It's a common maxim that history is written by the winners. But what about the history when there are no clear winners? When something momentous happens- and then nothing really changes at all? And what if we a...
PARIS -- A 2009 memo from the US Embassy in Paris to the Secretary of State's office released in the latest batch of Wikileaks documents, details French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s efforts to cultivate the r...
A British judge freed WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange on bail Tuesday, setting strict conditions as the online information mogul fights extradition to Sweden on sex charges.
Assange, a 39-year-ol...
PARIS -- A 2008 cable sent from the American Embassy in Paris to the Secretary of State and other U.S. embassies around the world outlines the history of the diplomatic relationship between France and Africa, a...
In a June 2009 cable posted online by Wikileaks, a meeting is detailed between National Security Adviser James Jones and Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony, who stressed the importance of a close military rela...
Putin today, Putin tomorrow.
In a cable written in February and released by Wikileaks recently, the American embassy in Moscow asserts its belief that former president and current prime minister of Russia, V...
If China and the US agree on one thing it is that Burma is unstable and potentially dangerous.
According to an August 2004 embassy cable released by Wikileaks, the government of Burma has been building nucle...
A leaked embassy cable posted online by Wikileaks shows that the Zimbabwean government planned to forcibly displace 25,000 villagers in a diamond-rich section of the country early last year.
The January 23,...
Well, we knew this already, but a Wikileaks-posted cable from the US Embassy in Tehran in 1972 shows how the United States rushed to arm the Shah's Iran, concerned over Soviet interests in the area.
The...
According to a November 2009 cable from the American Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, put online by Wikileaks on Tuesday, the elite young people there "party like the rest of the world.""Behind the facade of ...
In a Wikileaks-leaked cable from the US embassy in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's office, Ambassador James C. Oberwetter reported in December 2006 that an unnamed S...
Cables released online by Wikileaks on Sunday were called a "terrorist blueprint" by many, including several prominent news outlets, which have begun to turn on Wikileaks despite continuing to run stories every...
Wikileaks. I know, I know, you’re probably sick of hearing about cables and embassies and what diplomat said what nasty thing about what leader. But, it’s only day four of nine in the latest Wikileaks saga, and...