What has been exposed by the WikiLeaks documents—only a small fraction of which have as yet been made public—is the nexus of corrupt relations and criminal operations carried out by the US government, behind the backs of the population: here.
WikiLeaks cables on UK’s Afghan role were embarrassing, admits Cameron: here.
A Swiss bank shut down WikiLeaks’ defense fund after a US warning, and the US attorney general has said “significant” actions against the group are under way: here.
Hackers Attack, Take Down Site of Bank that Froze Assange Cash: here.
Comic Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, went out of his way November 30 to attack WikiLeaks’ co-founder Julian Assange and the exposure of American government conspiracies around the world: here.
For independent reporting & analysis on WikiLeaks in the US, check out the Democracy Now! news archives: here.
Global Peace and Justice Auckland held a peaceful demonstration outside the Papakura army barracks of the NZ SAS between 12:00 and 2:00pm today. Chanting protesters called for the National-Act government to pull the SAS and all NZ military personel out of Afghanistan, and devote the army deployment funding to civilian rebuilding programmes.
Army staff videod demonstrators, and police maintained a patrol line along the barracks boundary, and patrol cars at each end of Grove Rd, which the barracks are on. 52 protesters received vocal support from locals, with most passing cars cheering or tooting and waving, in stark contrast to the obscenities from a woman leaving the army base.
Speakers compared the unjust slaughter in Afghanistan to the illegal wars of occupation in Vietnam and Iraq, and noted the impact these deployments had on Afghans, and the soldiers later in life.
A New Zealander serving with the British Army has been killed in Afghanistan, apparently when a United States aircraft mistakenly fired on friendly forces.
He was a member of the 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, and had been on patrol in the Nad ‘Ali district of Helmand province, in the south-west of the country.
In a statement, Britain’s Ministry of Defence says the soldier was shot and died from his wounds on Sunday.
Linda Norgrove’s parents look to full inquest over Afghanistan death. A military report released last week did not answer all their concerns about the botched US rescue of the British aid worker: here.
Not worth it: Each tank sent to Afghanistan War costs U.S. taxpayers $4 million, not counting shipping and handling: here.
Canada: the former chair of the Military Police Complaints Commission, whose probing of the Afghan detainee prisoner issue is believed to have contributed to the Conservative government’s decision not to reappoint him, is worried about a “pattern of governance” and a “deterioration of democracy”: here.
Why our Afghanistan War Dead don’t Seem to be News: here.
New Zealand’s National Party-led government has signed an agreement with NATO to boost cooperation in a range of areas, including anti-terrorism, military training, disaster relief and intelligence. The Individual Partnership Cooperation Programme was signed in Brussels on June 4 by Prime Minister John Key and NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen: here.
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