SARAJEVO -- Publication of U.S. cables about Bosnia-Herzegovina and other Southeast European countries will cause “Arab scenario” in the Balkans, says Julian Assange.
SARAJEVO -- Publication of U.S. cables about Bosnia-Herzegovina and other Southeast European countries will cause “Arab scenario” in the Balkans, says Julian Assange.
Source: FoNet
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“This is probably a model according to which the cables, once they are published, will affect the region,” Assange told Sarajevo press.
He also claims that WikiLeaks has contributed to revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt.
According to the WikiLeaks founder, the release of the secret documents will certainly intensify in time and it will not stop. He added that he had no intention of cutting a deal with the U.S.
“They are trying to silence us, demanding to destroy everything we published before, everything we are going to publish and break off contacts with our sources, so-called ‘scouts’ from the U.S. military. We refused, of course,” Assange stressed, adding that U.S. citizens and people from around the world supported him, transparency and the truth.
The WikiLeaks founder believes that there is “a secret grand jury in Alexandria, U.S. state of Georgia, which is, together with several other people, trying to accuse him of conspiracy and espionage in order to get him extradited to the U.S.”
Wherever there are Muslims, there's the potential for the powerful oil Gulf states to manipulate them. They haven't gotten far with Zukorlic or Thaci.
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what does that have to do with the united stetes policy in bosnia?
(nato, 1 April 2011 22:17)
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Everything. They can use this backward thinking to manipulate people into doing what they need them to do in order to achieve their objective there, namely have control of the country through weak and corrupt politicians.
Can't imagine why you haven't looked at it from this perspective.
(Peggy, 30 April 2011 04:15)
The US defends freedom of speech. The US is also quite good on freedom of information. However, Wikileaks is great because it challenges who has the right to control that information. Wikileaks reflects a strong and widespread belief that these things should not be kept secret.
China is criticised (rightly) for locking up people who do not agree with the one-party system. The US is now coming to face a similar temptation to suppress. How the US faces up to that challenge is interesting to watch.
If they get Assange into a US jail, the US will no longer be able to stand by its claim to be a bastion of freedom and freedom of speech. It will become clear where the true boundaries of freedom are delineated in actuality.
The US does represent a good effort to have a 'land of the free' and to be the leader of the 'free world'. To continue to be able to maintain that claim, the US needs to learn to love Wikileaks. It is inevitable that information will be much more accessible from now on. Trying to to stop the free flow of information will be like trying to keep a nuclear reactor in a sieve. Not much chance.
(Bob, 3 April 2011 03:25)
Wherever there are Muslims, there's the potential for the powerful oil Gulf states to manipulate them. They haven't gotten far with Zukorlic or Thaci.
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what does that have to do with the united stetes policy in bosnia?
(nato, 1 April 2011 22:17)
Although I agree that Wikileaks might have an impact on the revolutions in middle east by showing the public what internet can do to democratize societies, I would warn Mr. Assange about how much of these revolutions started as public effort and how much of it got under the control of the U.S. politics again.
(ghonest, 1 April 2011 17:18)
Wherever there are Muslims, there's the potential for the powerful oil Gulf states to manipulate them. They haven't gotten far with Zukorlic or Thaci.
(highduke, 1 April 2011 15:31)
Wherever there are Muslims, there's the potential for the powerful oil Gulf states to manipulate them. They haven't gotten far with Zukorlic or Thaci.
(highduke, 1 April 2011 15:31)
Wherever there are Muslims, there's the potential for the powerful oil Gulf states to manipulate them. They haven't gotten far with Zukorlic or Thaci.
---…--
what does that have to do with the united stetes policy in bosnia?
(nato, 1 April 2011 22:17)
The US defends freedom of speech. The US is also quite good on freedom of information. However, Wikileaks is great because it challenges who has the right to control that information. Wikileaks reflects a strong and widespread belief that these things should not be kept secret.
China is criticised (rightly) for locking up people who do not agree with the one-party system. The US is now coming to face a similar temptation to suppress. How the US faces up to that challenge is interesting to watch.
If they get Assange into a US jail, the US will no longer be able to stand by its claim to be a bastion of freedom and freedom of speech. It will become clear where the true boundaries of freedom are delineated in actuality.
The US does represent a good effort to have a 'land of the free' and to be the leader of the 'free world'. To continue to be able to maintain that claim, the US needs to learn to love Wikileaks. It is inevitable that information will be much more accessible from now on. Trying to to stop the free flow of information will be like trying to keep a nuclear reactor in a sieve. Not much chance.
(Bob, 3 April 2011 03:25)
Although I agree that Wikileaks might have an impact on the revolutions in middle east by showing the public what internet can do to democratize societies, I would warn Mr. Assange about how much of these revolutions started as public effort and how much of it got under the control of the U.S. politics again.
(ghonest, 1 April 2011 17:18)
Wherever there are Muslims, there's the potential for the powerful oil Gulf states to manipulate them. They haven't gotten far with Zukorlic or Thaci.
---…--
what does that have to do with the united stetes policy in bosnia?
(nato, 1 April 2011 22:17)
===…==
Everything. They can use this backward thinking to manipulate people into doing what they need them to do in order to achieve their objective there, namely have control of the country through weak and corrupt politicians.
Can't imagine why you haven't looked at it from this perspective.
(Peggy, 30 April 2011 04:15)
Wherever there are Muslims, there's the potential for the powerful oil Gulf states to manipulate them. They haven't gotten far with Zukorlic or Thaci.
(highduke, 1 April 2011 15:31)
Wherever there are Muslims, there's the potential for the powerful oil Gulf states to manipulate them. They haven't gotten far with Zukorlic or Thaci.
---…--
what does that have to do with the united stetes policy in bosnia?
(nato, 1 April 2011 22:17)
Although I agree that Wikileaks might have an impact on the revolutions in middle east by showing the public what internet can do to democratize societies, I would warn Mr. Assange about how much of these revolutions started as public effort and how much of it got under the control of the U.S. politics again.
(ghonest, 1 April 2011 17:18)
The US defends freedom of speech. The US is also quite good on freedom of information. However, Wikileaks is great because it challenges who has the right to control that information. Wikileaks reflects a strong and widespread belief that these things should not be kept secret.
China is criticised (rightly) for locking up people who do not agree with the one-party system. The US is now coming to face a similar temptation to suppress. How the US faces up to that challenge is interesting to watch.
If they get Assange into a US jail, the US will no longer be able to stand by its claim to be a bastion of freedom and freedom of speech. It will become clear where the true boundaries of freedom are delineated in actuality.
The US does represent a good effort to have a 'land of the free' and to be the leader of the 'free world'. To continue to be able to maintain that claim, the US needs to learn to love Wikileaks. It is inevitable that information will be much more accessible from now on. Trying to to stop the free flow of information will be like trying to keep a nuclear reactor in a sieve. Not much chance.
(Bob, 3 April 2011 03:25)
Wherever there are Muslims, there's the potential for the powerful oil Gulf states to manipulate them. They haven't gotten far with Zukorlic or Thaci.
---…--
what does that have to do with the united stetes policy in bosnia?
(nato, 1 April 2011 22:17)
===…==
Everything. They can use this backward thinking to manipulate people into doing what they need them to do in order to achieve their objective there, namely have control of the country through weak and corrupt politicians.
Can't imagine why you haven't looked at it from this perspective.
(Peggy, 30 April 2011 04:15)