A tale of Wikileaks and war propaganda
In tonight's broadcast we take a critical look at the media circus surrounding the latest Wikileaks release.Breaking with usual practice, the Wikileaks organisation have released their latest leaks directly through the mainstream press with simultaneous publications in The Guardian, Der Spiegel and the New York Times.
A disturbing outcome is that information in the leaked documents is being used by the media to incriminate Pakistan in the Afghan war.
The Pakistan connection was the top story on the BBC World News on the day the documents were released. The Pakistan Government is vehemently rejecting these accusations and a Pakistani government spokesperson said that the whole affair was an attempt to sabotage the US/Pakistan relationship. This comes at a time when the US is stepping up predator drone attacks against targets in Pakistan.
Clearly, there are multiple agendas at work here.
In the second half of the show I am joined by Josh Jackson to review the new blockbuster film Inception.
As usual, we cover all the major breaking stories on our twitter stream. Happy listening!
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In his August 10th article on the case of an impending Iran war, Webster G. Tarpley wrote;<br><br>“Wikileaks And Assange: Part Of The War Buildup<br><br>Against the backdrop of these confused alarms of war, a group of intelligence community provocateurs calling themselves Wikileaks saw fit to publish a document dump of more than 90,000 low level specimens of US cable traffic from Afghanistan, primarily of the secret and sub-secret classifications. No scandals against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Obama, Biden, Gates, or any other top officials were contained among these dispatches. Instead, the documents tend to support the CIA’s thesis that ‘Osama bin Laden’ is an actual living person and a powerful enemy of the United States– a manifest absurdity. Assange is also on record as saying that he finds challenges to the US official story of September 11, 2001 an annoyance. Assange’s actions are evidently inspired by some combination of George Soros, Cass Sunstein, and Samantha Power of the Obama National Security Council. A separate essay on this important theme will be forthcoming shortly.<br><br>For the moment it is enough to note that the mental strategic map which emerges from the Wikileaks document dump faithfully mirrors the intentions of some of the most dangerous factions in the US intelligence community. The interpretations of the document dump which were conveniently trumpeted by such ruling class news organs as the New York Times, the London Guardian, and Der Spiegel of Germany conveniently stress that the Afghanistan war is futile, while the real enemies of the United States and the Western world in general are the treacherous backstabbers of Pakistan who support the Taliban and kill American soldiers, and of course the Iranians, who do everything possible to defeat the US presence in the areas of western Afghanistan closest to their borders. In short, anyone creating an imperialist policy on the basis of the lessons of the Wikileaks document dump would tend to converge on something like the Devine plan, along with vigorous measures against both Pakistan and Iran. The much-touted document dump, which has been abundantly publicized by the controlled media of the world, is thus revealed as a CIA mind control operation in the tradition of Daniel Ellsberg and the 1971 Pentagon papers, which was a similar limited hang out of self-serving disinformation by the spook community, designed to manipulate public opinion.”<br><br><br>Read the full article here:<br>http://www.infowars.com/webster-tarpley-iran-war-on-multiple-fronts/<br><br>Note that during the July 26th interview on Larry King Live, <br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OSNrrDmUDY <br>Assange is asked by King: <br>“Do you always know the sources?”<br><br>Assange: “We usually always do not know the sources. We are specialised in, in fact not knowing who our sources are. We’ll specialise in, instead of verifying sources, verifying the documents themselves, that is how we’ve been able to protect our sources over the past four years, is by trying to not understand who they are but rather just concentrating on the material that they are bringing to us.”<br><br>Would such a system lend itself to intelligence agency set-ups?<br>Have Wikileaks been the unwitting facilitators of a “CIA mind control operation”, or are Wikileaks a group of “intelligence community provocateurs” as Tarpley claims?
By Michael B on 2010 08 11 - 10:58:49
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