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We have no way to determine whether WikiLeaks itself is genuine.
But we do have enough information in the nature of the leaks to reach some tentative conclusions.
The leaked material is almost certainly all genuine.
But it is highly selective, a crucial fact.
There is nothing terrible about America and its wars abroad, and any clear-thinking person knows perfectly well there are terrible tales to tell about wars abroad. That is the history of wars.
There is no dirt on Israel or (…)

World action on climate change was sabotaged at Copenhagen in 2009 by the US with the help of other world leading per capita polluters, notably Australia. Now we are seeing a re-run of Copenhagen at Cancun. However progressive people in the 2-Major Party Western Lobbyocracies can do something to force requisite strong action on man-made climate change - they can adopt a radical strategy of refusing to support the more progressive but still woefully inadequate major party (Labour in the UK, (…)

WikiLeaks has been closed down world-wide and its heroic founder Julian Assange is facing arrest. Yet the WikiLeaks saga obscures an even more appalling reality that Mainstream media, politicians and academics are remorselessly lying about past and present genocidal realities from the Iraqi, Palestinjan, Tamil and Afghan Genocides to the worsening Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust and looming Climate Genocide that is set to kill 10 billion people this century.
The New Statesman has (…)

In my recent article “Ward Churchill: The Lie Lives On” (Pravda.Ru, 11/29/2010), I discussed the following realities about America’s legal “system”: it is duplicitous and corrupt; it will go to any extremes to insulate from prosecution, and in many cases civil liability, persons whose crimes facilitate this duplicity and corruption; it has abdicated its responsibility to serve as a “check-and-balance” against the other two branches of government, and has instead been transformed into a (…)

On Thursday evening, Dec. 2, 2010, in the Mt. Vernon Square area of Baltimore City, a demonstration was held. Its purpose was to underscore the need “to end the FBI Raids,” according to the press release of the peace and justice activists. To learn more, see: http://www.stopfbi.net/content/fbi-raids-peace-activists-homes-offices

The first U.S. soldier court-martialed in the prosecution of 12 infantrymen accused of terrorizing unarmed Afghan civilians pleaded guilty on Wednesday to assault and other charges and agreed to testify against his co-defendants.
Staff Sergeant Robert Stevens, 25, an Army medic from Portland, Oregon, admitted to opening fire on two Afghan farmers for no apparent reason. He and other troops were acting on orders from a squad leader during a patrol in March.
The charge of aggravated (…)

RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY RICHARD SPENCER IN THE TELEGRAPH
"All bizarre and nonsensical conspiracy theory of course."
It is not at all clear why you should say that. The "of course" only emphasizes the lack of analytical basis for your total dismissal.
Especially when one considers that in the end you yourself suggest a theme to the material.
"Ultimately, they put the onus on Middle Eastern countries to explain themselves. The cables are America’s own explanations. Neither Iran nor (…)

A prominent Canadian academic from the right wing University of Calgary, the same that celebrated Condoleeza Rice at a gala opening of the School of Public Policy several years ago, now has another of its professors calling for the assassination of Wikileaks head Julian Assange. Tom Flanagan is an adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, referred to in US diplomatic cables as ’Reepicheep’, the warrior mouse of Narnia...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...
Thomas Flanagan (…)

Mr. Barak Obama, President The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
Mister President,
Last October 8th, on the occasion of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Lui Xiaobo, from China, you declared – “Fundamental human rights must be respected for every man, woman and child”. How can you, Mister President, make such a remark and at the same time fail to respect these rights in the country that you govern? This same October 8th, two Cuban women, (…)

France has reportedly passed a law to use the assets in its €36 billion national reserve pension fund to pay off welfare system debts, as Ireland tapped its own reserve pension fund to supplement an EU-IMF bailout.
The assets of the French pension fund, the Fonds de réserve pour les retraites, have been moved into the agency in charge of refinancing the country’s social debt, Cades, Financial News reported.
According to the newspaper, the fund will continue to control the assets, but as (…)