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Waiting for the Dam to Break: WikiLeaks and Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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Like a giant dose of salts to a bloated and constipated patient, Cable-gate has scoured its way through the post-9/11 United States empire, exposing its internal workings to merciless scrutiny: In Iraq, US forces and their Iraqi subordinates kill civilians and journalists while their commanders turn a blind eye to sickening acts of torture and murder; in Pakistan, US special forces patrol ‘secretly’ inside tribal areas as military leaders from both sides discuss the possibility of a coup (link); in Yemen and Pakistan US drones covertly bomb ‘terrorist’ targets; in the United Nations, American diplomats are ordered to spy on officials from China, Russia, France and the UK (link).

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 5 , January 2011 , e1
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