Mongoose: Panama Papers a US Government / George Soros Covert Action Against Putin

US government, Soros funded Panama Papers to attack Putin – WikiLeaks On Wednesday, the international whistleblowing organization said on Twitter that the Panama Papers data leak was produced by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), “which targets Russia and [the] former USSR.” The “Putin attack” was funded by the US Agency for International …

Gareth Porter: Lies About Yemen

How False Stories of Iran Arming the Houthis Were Used to Justify War in Yemen Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks reveal that the story of the arms onboard the ship had been concocted by the government.

EVENT: 20 Jan 2016 London Call for Papers Decentralizing the Commons and the Internet

Call for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons These centralized choke-points can be used by governments to increase surveillance (as disclosed by the Snowden revelations), to blackout the Internet (e.g. Egypt, Syria, or San Francisco’s BART), or to restrict the activities of activist organizations (such as Wikileaks). It has now become clear that it is not enough to develop free/libre/open …