The Endurance of Wikileaks

Julian Assange’s pal Binoy Kampmark writes on the resilience of Wikileaks; Charles Pierson peers through the fog to get at the truth about civilian deaths from drone attacks in Pakistan; Nick Alexandrov assays the disturbing reversion of Honduras in the wake of the latest fraudulent elections; Lee Hall writes a heart-rending essay on the imperiled bobcats of the Mojave, their killers and defenders; Joshua Frank interviews Ward Churchill; Jeffrey St. Clair offers his list of the 10 best records of 2013; Lee Ballinger on coal mining; JoAnn Wypijewski on Bethlehem under the Apartheid Wall; Kristin Kolb on the First Nations battling the Frackers; Mike Whitney on the impending housing collapse; Chris Floyd on the gatekeepers of Edward Snowden’s secrets and Jeffrey St. Clair on the ghastly ties between the CIA and South Africa’s infamous bioweapons program…

MIKE WHITNEY lives in Washington state. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (AK Press). Hopeless is also available in a Kindle edition. He can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com.