Interview with Pepe Escobar , analyst and writer, on Wikileaks
"The reaction of the establishment shows that the strategy has worked Assange. The system is shocked to see their own mental weakness reflected in a huge digital mirror "
For Salvador López Arnal in Kaos en la Red
Pepe Escobar is a fine documented and geopolitical analyst and has been interviewed several times by rebelion.org and publishes articles on his page. He is author, among other publications, Globalistan: How the Globalizing World is Dissolving Into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a shapshot of Baghdad During The comes . More recently published Globalistan Obama does (Nimble Books, 2009), a book that deserves be translated into Castilian, with utmost urgency.
On Wikileaks, the central issue of the conversation, it is perhaps worth recalling that: Wikileaks is a site devoted to the publication of anonymous leaks sensitive information, especially of a governmental nature, although, as stated also banking, religious and business. Its database contains, to date, more than a million documents, whose publication began in 2007, but was in April 2010 when it has reached a global impact after making public a video that shot and killed two employees of U.S. Reuters. In July 2010, she starred in the massive filtering some 77,000 documents about the war in Afghanistan, three months later, the portal leaked nearly 400,000 records on the Iraq war. Co-founder and current director, Julian Assange Australian, 39 years old hacker , lived in hiding in southern England. Has a demand issued by INTERPOL international arrest warrant after a Swedish justice for alleged rape. British police are currently informed of their whereabouts. His lawyers fear that if Britain gives it to Sweden, a Swedish prosecutor to deliver to the U.S.. The permanent staff of Wikileaks Web is about twenty people and has nearly a thousand employees including journalists, lawyers and computer. An encrypted connection enables anyone to send to Wikileaks, anonymously and without a trace, any type of file. U.S. soldier belonging to the intelligence department Bradley Manning, based in Baghdad (Iraq), is being held on charges of having delivered secret documents to Wikileaks. Among them, the video of 39 minutes in an Apache helicopter shot down in the Iraqi capital, along with ten others, two employees of Reuters * * * "What Wikileaks is your opinion? Who funds your activities? Wikileaks I see as a neo-baudelaireano incisive artificial paradise in conjunction with a triadic system of anarchism, libertarianism and high technology. In the beginning Wikileaks was a group that included Chinese dissidents such as Wang Dan and Xiao Qiang, journalists opposed to military dictatorships, mathematicians and information science ... A multinational brain, so to speak, the U.S., Europe, Australia and Taiwan. Wikileaks had different economic support. For example, the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times and Reporters Without Borders . Currently, and for various reasons, these groups have canceled their aid. Remain, however, a myriad of micro-contributors who financially support via PayPal. Nor Wikileaks still a dozen former employees of Assange. Forty remain close associates, and 800 that help from outside. Everything is kept with a tiny annual budget of 200,000 euros. There is a place that is itself a venue, a physical basis for the organization. As accounts, it's almost an economic miracle. Exactly. Wikileaks is not the "almost" an economic miracle. € 200,000 is sufficient to strip the Empire, as were the $ 500,000 cost the 11-S! Wiki works in a sort of parallel universe with an impenetrable internal security. Daniel Ellsberg, who revealed the Pentagon Papers (Pentagon Papers) in 1971, Assange seen as a hero. Wikileaks spokesperson, Kristinn Hrafnsson, argues that the basis of the organization continues to be a gateway for whistleblowers "[literally: a gateway to complainants]. Not identify their sources. Assange permanently change their Internet servers. It also has a "secret weapon", a selection of encrypted documents, which have fallen, via Twitter, the computers of hundreds of supporters. If something happens, the well known "accident" in the world of espionage, it could automatically start disclosure of password that allows access to all these secret documents for the moment remain encrypted. A good defense strategy . Yes, yes it is. Assange is now a kind of enemy number one in the U.S. establishment. Because of demand arrest of INTERPOL, which according to my sources is a Swedish invention dirty, Assange must be currently hiding somewhere in the South East of England [Escobar said this last before the news was public]. Scotland Yard know his whereabouts and may be arrested at any time. McLuhan is probably laughing, or perhaps weeping in his grave. If the medium is the message and you can not delete the message, why not the middle? In your opinion, what is happening, "really represents a threat to the secrets of the great powers? Can there be unexpected side games here? You it has stated in a recent article rebellion is not likely that "the 1.6 gigabytes of text files containing filtered cables 251,287 U.S. State Department more than 250 embassies and consulates cause "a political catastrophe," as the German magazine Der Spiegel , regarding the foreign policy of the global superpower. " Are you sure? Not known until now many of these documents, but what we know does not seem a mere footnote to the page or a grumpy comment. There is talk of pressure, blackmail, insults. The known or suspected for all but documented, with roles. I would like to expand on the answer. Do . We have no urgency. Start Here. Let me explain what would be the credo, let me use this term in disuse, Assange, according to his own words. Volume stood in "State and Terrorist Conspiracies." Here you can read: "To radically change the behavior of the system, we must think clearly and boldly, because if something have learned is that political regimes do not wish to be transformed. We need to think beyond those who have preceded us, and discover technological changes encourage us with ways of acting that our predecessors could not use. First, we need to understand what aspect of the conduct of government or large corporations want to change or delete. Second, we must develop a way of thinking about that behavior that is consistent enough to carry us through the mire of political speech distorted and lead a clear position. Finally, we use this information to help us embark on a path leading to a noble and effective action "[1]. Assange Wikileaks looks like an anti-virus that can help us combat distortion of political language. Cree substantially to reveal secrets lead to paralysis misinformation in this area, failure to produce more secrets in the future. No doubt, I admit, is a romantic vision-utopian-anarchic. Assange imagine mainly to the U.S. as a great, like a huge conspiracy authoritarian. Chomsky would argue the same thing. The difference is that he believes he has a strategy to fight against this conspiracy: the ability to degrade the system's capacity to conspire. This is where the metaphor of a computer network. Assagne wants to fight the power of treating it as a computer system that is concerned, marred by "the sands of the desert." How I would like to see the great Borges writing a story based on this theme! Me too of course. In my opinion, Assange is fighting back with its own U.S. doctrine of counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. He does not want "to find the Taliban," and then take them away. This is just a detail, not important. If conspiracy is an electronic network, something like "The (foreign policy) Matrix", which is hit interested Assange skills cognitive weakening the quality of information. Here's another important element. The ability of the conspiracy to deceive others through massive propaganda is equivalent to the tendency to conspiracy to deceive itself through its own propaganda. From the above follows the strategy of using leaks Assange [leaks, cracks] as a fundamental part of the software landscape. This leads to a crucial point: it is not so important what individual leaks are specifically effective. The basic idea, the essential postulate undoubtedly very, very ambitious, is undermine the information system of the "conspiracy" and thus, force the breakup of the system, crash the computer, making the conspiracy turns against itself in its own self-defense. Briefly then. Very briefly: making it destroys paranoid delusions of conspiracy in relation to itself. All this leads also to a question also crucial, basic. What question is that? Most of the global tsunami of comments about " cablegate "[Diplomatic cables] has long passed. Why this flight diplomatic telegrams? In fact, do not speak directly of the wars of the Empire. Many of the cables are gossip, chatter soap opera and pop press scandals. Okay, perfect. This is the way of illustrating the conspiracy Assange. We are showing that an elite minority and aged governs us, on behalf of general interest, according to information to which only they have access and do not, however, citizens. But all more or less informed person knew that. Everyone more or less intelligent and able to assume this state of affairs. It's true. But Assange not interested in the item of "news" per se journalism. What interests him is to strangle the links that make possible conspiracy, making the system "dumb and dumber " [a fool and the other one]. And what makes the "cablegate" is certainly showing that the U.S. State Department is full of people "dumb and dumber ." is talk in political circles that international diplomacy anymore be the same after these leaks. It is, they have achieved a victory for a news organization without a state, different from everything that has been seen so far, he's doing things that journalists should or should do. And more so since then. And all this, lest we forget, in a picture, in an attempt that aims to radically change the behavior of the system. And besides, there will be more leaks. More will come, of course. should come over leaks on a large U.S. bank, possibly the Bank of America. of Russian secret Leaks, leaks Chinese secrets. To conclude this point, I agree that a parallel question haunts me. The following: why, technically, the Pentagon, with all its competence and electronic media, was unable (or unwilling) to eliminate network Wikileaks? answer I do not know, I'm afraid I can not delete your obsession. Spokesmen for Wikileaks have agreed on five major world newspapers gradual and controlled editing of these documents are critical of how to make governments and international diplomacy. Is not it a bit weird? Are not Le Monde, El Pais, Der Spiegel, The Guardian and The New York Times daily closely related to the system that supposedly is criticized? It even seems that this time, are organized in a coordinated cartel. I see the process as a clever strategy on the media to ensure maximum media impact. Assange at first excluded The New York Times of the list. But then the New York newspaper made its own deal with The Guardian . Those New York knew they could not stand apart. This is a story that generated headlines for days, weeks and even months. The Guardian is the most progressive of the papers cited, all others are center or center-right. But they are respected in their own countries and internationally. It is they who must do the filtering of the almost infinite number of information. Sure, of course, are doing their own "spinning", weave in their interests. but as I said in the previous answer, this is not the kernel , this is not the core issue. most interesting to me, so we must take more into account in this case, is the reaction of the ruling. "And what was the reaction of the ruling in your opinion? one hand, the U.S. government and the vast majority of state corporations, and scream, there's nothing new under the sun, there is nothing new in the diplomatic cables. Typical example: a secret document which the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered U.S. diplomats to spy on other diplomats of the Security Council of the UN and even the Secretary General. Us could have imagined before, but now it's official. And this is something very serious. If Ban-ki Moon is not a poor clown, the scandal would be monumental. On the other hand, the U.S. government and virtually the entire establishment, from right or left very moderate, highly integrated, they want to do whatever is necessary to immediately shut down Wikileaks, and why not, delete Assange, as Bush wanted to do with Osama bin Laden. Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin crazy, says Assange is worse than al-Qaeda. Assange hysteria, 24 hours after publication, he reached the point where a radius of Atlanta, Georgia, asked his listeners whether they thought was Assange be executed or imprisoned. There was a third option. And what was that question? Most listeners wanted to shoot. Mike Huckabee, the Baptist pastor who was governor of Arkansas and was third in the Republican nomination for president in 2008, also says that Assange should be executed. This is really crazy: a self-styled man of God asked, requires rather, the U.S. government to remove a native citizen of Australia! Who do you trust? How these deluded or two Americans frustrated federal investigators wrote in Los Angeles Times that if Wikileaks had been active in 2001 have foreseen the 11-S? As already stated, the same day of which we spoke agreed with U.S. government institutions which documents should be edited so as not to endanger persons or political projects underway. Is not it too "responsible" that attitude, or too servile as desired? Servile, of course. The newspapers had plenty of time to contact the U.S. government and certify so surely they would not be subject to complicated legal procedures and, especially, not run the risk of losing precious access to interviews, lunches, secrets, revelations over, etc. French philosophers desperate to have some involvement in the debate feed conspiracy thesis and complain because Wikileaks giving the media unprecedented powers. Other people and institutions on the other hand, complain of the Internet and act as "ogres" against journalists. The beauty of leaks is offered subject to all kinds of conspiracies ... Why people still without access to documents Wikileaks Web? What would think about it? Since its twitter, as pointed out by English journalist Pascual Serrano, Wikileaks refers to these papers assume that your page is out of service and advertising on the network are links to the pages of newspapers. Wikileaks suffered a serious attack of hackers, possibly with connections in the U.S. counterintelligence Later, the senator from Connecticut, Joe Lieberman, a clown of the Israel lobby, so clearly threatened Amazon this company, this great corporation, Wikileaks expelled from your server. Now you can again see the wires in place, Uppsala, Suecia; el nuevo host es sueco [2]. Además, The Guardian y Der Spiegel tienen portales donde se puede acceder a los cables originales y donde se pueden leer sin filtros. Cada lector puede llegar a sus propias conclusiones. ¿Crees que a raíz de la publicación de estos papeles puede haber algún conflicto entre el gobierno USA y sus aliados? Por ejemplo, el primer ministro italiano no queda muy bien parado. No es el único. Zapatero es tildado, qué cosas, de “izquierdista trasnochado”. Es interesantísimo escuchar lo que dice un viejo mole of the Cold War, who was national security adviser to Jimmy Carter in the late seventies, Zbigniew Brzezinski. In an interview PBS the U.S., Dr. Zbigniew said the "cablegate" is "seeded" settled, with information "surprisingly accurate" and to do this "seeding" is very easy. example of this: The wires are saying that the Chinese are inclined to cooperate with the U.S. in a possible reunification of the Koreas, the South Korean leadership. In my previous article previously referred to [3], I made it clear that this is "wishful thinking, "just wishful thinking of U.S. government supporters. Dr. Zbig holds that Wikileaks "may be receiving material from intelligence sectors who want to manipulate the process and get very specific goals." Could be no doubt that the forces and elements within the U.S. government want to undermine Obama. But Dr. Zbig also suspected of "foreign elements" and the top of the list could not be the state of Israel. And your opinion on this? The question is very important but has no conclusive answer. Wikileaks could be the visible face of an Israeli disinformation campaign. Could be. This is claimed, among other reasons because the wires that have come to light destabilize the US-Turkish relationship. Israel is willing to do whatever is necessary to achieve a Sunni Arab consensus that Iran is attacked, and also the cables do not contain at least so far, no evidence that Israel may cause, as this would be an immense prejudice estyadounidenses interests. In his interview with Larry King, Putin said much the same: the wires are part of a deliberate plot to discredit Russia. Interesting is to note that Ahmadinejad also said much the same on Iran. Regarding the Middle East, there is no news that all countries in the region, from Turkey to the Emirates, want to arm themselves more and more. They want weapons, many weapons, or at least drones, and the new superstar of commodity fetishism would be the MQ-9 Reaper, also known as Predator B, whose export is restricted to few countries. Israel already have them, of course After what happened, will they be credible the message that emerged from the theater false advertising that has become international politics? All persons who are aware of the geopolitics of Washington transnational alliances with dictators, tyrants, warlords, smugglers and drug lords, etc, but are closely guarded secrets. The difference, which I consider important is that now I can not hide. We return to the strategy of Assange, the American notion of "national security" is revealed as a concept that has a total duplication. filtered cables, also referred to in your article, show that Europe, which was already being marginalized during the era of Bush II, it is even more so when the administration Obama focuses on Asia-Pacific. Is that in your opinion? "Europe does not play hardly any role in the great issues of international geopolitics? No, I do not think that Europe does not play any role. Just as partenaires under NATO. I think that should appear in the next few days at least one cable of a U.S. diplomat ridiculing the margins of European countries face major geopolitical problems. As you rightly said Gore Vidal, Europe's future will be a boutique. It already is, in fact, for those citizens who do not suffer from the crisis. Indeed, a boutique in the future Chinese citizens will be invaded by very consumerist. As for the reasons ... is much talk of the "reasons" for Wikileaks to release those leaks. As we said before thinking of talking Assange, there is no "reason." Intellectual disability and autism class political American politics are self-evident. They are unable to understand others. They see the world, no puerile film is a reduction in terms of good and bad, of good guys and bad guys . The reaction of the establishment demonstrates, in my opinion, Assange strategy has worked. The system is shocked to see their own mental weakness reflected in a huge digital mirror. Thank you, esteemed and admired Pepe Escobar. * * * Editor's Note: [1] Paragraph translated is: "To Radically shift Behavior Regime Must we think Clearly and boldly for anything if We Have Learned , it is Regimes That Do Not Want To Be changed. We Must Think Beyond Those Who Have Gone Before Us, and discover Technological Change Ways That EMBOLDEN with us to act in Which Our forebears not could. Firstly We Must Understand What aspect of Government Behavior neocorporatist or we wish to change or remove. Secondly we must-Develop a way of thinking about this Behavior That is strong enough to carry us the look-through of politically distorted language, and Into a position of clarity. Finally we must-use Within These insights to inspire us and Others in course of ennobling, and Effective action. " [2] It appears that U.S. institutions have closed their registration dns server in Sweden (. Org) Wikileks so had to go to a Swiss server http://46.59.1.2/ [3] Pepe Escobar, "Wikileaks cables. The Emperor naked. " Asia Times Online (English translation of the Rebellion by Germain Leyens and reviewed by Caty R) http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=117728 More information:
Interview with Pepe Escobar , analyst and writer, on Wikileaks
For Salvador López Arnal in Kaos en la Red
Pepe Escobar is a fine documented and geopolitical analyst and has been interviewed several times by rebelion.org and publishes articles on his page. He is author, among other publications, Globalistan: How the Globalizing World is Dissolving Into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a shapshot of Baghdad During The comes . More recently published Globalistan Obama does (Nimble Books, 2009), a book that deserves be translated into Castilian, with utmost urgency.
On Wikileaks, the central issue of the conversation, it is perhaps worth recalling that: Wikileaks is a site devoted to the publication of anonymous leaks sensitive information, especially of a governmental nature, although, as stated also banking, religious and business. Its database contains, to date, more than a million documents, whose publication began in 2007, but was in April 2010 when it has reached a global impact after making public a video that shot and killed two employees of U.S. Reuters. In July 2010, she starred in the massive filtering some 77,000 documents about the war in Afghanistan, three months later, the portal leaked nearly 400,000 records on the Iraq war. Co-founder and current director, Julian Assange Australian, 39 years old hacker , lived in hiding in southern England. Has a demand issued by INTERPOL international arrest warrant after a Swedish justice for alleged rape. British police are currently informed of their whereabouts. His lawyers fear that if Britain gives it to Sweden, a Swedish prosecutor to deliver to the U.S..
The permanent staff of Wikileaks Web is about twenty people and has nearly a thousand employees including journalists, lawyers and computer. An encrypted connection enables anyone to send to Wikileaks, anonymously and without a trace, any type of file. U.S. soldier belonging to the intelligence department Bradley Manning, based in Baghdad (Iraq), is being held on charges of having delivered secret documents to Wikileaks. Among them, the video of 39 minutes in an Apache helicopter shot down in the Iraqi capital, along with ten others, two employees of Reuters
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"What Wikileaks is your opinion? Who funds your activities?
Wikileaks I see as a neo-baudelaireano incisive artificial paradise in conjunction with a triadic system of anarchism, libertarianism and high technology. In the beginning Wikileaks was a group that included Chinese dissidents such as Wang Dan and Xiao Qiang, journalists opposed to military dictatorships, mathematicians and information science ... A multinational brain, so to speak, the U.S., Europe, Australia and Taiwan.
Wikileaks had different economic support. For example, the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times and Reporters Without Borders . Currently, and for various reasons, these groups have canceled their aid. Remain, however, a myriad of micro-contributors who financially support via PayPal. Nor
Wikileaks still a dozen former employees of Assange. Forty remain close associates, and 800 that help from outside. Everything is kept with a tiny annual budget of 200,000 euros. There is a place that is itself a venue, a physical basis for the organization.
As accounts, it's almost an economic miracle.
Exactly. Wikileaks is not the "almost" an economic miracle. € 200,000 is sufficient to strip the Empire, as were the $ 500,000 cost the 11-S! Wiki
works in a sort of parallel universe with an impenetrable internal security. Daniel Ellsberg, who revealed the Pentagon Papers (Pentagon Papers) in 1971, Assange seen as a hero. Wikileaks spokesperson, Kristinn Hrafnsson, argues that the basis of the organization continues to be a gateway for whistleblowers "[literally: a gateway to complainants]. Not identify their sources. Assange
permanently change their Internet servers. It also has a "secret weapon", a selection of encrypted documents, which have fallen, via Twitter, the computers of hundreds of supporters. If something happens, the well known "accident" in the world of espionage, it could automatically start disclosure of password that allows access to all these secret documents for the moment remain encrypted.
A good defense strategy .
Yes, yes it is. Assange is now a kind of enemy number one in the U.S. establishment. Because of demand arrest of INTERPOL, which according to my sources is a Swedish invention dirty, Assange must be currently hiding somewhere in the South East of England [Escobar said this last before the news was public]. Scotland Yard know his whereabouts and may be arrested at any time. McLuhan is probably laughing, or perhaps weeping in his grave. If the medium is the message and you can not delete the message, why not the middle?
In your opinion, what is happening, "really represents a threat to the secrets of the great powers? Can there be unexpected side games here? You it has stated in a recent article rebellion is not likely that "the 1.6 gigabytes of text files containing filtered cables 251,287 U.S. State Department more than 250 embassies and consulates cause "a political catastrophe," as the German magazine Der Spiegel , regarding the foreign policy of the global superpower. " Are you sure? Not known until now many of these documents, but what we know does not seem a mere footnote to the page or a grumpy comment. There is talk of pressure, blackmail, insults. The known or suspected for all but documented, with roles.
I would like to expand on the answer.
Do . We have no urgency.
Start Here. Let me explain what would be the credo, let me use this term in disuse, Assange, according to his own words. Volume stood in "State and Terrorist Conspiracies." Here you can read: "To radically change the behavior of the system, we must think clearly and boldly, because if something have learned is that political regimes do not wish to be transformed. We need to think beyond those who have preceded us, and discover technological changes encourage us with ways of acting that our predecessors could not use. First, we need to understand what aspect of the conduct of government or large corporations want to change or delete. Second, we must develop a way of thinking about that behavior that is consistent enough to carry us through the mire of political speech distorted and lead a clear position. Finally, we use this information to help us embark on a path leading to a noble and effective action "[1]. Assange
Wikileaks looks like an anti-virus that can help us combat distortion of political language. Cree substantially to reveal secrets lead to paralysis misinformation in this area, failure to produce more secrets in the future. No doubt, I admit, is a romantic vision-utopian-anarchic. Assange
imagine mainly to the U.S. as a great, like a huge conspiracy authoritarian. Chomsky would argue the same thing. The difference is that he believes he has a strategy to fight against this conspiracy: the ability to degrade the system's capacity to conspire. This is where the metaphor of a computer network. Assagne wants to fight the power of treating it as a computer system that is concerned, marred by "the sands of the desert." How I would like to see the great Borges writing a story based on this theme!
Me too of course.
In my opinion, Assange is fighting back with its own U.S. doctrine of counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. He does not want "to find the Taliban," and then take them away. This is just a detail, not important. If conspiracy is an electronic network, something like "The (foreign policy) Matrix", which is hit interested Assange skills cognitive weakening the quality of information.
Here's another important element. The ability of the conspiracy to deceive others through massive propaganda is equivalent to the tendency to conspiracy to deceive itself through its own propaganda.
From the above follows the strategy of using leaks Assange [leaks, cracks] as a fundamental part of the software landscape. This leads to a crucial point: it is not so important what individual leaks are specifically effective. The basic idea, the essential postulate undoubtedly very, very ambitious, is undermine the information system of the "conspiracy" and thus, force the breakup of the system, crash the computer, making the conspiracy turns against itself in its own self-defense.
Briefly then.
Very briefly: making it destroys paranoid delusions of conspiracy in relation to itself. All this leads also to a question also crucial, basic.
What question is that?
Most of the global tsunami of comments about " cablegate "[Diplomatic cables] has long passed. Why this flight diplomatic telegrams? In fact, do not speak directly of the wars of the Empire. Many of the cables are gossip, chatter soap opera and pop press scandals.
Okay, perfect. This is the way of illustrating the conspiracy Assange. We are showing that an elite minority and aged governs us, on behalf of general interest, according to information to which only they have access and do not, however, citizens.
But all more or less informed person knew that.
Everyone more or less intelligent and able to assume this state of affairs. It's true. But Assange not interested in the item of "news" per se journalism. What interests him is to strangle the links that make possible conspiracy, making the system "dumb and dumber " [a fool and the other one]. And what makes the "cablegate" is certainly showing that the U.S. State Department is full of people "dumb and dumber ."
is talk in political circles that international diplomacy anymore be the same after these leaks. It is, they have achieved a victory for a news organization without a state, different from everything that has been seen so far, he's doing things that journalists should or should do. And more so since then.
And all this, lest we forget, in a picture, in an attempt that aims to radically change the behavior of the system.
And besides, there will be more leaks.
More will come, of course. should come over leaks on a large U.S. bank, possibly the Bank of America. of Russian secret Leaks, leaks Chinese secrets.
To conclude this point, I agree that a parallel question haunts me. The following: why, technically, the Pentagon, with all its competence and electronic media, was unable (or unwilling) to eliminate network Wikileaks?
answer I do not know, I'm afraid I can not delete your obsession. Spokesmen for Wikileaks have agreed on five major world newspapers gradual and controlled editing of these documents are critical of how to make governments and international diplomacy. Is not it a bit weird? Are not Le Monde, El Pais, Der Spiegel, The Guardian and The New York Times daily closely related to the system that supposedly is criticized? It even seems that this time, are organized in a coordinated cartel.
I see the process as a clever strategy on the media to ensure maximum media impact. Assange at first excluded The New York Times of the list. But then the New York newspaper made its own deal with The Guardian . Those New York knew they could not stand apart. This is a story that generated headlines for days, weeks and even months. The Guardian is the most progressive of the papers cited, all others are center or center-right. But they are respected in their own countries and internationally. It is they who must do the filtering of the almost infinite number of information. Sure, of course, are doing their own "spinning", weave in their interests. but as I said in the previous answer, this is not the kernel , this is not the core issue.
most interesting to me, so we must take more into account in this case, is the reaction of the ruling.
"And what was the reaction of the ruling in your opinion?
one hand, the U.S. government and the vast majority of state corporations, and scream, there's nothing new under the sun, there is nothing new in the diplomatic cables. Typical example: a secret document which the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered U.S. diplomats to spy on other diplomats of the Security Council of the UN and even the Secretary General. Us could have imagined before, but now it's official. And this is something very serious. If Ban-ki Moon is not a poor clown, the scandal would be monumental.
On the other hand, the U.S. government and virtually the entire establishment, from right or left very moderate, highly integrated, they want to do whatever is necessary to immediately shut down Wikileaks, and why not, delete Assange, as Bush wanted to do with Osama bin Laden.
Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin crazy, says Assange is worse than al-Qaeda. Assange hysteria, 24 hours after publication, he reached the point where a radius of Atlanta, Georgia, asked his listeners whether they thought was Assange be executed or imprisoned. There was a third option.
And what was that question?
Most listeners wanted to shoot. Mike Huckabee, the Baptist pastor who was governor of Arkansas and was third in the Republican nomination for president in 2008, also says that Assange should be executed. This is really crazy: a self-styled man of God asked, requires rather, the U.S. government to remove a native citizen of Australia!
Who do you trust? How these deluded or two Americans frustrated federal investigators wrote in Los Angeles Times that if Wikileaks had been active in 2001 have foreseen the 11-S?
As already stated, the same day of which we spoke agreed with U.S. government institutions which documents should be edited so as not to endanger persons or political projects underway. Is not it too "responsible" that attitude, or too servile as desired?
Servile, of course. The newspapers had plenty of time to contact the U.S. government and certify so surely they would not be subject to complicated legal procedures and, especially, not run the risk of losing precious access to interviews, lunches, secrets, revelations over, etc.
French philosophers desperate to have some involvement in the debate feed conspiracy thesis and complain because Wikileaks giving the media unprecedented powers. Other people and institutions on the other hand, complain of the Internet and act as "ogres" against journalists. The beauty of leaks is offered subject to all kinds of conspiracies ...
Why people still without access to documents Wikileaks Web? What would think about it? Since its twitter, as pointed out by English journalist Pascual Serrano, Wikileaks refers to these papers assume that your page is out of service and advertising on the network are links to the pages of newspapers.
Wikileaks suffered a serious attack of hackers, possibly with connections in the U.S. counterintelligence Later, the senator from Connecticut, Joe Lieberman, a clown of the Israel lobby, so clearly threatened Amazon this company, this great corporation, Wikileaks expelled from your server. Now you can again see the wires in place, Uppsala, Suecia; el nuevo host es sueco [2]. Además, The Guardian y Der Spiegel tienen portales donde se puede acceder a los cables originales y donde se pueden leer sin filtros. Cada lector puede llegar a sus propias conclusiones.
¿Crees que a raíz de la publicación de estos papeles puede haber algún conflicto entre el gobierno USA y sus aliados? Por ejemplo, el primer ministro italiano no queda muy bien parado. No es el único. Zapatero es tildado, qué cosas, de “izquierdista trasnochado”.
Es interesantísimo escuchar lo que dice un viejo mole of the Cold War, who was national security adviser to Jimmy Carter in the late seventies, Zbigniew Brzezinski. In an interview PBS the U.S., Dr. Zbigniew said the "cablegate" is "seeded" settled, with information "surprisingly accurate" and to do this "seeding" is very easy.
example of this: The wires are saying that the Chinese are inclined to cooperate with the U.S. in a possible reunification of the Koreas, the South Korean leadership. In my previous article previously referred to [3], I made it clear that this is "wishful thinking, "just wishful thinking of U.S. government supporters.
Dr. Zbig holds that Wikileaks "may be receiving material from intelligence sectors who want to manipulate the process and get very specific goals." Could be no doubt that the forces and elements within the U.S. government want to undermine Obama. But Dr. Zbig also suspected of "foreign elements" and the top of the list could not be the state of Israel.
And your opinion on this?
The question is very important but has no conclusive answer. Wikileaks could be the visible face of an Israeli disinformation campaign. Could be. This is claimed, among other reasons because the wires that have come to light destabilize the US-Turkish relationship. Israel is willing to do whatever is necessary to achieve a Sunni Arab consensus that Iran is attacked, and also the cables do not contain at least so far, no evidence that Israel may cause, as this would be an immense prejudice estyadounidenses interests.
In his interview with Larry King, Putin said much the same: the wires are part of a deliberate plot to discredit Russia. Interesting is to note that Ahmadinejad also said much the same on Iran.
Regarding the Middle East, there is no news that all countries in the region, from Turkey to the Emirates, want to arm themselves more and more. They want weapons, many weapons, or at least drones, and the new superstar of commodity fetishism would be the MQ-9 Reaper, also known as Predator B, whose export is restricted to few countries. Israel already have them, of course
After what happened, will they be credible the message that emerged from the theater false advertising that has become international politics?
All persons who are aware of the geopolitics of Washington transnational alliances with dictators, tyrants, warlords, smugglers and drug lords, etc, but are closely guarded secrets. The difference, which I consider important is that now I can not hide. We return to the strategy of Assange, the American notion of "national security" is revealed as a concept that has a total duplication.
filtered cables, also referred to in your article, show that Europe, which was already being marginalized during the era of Bush II, it is even more so when the administration Obama focuses on Asia-Pacific. Is that in your opinion? "Europe does not play hardly any role in the great issues of international geopolitics?
No, I do not think that Europe does not play any role. Just as partenaires under NATO. I think that should appear in the next few days at least one cable of a U.S. diplomat ridiculing the margins of European countries face major geopolitical problems. As you rightly said Gore Vidal, Europe's future will be a boutique. It already is, in fact, for those citizens who do not suffer from the crisis. Indeed, a boutique in the future Chinese citizens will be invaded by very consumerist.
As for the reasons ...
is much talk of the "reasons" for Wikileaks to release those leaks. As we said before thinking of talking Assange, there is no "reason." Intellectual disability and autism class political American politics are self-evident. They are unable to understand others. They see the world, no puerile film is a reduction in terms of good and bad, of good guys and bad guys . The reaction of the establishment demonstrates, in my opinion, Assange strategy has worked. The system is shocked to see their own mental weakness reflected in a huge digital mirror.
Thank you, esteemed and admired Pepe Escobar.
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Editor's Note:
[1] Paragraph translated is: "To Radically shift Behavior Regime Must we think Clearly and boldly for anything if We Have Learned , it is Regimes That Do Not Want To Be changed. We Must Think Beyond Those Who Have Gone Before Us, and discover Technological Change Ways That EMBOLDEN with us to act in Which Our forebears not could. Firstly We Must Understand What aspect of Government Behavior neocorporatist or we wish to change or remove. Secondly we must-Develop a way of thinking about this Behavior That is strong enough to carry us the look-through of politically distorted language, and Into a position of clarity. Finally we must-use Within These insights to inspire us and Others in course of ennobling, and Effective action. "
[2] It appears that U.S. institutions have closed their registration dns server in Sweden (. Org) Wikileks so had to go to a Swiss server http://46.59.1.2/
[3] Pepe Escobar, "Wikileaks cables. The Emperor naked. " Asia Times Online (English translation of the Rebellion by Germain Leyens and reviewed by Caty R) http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=117728
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