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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange to Write His Autobiography -- for $1.5 Million
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyFaced with mounting legal costs and deprived of income to run his whistleblower website, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taking a page from other public figures who need to earn a buck: He has signed a $1.5 million deal to write his autobiography. "I don't want to write this book, but I have to . . . to defend myself and keep WikiLeaks afloat," he told Britain's Sunday Times, which reports that the deal includes $1 million from Alfred A. Knopf, the book's American publisher, and the balance paid by Canongate, its British counterpart. Assange has fallen on tough times financially, as the ...
WikiLeaks Releases List of Global Sites 'Vital' to US Security
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(Dec. 6) -- WikiLeaks has released a list of "critical" industries and assets around the world, from vaccine factories in Belgium to oil pipelines in Georgia, that the U.S. considers vital to its national security. In a February 2009 cable, the State Department asked all American embassies to list infrastructure and resources "within their host countries that, if destroyed, would likely have an immediate and deleterious effect on the United States." It added that diplomats were "not being asked to consult with host governments with respect to this request." The request was part of the ...
Obama Squeezing GOP on Arms Treaty: 'Our Security' is at Stake
By not in system - AOL NewsPushing hard for the START treaty, President Obama kept up his full court press on reluctant Republicans Saturday, warning that failure to ratify the nuclear arms deal with Russia "would be a dangerous gamble with America's national security." ...
Sarah Palin to Air Security Agents: 'Profile Away'
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Sarah Palin isn't short on opinions. The 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate weighed in on airport security, questioning why it is "politically incorrect" to profile suspicious persons at airport security gates. ...
National Security Adviser James Jones Resigns
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James Jones, President Obama's national security adviser who struggled to mediate between the White House and the Pentagon over Afghan war strategy, has resigned effective later this month. He will be replaced by the deputy national security adviser, Tom Donilon. ...
Obama's National Security Adviser Stepping Down
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Oct. 8) -- In another White House shake up, President Barack Obama on Friday announced that his national security adviser, Gen. James Jones, was stepping down after helping to shape the foreign policy for nearly two years. Tom Donilon, Jones' deputy, will take over as the top security adviser. Obama hailed Jones, a lifelong military man before his White House post, as a "dedicated public servant and a friend to me." The president turned over the job to Donilon, a workhorse figure in the White House who brings to the job a long background of Democratic politics and diplomacy. The ...
Report: US Would Make Internet Wiretaps Easier
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Sept. 27) -- Broad new regulations being drafted by the Obama administration would make it easier for law enforcement and national security officials to eavesdrop on Internet and e-mail communications like social networking Web sites and BlackBerries, The New York Times reported Monday. The newspaper said the White House plans to submit a bill next year that would require all online services that enable communications to be technically equipped to comply with a wiretap order. That would include providers of encrypted e-mail, such as BlackBerry, networking sites like Facebook and ...
Australian Scientist Warns of Looming Global Famine
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- At an international agricultural biotechnology conference in Canada, an Australian scientist and journalist gave a dire keynote address Monday, warning global governments to pay greater attention to the possibility of coming global famine. "This is a big issue -- it is the biggest issue, it is bigger than the global financial crisis, and it is more urgent than climate change because it's going to happen quicker," Julian Cribb told his audience at the Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference, according to The StarPhoenix. "Worst-case scenario is that you will see ...
Poll: Majority of Americans Say Iraq War a 'Failure'
By not in system - AOL NewsA small majority of Americans believe the Iraq war, now in its eighth year, will be judged a failure in the light of history, rather than a success. ...
Is Obama's Iran Strategy Working?
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 5) -- President Barack Obama came into office planning a two-track strategy on Iran: The promise of high-level political engagement combined with tough economic sanctions. His plan was that the sanctions would deter bad behavior -- specifically, the ongoing nuclear program -- while the potential for engagement would encourage good behavior. Has it worked? Yes and no, Obama told a recent gathering of national security reporters. Here's what he said and how observers are parsing his successes and failures on Iran. Is Time Right for Engagement? The Washington Post's David Ignatius writes, ...
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