Iraq war logs: Prisoner beaten to death days after British handover to police
High-level diplomatic protests were made to Iraqi interior minister after death of Abbas Alawi while in custody of Basra policeAn Iraqi criminal prisoner was tortured and beaten to death within three...
View ArticleIraq war logs: 'The US was part of the Wolf Brigade operation against us'
Omar Salem Shehab tells of torture at hands of notorious Iraqi police unit and says US forces were involved in his captureDuring the foreboding months of 2005, one police unit struck more fear into...
View ArticleIran may regret promoting WikiLeaks now they have been implicated | Meir...
The latest Iraq war logs revelations look to have politically damaged Iran, both in the west and among the ShiaThe previous editions of WikiLeaks were a gift for Iran. Documents and videos, such as the...
View ArticleIraq war logs: media reaction around the world
How the media around the globe have been covering the WikiLeaks revelations, and which parts they are focusing onIraqIraq's media continues to probe two key themes from the WikiLeaks disclosures....
View ArticleAssange is 'force-feeding truth to a world that has no stomach for it'
Here's an interesting assessment of the Wikileaks phenomenon and its prime mover, Julian Assange, that makes a lot of sense.Alex Moore argues that Assange's countercultural mission is having a hard...
View ArticleWikileaks data visualisations: what you did with our Iraq and Afghanistan...
The Wikileaks data we published on Iraq and Afghanistan has encouraged you to produce striking visualisations of the wars' impacts. See them hereSimon Rogers
View ArticleWikiLeaks is holding US global power to account | Seumas Milne
The WikiLeaks avalanche has exposed floundering imperial rule to scrutiny – and its reliance on dictatorship and deceitOfficial America's reaction to the largest leak of confidential government files...
View ArticleThe day Julian Assange threatened to sue The Guardian over the US embassy...
The WikiLeaks US embassy cables revelations caused a world-wide sensation. But the story behind their publication turns out to be just as sensational too.It transpires that the partnership between the...
View ArticleWikileaks data journalism: how we handled the data
Wikileaks has been the game-changer for data journalism. See how we handled the numbersWhen the Wikileaks releases exploded onto the news agenda last year, they changed many things - international...
View ArticleThe people on the street document casualties – why can't governments? | John...
Those who have died in the Arab uprisings are being memorialised. War victims have a right to the same attentionThe turmoil engulfing the Arab world has upturned so many familiar assumptions that...
View ArticleDreamWorks lines up WikiLeaks film based on Guardian book
DreamWorks studio – founded by Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen – has bought the rights to WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on SecrecySteven Spielberg's Hollywood studio looks set to oversee...
View ArticleBradley Manning: Cruel and unusual | Editorial
There was at least the ghost of an excuse for bullying foreign combatants but no US need for mistreating one of their ownIt is now nearly a decade since 9/11, and in the aftermath of that atrocity the...
View ArticleLibya: the toll Nato didn't count | Hamit Dardagan
The justification for the bombing of Libya was to protect civilians. So why aren't casualties recorded?No one deserves to die without their death being recorded. Except, it seems, when they are the...
View ArticleIraq Body Count report: how many died and who was responsible? | Datablog
Iraq Body Count has produced its annual comprehensive audit of deaths in Iraq. As the US leaves Iraq, what do the figures show?• Get the dataIraq Body Count compiles the world's most comprehensive set...
View ArticleColonial papers and the ugly legacy of empire | Michael White
Just because it is easy with hindsight to condemn or mock the excesses of the time doesn't mean our parents and grandparents weren't right to be nervousWhat links the suspected murder of China-based...
View ArticleLike my Pentagon papers, these Iraq war logs can't be buried | Daniel Ellsberg
There is no security risk in revealing the scale of torture and killing. Far more damage was done by trying to suppress itNearly 40 years ago I leaked the Pentagon papers– a top secret 7,000-page study...
View ArticleLetters: The trail of torture that leads to Iraq
What's the difference between acts of omission and of commission in the case of US authorities in Iraq (Iraq war logs, 23 October)? We now know that hundreds of reports of torture, rape and murder were...
View ArticleIraq war logs: When torture becomes routine | Editorial
It is not irresponsible or partisan for WikiLeaks to publish possible evidence of complicity in tortureEvery time WikiLeaks puts facts into the public domain, first about the war in Afghanistan and now...
View ArticleWikiLeaks should be declared 'enemy combatants', says Fox News contributor
Christian Whiton says whistleblowing website presents serious challenge to national security after leak of Iraq war logsA Fox News contributor and former state department adviser has accused WikiLeaks...
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