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Paypal has just resumed its services to the Bradley Manning Defense Fund after initially disabling the account. The online financial transactions company claimed the service disruption had nothing to do with politics. But Courage to Resist, which runs the Bradley Manning Defense Fund, accused Paypal of being “morally bankrupt” and warned other non-profits with Paypal accounts. Army Private Bradley Manning is the young soldier kept for nearly a year in solitary confinement for allegedly leaking classified information to the whistleblowing organization Wikileaks. Paypal has also been the target of activists’ wrath for cutting off their services to Wikileaks. The international scandals that broke last year as a result of numerous document releases by Wikileaks in conjunction with other media outlets, put the organization and its editor-in-chief Julian Assange in the crosshairs of the White House, overzealous rightwing lawmakers and media personalities, and the justice systems of several countries. The New York Times, Guardian of London, Le Monde of France and other Wikileaks collaborators were spared the pariah-like treatment despite playing a major role in the dissemination of the leaked documents. At the heart of the differential treatment is the notion that Wikileaks is not really a journalistic institution. Or is it? A new analysis by Kevin Zeese asserts that Wikileaks and Julian Assange are “at the forefront of 21st Century Journalism.”

GUEST: Kevin Zeese, Executive Director of Voters For Peace, and serves on the steering committees of WikiLeaksIsDemocracy.org and the Bradley Manning Support Network.

Read Kevin Zeese’s article here: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/01-4