Wikileaks Is Changing How History Of These Days Will Be Written

The notoriously easily distracted mainstream media seems far more interested in Julian Assange's broken condom than the near daily jaw-dropping revelations streaming from the American embassies cables streaming from Wikileaks.

When journalists say Wikileaks' CableGate "reveals nothing new" they are either downright lazy, insanely ignorant or are paid to say such things, to play down Cablegate's relevance, their importance, how they will allow historians to tell a truer version of this age of mammothic political change and chaos.

Journalist Greg Mitchell is now more than 80 days into a daily round-up of the latest CableGate revelations, you can find his blog here, but here's some excerpts of a list he recently compiled, all of which came from less than 1% of the total diplomatic cables Julian Assange will be releasing over the next 5 or more years :

-Saudi donors remain the chief financiers of Sunni militant groups like Al Qaeda.

-Saudis (and some other Middle Eastern states) pressed U.S. to take stronger action against Iran.

-Yemeni president lied to his own people, claiming his military carried out air strikes on militants actually done by U.S. All part of giving U.S. full rein in country against terrorists.

-Shocking levels of U.S. spying at the United Nations (beyond what was commonly assumed) and intense use of diplomats abroad in intelligence-gathering roles.

-U.S. tried to get Spain to curb its probes of Gitmo torture and rendition. Saudi king suggested to Obama that we plant micro-chips on Gitmo detainees.

-Cables showed the UK promised in 2009 to protect U.S interests in the official Chilcot inquiry on the start of the Iraq war.

-Potential environmental disaster kept secret by the US when a large consignment of highly enriched uranium in Libya came close to cracking open and leaking radioactive material into the atmosphere. "

-Iraqi government officials see Saudi Arabia, not Iran, as the biggest threat to the integrity and cohesion of their fledgling democratic state.

-Details on Vatican hiding big sex abuse cases in Ireland. Vatican cables so "inflammatory" they could spark violence against Catholics in UK.

-Oil giant Shell claims to have "inserted staff" and fully infiltrated Nigeria's government.

-Cable shows Israel cooperating with Abbas vs. Hamas during Gaza attacks.

-U.K. training death squads in Bangladesh, widely denounced by human rights groups.

-Cable finds U.S. criticizing the Vatican for not supporting population control methods. The U.S. ambassador there lamented, "the Vatican will continue to oppose aggressive population control measures to fight hunger or global warming."

- Hundreds of cables detail U.S. use of diplomats as "sales" agents, more than previously thought, centering on jet rivalry of Boeing vs. Airbus. Hints of corruption and bribes.

-Russia is a "mafia state."

-Israel wanted to bring Gaza to the"brink of collapse."

-Cables on Tunisia appear to help spark revolt in that country. The country's ruling elite described as "The Family," with Mafia-like skimming throughout the economy. The country's First Lady may have made massive profits off a private school.

-U.S. knew all about massive corruption in Tunisia back in 2006 but went on supporting the government anyway, making it the pillar of its North Africa policy.

-The U.S. secret services used Turkey as a base to transport terrorism suspects as part of its extraordinary rendition program.

All this before the release of cables that have helped spark uprisings in Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain.

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