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With the latest ruling class hysteria that some of
the material from Wikileaks is directly benefiting
Al Qaeda, one wonders wether Assange is now marked
to dissapear into a secret prison somewhere. The
larger issues that this case brings up was put very
well on another discussion site:
The class dictatorship character of the bourgeois
democratic state stands revealed before the world
in a way that is new and huge. The resort to naked
censorship, intimidation and calls for the extra-judicial
execution of Assange are stark. So too is the contradiction
between the promise of the internet as an electronic
commons and the reality of corporate power (as reflected
in the actions of Amazon and PayPal).
For whatever the "common knowledge" about the sordid
nature of US diplomacy, the revelation of this "fault
line "within the digital world itself is important
and will have an effect way beyond the boundaries
of online socialists. As to effectively using
some of this material for agitation, I just received
this today from the Campaign against the Israeli Occupation:
WikiLeaks Exposes U.S. Militarization of Middle East
The cables released so far by WikiLeaks shed light on
behind-the-scenes struggles between Israel's quest for
complete military dominance in the Middle East versus
the U.S. desire to saturate the entire region with a
flood of high-tech weapons. Read more about these
revelations here:
WikiLeaks: Israel's Security Concerns Often Clash With
U.S. Interests, by Josh Ruebner, our National Advocacy
Director
WikiLeaks: War, Diplomacy & Ban ki-Moon's Toothbrush,
by Phyllis Bennis, a member of our steering committee
Top 10 Wikileaks Palestine Nuggets, by Yousef Munayyer of
the Jerusalem Fund, one of our member organizations
WikiLeaks has done a great service, exposing in detail
how U.S. diplomacy is geared toward flooding the Middle
East with weapons, fueling a never-ending arms race,
abetting Israel's crimes against innocent Palestinian
and Lebanese civilians, maintaining U.S. wars
that have cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
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