Wikileaks Dares Expose Vast U.S. War Crimes
Posted by Mike E on July 27, 2010
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garyt said
yesterday’s(7/26) democracy now spent most of the whole episode on the topic.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/26/the_new_pentagon_papers_wikileaks_releases
The Fish said
The London Guardian’s multi-article analysis of the Leaks here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/afghanistan-the-war-logs
The Guardian, the NYT and some German paper called Der Spiegel were given advance access for free by Wikileaks in order to post some digested data along with the raw.
The Fish said
Just saw the post below and realized that leak is obsolete :)
balzac said
I have heard some people expressing suspicion that at least some of the leaks regarding Pakistan could have been intentional, as they are certainly being used to justify some arguments for escalation there. From what I have read/heard, the specific pieces the NYT chose to focus on specifically had to do with Pakistani military-Taliban links, and they even had a press conference with the White House (and the White House supporting them) about the matter. This is an example of how the corporate media seems to be spinning it, at least in the US:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66P02S20100726
It’s pretty telling that these documents which are obviously quite damning to the war itself are actually being turned into a call by some for its escalation – and that the U.S. corporate media is actively selling this story.
Karl Marx said
The timing couldn’t have been sweeter considering the COIN reshuffle for more blood, and The Washington’s Post’s Bill Arkin’s, plagiarizing, propaganda, article on “Top Secret America” that focuses on the redirection away from the fascist, repressive capitalist police state zeroing in on the working class/poor.
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/bill-arkin-top-secret-america-tim-shorrock-why-did-it-take-them-7-years-to-do-this-story/
Here’s some Raw Data from the Human Terrain Teams in Wikileaks’ Afghan War Diary:
http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/07/27/human-terrain-teams-in-wikileaks-afghan-war-diary-raw-data/
which may give us a closer look at Afghanistan and Pakistan’s “Salvador Option”
http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2009/02/afghanistan-and-pakistans-salvador.html
If we remember correctly, Obama did the Atlantic Council proposal (underwritten by the DIA) better and gave Pakistan more aid than they suggested moving the number closer to $20 billion.
Karl Marx said
Another additive to this story is how generation-after-generation Students for a Democratic Society (an FRSO utility) both reproduces and preserves this type of iron fist for capitalism. Sharing the same alma mater, as the anthropologists employing HTS. A fitting tribute to the Stalinist assassin’s trade-craft, expressed through the art of deception, painted with betrayal and blood.
Gary said
I think this mass of exposure is great, but Chris Floyd points out that there’s not much new here and the documents “do almost nothing to alter the public image of the war.”
http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/1997-leaky-vessels-wikileaks-qrevelationsq-will-comfort-warmongers-confirm-conventional-wisdom.html
Moreover: