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Many critics of WikiLeaks claim that there's "nothing new" in the Cablegate releases. With reporting scattered around the globe, often emerging from smaller papers, a guide seems valuable.
Though Iran's Green Movement has failed so far to produce significant change, I expect it has left Iranian politicians more aware of what damage a Tweet can do.
It has been left to foreign journalism to offer the loudest calls for the U.S. to recognize WikiLeaks' and Assange's right to publish under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment
Ah, privacy. Is it a relic of the 20th century? Today's society seems rather conflicted on the topic. In the afternoon, we rail at marketers and the l...
Willful blindness occurs when there are things we could know, should know but somehow manage not to know. Bradley Manning represents a classic case of willful blindness
The moral life isn't one where we cherry-pick our moral issues, selecting our principles where it is convenient, avoiding situations where those same moral principles become inconvenient,
Leaks have always played an important part in journalism, but this direct-to-the-public approach championed by WikiLeaks is new. Now there's a new kid on the block. Or rather, kids.
If Hosni Mubarak were logging into Craiglist these days, it might look something like this. Click on image to make it larger. ...
U.S. foreign policy has hardly supported democratic institutions in Pakistan. The New York Times has finally chosen to pay a nod to these concerns.
It's oh so tempting for the mainstream media to give what's happening in Egypt a pithy label. But revolutions don't happen in cyberspace, they happen in the streets.
As many know, Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, wrote a piece for his paper's Sunday magazine this past week (actually it's just a...
In a recent article, Middle East expert Reza Aslan writes that Ahmadinejad may not be the hard-line president outside observers thinks he is. Here's why Aslan's characterization of Ahmadinejad is flawed.
For the Palestinians, undertaking a new life in Chile was infinitely superior to languishing at the Al Tanf refugee camp. Yet, this outlandish story raises fundamental questions about the Palestinian struggle and its long term political prospects.
I don't know how this particular WikiLeaks revelation has not been much, much bigger news, involving as it does cluster bombs and a secret legal loophole that let Britain get around its treaty obligations.
Palestinians hope to build upon the wave of nations recognizing a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders. There is a strong and ever-growing peace movement that is joined from within Israeli society and the international community.
Last night, Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes challenged Julian Assange on a variety of issues surrounding WikiLeaks, and failed miserably. But what happened last spring when Assange met a real master of the debate -- Stephen Colbert?
