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Internet should not have gatekeepers or regulators - Steve Wozniak
Apple’s co-founder fears that freedom of information is under attack, with the internet controlled and regulated in unnecessary and harmful ways. RT talked to Steve Wozniak on a range of topics, from Wikileaks to Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom.
Steve Wozniak knew personal computers would change the world someday, even during his start at Apple, a company he co-founded with Steve Jobs in the early...
Assange asks for political asylum in Ecuador
A lot of media outside Ecuadorean embassy in London waiting for Assange
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has requested political asylum and is under the protection of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, according to the site’s Twitter.
Ecuador’s foreign minister Ricardo Patino says Assange has taken refuge in the South American nation’s embassy in London and is seeking political asylum.
Assange...
U.S. & NATO forces have invaded Syria
Russia accuses Libya terrorists of exporting terrorists
Vitaly Churkin, Russian ambassador to the UN: “It is completely unacceptable. This practice is undermining stability in the Middle East…”
The Russian ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, has accused Libya of training and arming rebels fighting against the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad.
A reminder, with the...
Bin Laden not buried at sea, body moved on CIA plane to US
Osama Bin Laden
The body of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was not buried at sea, according to leaked emails of intelligence firm Stratfor, as revealed by WikiLeaks.
Stratfor’s vice-president for intelligence, Fred Burton, believes the body was “bound for Dover, [Delaware] on [a] CIA plane” and then “onward to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Bethesda [Maryland],” an email says.
The...
IAEA to issue harsher Iran report, set stage for war
According to a 2009 Wikileaks cable, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano asserted that "he was solidly in the US court on every key strategic decision, from high-level personnel appointments to the handling of Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program."
The UN nuclear agency is expected to publish a report “harsher” than its November edition on Iran next month, possibly triggering a military...
U.S. Continues to threaten Internet freedom
Incredible – 800,000 signatures in a few days, Congress is dithering and a senator will vote to block the reading of our petition for a few hours! Let’s get 1 million – sign the petition…
Dear friends,
Right now, the U.S. Congress is debating a law that would give the country the power to censor the Internet around the world – creating a blacklist that may have YouTube,...
Assange: US demands WikiLeaks destroy all files about them
Julian Assange addresses News 2011 Summit via Skype (28 November, Hong Kong)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has told a media summit that the US government has ordered him to destroy all the material WikiLeaks holds on them – published and unpublished – and to stop using government insiders to gather fresh material.
“[When we released our documents] the Pentagon said we must destroy everything...
Wikileaks: Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe has Cancer
Dictator Robert Mugabe has been in power since 1980
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has prostate cancer which has spread to other organs, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable.
The cable, published by whistle-blower site Wikileaks, cites central bank governor Gideon Gono as saying Mr Mugabe’s doctors had urged him to quit.
The cable, written in 2008 by the US embassy in Harare, also...
Is Hugo Chavez Dead?
After Undergoing Surgery In Cuba, Some Are Speculating That Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Is Dead. BBC reported just a momemnt ago that “Absence of ill Hugo Chavez sparks speculation“.
Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, is undergoing medical treatment in Cuba, leading to all sorts of rumors about his health. There are even people speculating that Hugo Chavez is dead.
Is Hugo Chavez...
Details Emerge of America's Secret Oil War with Russia
U.S. diplomats scored a silent victory last month when the Italian oil company Eni and Russian energy giant Gazprom postponed a deal to share a large claim to Libyan oil. The State Department can’t take credit, however, as the two companies based their decision to shelve the arrangement was based on the violence in the region. But it’s all part of a bigger plan to keep access to oil out...
Battle for Arctic oil intensifies as US sends Clinton to polar summit
Melting of the polar ice cap has made Arctic resources more accessible.
WikiLeak cables show fears that Arctic resources rivalry could lead to military conflict between Nato and Russia.
The US government has signalled a new determination to assert its role in Arctic oil and gas exploration by sending secretary of state Hillary Clinton and other ministers to a summit of the region’s powers for...
Wikileaks: Facebook is greatest spy vehicle ever created
The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange in an exclusive interview to RT (formerly known as Russia Today) called Facebook the greatest espionage tool in history. According to Assange, Facebook automatically collects confidential data of the registered site users, and later this information is transferred to the U.S. intelligence.
The founder of the WikiLeaks said in a television interview that Facebook...
WikiLeaks Reveals horror of Guantanamo
WikiLeaks: Half of the prisoners at Guantánamo were innocent.
The newspapers El Pais, The New York Times and Washington Post published on their Web sites Sunday night (24) a series of secret documents that reveal detailed information about the U.S. military base in Guantanamo. The three publications deal with 759 records of 779 prisoners who passed through the prison.
Dated between 2002 and 2009,...
Wikileaks: The looting of Iraq's oil
Documents leaked by WikiLeaks on Tuesday (19) prove once again that the “war” in Iraq was a big hoax – concocted by the capitalist powers and amplified by the corporate media. They show that the British government, in collusion with the U.S., discussed the sharing of oil from the invaded country a year before the invasion. The history of the existence of weapons of mass destruction...
Assange Complains of Jewish Smear Campaign
A report published by a British magazine on Tuesday said the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, suggested that British journalists, including the editor of The Guardian, were engaged in a Jewish-led conspiracy to smear his organization.
His remarks appeared in the magazine Private Eye, in an article by its editor, Ian Hislop, who outlined a rambling phone call that Mr. Assange made on Feb. 16 to complain...