- Good Assange Interview With David Frost (video)
- WikiLeaks Links
- Conditions that Suspected Leaker Bradley Manning is Being Held In (& Links)
- What Is Fascism?
Latest Julian Assange interview:
The WikiLeaks founder speaks to David Frost about secrets, leaks and why he will not go back to Sweden.
This recently released portion of an hour long interview between long-time professional journalist David Frost and Julian Assange is incomparably better, with much more relevant information, than the interview posted on the blog two days ago, Tuesday, 12/21/12. For one thing, Frost was actually trying to get Assange's side of the story, rather than attempting to reinforce the US and Western media victimization and frame-up of Assange, as was done in the previous interview by BBC. Better yet, it is a video, so one can get an additional measure of the man.
"Courage is Contagious"
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Some Related Links:
Many of these links are via Tom Feeley at Information Clearinghouse
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Julian Assange defends decision not to face questioning in Sweden
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Assange attacks allies [?] and foes
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News Release
Ex-Intelligence Officers, Others See Plusses in WikiLeaks Disclosures
December 7, 2010
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Daniel Ellsberg's Website See Ellsberg & Ron Paul on “Countdown With Olbmermann”
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WikiLeaks to release Israel documents in six months
Thursday, 23 December 2010 01:41
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Chris Hedges: Obama is a "Poster Child for the Death of the Liberal Class"
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Leaked Cable Stirs Animosities Between Palestinian Sides
By ETHAN BRONNER
Published: December 22, 201
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U.S. criticized New Zealand for reaction to 2004 Israel spy affair, WikiLeaks cables reveal
The Guardian reports that U.S. diplomats accused New Zealand of using the arrest of two suspected Israeli spies in 2004 to bolster its export of lamb to Arab states.
By Haaretz Service
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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Vows to Resume Whistleblowing After Release from London Jail
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More on WikiLeaks from Democracy Now!
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Fatah asked Israel to attack Hamas
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WikiLeaks cables: Bangladeshi 'death squad' trained by UK government
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Netanyahu's patience with Abbas has 'run out'
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US cables: Syria believed Israel was behind sniper killing
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US Cables: FBI Now Keeping Tabs on Native Americans -- in South America?
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WikiLeaks Founder Predicts Resignations At Big US Bank
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Reporters Without Borders to host mirror site for WikiLeaks
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Freed on bail – but US steps up efforts to charge Assange with conspiracy
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The full allegations against Julian Assange
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¡Viva WikiLeaks! SiCKO Was Not Banned in Cuba
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Bradley Manning--the alleged source of the links
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Scott Horton Interviews Glenn Greenwald
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As WikiLeaks’ Assange Freed on Bail, Alleged Military Leaker Bradley Manning Imprisoned under Inhumane Conditions
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Bradley Manning Speaks About His Conditions
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UN looking into WikiLeaks suspect's treatment
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UN probes Manning's jail treatment
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A Typical Day for PFC Bradley Manning
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Fascism
Fascism as defined by an Historic Leading Fascist:
Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power: Benito Mussolini
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Elements of Fascism:
Elements of Fascism include:
* Powerful idea of nationalism
* Powerful executive control in government
* Lower human rights outlook
* Military reigns supreme
* Corporations wield great power
* Idea that National Security is at great risk to some threat
* Identifying of enemies/scapegoats that unifies citizens in Patriotism
* Mass media controlled by State and Corporations
* Fixed elections
* Rampant corruption
* Unlimited power held by police force
Hyperlink
"The strategic adversary is FASCISM... the FASCISM in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behaviour, the FASCISM that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."Michel Foucault 1926-1984, French Essayist, Philosopher
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"What no one seemed to notice was the ever widening gap between the government and the people. And it became always wider.....the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think....for people who did not want to think anyway gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about.....and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated.....by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us.....
"Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures'.....must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing.....Each act is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next.
"You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone.....you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes.
"That's the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves, when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed.
"You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father.....could never have imagined."
Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1938-45 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955)
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"Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of a private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism & ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."FDR: message to Congress proposing the monopoly investigation, 1938
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