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DESCRIPTION:On November 28, Wikileaks began publishing batches of 251,287 secret State 
 Department diplomatic cables from 274 U.S. embassies and consulates around 
 the world—the largest batch of secret government documents ever made 
 public. These documents had been leaked to Wikileaks, a website dedicated 
 to government transparency. Wikileaks aims to release all the cables, which 
 date from 1966 to February 2010 (with most from the past three years), in 
 stages over the next several months. This follows Wikileaks' releases of 
 secret documents on the U.S. wars in Afghanistan in July and Iraq in 
 October.\n\nThe U.S. struck aggressively against Wikileaks and its founder 
 Julian Assange in the wake of these latest disclosures: the domain name 
 (wikileaks.org) was shut off, their web servers were shut down, their bank 
 accounts frozen, and credit card companies have shut off contributions to 
 their website. Obama's Attorney General is talking about criminal 
 prosecution. Fox "news" mouthpiece and touted Republican presidential 
 candidate Mike Huckabee said "anything less than execution is too kind a 
 penalty."\n\nIn Yemen, the State Department, the U.S. embassy and diplomacy 
 did not prove to be an "alternative" to violence or war. Instead, they 
 helped facilitate, orchestrate, and then cover up the U.S. 
 assassinations.\n\nIn Germany, the actions of U.S. diplomats served to 
 cover up illegal torture and rendition, to protect those who had committed 
 these crimes, to hide evidence of the global U.S. torture network from 
 public view, to illegally intervene in the legal proceedings of another 
 country, and to help preserve the U.S. government’s ability to render and 
 torture people to this day—all in violation of international 
 law.\n\nWikileaks has revealed that the U.S. State Department under both 
 Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton has ordered department personnel to 
 engage in widespread, extensive spying on all foreign leaders and officials 
 they meet, including obtaining detailed personal information such as 
 passport and frequent flier numbers, credit card information, phone 
 numbers, email and computer passwords, even their DNA.\n\nThe revelations 
 also expose the Obama presidency: what was an effort to burnish the image 
 of the U.S. tarnished by the Bush regime, around the world and 
 domestically, is exposed as more of the same.\n\nNobody should ever listen 
 to U.S. government pronouncements the same way again, without thinking 
 "yes, but what's the real deal? What do their secret cables say about 
 this?"\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/02/18668141.php
SUMMARY:What Wikileaks Reveals: Cables, Lies & Murder: Discussion at Revolution Books
LOCATION:Revolution  Books\n2425 Channing Way( in the Sather Gate Parking Mall off 
 of Telegraph Avenue). Wheelchair accessible, donations accepted.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/02/18668141.php
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