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Am Dawla: Cracking Open State Security

March 5, 2011 by

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Featured image was taken by @3arabawy, Share and Share Alike. The people of Egypt have taken upon themselves the noble goal of dismantling the secret police, and are doing so splendidly. The State Security, or Am Dawla, headquarters in Alexandria has been successfully stormed by protesters. And after all is said and done, we are […]

The Empire of the Mind, Part 1

March 1, 2011 by

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It is an ancient and well-established tradition that the dominant power or powers of a particular epoch will seek to display their primacy by constructing an empire. This is not to say that every empire is purely a vanity project, although all empires have very powerful currents of national pride, and indeed vanity, although such […]

Sri Lanka – Ambassador reports Sri Lankan President responsible for “alleged war crimes”

February 8, 2011 by

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Via WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks Staff, 1 December 2010, 19.00 GMT. Original article here. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family are responsible for alleged war crimes against the Tamil, according to a cable sent by US ambassador to Sri Lanka Patricia Butenis. Butenis said complicity in alleged war crimes by the president and leader of […]

Jordan – Jordanian budget spent on “bloated” civil service and a military “patronage system”

February 8, 2011 by

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Via WikiLeaks. José Pérez, 4 February 2011, Wikileaks Staff. Original article here. Over 80 percent of Jordan’s budget is spent on a “bloated” civil service and a military “patronage system” that includes support to the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, according to new cables released by Wikileaks, even through the country is in the middle of […]

Yemen – Yemen President Handpicked Winning Contractor

February 8, 2011 by

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Via WikiLeaks. By Richard Smallteacher, Wikileaks Staff, 4 February 2011. Original article here. Dubai Ports International (DPI), a company based in the United Arab Emirates, won a 35-year concession worth $500 million to operate and develop the Aden Port and Aden Container Terminal, because of the direct intervention of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president of […]

Yemen – Yemen President Takes Marching Orders From U.S. Embassy

February 8, 2011 by

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Via WikiLeaks By Richard Smallteacher, Wikileaks staff 6 February 2011. Original article here. New cables released by Wikileaks show that the Yemeni government held 28 Yemeni citizens in prison on behalf of the United States, despite the fact that a Yemeni government investigation showed that “there was no evidence they were involved in terrorist acts.” […]

United States – U. S. Empire Secret Shopping List

February 8, 2011 by

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Via WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks Staff, 5 December 2010, 21.00 GMT. Original article here. US diplomats were asked to secretly gather intelligence on the status – and vulnerabilities – of critical infrastructure and key resources in their host countries, new material from the Embassy Cables has revealed. The cable, sent on the 18 February 2009 and released […]

United States – Visa and Mastercard beneficiaries of State Department lobbying effort

February 8, 2011 by

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WikiLeaks Staff, 8 December 2010, 14.00 GMT. Original article here. Visa and Mastercard both received lobbying support from the Department of State under President Obama, the latest Cablegate release reveals. A cable from the Moscow embassy, dated 1st February 2010, details a new Russian card processing law which the embassy said would “disadvantage U.S businesses”, […]

Sweden – USA bekräftar svensk Natokoppling

February 8, 2011 by

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Via WikiLeaks. Badly translated by Google. Josef el Mahdi, 2:a december 2010, 03.00 GMT. Original article here. Secret post. The U.S. Embassy in Sweden believes that the Swedish government has lied about how close military cooperation with NATO. According to the secret American diplomatic correspondence SvD seen. In May 2007, Fredrik Reinfeldt for the first […]

Sweden – Här blir vi blåsta

February 8, 2011 by

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Via WikiLeaks, badly translated by Google. Richard Aschberg, Mattias Carlsson, Johannes Wahlström, 3:a december 2010, 20.00 GMT. Original article here. Norway and the United States lured Sweden – in the 55-billion deal on Jas Sweden became the basis cheated by both Norway and the United States in the multi-billion dollar deal on Jas. It shows […]

United Kingdom – Iraq Inquiry told to “protect US interests”

February 8, 2011 by

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Via WikiLeaks Alex Plough, 30 November 2010, 17.07 GM. Original article here. The Ministry of Defence decided to influence the official inquiry into the Iraq War in order to “protect US interests”, according to a classified US diplomatic cable released by whistleblower website Wikileaks. A dispatch sent by Ellen Tauscher, the US Under Secretary for […]

WikiLeaks Supporters and Preparing for Trouble

February 2, 2011 by

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As recent events in Egypt have made abundantly clear, corrupt regimes will allow nothing to stand in the way of their maintaining power. Frankly, these actions should be expected of the US government at some time in the future. It is a corrupt regime, and although perhaps not as obviously oppressive as Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship, […]

Internet Kill-Switch is Last Resort

January 28, 2011 by

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News of Egypt falling off the face of the internet world is spreading rapidly. Frankly, it should come as no surprise that an oppressive regime faced with uncontrollable exposure on the internet would resort to such a technique. In the mind of a dictator, turning off the internet is no different from stopping a newspaper […]

Egypt – Egyptian Military Succession Plans Told to US Embassy

January 28, 2011 by

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Via WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks Staffer, 28 January, 2pm GMT. Original article here. The Egyptian military planned for a “smooth” transfer of power to the president’s son in the event of regime change, according to recently published US diplomatic cables. A senior Egyptian politician told an American diplomat in July 2009 [09CAIRO1468] that the military would safeguard […]

Egypt – Evidence of torture and repression by Mubarak’s Police

January 28, 2011 by

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Via WikiLeaks. By María Luisa Rivera, Wikileaks, 28 January 2011, 15.00 GMT. Original article here. Many well-known activists including Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel peace laureate, have been arrested in their homes, civilians have been wounded and even killed in clashes with Egyptian police and security forces.   As an Internet blackout imposed by the state […]

US Ambassador Despises Switzerland — BERN 000612

January 21, 2011 by

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For the original cable, please go here. This will be a long one, folks. It’s the complete cable, sans header, with my comments inserted within the cable’s text. I corrected those punctuation and grammar mistakes which I discovered in the course of my reading, but for the most part I did not try to make […]

Why the US Can’t Change, Part 3

January 17, 2011 by

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In Part 2, I wrote about why the US government had chosen the ‘die’ option. Here, I will roughly sketch out how I expect the US government will destabilise, and eventually collapse. An important internal brake against governmental change in the US comes from the US citizenry itself; a goodly number of people, apparently, see […]

Switzerland takes on USA

January 17, 2011 by

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This news just broke today, regarding the Swiss government politely blowing gaskets over the US State Department’s spy network in their country. This is from the Bellingham Herald, and since they put it so well, here’s a few quotes: Angry Swiss lawmakers called Monday for the ouster of U.S. diplomats suspected of illegally spying on […]

Why the US Can’t Change, Part 2

January 16, 2011 by

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In part 1 I laid out the basic thesis that WikiLeaks represented a do-or-die watershed for the US government. Here I’m going to look at why the US government chose ‘die’, and why it could make no other choice. Governments are by and large highly conservative organisms. Their first interest is to preserve themselves as […]

Sweden Investigating US Embassy Officials

January 10, 2011 by

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Isn’t it fascinating what gets swept under the rug when convenient? According to this article, Sweden had “launched a formal criminal investigation into “unlawful intelligence activity” conducted by the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm” in early November 2010. The investigation began when U.S. Embassy officials told authorities its employees had been conducting surveillance similar to what […]

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