WikiLeaks 2.0: New Frequency for the Era of Everyday People
“When I grow up, I want to be a...” I wonder how many people remember their childhood dreams for the future and their youthful idealism. I remember how many adults tried to persuade me to give up my...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Revelation: Prophetic Diplomacy for the Global Age
Last week, the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks began releasing secret diplomat cables sent by US embassies. It is too early to know the long-term impact of all the released material. Right after the...
View ArticleAmnesia As A Way Of Life: WikiLeaks Amid The “Careless People” By Phil...
As many wags have noted, the disclosures of Wikileaks have subjected the US Empire and its operatives to a full-body scan. Turnaround is fair play, because, until now, in the US, the powerless masses...
View ArticleWikiLeaks: Infowar Has Begun
We are now approaching the state of Orwell’s dictum that he “who controls the present controls the past.” He who controls internet servers controls the intellectual record of mankind, and by...
View ArticleWikiLeaks and OpenLeaks
Since the rise of WikiLeaks to global prominence a number of like-minded sites around the world styled after WikiLeaks have emerged. The imminent arrival of one organization called OpenLeaks is the...
View ArticleWikiLeaks and the CIA: Beyond the Paradigm of Power
According to a Los Angeles Times article on Dec 22, the CIA launched the new task force to study the WikiLeaks revelations, called WTF or the WikiLeaks Task Force. This comes at a time when rumors have...
View ArticleBradley Manning in Quantico: A Call with Public Affairs Officer Villiard by...
I spoke for about 20 minutes with Lt. Brian Villiard, from the Public Affairs Office at Quantico Prison. He had returned my call from the voice mail message I had left regarding Bradley Manning’s...
View ArticleAnonymous Infowar: Battle for a New Intelligence
The rise of WikiLeaks and the heat of the response from the US political leadership brought worldwide attention to a little known underground population that calls themselves Anonymous. Some think of...
View ArticleAnonymous, WikiLeaks and The Matrix Generation
The Wachowski brothers’ 1999-2003 film series, The Matrix gained worldwide popularity and since its release has been very influential. It is not simply a film, but has become a cultural phenomenon. In...
View ArticleLooking Backwards Through the Gun-sight
Cross hairs and gun-sights are all the rage in the media these days after the killings in Tucson, with Sarah Palin getting flack for her mindless cross hairs map, to the inflamed calls for illegal...
View ArticleTunisia on Fire: Self-Immolation to World Revolution
Recently a Facebook friend featured an unfamiliar flag as his profile picture; a red crescent held in a vivid red background. Then, alternative news headlines emerged about major turmoil in the country...
View ArticleIn Case You Missed It: Jan 24-31 [Revolution Edition] by Jordan Lane...
Completely unintentionally, revolution has been the theme of this week. I read Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy Of The Oppressed and saw the musical Fela! courtesy of the National Theatre broadcast. The South...
View ArticleEgyptian uprising: A friend's story by Nazeeruddin Ikram/Feb 4, 2011
This is a first hand eyewitness account from a friend of mine who is in Egypt right now.25 Jan 11 – The BeginningI had made up my mind not to go to Tahrir; I had hoped for the best for the protesters....
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