Bradley Manning’s exposure of America’s “bloodlust” revealed some surprising instances of abuse of power by the Canadian government too, including the warrantless wiretapping of civil protesters, direct threats from government agents, and disparaging views of the average Canadian by top security officials.
Bradley Manning’s exposure of America’s “bloodlust” revealed some surprising instances of abuse of power by the Canadian government too, including the warrantless wiretapping of civil protesters, direct threats from government agents, and disparaging views of the average Canadian by top security officials.
Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables show that Prime Minister Harper’s frequent scare talk in support of a greater Canadian military presence in the Arctic is just for public consumption and does not reflect what he says in private (Campbell Clark, “Harper’s tough talk on the Arctic less stern in private,” Globe and Mail, 12 May 2011): […]
Canadians are about to find out what up to five years of majority government are like with Stephen Harper as Prime Minister. We all have our own opinions of the Prime Minister, of course, but for a foreign view it is well worth reading the U.S. State Department’s analysis (or the analysis of one of […]
U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks on Wednesday reveal that France’s Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, asked the U.S. to consider releasing Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay. Kouchner, who played a founding role in the international humanitarian NGO Médecins sans frontières, personally asked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to review Khadr’s case during a meeting in February […]
After WikiLeaks’ controversial release in October of 400,000 Pentagon reports pertaining to the Iraq war, Washington is gearing up to respond to the release of another batch of secret files. Washington is also doing damage control in preparation for the release of internal documents that may contain reports of compromising “conversations with political dissidents and friendly politicians… […]