10 most controversial exposรฉ by WikiLeaks founded by Julian Assange.
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1. Guantรกnamo Files (2011):
WikiLeaks published classified assessments on abuse of 800 detainees at the US detention camp in Guantรกnamo Bay, revealing details about their torture and the reasons for their detention.
2. Iraq War Logs (2010):
WikiLeaks published classified documents about the U.S. war in Iraq War, revealing details about 66,000 civilian deaths, meticulous record of torture, rape, abuse and horrible war crimes.
Collateral Murder Video (2010):
WikiLeaks released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate killing of countless civilians, including two Reuters journalists, in suburban Baghdad in 2007.
3. Afghan War Diary (2010);
WikiLeaks dumped 91,000 reports of internal US military logs covering the war in Afghanistan & US war crimes. It exposed
โข Civilian casualties were massively underreported,
โข Detailed on covert operations: how US contractors used male child prostitutesin Afghanistan,
โข Established fact that Taliban was only getting stronger despite US efforts.
4. Vault 7 (2017):
WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from the CIA, revealing the agency's hacking tools and techniques.
The leaks revealed that CIA can weaponize wide range of U.S. and European company products, including Apple's iPhone, Google's Android, and Microsoft's Windows.
The documents also showed that the CIA had developed tools to remotely hack into and control devices such as smart TVs, turning them into covert microphones. Additionally, the leaks suggested that the CIA had developed potentially lethal technologies allowing for remote control of vehicles like cars and trucks.
5. Diplomatic Cables** (2010):
WikiLeaks exposed a range of U.S. interference in foreign governments and world organisations.
โข Spying on UN Officials as an attempt to influence the UN's decisions and actions.
โข Support for Dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan. This included providing financial and military aid to these governments.
โข Manipulation of Foreign Elections in several countries.
โข Pressure on Foreign Governments to adopt policies that were in line with U.S. interests.
โข Influence over International Organizations including International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to further its own interests.
6. Syria Files (2012):
WikiLeaks released over 2 million emails from Syrian political figures, exposing the inner workings of the Syrian government and its response to the radical uprising and ISIS.
7. Global Intelligence Files** (2012):
WikiLeaks published over 5 million emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor, revealing how US government and big corporations monitored activists, protestors and spies.
8. TPP, TTIP & TISA (2013):
Wikileaks published several DRAFTS of internatinal trade agreements showing how US tried to create a new global economic and legal bloc which would give unlimited power to MNCs with US at the center of agreements.
Here are some of the key revelations from these leaks:
โข Trans-Pacific Partnership TPP: In 2013, Wikileaks released the draft text of the Intellectual Property Rights chapter of the TPP, which showed that the agreement would have far-reaching implications for intellectual property rights, including copyright, patents, and trademarks. The leaked text revealed that the TPP would extend copyright terms, increase penalties for infringement, and require countries to adopt stronger measures to protect against online piracy.
โข Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership TTIP: In 2014, Wikileaks published a leaked draft of the TTIP's Investment Chapter, which revealed that the agreement would allow corporations to sue governments in private courts for passing laws that could harm their profits. This mechanism, known as Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), was criticized for giving corporations too much power and undermining the sovereignty of nations.
โข Trade in Services Agreement TISA: In 2015, Wikileaks released the draft text of the Financial Services Annex of the TISA, which showed that the agreement would deregulate the financial services sector, potentially allowing banks and other financial institutions to engage in risky practices that could lead to another global financial crisis.
These leaks sparked widespread controversy and opposition to the trade agreements, as they revealed the extent to which these agreements would prioritize corporate interests over public interests, such as access to affordable medicines, environmental protection, and financial stability.
9. NSA World Leaders Target (2016):
WikiLeaks revealed that the US National Security Agency had targeted world leaders espcially Europeans for US geopolitical interests.
โข The documents showed that the NSA had bugged a private climate change strategy meeting between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.
โข The NSA also singled out the Chief of Staff of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for long-term interception targetting his Swiss phone, and the Director of the Rules Division of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Johann Human, for long-term interception targetting his Swiss phone.
โข Additionally, the NSA intercepted sensitive Italian diplomatic cables detailing how Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implored Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to help patch up his relationship with US President Barack Obama.
โข The NSA also intercepted details of a critical private meeting between then French president Nicolas Sarkozy, Merkel, and Berlusconi, where Berlusconi was told the Italian banking system was ready to "pop like a cork".
10. Hillary Clinton Emails leak (2016):
WikiLeaks released emails from the DNC, which were seen as damaging to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
The revelations sparked significant controversy and discussion about the integrity of the US political process and the transparency of Clinton's campaign.
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Interesting joint statement issued by China and Russia after President Putinโs visit with Xi Jinping in China.
Key Takeaway thread ๐งต
1. Build A Multipolar World
โข New world order based on principles of a multipolar world, equal and indivisible security, and opposition to neo-colonialism and hegemonism.
โข Oppose unilateral sanctions without international law basis or UN Security Council authorisation.
2. Immunity of State assets and Property.
โข Oppose attempts to confiscate foreign assets and property and pledged to provide protection for each other's national property in their respective countries.
The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) enacted in 1938 requires agents representing the interests of foreign powers in a "political or quasi-political capacity" to disclose their relationship with the foreign government and information about related activities and finances.
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The Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act 2018 requires individuals and entities to register if they undertake certain activities on behalf of a foreign principal. The law aims to provide transparency around foreign influence in Australia's political and governmental processes.
France imposed a state of emergency, deployed army and banned social media in New Caledonia. Why?
Well, Caledonia is a French Colony in Pacific Ocean and the Indigenous people are revolting after French occupiers passed a law affecting voting rights.
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1. Apparently Paris has proposed changes in law that will give voting rights to French/non-Indigenous residents on the island.
2. You see the South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia became a French colony in 1853 โ and remains so to this day.
Three armed men wearing camouflage opened fire at people in a very crowded and popular mall in Moscow. More than 100 people trapped inside due to fire.
Terrorist open firing at the music concert in Moscow.
Horrifying scenes at the Moscow mall, terrorist attack very similar to Mumbai attack in 2008.
We all know U.S is involved in numerous โRegime Change Opsโ
But Did you know they selectively use 'Internet freedomโ or 'censorship' as per their convenience to remove unwanted governments?
Brief history ๐งต
1. The story starts in the 80s : How ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐.๐. ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ.
โข DARPA : Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency linked four supercomputers as an experiment to handle massive data transfers.
โข Later, the National Science Foundation (NSF) assumed responsibility for this operations, they multiplied the network across thousands of universities and, ultimately, the general public, creating the architecture and scaffolding of the World Wide Web.
โข US intelligence community was seeding funding to the most promising supercomputing efforts across academia through an unclassified, highly compartmentalized program that was managed for the CIA and the NSA.
โข The intent was to track digital fingerprints inside the expanding World Wide Web. They wanted to track like-minded groups of people across the internet and identify them from the digital fingerprints. Example terrorists, dissenting political parties, protesting groups, etc.
โข Free speech was championed by the Pentagon, US State Department, and the CIA to support dissident groups around the world in order to help them overthrow unfavourable government.
โข Internet free speech allowed Instant regime change operations to be able to facilitate the foreign policy establishment's state Department agenda.