Journal: Wikileaks & Israel, Wikileaks & Vatican

Published on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 by Reuters WikiLeaks: Israel Aimed to Keep Gaza Economy on Brink of Collapse by Reuters Cable from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv says Israeli officials wanted Gaza’s economy ‘functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis.’ Israel told U.S. officials in 2008 it would …

Event: 19 Jan, Santa Clara CA – WikiLeaks: Why it Matters. Why it Doesn’t? Daniel Ellsberg, Clay Shirky, Neville Roy Singham, Peter Thiel

WikiLeaks: Why it Matters. Why it Doesn’t? Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Speakers: Daniel Ellsberg, Former US Military Analyst Clay Shirky, Independent Internet Professional; Adjunct Professor, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University Neville Roy Singham, Founder and Chairman, ThoughtWorks Peter Thiel, President, Clarium Capital; Managing Partner, Founder’s Fund Moderator: Paul Jay, CEO and Senior Editor, The …

Journal: From WikiLeaks to OpenLeaks–and Local News

Micah L. Sifry | December 17, 2010 – 4:01pm Back in 2009, Daniel Domscheit-Berg applied to the Knight News Challenge in the name of Wikileaks for $532,000 to fund a project to “improve the reach, use and impact of a platform that allows whistle-blowers and journalists to anonymously post source material.” At the time Domscheit-Berg …

Journal: CIA WikiLeaks Task Force (aka WTF, One Down From REMF)

CIA launches task force to assess impact of U.S. cables’ exposure by WikiLeaks By Greg Miller Wednesday, December 22, 2010; 12:24 AM The CIA has launched a task force to assess the impact of the exposure of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and military files by WikiLeaks. Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task …

Reference: Arianna Huffington–Wikileaks About Trust in Government–Or Not

Arianna Huffington Posted: December 15, 2010 09:19 PM The Media Gets It Wrong on WikiLeaks: It’s About Broken Trust, Not Broken Condoms EXTRACT:  It’s notable that the latest leaks came out the same week President Obama went to Afghanistan for his surprise visit to the troops — and made a speech about how we are …

Reference: Wikileaks Bag of Words, Personal Democracy, More Authentic

Personal Democracy Forum’s flash summit on Wikileaks Video archive of Saturday’s Wikileaks discussion, which was quite compelling… quite a bit about the new world of journalism and Wikileaks’ place in it. These are truly chaotic and “interesting” times. Mark Pesce on Wikileaks: “Everything feels more authentic.” Wikileaks is a big deal; Mark Pesce’s written the …