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2010/10/15

Journal: WikiLeaks Losing Funding Channel, Plot Thickens

WikiLeaks says funding has been blocked after government blacklisting Founder Julian Assange hits out at decision by Moneybookers, which collects the whistleblowing website’s donations David Leigh and Rob Evans guardian.co.uk, Thursday 14 October 2010 17.55 BST The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of …

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2010/09/292010/09/29

Journal: Huffington Post Hot on Trail of Spy Money Allegedly Paid to Wikileaks

29 September 2010 The Huffington Post Spying Game Cryptome was interviewed by telephone today by Keith Thomson, a reporter for The Huffington Post. After a bit of palaver Keith said a confidential source claimed a Chinese spy agency had given Wikileaks $20 million. What did Cryptome think about that? We said that kind of money …

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2010/09/152010/09/15

Secrecy New Extract: DIA Seeks to Classify Reality

PENTAGON DELAYS PUBLICATION OF NEW BOOK The Department of Defense says that a forthcoming book about the war in Afghanistan contains classified information, and that it should not be put on the market in its current form. Instead, the Pentagon is considering whether to purchase and destroy the entire first printing of the book, “Operation …

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2010/09/032010/09/03

Journal: General Petraeus–Human Terrain Team NOT

Did Gen. David Petraeus just call the Human Terrain System worthless? With a few choice sentences to the Wall Street Journal, the top commander in Afghanistan highlighted the disconnect between what the Army’s social science program is supposed to be doing — and what’s actually happening in the field. “We have never had the granular …

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2010/08/192010/08/19

Banking with “Enemies”

According to court documents, from as early as the mid-1990s until September 2006, Barclays knowingly and willfully moved or permitted to be moved hundreds of millions of dollars through the U.S. financial system on behalf of banks from Cuba, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Burma, and persons listed as parties or jurisdictions sanctioned by OFAC in …

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2010/08/152010/08/17

Institutions of Higher Education Ineligible for Federal Funds (because they disallow military recruiters)

+ Vermont Law School + South Royalton, Vermont + William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota. 12 August 2010 From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr12au10-41] ———————————————————————– DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Office of the Secretary List of Institutions of Higher Education Ineligible for Federal Funds AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD). ACTION: Notice.

2010/07/262010/07/27

Review: The CIA in Iran–The 1953 Coup and the Origins of the US-Iran Divide

Stunning Account of Unethical Incompetence Triumphant July 26, 2010 Christopher J. Petherick I strongly recommend that this book (or my review) be read in conjunction with its counterpart for Guatemala, Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 (or my review). I’ve been a clandestine case officer (C/O) with three tours …

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