwords and personal encryption keys used in private and commercial networks for official communications.

It called for detailed biometric information "on key UN officials, to include undersecretaries, heads of specialised agencies and their chief advisers, top SYG [secretary general] aides, heads of peace operations and political field missions, including force commanders" as well as intelligence on Ban's "management and decision-making style and his influence on the secretariat". A parallel intelligence directive sent to diplomats in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi said biometric data included DNA, fingerprints and iris scans.

Washington also wanted credit card numbers, email addresses, phone, fax and pager numbers and even frequent-flyer account numbers for UN figures and "biographic and biometric information on UN Security Council permanent representatives".

The secret "national human intelligence collection directive" was sent to US missions at the UN in New York, Vienna and Rome; 33 embassies and consulates, including those in London, Paris and Moscow.

The operation targeted at the UN appears to have involved all of Washington's main intelligence agencies. The CIA's clandestine service, the US Secret Service and the FBI were included in the "reporting and collection needs" cable alongside the state department under the heading "collection requirements and tasking"...."

The Guardian: US diplomats spied on UN leadership.