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• Assange reminds us who the real hero is
• Nice crime wave across the Zionist state
• If this isn’t fascism in Israel, then what is?
• Australia is in Afghanistan to support this?

Assange reminds us who the real hero is 03 Dec 2010 Fascinating Guardian organised online chat yesterday with Julian Assange: Fwoggie I’ll start the ball rolling with a question. You’re an Australian passport holder – would you want return to your own country or is this now out of the question due to potentially being arrested on arrival for releasing cables relating to Australian diplomats and polices? Julian Assange: I am an Australian citizen and I miss my country a great deal. However, during the last weeks the Australian prime minister, Julia Gillard, and the attorney general, Robert McClelland, have made it clear that not only is my return is impossible but that they are actively working to assist the United States government in its attacks on myself and our people. This brings into question what does it mean to be an Australian citizen – does that mean anything at all? Or are we all to be treated like David Hicks at the first possible opportunity merely so that Australian politicians and diplomats can be invited to the best US embassy cocktail parties. girish89 How do you think you have changed world affairs? And if you call all the attention you’ve been given-credit … shouldn’t the mole or source receive a word of praise from you? Julian Assange: For the past four years one of our goals has been to lionise the source who take the real risks in nearly every journalistic disclosure and without whose efforts, journalists would be nothing. If indeed it is the case, as alleged by the Pentagon, that the young soldier – Bradley Manning – is behind some of our recent disclosures, then he is without doubt an unparalleled hero.

Nice crime wave across the Zionist state 02 Dec 2010 And the revelations continue: US Ambassador to Israel James Cunningham expressed concern with the growing threat of organized crime in Israel in a cable from the US Embassy in Tel Aviv leaked this week on the WikiLeaks website entitled “Israel, a promised land fore organized crime?”  Cunningham questioned Israel’s ability to deal with the growing problem.

If this isn’t fascism in Israel, then what is? 02 Dec 2010 33% of Israelis support placing Israeli Palestinian citizens in concentration camps during wartime.

Australia is in Afghanistan to support this? 02 Dec 2010 Oh what a glorious war: Britain’s four-year military stewardship of the troubled Helmand province has been scorned by President Hamid Karzai, top Afghan officials and the US commander of Nato troops, according to secret US diplomatic cables. The dispatches expose a devastating contempt for the British failure to impose security and connect with ordinary Afghans. The leaked US embassy cables covering Afghanistan also reveal: • Widespread suspicion of high-level corruption in the Afghan government, with one cable detailing how the vice-president was carrying $52m in his suitcase when he was stopped at Dubai airport. • Iran’s growing influence in Afghanistan as Tehran finances senior politicians and, the cables allege, trains Taliban militants. • Anger among America’s allies when they discovered that the US military was charging a 15% handling fee on hundreds of millions of dollars being raised internationally to build up the Afghan army. The criticism of the British operation in Helmand centres on its failure to establish security in Sangin – the town which has become totemic as the place that has claimed more British lives than any other in Afghanistan.