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Chris Hedges
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By James Cromwell —
The Obama administration has passed or made use of a host of laws to infringe our civil liberties, obliterate the balance of power, legitimize a military dictatorship, and control the dissemination of truth in the name of protecting its “secrets.” Soon we will have lost our freedom, not to some foreign nation that hates it, but to our own devices.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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The WikiLeaks founder revealed internal conversations among employees of Britain’s intelligence agency in which agents apparently speculate that he is the target of a “fit-up” by Swedish authorities seeking his extradition on rape charges.
Posted on May 21, 2013
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Posted on May 20, 2013
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“We are now in the last moments of an effort to, in essence, effectively extinguish press freedom,” the Truthdig columnist told “Democracy Now!” in a conversation Wednesday about revelations of the Justice Department’s seizure of work, home and cellphone records of up to 100 reporters and editors at The Associated Press.
Posted on May 15, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: With marijuana, alone, the administration has adopted multiple, contrary positions. Also: The past and future FCC, why we don’t execute terrorists, and baby books for kids.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: With marijuana, alone, the administration has adopted multiple, contrary positions. Also: The past and future FCC, why we don’t execute terrorists, and baby books for kids.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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By Chris Hedges—The use of vast global resources against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks presages a dystopian world where anyone who exposes corruption, lies and crimes of power will be branded a terrorist.
Posted on May 6, 2013
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In these audio excerpts from their extended conversation in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Chris Hedges asks Julian Assange about legal strategy and the WikiLeaks founder’s thoughts on Pfc. Bradley Manning.
Posted on May 5, 2013
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On any other Monday morning, you’d find Chris Hedges’ latest column in this space. But Chris is in London interviewing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. You can read their discussion next Monday, May 6, at the usual time.
Posted on Apr 28, 2013
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When a staffer at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo posted a link to “The Daily Show” on Twitter, the American and Egyptian governments learned the power of social media; with digital product placement, editors can integrate advertisements into film or television scenes that were never there to begin with; meanwhile, to make way for a parking lot near the 2014 World Cup stadium site in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian authorities are kicking indigenous squatters out. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Apr 12, 2013
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The award-winning director and champion of left-wing causes has defended the WikiLeaks founder against two forthcoming films after revealing that he met Assange at his de facto prison in London’s Ecuadorean Embassy last week.
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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Julian Assange may be holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, but WikiLeaks is still going strong.
Posted on Apr 8, 2013
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Paul Craig Roberts was an assistant secretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan. Like many Americans, he has been wounded by the government he helped create, and he’s tired of being called offensive and depressing for talking about it.
Posted on Apr 6, 2013
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By Marjorie Cohn — This week, Bradley Manning spoke publicly for the first time about his role in the WikiLeaks disclosure. His actions, now confirmed by his own words, reveal him to be a very brave young man.
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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Veteran news anchorman Dan Rather gave a tentative endorsement to WikiLeaks on HuffPost Live on Friday, saying the “controversial” data-dumping group provides the country with “a public service.”
Posted on Feb 23, 2013
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From his de facto prison in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, the WikiLeaks founder intends to seek a seat in the Australian Senate as a member of the newly formed WikiLeaks Party, reports the Australian daily The Age.
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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The government of the United Kingdom plans to allow copyrighted material to be copied for personal use; Julian Assange gives kudos to Bradley Manning from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London; meanwhile, South Africa’s ruling party has called for an official boycott of Israel. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Dec 24, 2012
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In his new book on the global surveillance machine, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and co-authors fail to give the societywide fear “of being lonely and left out” its proper credit as a driver of totalitarianism, Laurie Penny writes on New Statesman.
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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By Alexander Reed Kelly During a televised interview Thursday, CNN host Erin Burnett—one of the network’s star establishment bootlickers—tried to get Julian Assange to incriminate Bradley Manning, the accused WikiLeaks source whose detention conditions were investigated in court this week.
Posted on Dec 1, 2012
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WikiLeaks will continue on despite sustained attacks against it, founder Julian Assange promised during a rare interview Thursday with “Democracy Now!”
Posted on Nov 29, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — Election night was a heck of a party, but morning in America already feels too much like a hangover.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will publish a book called “Cypherpunks” in late November, based on a conversation hosted on his television show with international “hacktivists” and co-authors Jacob Applebaum, Jeremie Zimmermann and Andy Mueller-Maguhn.
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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Speaking from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, a weary Julian Assange denounced the Obama administration for exploiting the Arab Spring for political gain during an address to the United Nations via video link on Wednesday morning. Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald and attorney Michael Ratner comment.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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What happens when the predatory interests of a national security state and those of women’s rights advocates seem to coincide, as in the case of WikiLeaks publisher and accused rapist Julian Assange? A murky witch hunt, in which some liberals forget that suspects are innocent until proven guilty, JoAnn Wypijewski writes in The Nation.
Posted on Aug 31, 2012
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For one reason or another, the media sometimes distort the public’s perception of a situation by treating plain facts as if they are up for debate. This week, Glenn Greenwald called out the New Statesman, long a standard bearing publication of the British left, for just such an offense.
Posted on Aug 25, 2012
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Professional jealousy; dogmatic institutionalism; craven loyalty to power. Glenn Greenwald fires a devastating salvo at the British and American press for their dogged campaign of “disgusting slander” against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Posted on Aug 23, 2012
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Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has said that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is willing to be tried in Sweden for sexual assault charges as long as Swedish authorities guarantee Assange won’t be extradited to the United States.
Posted on Aug 22, 2012
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Noting in a New York Times Op-Ed that much of their work has made “the case that the news media in the United States often fail to inform Americans about the uglier actions of our own government,” filmmakers Michael Moore and Oliver Stone argue that transferring WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to U.S. custody would be disastrous for free speech everywhere.
Posted on Aug 21, 2012
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico —
Posted on Aug 20, 2012
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The WikiLeaks founder discusses his uncertain future from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.
Posted on Aug 20, 2012
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Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: There’s a reason one particular handgun keeps showing up at mass shootings: It works. Also: Paul Ryan and life after journalism.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: There’s a reason one particular handgun keeps showing up at mass shootings: It works. Also: Paul Ryan and life after journalism.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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Michael Ratner, legal adviser to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, applauds Ecuador for standing up to two of the world’s most powerful countries, the United States and the United Kingdom, and says those countries will break international law under the U.N. Refugee Convention if they prevent Assange from accepting asylum in Ecuador.
Posted on Aug 16, 2012
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Ecuador has granted asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but Britain has issued a letter claiming the legal right to forcibly remove him from the embassy if the Ecuadoreans fail to hand him over.
Posted on Aug 16, 2012
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Sources within the Ecuadorean government report that President Rafael Correa has agreed to grant asylum to Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who is wanted by Sweden for alleged sexual misconduct, and by the United States for publishing state secrets.
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali (at right), two of the most active figures on the intellectual left, talk about protest, democracy and how the Arab Spring took the West by surprise.
Posted on Jul 15, 2012
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By Alexander Reed Kelly — It’s the first day of the HOPE conference, and hackers and technology enthusiasts have come to hear NSA whistle-blower William Binney give the meeting’s keynote address.
Posted on Jul 14, 2012
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An Icelandic court gave WikiLeaks a legal boost by ruling that a company formerly run by Visa broke contract laws by blocking credit card donations to the whistle-blowing site. Visa responded by saying the ruling might not apply to its operations.
Posted on Jul 12, 2012
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The online whistle-blowing group WikiLeaks on Thursday began publishing what it claims are more than 2 million emails involving Syrian President Bashar Assad’s inner circle.
Posted on Jul 5, 2012
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been ordered to surrender himself to British police by Friday morning. Assange violated his house arrest to seek political asylum inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London last week. He is hoping to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces questioning for alleged sex crimes.
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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Few people have so fully devoted their lives to exposing abuses of power as WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange.
Posted on Jun 22, 2012
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The WikiLeaks publisher who has been a thorn in the side of many governments now seeks the protection of one. The Ecuadorian Embassy in London is sheltering Assange while Quito reviews his request for asylum.
Posted on Jun 19, 2012
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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange convened a small meeting of friends and leading Web activists from around the world to discuss the future of the free and private flow of information on the Internet.
Posted on Jun 16, 2012
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Alleged Army whistle-blower Pvt. Bradley Manning appeared at a pretrial hearing this week, only the third time he has been seen by the public since he was arrested two years ago. As the defense, prosecution and court officials reviewed the charges against Manning, author and reporter Denver Nicks (above) spoke about Manning’s life before the arrest.
Posted on Jun 8, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — The cases of Pvt. Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet remind us that all too often whistle-blowers suffer, while war criminals walk.
Posted on May 30, 2012
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The verdict in Britain’s Supreme Court did not go well Wednesday for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been fighting extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges. Assange has been granted two weeks to consider his next move, which may be a petition for a retrial.
Posted on May 30, 2012
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In the seventh episode of “The World Tomorrow,” Julian Assange and key Occupy figures from both sides of the Atlantic met in a hollowed-out Deutsche Bank building to talk about the movement’s inception and the challenges it has faced so far.
Posted on May 29, 2012
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Who is doing a better job at revealing the shadowy operations of governments, corporations and others seeking power across the globe: the well-funded American news establishment, or Julian Assange, the suppressed WikiLeaks founder who runs a half-hour interview show while under house arrest in rural southern England?
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The mainstream media was bound to gag on the WikiLeaks editor’s new talk show, which is taped under house arrest, airs on Vladimir Putin’s Russia TV and features Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as its first guest. But the Times review in particular has Glenn Greenwald tweeting nonstop.
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