The WikiWeek: June 10, 2011

THE CABLES AMERICAS The U.S. government, Chevron, and Exxon Mobil joined forces to kill a Venezuelan oil deal in Haiti. ASIA The frightening state of the developing world’s nuclear energy programs. China told U.S. officials it wasn’t selling nuclear reactors to Pakistan, then did it anyway. EUROPE The British government worried that Russian gas behemoth ...

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THE CABLES

THE CABLES

AMERICAS

The U.S. government, Chevron, and Exxon Mobil joined forces to kill a Venezuelan oil deal in Haiti.

ASIA

The frightening state of the developing world’s nuclear energy programs.

China told U.S. officials it wasn’t selling nuclear reactors to Pakistan, then did it anyway.

EUROPE

The British government worried that Russian gas behemoth Gazprom was being run by spies.

THE NEWS

Julian Assange says WikiLeaks "played a significant role" in the Arab Spring, but that "there are no official allegations in the public domain" of anyone being hurt by the site’s document dumps.

HBO has a WikiLeaks film in the works. CNN has a documentary airing this weekend.

President Barack Obama nominates a replacement for the WikiLeaks-deposed U.S. ambassador to Mexico.

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the U.S. government to officially release WikiLeaked cables about the war on terror.

Al Jazeera’s WikiLeaks-inspired document-sharing site isn’t much safer than the Wall Street Journal‘s.

The Swedish Bar Association chastises Assange’s lawyer.

Of course you want to know what Jesse Ventura thinks about WikiLeaks.

Charles Homans is a special correspondent for the New Republic and the former features editor of Foreign Policy.

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