Wikileaks “sourced” conspiracy theories linking Hillary Clinton to ISIL are going viral in China

qz.com, Wikileaks “sourced” conspiracy theories linking Hillary Clinton to ISIL are going viral in China

WikiLeaks: Syria Files

AP/Boston.com, WikiLeaks has data from 2.4 million Syrian emails   "The secret-spilling group WikiLeaks said Thursday it was in the process of publishing material from 2.4 million Syrian emails — many of which it said came from official government accounts."

See Wikileaks, SyriaFiles "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said: "The material is embarrassing to Syria, but it is also embarrassing to Syria’s opponents. It helps us not merely to criticise one group or another, but to understand their interests, actions and thoughts. It is only through understanding this conflict that we can hope to resolve it."

"At this time Syria is undergoing a violent internal conflict that has killed between 6,000 and 15,000 people in the last 18 months. The Syria Files shine a light on the inner workings of the Syrian government and economy, but they also reveal how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another."

Stratfor: Inside the World of a Private CIA

al-akhbar.com, Stratfor: Inside the World of a Private CIA, 26 Feb 2012“The leak of over five million emails from the US-based intelligence firm Stratfor, including information about credit card details, passwords, and the identities of sources, sheds new light on the rapidly changing world of intelligence gathering and exposes those behind it. Al-Akhbar gained access to the data obtained and published by WikiLeaks, including sensitive material pertaining to the Middle East.” Widely publicised. For info on Stratfor, see their website

Opinion piece: WikiLeaks, Manning and the Pentagon

www.aljazeera.com, WikiLeaks, Manning and the Pentagon: Blood on whose hands? "The bodycount that resulted from Pfc Manning's leaks have amounted to zero thus far, while his accusers stand bloody."

'AlJazeera Deletes From its Website Content that Disturb the US Government'

arabcrunch.com, Wikileaks: AlJazeera Deletes From its Website Content that Disturb the US Government, 11 Sep 2011, "A confidential US cables from US embassy in Doha, Qatar where Aljazeera head quarter is located and was published recently on Wikileaks, reveals that Al Jazeera Managing Director Wadah Khanfar has agreed to US government request to delete and altar website content that “disturb” the US government."

Wikileaks on Jordan

arabcrunch.com, Wikileaks: Jordanian government officials envision Jordan as the “India of the Middle East”, 7 Sep 2011 "A US diplomatic cable sent from US embassy in Amman and published on Wikileaks this week discussed Jordan’s IT sector status and plans after Yahoo acquisition of Jordanian portal Maktoob."

Manal al-Sharif: update

Robert Booth and Mona Mahmood, Guardian, YouTube Saudi woman driver faces further 10-day jail term, 26 May 2011 "Eman al-Nafjan, a teacher and PhD student in Riyadh who writes a blog under the name Saudiwoman, told the Guardian that Saudi conservatives and the wealthy were determined to keep women from driving because it blocks anyone who cannot afford a driver from competing for jobs." Good article!

Check Saudiwoman for more updates and comments on this.

If you haven't already seen this:



And this has just come in:

David Leigh, Guardian, US put pressure on Saudi Arabia to let women drive, leaked cables reveal, 27 May 2011 "The Obama administration has been quietly putting pressure on Saudi Arabia to allow women to drive, according to leaked US embassy cables."

Egypt update

BBC, Egypt severs internet connection amid growing unrest, 28 Jan 2011 "Internet connections across Egypt appear to have been cut, as authorities gear up for a day of mass protest."

NPR, Friday Protests In Egypt Expected To Be Biggest Yet, 28 Jan 2011

Guardian, WikiLeaks: the latest developments

Guardian, Protests in Egypt - live updates

Iran Web Police

AP/NPR, Iran Seeks To Boost Corps Of Web Watchers, 19 Jan 2011 ""There is no time to wait," Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam said last week at the opening of a new police headquarters in the Shiite seminary city of Qom. "We will have cyber police all over Iran."

"The first web watchdog squads are planned in Tehran this month — another step in Iran's rapidly expanding focus on the digital world as cyber warfare and online sleuthing take greater prominence with the Pentagon's new Cyber Command and the secrets spilled to WikiLeaks."

Tunisia

Mona Eltahawy, Guardian, Comment is Free, Tunisia: the first Arab revolution, 16 Jan 2011 "Interestingly, both western observers and Gaddafi have been crediting WikiLeaks, but for different reasons. By buying into the idea that leaked US embassy cables about corruption "fuelled" the revolution, commentators smear Tunisians with ignorance of facts and perpetuate the myth that Arabs are incapable of rising up against dictators. Gaddafi railed against WikiLeaks because he, too, wants to blame something other than the power of the people – and cables from Tripoli portray him as a Botox-using neurotic inseparable from a "voluptuous" Ukrainian nurse."

'Tunisia's bitter cyberwar'

Yasmine Ryan, aljazeera.net, Tunisia's bitter cyberwar, 6 Jan 2011 "Tunisian web activists found an ally in Anonymous, whose international activists have turned their attention to overthrowing the Tunisian regime of web censorship."

Detailed article, well worth reading on an under-reported issue.

Arabcrunch on Assange

arabcrunch.com, ArabCrunch Select WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange as Person of the Year 2010, 1 Jan 2011

Hamza Yusuf on Wikileaks (opinion piece)

Hamza Yusuf, The American Muslim, God’s Wikileaks: Ready or not, all secrets will be revealed 2 Jan 2011, "We need more whistleblowers, not less. And we need to exalt the ones who, with honor and courage, risk everything so the truth can be known." (opinion piece)

opinion piece: WikiLeaks

A Pakistan perspective:

Burhanuddin Hasan, Random Thoughts, Pakistan Observer, The WikiLeaks bonanza "Some religious party leaders as well as TV anchors of Pakistan are claiming that the US government itself is behind the leaking of its secret embassy cables to malign some political leaders in Pakistan and in some other Muslim countries."

WikiLeaks on Hizbullah's fibre optics

Guardian, Lebanon told allies of Hezbollah's secret network, WikiLeaks shows, 5 Dec 2010 "Lebanon's western-backed government warned its friends that "Iran telecom" was taking over the country two years ago when it uncovered a secret communications network across the country used by Hezbollah, according to a US state department cable."

WikiLeaks opinion

alarabiya.net, US friends, foes savage WikiLeaks for secrets release, 30 Nov 2010 "Friends and foes of the United States turned on WikiLeaks over its release of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, with some saying the revelations undermined diplomacy, while others dismissed them as worthless."

WikiLeaks opinion

Marc Lynch, Foreign Policy, WikiLeaks and the Arab public sphere, 29 Nov 2010 "One of the points which I've made over and over again is that Arab leaders routinely say different things in private and in public, but that their public rhetoric is often a better guide to what they will actually do since that reflects their calculation of what they can get away with politically."

Wikileaks US embassy cables (update)

Guardian, WikiLeaks US embassy cables: live updates, 29 Nov 2010

I'm still wading through the articles here and elsewhere

I'm particularly interested (in relation to this blog's core theme) in:

Guardian, Siprnet: where America stores its secret cables

Guardian, Datablog, WikiLeaks embassy cables: download the key data and see how it breaks down

Guardian, US embassy cables: Diplomats bemoan Bin Laden's 'folk hero' status

Guardian, US embassy cables: Washington requests personal data on Hamas

Guardian, WikiLeaks cables: Bin Laden's PR is better than ours, Americans complained


"The message urged Washington to consider a new raft of anti-Bin Laden propaganda through the Voice of America radio station, interviews with Bin Laden victims, "commissioned articles" in the local press and an anti-Bin Laden website.

""Although that would appear to be counterintuitive – that the masses don't use the internet – almost all Islamic and Islamist groups do indeed have internet access and use it extensively.""

Facebook

arabcrunch.com, Facebook Unfreeze FB Page of Suspected WikiLeaks Whistleblower Bradley Manning, "Yesterday facebook has frozen Bradly Managing facebook supporters page facebook.com/savebradley has been and the admin could not login to update it and post information or links on the page.

"The network of supporters emailed facebook but noreply, but after Wikileaks Tweet about the matter and BradllyManaging supporters post along with other supporters efforts the page is unfrozen."

'The Afghanistan War Logs'

Guardian, Afghanistan: The War Logs "This series of reports on the war in Afghanistan is based on the US military's internal logs of the conflict between January 2004 and December 2009. Read more about the logs and how the Guardian investigated them."

Also see Wikileaks, Der Spiegel, and NYT.

Having just got back from my trip to WOCMES, I haven't had a chance yet to look at these documents in relation to the content of this blog and my general research.