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Knowledge may indeed have its risks, but how many civilian deaths can actually be traced to the WikiLeaks revelations? How many military deaths? To the best of anyone's knowledge, not a single one.
Though U.S. diplomats would like to make alarmist claims about Iran's footprint in Central America, the evidence is pretty thin. That won't stop hyperbolic statements from the Republicans and others, however, who still regard Nicaragua as a virtual U.S. enclave.
What will happen in 2012? In the spirit of the aphorism "The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved," let me suggest 20 transformations.
Bradley Manning is currently imprisoned. He is imprisoned, as you probably know, for providing classified documents to WikiLeaks for global release ...
There were plenty of gadgets shipped in 2011, but the big stories of the year were about the people who made them and used them to change the world.
Regardless of whether you think that Bradley Manning is right or wrong, innocent or guilty, hero or villain, saint or sinner, he is a human being and should be treated as such.
The British High Court has granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the right to appeal to the UK's Supreme Court in his extradition case, seeking a ruling on whether Stockholm's public prosecutor is an independent judicial authority as required by international law.
America's reign as the world's bastion of political liberties is over. We no longer conduct ourselves as a people and a polity dedicated to the legally protected rights ensconced in our Constitution.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will likely go to Sweden in early December rather than continuing his appeals in British courts against extradition. ...
With a London court ruling that media activist Julian Assange must now return to Sweden to face charges of sex crimes, the WikiLeaks founder has made ...
WikiLeaks needs you, or me, or whoever was filming Julian Assange, for its appeal on its Website, because it, like its founder, is in big financial trouble.
The State Department and its Bureau of Diplomatic Security never took responsibility for their part in the loss of all those cables. No one will ever be fired at State because of WikiLeaks -- except, at some point, possibly me.
Who hasn't received one of those "Nigerian" letters offering you, in florid prose, millions of potential dollars? But who knew that the highest officials in Washington have been receiving them as well -- and from our war zones rather than Africa.
Even during the darkest days of the Bush administration, Venezuela made efforts to mend relations with Washington.
As the political relationship deteriorated between the Bush administration and Chávez, so, too, did collaboration on the U.S.-sponsored drug war.
Underscoring the highly sensitive political environment in Venezuela, U.S. diplomats alerted Washington in 2008 to an odd incident which had occurred at the Caracas airport.
