Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/April 5

Today in 2010 WikiLeaks published the Baghdad airstrike video that they had obtained from Chelsea Manning. Smear campaigns and ongoing criminalization attempts against the publisher, Julian Assange, ensued.

For many, this was the first unvarnished look at modern warfare, shattering the propaganda myth of clean war and standing in stark contrast to the righteous public image, even though the patterns of how challenged power reacts and the dirty psychological dynamics inherent in war are the same everywhere.