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135 arrested at White House, protesting war

Posted on December 22, 2010 by kwilder

Story at Democracy Now… As the Afghan war review was released, an estimated 135 people were arrested outside the White House in an antiwar protest led by the group Veterans for Peace. The protesters were detained after chaining themselves to the White House fence… Commentary by Ray McGovern, one of the arrested, at OpEd News: […]

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Comic strip: Santa’s secret list revealed

Posted on December 18, 2010 by kwilder

Cartoon by Kevin Eastwood. Thanks to Kevin and the Babylon Beacon for permission to reprint. If you would like to donate to Wikileaks, see the onthewilderside post with link: here.

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Veterans for Peace Demonstrate at White House- 135 Arrested (via Peace and Justice Online)

Posted on December 17, 2010 by iwilder

Veterans for Peace (VFP) and hundreds of supporters rallied on December 16 at the White House, calling for President Obama to “Stop these wars!”  Veterans for Peace has reported that 135 demonstrators were arrested.  VFP noted that the arrested included five VFP board members, Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers), Chris Hed … Read More via Peace […]

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Wikileaks Song: The time they drove ol’ Julian down…

Posted on December 14, 2010 by kwilder

Update: 12/18/2010: To send donations to Wikileaks (without using the companies which have attacked them) look here and at bottom of this post…

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An Open Letter to the Left Establishment

Posted on December 11, 2010 by iwilder

This letter is a call for active support of protest to Michael Moore, Norman Solomon, Katrina van den Heuvel, Michael Eric Dyson, Barbara Ehrenreich, Thomas Frank, Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Jesse Jackson Jr., and other high profile progressive supporters of the Obama electoral campaign. With the Obama administration beginning its third year, it is […]

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Just got off the phone with my bank…supporting Julian Assange and free speech

Posted on December 9, 2010 by kwilder

Kimberly writes: Thought I would share this exhilarating, though shaky, feeling, while it is still fresh. I just got off the phone with my local bank. I am so shocked, angered, and aggravated that Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, and other bank/money companies have stopped allowing donations to Wikileaks. How dare they pile on arbitrarily to a […]

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Julian Assange of Wikileaks speaks out: Article published at The Australian and OpEd News

Posted on December 8, 2010 by kwilder

Julian Assange has published an article at The Australian (and republished at Op Ed News) that describes the Wikileaks situation in his own words. The entire article is worth reading. It’s here. Besides Julian Assange’s thoughts on a free press, the article includes a summary of some of the major revelations from the Wikileaks documents. […]

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Wikileaks situation – Message to US Government: “Leave the blonde alone, and get to work!”

Posted on December 7, 2010 by kwilder

Kimberly writes: When someone really, really screws up, they need a smokescreen or scapegoat, so everyone will look the other way. It is a great idea, if you are a little kid who takes out your mom’s vase from the hutch to look at it, and your little brother knocks it off the coffee table. […]

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Wikileaks defended by hacktivists

Posted on December 7, 2010 by kwilder

(excerpt from) BBC Wikileaks defended by hacktivists Julian Assange Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested by UK police Internet hacktivists have fired the latest salvo in the Wikileaks infowar. A group called Anonymous has hit sites that have refused to do business with the controversial whistle-blowing site with a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks… […]

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Columbia University struggles with the Wikileaks question…

Posted on December 6, 2010 by kwilder

Latest advice to students of the international program is to YES study Wikileaks. Full story: here.

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Nader: Where Left and Right Converge

Posted on December 2, 2010 by iwilder

Earlier this year, Barney Frank and Ron Paul convened the Sustainable Defense Task Force, consisting of experts “spanning the ideological spectrum.” They recommended a 10-year, $1 trillion reduction in Pentagon spending that disturbed some in the military-industrial complex. Other members of Congress were surprised by this improbable combination of lawmakers taking on such a taboo […]

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Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe | Mother Jones

Posted on December 1, 2010 by iwilder

In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A “confidential” April 17, 2009, cable sent from the US embassy in Madrid to the State Department—one of the 251,287 cables obtained […]

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Where to go from Wikileaks? The Peace Movement Responds « Dandelion Salad

Posted on December 1, 2010 by iwilder

A pull quote from the article: We have long known that the war on terrorism was increasing, rather than diminishing, terrorism.  These leaks show Saudi Arabia to be the greatest sponsor of terrorism, and show that nation’s dictator, King Abdullah, to be very close to our own government in its treatment of prisoners.  He has […]

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EdgeLeft: the Mystery of North Korea by David McReynolds

Posted on November 30, 2010 by iwilder

(EdgeLeft is an occasional column which can be reprinted and distributed without further permission) Earlier this month Doug Hostetter sent me an invitation to a slide show and report at the Church Mission to the UN on his recent trip to North Korea (the DPRK – Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea). Doug, as some of […]

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