Alert Peru. Killing the messenger, that seems to be the motto of the U.S. State Department and its allies, for the unveiling of a quarter million of confidential documents by Site Wikileaks earlier this week. The founder of this revolutionary web, Julian Assange, is in hiding after the issuance of an INTERPOL international arrest warrant against him for the "crime" of "having sex without a condom." Moreover, the U.S. made pressures allied states and companies that provide Internet services to try to censor the information disseminated. Nevertheless, the alliance of five newspapers (NYT, El Pais, Der Spiegel, The Guardian and Le Monde) and a spontaneous and decentralized global wires being played by all means possible, makes it impossible to censor .. The latest corporate moves to try to stop the flow of information have been made by Amazon and EveryDNS. Both companies that provided services to Wikileaks (first housed the portal in the U.S. and the second one provided the DNS service) have cut ties with that site, apparently under pressure from the U.S. State Department. In fact, Senator Joe Lieberman called for all those who "help" Wikileaks to stop.
Meanwhile, France has officially demanded that the company owns the servers hosting the site, which are based in that country, to end their relationship, because it threatens "to those protected by the secret diplomacy" . Also Sweden was ordered Assange international arrest and Interpol is now looking for him. Initially it was said that the charges against Assange had to do with cases of "rape and sexual asos, but is now known that the actual charge contained in the file is to have sex without a condom, a crime that is prosecutable under a dark Swedish law. Moreover, as we know, a group of U.S. senators asked that the web is considered a "terrorist organization" and the U.S. is considering prosecuting Assange for espionage, while others have called for the implementation of Bradley Manning, the officer apparently leaked the information.
What you have demonstrated these cables to the point of having caused this great campaign of censorship in a powerful alliance between states and corporations? Many say that in reality, Wikileaks has "uncovered" no new information because "everybody already knew" how the U.S. and global diplomacy. The truth is that, beyond the urban legends, the cables published allegations show that many have made to the U.S.. In particular, U.S. embassies are not mere diplomatic channels but function as arms of the intelligence service, illegally obtaining information about medicines, health, DNA, retina, bank accounts and other personal data as of foreign leaders, as officials from international bodies like the UN, supposedly protected by numerous agreements which the U.S. is a signatory. This is a crime and, now, any American could submit a complaint in his country against his government for violating the law. This is the real violation has occurred, and no one with which tried to muddy Assange.
With this demonstration, the cables have been the reason states such as Bolivia, Venezuela and Ecuador, who complained repeatedly that the U.S. Embassy was not limited to performing functions of diplomacy, but which had also shares intelligence.
But the cables not only have beaten the U.S., but have stripped the overall functioning of diplomacy, far beyond the speeches about the "development" and "peace." It has become clear, for example, looks to China with an immense desire Koreas trade before any other consideration, that the neighboring countries of Iran calling for a military intervention in that country, that despite the South American states, UNASUR lend the game promoted by U.S. influence, Putin and Berlusconi used his power to promote private business, etc.. That is, diplomacy and world power tend to go far beyond the role that citizens of their assigned countries and establish relationships nothing transparent and dynamic.
addition, it demonstrates the frivolity of world diplomacy, and especially U.S., which study and work away from pressing global problems like climate change, food crisis or financial crisis, is dedicated to finding out who uses "botox" or if their enemies are "crazy." It shows the decline of a way of doing politics in global times.
What has opened is a great global struggle to bring back power to the citizens, do it again transparent and accountable force. While many states and corporations engaged in "killing the messenger, messengers multiply. And not just the five newspapers that initially greeted the unveiling: now it's millions of bloggers, "twitter" and Internet users are circulating and recirculating the information through all possible means. Is it possible censorship in the Internet age?
The new sites to access Wikileaks:
http://www.wikileaks.nl/
http://www.wikileaks.de/
http://www.wikileaks.fi/
IP address of Wikileaks:
http://213.251.145.96/ Many
Torrent files with all cables leaked so far:
http://thepiratebay.org/search/cablegate/0/99/0
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