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The Iraq War Diaries: Insights from Wikileaks
The field-report releases are often confused with one another. Here is what each set covered, what they showed, and why the second was hand…
The Iraq War Logs: What Wikileaks Revealed
Nearly four hundred thousand field reports from the Iraq war, published in October 2010. What they contained, and the one finding that coul…
Wikileaks and Its Global Impact: A Comprehensive Overview
One video in April 2010 was the start of a year that produced hundreds of thousands of documents and changed how several governments handle…
Julian Assange’s Influence on Digital Activism
The release did not invent online activism, but it demonstrated something new: that a handful of people with a server could put a governmen…
Julian Assange: Hero or Villain?
The question in the title is the wrong one, and the reason it is wrong explains most of what went strange about this case.
Ethan McCord: From Soldier to Whistleblower
He was the soldier who opened the van and found two wounded children inside. What he did next, and what it cost him, is one of the few firs…
Saeed Chmagh and the Impact of War on Journalists
Iraq was the deadliest war for reporters ever recorded, and most of the dead were local staff. What that meant in practice, and what it sti…
Saeed Chmagh: The Life and Legacy of a Reuter’s Journalist
He survived the first burst of gunfire. For several minutes he was alive at the kerb, and the footage of those minutes is the hardest part …
The Aftermath of Collateral Murder: Military Reforms and Policies
What actually changed inside the US military after the video became public, what changed outside it, and how much of the reform people assu…
An Analysis of Collateral Murder
A careful reading of what the footage does and does not show, phase by phase, and where the honest disagreements actually sit.