Open letter to Amazon.com Customer Service: December 2, 2010 I’m disgusted by Amazon’s cowardice and servility in abruptly terminating today its hosting of the Wikileaks website, in the face of threats from Senator Joe Lieberman and other Congressional...
Given the breathlessness of U.S. media coverage, one would think that WikiLeaks' Julien Assange was wanted for raping half the virgins in Sweden. The reality is far less saucy. The New York Times summarized the charges against Assange: H/T Salon According to accounts...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 2nd, 2010: Commentary: Abe Greenwald writes on Commentary’s Contentions blog that the Obama administration’s “paralysis†in responding to North Korea’s recent artillery attack on South...
Earlier today, Amazon.com took down the cloud servers that were being used by WikiLeaks to serve their site. One of the products Amazon sells is space on their cloud servers at a very competitive rate. Thousands of websites, including WikiLeaks, use their service....
from Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles's Sketchpad today - At a time when the White House and Homeland Security are yammering about how the TSA needs to squeeze our butts for our own good, the feds are screwing the economy with enough deficit spending to wreck...
From the Guardian: • If all our emails, however personal, are to become subject to the scrutiny of the government, why shouldn't all the government's emails, however sensitive, become subject to the scrutiny of us? If we can't plot to blow up the Houses of...
Breaking with many of his colleagues in both parties, Republican Congressman Connie Mack of Florida appeared on Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano and said that the rush to demonize WikiLeaks is wrong. "Absolutely, we have a right to know." Watch the clip...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for December 1st, 2010: The Washington Post: Jennifer Rubin, in her first day on the job blogging on her new Right Turn blog, interviews former UN ambassador and current American Enterprise Institute fellow...
That's right, INTERPOL has put out a "Red Notice" for Wikileaks mastermind Julian Assange. Well, we knew there was some hair on fire about the recent diplomatic cables dump, so this sort of intergalactic law enforcement intimidation was to be expected. But wait, he's...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 30th, 2010: The Wall Street Journal: In his weekly column, Bret Stephens asks “Are Israeli Likudniks and their neocon friends (present company included) the dark matter pushing the U.S. toward...
