25-10-2010, 08:00 PM
http://www.voltairenet.org/article167409.html, 24 OCTOBER 2010
The Wikileaks website, which had published 72 000 US Army documents relating to Afghanistan, has just put out 391 832 war logs reporting on incidents involving the US Army in Iraq, dating from January 2004 to December 2009
The documents were sent ten weeks ahead of publication to four Atlanticist outlets, The New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde and Der Spiegel, to be analyzed.
The mainstream media have chiefly reacted with astonishment at the scope and diversity of the violence chronicled in the documents. They have also drawn a certain number of conclusions about the role of the mercenaries or the weakness of the Iraqi Government.
Thanks to this spectacular operation, major media outlets have managed to fill their information gap. The released documents refer to events which were widely echoed by the Iraqi press and the Resistance in recent years, but which the dominant media willfully ignored or concealed to their readers.
Bewildered by such unconsciousness, Réseau Voltaire decided to feature - by way of example and for a limited one-month period - a selection of the most important stories, which were published in a separate column: Janvier en Irak (January in Iraq). This experience, conducted more than 5 years ago, shows that the information was already out there for those who were interested in obtaining it.
It also follows that the analyses made by Voltaire Network on this subject over the past 5 years have been confirmed, while those of the mainstream media have been self-discredited. Please note that The New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde and Der Spiegel have boasted about their updating as being a journalistic feat, a far-reaching scoop, instead of apologizing to their readers for having lied to them for so long.
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« Robert Gates: the WikiLeaks leaks are inconsequential », Voltaire Network, 19 October 2010.
« Voltaire Network Communiqué - Wikileaks: a political diversion », Voltaire Network, 28 July 2010.
« Something Stinks About Wikileaks Release of "Secret" Documents », by F. William Engdahl, Voltaire Network, 20 August 2010.
The Wikileaks website, which had published 72 000 US Army documents relating to Afghanistan, has just put out 391 832 war logs reporting on incidents involving the US Army in Iraq, dating from January 2004 to December 2009
The documents were sent ten weeks ahead of publication to four Atlanticist outlets, The New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde and Der Spiegel, to be analyzed.
The mainstream media have chiefly reacted with astonishment at the scope and diversity of the violence chronicled in the documents. They have also drawn a certain number of conclusions about the role of the mercenaries or the weakness of the Iraqi Government.
Thanks to this spectacular operation, major media outlets have managed to fill their information gap. The released documents refer to events which were widely echoed by the Iraqi press and the Resistance in recent years, but which the dominant media willfully ignored or concealed to their readers.
Bewildered by such unconsciousness, Réseau Voltaire decided to feature - by way of example and for a limited one-month period - a selection of the most important stories, which were published in a separate column: Janvier en Irak (January in Iraq). This experience, conducted more than 5 years ago, shows that the information was already out there for those who were interested in obtaining it.
It also follows that the analyses made by Voltaire Network on this subject over the past 5 years have been confirmed, while those of the mainstream media have been self-discredited. Please note that The New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde and Der Spiegel have boasted about their updating as being a journalistic feat, a far-reaching scoop, instead of apologizing to their readers for having lied to them for so long.
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« Robert Gates: the WikiLeaks leaks are inconsequential », Voltaire Network, 19 October 2010. « Voltaire Network Communiqué - Wikileaks: a political diversion », Voltaire Network, 28 July 2010. « Something Stinks About Wikileaks Release of "Secret" Documents », by F. William Engdahl, Voltaire Network, 20 August 2010.