Anti-War | 17 Aug 2015 Three years after Ecuador’s government granted political asylum to Julian Assange in its small ground-floor London embassy, the founder of WikiLeaks is still there – beyond the reach of the government whose vice president, Joe Biden, has labeled him “a digital terrorist.” The Obama administration wants Assange in a U.S.…
HD-Documentaries.com | 22 July 2015 “War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State” highlights the stories of four courageous men compelled to expose acts of illegality and violations to the US constitution during the explosion of the national security state under recent presidential administrations. The film also showcases the journalists who uncovered these…
Sputnik News | 15 Aug 2015 Institute for Public Accuracy Executive Director Norman Solomon claims that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has launched a new era of possibility for democracy around the world by his revelations through leaked documents. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has launched a new era of possibility for democracy around the world by his revelations…
Time | 13 Aug 2015 He still faces a more serious rape allegation Swedish prosecutors have dropped their investigation into two sexual assault allegations — one of sexual molestation and the other of coercion — against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange due to the country’s statute of limitations, AFP reports. Assange is still facing a more…
The Daily Blog | 13 July 2015 The allegations levelled at the NZ Police are serious and deeply concerning. It is very difficult, having read Martyn’s post, to avoid the conclusion that Nicky Hager may be the victim of deliberate political persecution, and that among the principal agents of that persecution may be members of…
Pop Matters | 7 Aug 2015 This is a dangerous book. It also is one whose importance and usefulness is hard to overstate. The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire is a massive attack on the ideological fiction so assiduously promoted by the government and corporate media that the United States is a…
Washington Post | 3 Aug 2015 Recently, WikiLeaks and the profession of international relations have been having a little scuffle. In an Der Spiegel interview, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange laments that the U.S. academy hasn’t engaged with WikiLeaks’ store of leaked diplomatic cables. He suggests that the reason international relations scholars have failed to examine…
John Pilger | 31 July 2015 The siege of Knightsbridge is both an emblem of gross injustice and a gruelling farce. For three years, a police cordon around the Ecuadorean embassy in London has served no purpose other than to flaunt the power of the state. It has cost £12 million. The quarry is an…
NZ Herald | 27 July 2015 The leaking of information can often perform a public service. The Pentagon papers about the war in Vietnam played a crucial role in changing the American public’s perceptions of the war. The secret informant named ‘deep throat’ (later revealed to be an Associate Director of the FBI) most famously…
Stanford Daily | 18 May 2015 ‘If I Had Taken [the NSA] Documents to Congress, I Would’ve Gone to Jail’ Edward Snowden, former NSA infrastructure analyst turned whistleblower, spoke on May 15 to Cubberley Auditorium to discuss the philosophical tensions of whistleblowing and government surveillance. The 2015 Symbolic Systems Distinguished Speaker, Snowden spoke via video…