Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran: Saudi Arabia urges US attack on Iran to stop nuclear programme: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has repeatedly urged the United States to attack Iran to destroy its nuclear programme, according to leaked US diplomatic cables that describe how other Arab allies have secretly agitated for military action against Tehran. Wikileaks: Intelligence Directives Blur Lines Between Diplomacy and Spying: — The United States has expanded the role of American diplomats in collecting intelligence overseas and at the United Nations, ordering State Department personnel to gather the credit card and frequent-flier numbers, work schedules and other personal information of foreign dignitaries. US embassy cables: browse the database: Use our interactive guide to discover what has been revealed in the leak of 250,000 US diplomatic cables. Mouse over the map below to find stories and original documents by country, subject or people Der Spiegel: US officials called Ahmadinejad 'Hitler': according to the German daily, while French President Nicolas Sarkozy is the emperor who has no clothes. The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, is "motivated by paranoia", the report says. UK fears for citizens in Muslim countries over WikiLeaks: Britain has expressed its fear for the wellbeing of its citizens in Pakistan, Iraq, Iran and other Muslim countries following "anti-Muslim" comments expected to appear in documents slated to be published Sunday evening by the WikiLeaks website, the Sunday Times reports. How 250,000 US embassy cables were leaked: From a fake Lady Gaga CD to a thumb drive that is a pocket-sized bombshell – the biggest intelligence leak in history The job of the media is not to protect power from embarrassment: It is for governments – not journalists – to guard public secrets, and there is no national jeopardy in WikiLeaks' revelations A billion people will lose their homes due to climate change, says report: British scientists will warn Cancún summit that entire nations could be flooded Thousands protest against Irish bailout: More than 100,000 people gather in Dublin to demonstrate against four-year austerity plan to reduce debts Iceland Is No Ireland as State Free of Bank Debt, Grimsson Says: Iceland’s President Olafur R. Grimsson said his country is better off than Ireland thanks to the government’s decision to allow the banks to fail two years ago and because the krona could be devalued. China, Russia Quit Dollar: - China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced FDIC's Bair fears federal debt will be 'next crisis': 110 Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairwoman Sheila Bair would seem to have enough to worry about, with 149 bank failures so far this year and 860 more banks on the agency's "problem" list. U.S. new-home sales down 8.1% for October: Sales fell in most regions, declining by 23.9% in the West, by 20.4% in the Midwest and by 12.1% in the Northeast. In the South, the month’s sales increased 3.1%. The American Ruling Class: Video - This "astonishing," "coruscating" satire poses the question: Is it better to rule the world, or to save it?
Sunday, 28 November 2010
Cables Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels
By SCOTT SHANE and ANDREW W. LEHREN
“We’ll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours,” Mr. Saleh said, according to the cable sent by the American ambassador, prompting Yemen’s deputy prime minister to “joke that he had just ‘lied’ by telling Parliament” that Yemeni forces had carried out the strikes.
By Full US Embassy Cable
The King, proposed implanting detainees with an electronic chip containing information about them and allowing their movements to be tracked with Bluetooth. This was done with horses and falcons, the King said.
Pakistan - China - Iran
By BBC
Pakistan stand-off: The cables show the US has been attempting to remove highly enriched uranium from a research reactor in Pakistan since 2007.
By David Leigh
More than 250,000 dispatches reveal US foreign strategies • Diplomats ordered to spy on allies as well as enemies • Hillary Clinton leads frantic 'damage limitation'
By Chris Good
Scanned front page of Monday's Der Spiegel quotes officials calling Ahmadinejad 'Hitler'.
Israel Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran
By Haaretz Service
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed in 2009 that Iran was months away from achieving military nuclear capability, classified documents released by WikiLeaks on Sunday quote a State Department official as saying.
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A hypothetical look at how the collapse of the US dollar may affect the world.
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This "astonishing," "coruscating" satire poses the question: Is it better to rule the world, or to save it?
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