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Wikileaks on Harper, America, and the “transformational agenda”

06/08/2011 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside An embassy cable written by US Ambassador David Wilkins the day the Cons were first elected in 2006 suggests Harper would be useful in advancing the US agenda for Canada and that giving him ” a success story” like the softwood lumber deal would “shore up” his ability to stay in office without appearing to “sell out to […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canadian, Canadian military, Canadian politics, Conservatives, North American security perimeter, Security and Prosperity Partnership, U.S., WikiLeaks

Wikileaked: The “incremental approach” to CanAmerica

05/10/2011 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside I guess everyone has their favorite US Ambassador to Canada. Mine has always been Paul Cellucci, who once suggested building huge aqueducts to carry Canadian water to the US and worried in 2008 that the election of Obama would “imperil the future economic integration of the continent.” Last month WikiLeaks released one of Cellucci’s […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Barack Obama, Canada, Canadian politics, North American Union, Security and Prosperity Partnership, Stephen Harper, U.S., WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks’ Canadian secrets not all that secret

12/17/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher I can tell from our logs that a lot of people are still looking to find out what Wikileaks’ purloined cables have revealed about Canada, but the answer remains: Not a whole lot. Little enough, in fact, that it’s possible to run the Canadian content all in one place, as I’ve done […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, CBC, Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail, Julian Assange, Omar Khadr, WikiLeaks

A little 4Chan justice for Mastercard

12/08/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher So 4Chan has finally found something useful to do with all its suppressed testerone and brought down the Mastercard site, in retaliation for the credit card company’s decision to stop processing donations to WikiLeaks. They’ve also apparently done some serious damage to PayPal (for the same reason), and Amazon could be next. […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: business, internet, Julian Assange, law, U.S., WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks cache slim on Canadian content, so far

11/28/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher Early pickings for Canadians eager to find out what U.S. diplomats think of us, thanks to WikiLeaks’ latest release of documents, labelled “cablegate,” have been slim to none. Make that none. [Editor’s note: See update here.] So far, just 220 of 251,287 files have been released, and none feature the American ambassador […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, U.S., WikiLeaks

DND on friendly fire: Wikileaks, US don’t know squat

07/27/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside One of the Wikileaks war logs released yesterday contained a friendly fire report filed by the 205th RCAG U.S. military unit which states four Canadian soldiers were killed and seven other Canadians and an interpreter were wounded on Sept. 3, 2006, when a fighter jet dropped a guided bomb on a building they […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Afghanistan, Canada, Canadian military, CBC, Department of National Defence, Julian Assange, Lawrence Cannon, Peter MacKay, U.S., U.S. military, WikiLeaks

AK47 and RPG Spotting in the WikiLeaks video: 101

04/15/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Eric Pettifor There seems to be some confusion as to whether or not AK47s and RPGs (rocket propelled grenade) were present in the video released by WikiLeaks of the slaughter of civilians, including two Reuters news staff, by the crew of an Apache helicopter in Baghdad in 2007. Consequently, I present here a brief […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Iraq, US military, WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks’ truth, Reuters’ “truth”

04/06/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher We now know, thanks to WikiLeaks, that the US military lied about the killing of 11 Iraqi civlians, including two Reuters reporters, in 2007. “There is no question that coalition forces were clearly engaged in combat operations against a hostile force,” said its spokesman at the time. But the classified video released […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Iraq, journalism, New York Times, newspapers, Reuters, US military, WikiLeaks

The WikiLeaks video: arms-length slaughter

04/05/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Eric Pettifor An important story over at WikiLeaks concerns what appears to be the slaughter of innocent civilians by American forces, including two Reuters news staff, in Iraq . I should warn you that the video is very disturbing, taken as it is from the Apache helicopter doing the firing. I’ll leave it to […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: crime, Iraq, US military, WikiLeaks

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From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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