I have just received the following press release in which a contingent of Anonymous spells out its general aims and practices while also announcing another effort, Project Truth is Revolutionary. I have pasted it below the fold and will update above with whatever additional developments I find myself privy to throughout the day.
Update
Michael Moore points out the suspicious nature of Sweden’s rape charges against Julian Assange. Richard Stallman, like many internet technology pioneers, approves of the direct actions against MasterCard and Visa. Elsewhere, it is noted that Interpol doesn’t seem to be bothered by the fact that DynCorp supplied boys for sex parties with taxpayer money yet has gone after Assange on a far more dubious charge.
Update 2
We will not need a Gibbon to analyze our own empire’s downfall.
Update 3
Via reddit – which is fast becoming the foremost node in the struggle against the media machine – a thank-you to CNN for their ongoing analysis of crucial issues.
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Ongoing events, coupled with some discussions I’ve been having in the context of those events, have prompted me to revisit a story which I consider to be among the most telling in terms of the nature of governments, media, and the thought processes that inform them, for better or worse. Such a story as this will take several days to tell properly; consider this blog post to be the prologue.
A few months back, I was set to appear on Russia Today in order to discuss Michael Hastings and General McChrystal and what the incident means for journalism. As a practicing anarchist, I do not appear on state-funded media without causing trouble in the process, and as such I decided that after making my points I would cause a bit of trouble for the Kremlin by mentioning something on a station that serves as its mouthpiece which the Kremlin does not like to see mentioned anywhere. That particular something is the false flag attacks that the FSB perpetrated in 1999 as a justification for the Second Chechen War. My case, which has appeared in various outlets and which has been looked over without opposition by former CIA Directorate of Operations agent Barry Eisler, aforementioned war correspondent Michael Hastings, the fact checker of a New York publishing house, a noted literary agent who is not in the business of representing fairy tales, and other parties, may be found in summary form at this link, although I will have occasion to discuss it in further detail at The League soon enough. In fact, I may be continuing a dormant debate on the subject with Holocaust researcher Sergey Romanov here at The League if our timing is lucky.
The day before I was to go on Russia Today, I had the following conversation with journalist and Antiwar.com founder Justin Raimondo, whose employees had interviewed me for their syndicated radio program on the subject of Wikileaks a few months prior. I had also encountered Raimondo when he left a number of comments on an article I had written in which he accused me of being a hawkish Likud sympathizer, which was certainly a novel charge for me. A mutual friend had told me that Raimondo was familiar with the network so I sought out his opinion on my intended prank, not realizing that his own socio-political tendencies would prompt him to oppose it. I include the entirety of our conversation here, without comment until tomorrow, when I will analyze it for the purpose of making a point about the nature of information flow in modern society.
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Over the last few days I have been trying to make the case for Wikileaks, Anonymous, civil disobedience, and the primacy of conscience over nationalism. This effort has met with mixed results. I’m honestly surprised at some of the opposition I’ve encountered. In saying that, I don’t mean to imply that my own position is so obviously correct that any disagreement merits only surprise, because that is not the case; this is a complicated issue on which reasonable men may disagree. Rather, my surprise is my own fault. Having spent much of my working life studying the mindset of my enemies, I have neglected to pay much attention to the mindset of my allies.
For over a year now I have had the pleasure of being well-received at Little Green Footballs due to my work with Charles Johnson on several issues as well as my own projects, which have generally coincided with the values shared in common by most of Johnson’s readers. Thus it is that I’m disappointed with the nature of the debate I’ve been having over the past couple of days with several individuals with whom I’ve shared mutual respect for a while now. Johnson himself has expressed concern over both Wikileaks and Anonymous, although I’ve found that, as always, he is open to considering those facts which I have brought to his attention and of which I am aware due to my longtime specialization in these issues. Unfortunately, others associated with that site seem to have approached this controversy by first deciding that Wikileaks is a negative for our civilization and thereafter defending that position by reference to demonstrably false assertions and in defiance of any facts that I and others have brought to the table.
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