WikiLeaks: When your Swiss banker throws you overboard, you've made some very powerful enemies

[Better Believe It]

Why Corporate Capital and Finance Are Waging an All-Out Cyberwar Against Wikileaks
The continuing assault by the corporate sector to undermine the most ambitious whistleblowing project in modern history has major political implications.
By Mark Levine
December 29, 2010

When your Swiss banker throws you overboard, you know you've made some very powerful enemies.

Long famed for hiding money for everyone from Nazis and drug lords to spies and dictators, the Swiss government's banking arm has decided that WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are just too hot even for it to handle.

And so the PostFinance, which runs the country's banks, declared in early December that it had "ended its business relationship with WikiLeaks founder Julian Paul Assange" after accusing Mr. Assange of - gasp! - providing false information about his place of residence.

Should CIA agents, mafia bosses and other fellow Swiss banking customers who have likely been even less than forthright in their personal representations than Assange is alleged to have been also worry about the loyalty and discretion of their Swiss bankers?

Probably not. And that's because the world's criminals, autocrats and spooks are very much part of the global political economic system, even if sometimes on opposite sides.

Read the full article at:

http://www.alternet.org/news/149360/why_corporate_capital_and_finance_are_waging_an_all-out_cyberwar_against_wikileaks/

[msongs]

1. our war crimes committing current government is putting the squeeze on nt

[Kaleko]

2. It's a badge of honor to be a thorn in the eye of that multi-national banking beast.

[jwirr]

3. 1+

[rhett o rick]

4. There are only two sides in this war and the bankers are on the other side. nm

[ThomCat]

6. Yes, I'd say that as a rule that is true.

[davidwparker]

5. Ummm. That stuff of BofA must be GOOOD. n/t