Wikileaks Cables Shed Light on US Foreign Policy | Al Jazeera America
WikiLeaks cables shed light on US foreign policy failures
Documents show Washington backing of regime change is a major problem
Some the most important historical information for understanding current
events comes, not surprisingly, from sources that were intended to be
shielded from the public. From November 2010 to September 2011, more
than 250,000 communications between U.S. diplomats that were never meant
to see the light of day were made public. They are available at WikiLeaks,
the nonprofit media organization that accepts confidential information
from anonymous sources and releases it to news sources and the public. A
number of researchers have put together a treasure trove of information
and analysis that can be immensely clarifying. (The recently released book from this research, published by Verso, is “The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to U.S. Empire.”)
