THE CABLES
They're all
here now.
AFRICA
U.N. peacekeepers traded
food for sex with underage girls in Ivory Coast.
Rwanda's police defend
extra-judicial killings.
Private oilfield
security companies in Sudan are "essentially a militia controlled by the
government."
The miserable lives of
children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's mining industry.
Nigeria's oil-drenched Niger River Delta is even worse than
you thought.
AMERICAS
Imprisoned U.S. government contractor Alan P. Gross is not
doing well in Havana.
Oh great, the world is running out of
helium, too.
ASIA
Former U.S. Ambassador (and current presidential hopeful) John
Huntsman: China's one-child policy causes instability
and sex-trafficking.
The politics of Wal-Mart's trade
unions in China.
EUROPE
U.S. embassy staff in Belarus are accused of
espionage by the state media.
Bad
blood in the European aerospace business.
Why Greeks don't like the
United States.
MIDDLE EAST
The U.N. says U.S. soldiers executed
children in Iraq in 2006 (a story that had been reported
inconclusively at the time). The Iraqi government is now investigating.
Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu told
U.S. Ambassador James Cunningham in November 2008, "I can deliver two thirds of
the Israeli right-wing on anything we agree with the Palestinians, whether on
process or interim agreements."
Armenian President Robert Kocharian in a letter to
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan: "[W]e both must work to find ways to
live together in harmony."
Are telecom providers in the United Arab Emirates installing spyware
on BlackBerries?
A Syrian governor invited Shakira and Chicago Mayor Richard
Daley to a hot-air
balloon competition.
THE NEWS
The
deluge. WikiLeaks blames
(and sues)
the Guardian. The Guardian blames
WikiLeaks. The U.S. State Department calls
the action "irresponsible, reckless, and frankly dangerous." Der Spiegel explains what
exactly happened.
Julian Assange could
face arrest in Australia for outing intelligence officials in the new batch
of unredacted cables.
THE BIG PICTURE
How WikiLeaks learned the value of secrecy the
hard way.
Is WikiLeaks desperate for attention, looking for a
scapegoat, or just
falling apart? Is this the
end of Assange?
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