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WikiLeaks cables reveal fears over China’s nuclear safety. by Guardian: China has “vastly increased” the risk of a nuclear accident by opting for cheap technology that will be 100 years old by the time dozens of its reactors reach the end of their lifespans, according to diplomatic cables from the US embassy in Beijing. The warning … Read more
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Wikileaks exposes corruption in Lithuanian newspapers. by European Journalist Cafe: Earlier this month, the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten ran a story on corruption in Lithuanian media, referring to a four-year-old report from the U.S. Embassy in Vilnius published in June by WikiLeaks. The US document exposed unethical and illegal practices in the two major daily Lithuanian … Read more
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U.N official claims U.S is breaking international law over treatment over Bradley Manning. by NPR: The United Nations chief torture investigator said the United States was violating U.N. rules, after the country denied him unmonitored access to Bradley Manning, the Army private charged with leaking among other things classified diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks. While serving … Read more
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Wikileaks sues Mastercard and Visa over stopped payments. by Forbes: The complaint argues that the three payment firms have violated Articles 101 and 102 of the E.U. Treaty, which deal with competition among businesses and forbid the creation of anti-competitive cartels. Article 101 prevents firms from creating partnerships for the purposes of price fixing, and … Read more
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Cablegate: Hanes and Levi’s pressured Haiti to keep 31 cent minimum wage. by Business Insider: A Wikileaks post published on The Nation shows that the Obama Administration fought to keep Haitian wages at 31 cents an hour. It started when Haiti passed a law two years ago raising its minimum wage to 61 cents an hour. According … Read more
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Cables show Saudi Arabia funding extremists in Pakistan. by The Tribune A US diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks said financial support estimated at $100 million a year was making its way from those Gulf Arab states to an extremist recruitment network in Pakistan’s Punjab province, Dawn newspaper reported. Asked to respond to the report, Saudi … Read more
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Julian Assange wins Austrian Peace prize. by The Guardian: WikiLeaks’ Australian founder Julian Assange has been given a peace award for “exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights”. Assange was awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation’s gold medal on Tuesday at the Frontline Club in London, only the fourth such award to be handed out in its 14-year … Read more
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Cablegate: Romania’s energy sector and government filled with corruption. by Romania Insider: Several confidential documents concerning Romania have recently appeared on Wikileaks and have made headlines in the Romanian media. According to a Wikileaks cable quoted by news website Hotnews.ro, EU advisor Onno Simmons “warned that some sources have said that there is an understanding … Read more
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ACLU Protests Manning’s Treatment in Letter to DoD by Wired: The American Civil Liberties Union calls the treatment of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning unconstitutional and “gratuitously harsh,” in a letter sent Wednesday to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. “The Supreme Court has long held that the government violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and … Read more
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Mastercard and Paypal allow donations to Wikileaks. by The Atlantic Wire: Remember when PayPal, Mastercard and Visa stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks because they leaked secret State Department cables? At the time Julian Assange blasted the firms as “instruments of U.S. foreign policy” because the move cut off one of the organization’s major sources of fundraising. … Read more
