Wired | 21 Oct 2015 WikiLeaks may describe itself as an outlet for whistleblowers, but it’s never hesitated to publish stolen documents offered up by a helpful hacker, either. So it’s no surprise that it’s now leaked the pilfered files of the CIA’s director, John Brennan. On Wednesday, the secret-spilling group published a series of…
The Guardian | 19 Oct 2015 Lawyers for Julian Assange say they are considering launching a fresh appeal against his Swedish arrest warrant, following the publication of correspondence between prosecutors in Britain and Sweden. The Wikileaks founder’s legal team say the documents show Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service and Marianne Ny, the prosecutor in Sweden seeking…
The Guardian | 9 Oct 2015 Wikileaks has released what it claims is the full intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the controversial agreement between 12 countries that was signed off on Monday. TPP was negotiated in secret and details have yet to be published. But critics including Democrat presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton…
RT | 8 Sept 2015 “Academic censorship” in journalism and foreign relations is one of the US’ greatest sins according to whistleblower Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Assange spoke to RT about the “US Empire” and mechanisms it uses to expand its powers worldwide. “Obama has prosecuted more whistleblowers under the espionage act than…
VIce | 2 Sept 2015 It was a “bleak week.” That’s how US State Department director of policy planning Anne-Marie Slaughter described it in a November 2010 email to Hillary Clinton, one day after WikiLeaks caused an international diplomatic crisis when it released more than 250,000 classified cables from US foreign embassies around the world. Clinton, who…
Verso | 31 Aug 2015 The WikiLeaks Files – the only comprehensive analysis of the full archive of diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks – is an essential reference for understanding the contours of American policy. For example, the current war in Syria. The US strategically schemed to cause unrest in Syria against the incumbent Bashar al-Assad…
Newsweek | 28 Aug 2015 In an introduction to a new book, The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to U.S. Empire (Verso, 2015), Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange explains how the leaked U.S. documents have lifted the veil on the imperialist nature of American foreign policy. One day, a monk and two novices found a heavy…
Wall St Journal | 17 Aug 2015 Crowdfunding has gotten startups off the ground. Now it’s being used to a more controversial end: WikiLeaks is crowdfunding with the goal of leaking information about impending trade deals. The whistleblowing platform, famous for revealing U.S. State Department cables, last week launched a campaign on its website to…
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.…
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…