Lila Rajiva is the author of two books on mass psychology, The
Language of Empire (Monthly Review Press, 2005) and Mobs,
Messiahs, and Markets (with Bill Bonner, Wiley, 2007). She is an
activist, commentator and blogger.
[For more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed
- but refuses to publish - the key evidence in one of the year's most
significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning
for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source.--Glenn Greenwald, "The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired,"
salon.com, December 27, 2010]
[ . . . the well-timed release of diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks displaced
reports of Israeli obstinacy in peace talks with reports of a need for war
with Iran.--Jeff Gates, "The
Enemy Within," onlinejournal.com, December 31, 2010]
[WMR has learned from a long-time Republican Party consultant that the CIA
used Sweden to launder the transfer to Wikileaks of carefully screened and
redacted State Department cables and the subsequent release of the cables to
pre-selected corporate news media entities. Sweden was chosen because of its
so-called "press freedom and freedom of expression" traditions in an effort
to make the release of the cables by Wikileaks appear to be unconnected to a
covert CIA and Pentagon psychological operations program designed to place
further controls on the Internet.
. . . a major international news event designed to provide increased support
for governments around the world, including Sweden, the United Kingdom -
where Assange is now free on restricted bail - and the United States, to
place draconian curbs on the Internet.--Wayne Madsen, "Sweden co-opted by
CIA/Pentagon to launder Wikileaks cables," veteranstoday.com,
January 3, 2011]