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Guardian PR war against WikiLeaks + "WikiLeaks: Secrets and Lies" Guardian Documentary

The Guardian has continued its war on WikiLeaks with three new attacks over 48... more

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Assange Says US Government Demands Wikileaks Destroy All Files About Them

November 28, 2011 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has told a media summit that... more

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‘They Found Nothing. Nothing’ - The IAEA, Iran And ‘Fantasy Land’

Earlier this month, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its... more

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Update: Wikileaks, Assange and Manning

YEAR AFTER INTRODUCING US TO BRADLEY MANNING, WIIRED ATTEMPTS TO COME CLEAN BY... more

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WikiLeaks Publishing Classified Documents Hasn't Resulted In Anyone Being Harmed

HAY-ON-WYE, Wales — No one has come to harm as a result of WikiLeaks'... more

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Very Powerful Words of Advice from Conservation Activist Tim De Christophe ~ To All Protestors, Activists & Senators in Wisconsin !

Gerard Ange' / GAP NEWS ~ 03-04-11 Conservation activist Tim De Christophe... more

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Julian Assange helped Victorian police investigating child sex probe in the 1990s

JULIAN Assange, who faces an anxious two week wait on whether he will be extradited to... more

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WikiLeaks and Israel: Assange chose not to publish cables

Agoravox is a public service news site located near Strasbourg, France. Two days ago,... more

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Assange threatens a deluge of secret info if Wiki is shut down

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has warned of releasing "encrypted keys"... more

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Assange Vs Zuckerberg

Julien Assange Vs Mark Zuckerberg

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Ellsberg and Assange

Video of conversation between Daniel Ellsberg and Julian Assange.

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Interview: Julian Assange on Murdoch, Manning and the threat from China

the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange talks to John Pilger about Bradley Manning, his... more

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Online USA News: WikiLeaks' Assange back in UK court

Fighting to avoid extradition to Sweden, WikiLeaks founder returns to court for a... more

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Publisher confirms Julian Assange book deal

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says hes being forced into penning an autobiography... more

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Wikileaks Censorship…Should this be the Job of Steve Jobs of Apple?

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We Open Governments: WikiLeaks for Beginners

Is Julian Assange a Transparency Activist Par Excellence or an Anarchist “Minister of Chaos”?

Read the full article here: http://bit.ly/gAOpqT

"WikiLeaks is really one of the very few, if not the only group, effectively putting fear into the hearts of the world’s most powerful and corrupt people, and that’s why they deserve, I think, enthusiastic support from anyone who truly believes in transparency, notwithstanding what might be valid, though relatively trivial, criticisms…" – Glenn Greenwald

Love him or hate him, Julian Assange has become the (rather handsome, if a bit pasty) face of the global movement for government and corporate transparency. Through WikiLeaks, Assange has, arguably, helped release more classified information than the rest of the entire world press combined. Assange says this reveals the "perilous state of the rest of the media" and rightly asks how a team as small as his could accomplish such a feat in just four years of existence. WikiLeaks has hit all the bases – the media, governments, and corporations are all scrambling to address the consequences of the leaks. Beyond the damage control and the dirty tricks, a radical and fundamental shift in the balance of power is underway. Let’s just say that folks aren’t calling Assange an anarchist for nothing. But what is the rationale behind WikiLeaks, its methods, its goals? Don’t expect an answer from the media. The reasons behind the project have long been overlooked by the mainstream press, captivated as it is with its own sensationalistic ‘hit pieces’ on Assange month after month and its alarmist or just plain misguided attempts to explain how and why WikiLeaks presumes to “open governments” as only it can.

The Empire has no clothes
From WikiLeaks, we have learned the truth about who's dropping whose bombs, the Afghan Vice President who ripped off $52 million dollars from Allah knows where (see the leaked cable for yourself), the US military’s helicopter attack on civilians and journalists, government-backed torture, the uncounted murders of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan people, and even what every country secretly wants for Christmas. We have it on video, on paper, and it’s all over the all-mighty Internet. Thanks to WikiLeaks and fellow whistleblowers, we don’t just have the truth about these horrors, we now have the proof of them.

WikiLeaks is the outcome of much theorizing on the part of Assange and his colleagues and is one of the boldest experiments in opening governments and creating transparency in the world, ever. It’s also one of the most anarchic and prescient. Assange himself has described a cohesive framework for understanding the purpose of WikiLeaks. And while you might want to grab a cup of coffee before diving into reading his essays, his writing doesn’t demand that you also grab a dictionary, or a wiktionary, to decipher it.

Assange begins his essay “State and Terrorist Conspiracies” by defining the efforts of authoritarian regimes to conceal their plans as conspiratorial. He argues: “Authoritarian regimes give rise to forces which oppose them by pushing against the individual and collective will to freedom, truth and self realization. Plans which assist authoritarian rule, once discovered, induce resistance. Hence these plans are concealed by successful authoritarian powers. This is enough to define their behavior as conspiratorial.” And who are the conspirators in these conspiratorial regimes? They are the government officials, bureaucrats, agents, and employees who regularly keep their decision-making processes and plans from the public. They often rely on secrecy to ensure the smooth functioning of their departments, offices, and agencies and to maintain their positions of power and influence.

You won’t find a list of specific regimes that Assange deems conspiratorial in his essay. It is enough for him to describe their patterns and to develop frameworks that further our understanding. Whether we think that it is justified or not, states like the US rely on secrecy in order to function, a characteristic shared with authoritarian regimes. Assange theorizes that the way to effectively undermine conspiratorial behavior is to prevent or impede the ability of a regime’s personnel to communicate, to conspire, with one another. If a government cannot communicate internally, it cannot longer function normally.

Article continues at link: http://bit.ly/gAOpqTIs Julian Assange a Transparency Activist Par Excellence or an Anarchist... more

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Assange Fears US Indictment On Spying Charges.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has told Sky News he expects an indictment on US... more

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Anyone who supports WikiLeaks needs to forget about Assange

The current and future legal troubles of the Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, are utterly and completely irrelevant to the cause that Wikileaks claims to be defending. Whether or not he enjoys "sex by surprise" does not change the content of the diplomatic cables nor does it change the fact that the data in the insurance file can be potentially world changing. Mr. Assange is merely a messenger. He did nothing more than receive a computer file and post portions of it online. His sacrifice is trivial by comparison to that of Bradley Manning. Assange is currently on "Mansion Arrest" in a gorgeous 10 bedroom country estate. Mr. Manning has been through several months of solitary confinement while being deprived of a pillow, of exercise, of the many luxuries that Mr. Assange is most likely currently indulging himself in. To turn Assange into some sort of hero is to not only insult the sacrifice of Mr. Manning but to also attach significance to the smear campaign that the US government has put together. The United States is a celebrity obsessed culture, which means that Assange's actions and circumstances will supersede the content of the cables whenever Wikileaks is on the news. The data and only the data matters. The information in the cables is capable of changing the world view of millions. Assange did not create the file and therefore has no right to run around like he is a hero of democracy by crying foul over accusations of inappropriate sexual relations. If he truly believes in his mission, he would give up the password to the insurance file. Or rather, he would tell the US Government that he will release the password unless the only person who has truly made a sacrifice, Bradley Manning, is freed from prison. Instead, Assange chooses to play the hero/savior while taking credit for the leak and more or less stealing money from an ignorant public who believes that Assange must me saved to defend a truly free democratic state of being. I for one, say forget about him....The current and future legal troubles of the Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, are... more

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