• Guardian, Friday, October 15, 2010 1:47 PM

Is the US government obstructing the growth of WikiLeaks? So says the whistle-blowing Web site, which, according to the Guardian, "claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government." Specifically, British Web payment company Moneybookers reportedly shut down WikiLeaks' account because it had been put on an official U.S. watchlist, as well as an Australian government blacklist.

As the Guardian reports, the alleged blacklisting followed the Pentagon publicly expressing its outrage at WikiLeaks -- and its founder, Australian citizen Julian Assange -- for obtaining thousands of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is preparing for WikiLeaks to release another 400,000 secret military reports, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. "The massive release is set to dwarf the whistleblower website's publication of 77,000 classified US military documents on the war in Afghanistan in July," the paper reports.

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