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WikiLeaks: Is the Internet Creating a New World Disorder

Cyber attacks can't keep WikiLeaks from continuing to pump out government secrets. Is it journalism? What's the lesson about the power of the Internet to shape society in the future? Also, President Obama in Afghanistan, and a progress report on the Climate Change summit in Cancun.

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By Warren Olney • Dec 3, 2010 • 50m Listen

Cyber attacks can't keep WikiLeaks from continuing to pump out government secrets. Is it journalism? What's the lesson about the power of the Internet to shape society in the future? Also, President Obama in Afghanistan, and despite last year's last-minute agreement in Copenhagen, expectations are low for the climate change summit going on now in Cancun.

Banner image: A picture taken on December 3, 2010 in Paris shows a page of WikiLeaks featuring its founder Julian Assange. The noose tightened around WikiLeaks as cyber attacks temporarily forced the whistle-blowing website off the Internet. Photo: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images

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    former KCRW broadcaster

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