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Call for UK judicial impartiality after Julian Assange’s arrest
2010-12-07
Reporters without Borders
Following WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s arrest by the British police today, Reporters Without Borders urge respect for his defence rights despite the extreme tension surrounding this case.
Ecuador grants political asylum to WikiLeaks founder
2012-08-17
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders takes note of Ecuador's decision to grant political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who sought refuge in its embassy in London.
Justice department ordered Twitter to hand over details of users linked to WikiLeaks
2011-01-11
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders deplores the US Department of Justice’s apparent determination to prosecute WikiLeaks and its leading supporters.
NGO gains access to Guantanamo documents but double standard still prevails
2011-03-07
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release of Department of Defence documents on 2 March that shed light on the Bush administration’s policies on the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
Reporters Without Borders to host WikiLeaks mirror site
2010-12-23
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders has opened a mirror website for the US diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks. Its address will be wikileaks.rsf.org.

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Assange and Posada in the Propaganda System
Mixed Media
Herman, Edward S.; Peterson, David
Article
2011
CounterPunch
Posada's case is a dramatic illustration of the fraudulence of the so-called "War on Terror" and highlights the U.S. refusal to abide by the rule of law. Assange's case shows well the U.S. establishme...
Assange completes second year in Ecuadorean embassy in London
Article
2014
Reporters Without Borders
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has just completed his second year under permanent British police surveillance in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he sought refuge to avoid extradition to the ...
CIA Chief Declares War on Truth
BoardmAN, William
Article
2017
Dissident Voice
Mike Pompeo made it clear that he has little regard for truth, for personal decency, or for the Constitutional protections for free speech or for the free exercise of religion. It was an altogether c...
The CIA director is waging war on truth-tellers like WikiLeaks
Assange, Julian
Article
2017
The Washington Post
Mike Pompeo, in his first speech as director of the CIA, chose to declare war on free speech rather than on the United States’ actual adversaries.
Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs
Article
2011
Medialens
The mainstream media have distorted and deceived in their coverage of the Wikileaks story to manufacture, isolate and target a 'threat' for destruction.
Fighting Secrecy and the National Security State
An Interview With Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Co-Producer of WikiLeaks's "Collateral Murder" Video
Bernstein, Dennis
Article
2013
Counter Punch
An interview with Iceland Member of Parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir of the Pirate Party on the status of the international struggle against government secrecy and surveillance.
The Global Battle for Free Speech
WikiLeaks: Bringing the First Amendment to the World
Hayase, Nozomi
Article
2014
Counterpunch
Since 2011, waves of global uprisings have been erupting as never before. The crisis of representation helped spawn decentralized movements as a manifestation of people’s aspiration to take the reins ...
GovernmentSources.ca
Website
A portal with information about government, Canadian and international, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and impor...
Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work
Edwards, David
Article
2012
Medialens
The media response to Assange’s asylum request tells us much about the default brutality and reflexive herdthink of elite corporate journalism. The crucial importance of his achievements, of his cause...
The Institutionalization of Tyranny
When Victory Has Nothing to do With Justice
Roberts, Paul Craig
Article
2013
CounterPunch
Republicans and conservative Americans are still fighting Big Government in its welfare state form. Apparently, they have never heard of the militarized police state form of Big Government, or, if the...
IntelligentSearch.ca
Website
2017
Sources
A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make ...
John Pilger: The dirty war on WikiLeaks
Pilger, John
Article
2012
Green Left
War by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real enemy is the public at home, whose manipulation and deception is essential for starting an un...
Journalistic Malpractice at the Post and the Times
Rejecting the Offer of Evidence of US War Crimes
Lindorff, David
Article
2013
Counterpunch
Wikileaks source Bradley Manning is evidence that the USA’s two leading news organizations, the Washington Post and the New York Times, are not willing to report critically of the government.
Just because they hunt witches doesn't mean we have
Malik, Kenan
Article
2010
Goteborgs-Posten
The Big Brother defence of WikiLeaks is that if everyone had a camera upon them, society would be a better place. This is a view that fails to distinguish between the need to control those who possess...
Just When You Thought 'Russiagate' Couldn't Get Any Sillier
Knapp, Thomas
Article
2018
Counterpunch
The lawsuit against the Trump campaign, the Russian government and WikiLeaks is simply the latest version of what the DNC has been doing since 2016, which is trying to fob blame for its loss of an ele...
Know who you’re working for and why you’re working
Huertas, Carlos Eduardo
Article
2012
ICIJ
Colombian ICIJ member Carlos Eduardo Huertas talks about the traits of a good investigative journalist, his experience with Wikileaks and why tackling the big, important themes – and sticking to them ...
Osama Bin Laden, Bradley Manning and Me
Blum, William
Article
2013
Counterpunch
As far as can be deduced, the government believes that the documents and videos that Bradley Manning gave to Wikileaks, which Wikileaks then widely distributed to international media, aided the enemy ...
The Persecution of Wikileaks
Burning the Messenger
Rothenberg, James
Article
2012
CounterPunch
There is a landmark case, actually more of an affair, involving the US government and WikiLeaks, the online organization that provides anonymity for sources to leak information. The US feels it has le...
Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free Speech
Hayase, Nozomi
Article
2017
CounterPunch
US authorities are reported to have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This overreach of US government toward a publisher is another sign of a crumbling façade of...
The pursuit of Julian Assange is an assault on freedom and a mockery of journalism
Pilger, John
Article
2012
Four years ago, a barely noticed Pentagon document, leaked by WikiLeaks, described how WikiLeaks and Assange would be destroyed with a smear campaign leading to "criminal prosecution". We are witnessi...
Revealed: How DOJ Gagged Google over Surveillance of WikiLeaks Volunteer
Gallagher, Ryan
Article
2015
The Intercept
The Obama administration fought a legal battle against Google to secretly obtain the email records of a security researcher and journalist associated with WikiLeaks.
The Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth
Pilger, John
Article
2015
Dissident Voice
Pilger discusses the challenges that we encounter as Western governments and media actively seek to supress any political consciousness and independent thought.
The Secret Secret
Of Wikileaks and Literacy
Johnson, Jimmy
Article
2010
CounterPunch
Only those with proper clearances can participate in discussions that affect significant aspects of our lives. Certain technological achievements, our collective ethical decisions (torture, secret pri...
10 years in prison for circulating information in public interest
Article
2013
Reporters without Borders
Jeremy Hammond, a 28-year-old WikiLeaks informant and cyber-activist linked to Anonymous, has become the fourth whistleblower to receive a long jail sentence this year in the United States.
US Military Brands Assange, WikiLeaks As "The Enemy"
Van Auken, Bill
Article
2012
Countercurrents
Secret US Air Force documents reveal that the American military has branded WikiLeaks and its editor Julian Assange as "the enemy", placing them on a legal par with Al Qaeda and threatening them with ...
US Still Fighting "Threat" of Liberation Theology
The Wikileaks Revelations
Kovalik, Daniel
Article
2013
CounterPunch
The assault on the Church in Colombia is both state policy of Colombia as well as the United States which is propping up that military with billions of dollars of assistance, and which views organized...
War by media and the triumph of propaganda
Pilger, John
Article
2014
The world is facing the prospect of major war, perhaps nuclear war -- with the United States clearly determined to isolate and provoke Russia and eventually China. This truth is being turned upside do...
Who to Believe: The CIA and Corporate Media or WikiLeaks?
Without Substantiation, Media Integrity Suffers
Petersen, Kim
Article
2017
Dissident Voice
Imagine if justice were administered mainly on hearsay (ignoring the fact that justice is too often lacking in society). It is a cardinal rule of justice that rendering a decision of guilty must only ...
WikiLeaks: Conspiracy of Governance to the Courage to Inspire
The Moral Math of Our Time
Hayase, Nozomi
Article
2014
CounterPunch
WikiLeaks emerged into the limelight like a call to the conscience of humanity. They released secret documents revealing Kenyan government corruption, Iceland’s financial collapse, the criminality of ...
WikiLeaks, Corruption and the Super Injunction
Suppression and Information
Kampmark, Binoy
Article
2014
Counterpunch
In Australia, whose institutions still pride themselves on an antiquated obsession with aspects of English gagging, suppression orders do retain a certain mystique. They certainly do in the Australian...
WikiLeaks: 10 Years of Pushing the Boundaries of Free Speech
Hayase, Nozomi
Article
2016
CounterPunch
We are now entering WikiLeaks 10 year anniversary. The organization registered their domain on October 4, 2006 and blazed into the public limelight in the spring of 2010 with the publication of Collat...
Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island
The Anti-Empire Report
Blum, William
Article
2011
CounterPunch
WikiLeaks Vault 7 Reveals CIA Cyberwar and the Battleground of Democracy
Hayase, Nozomi
Article
2017
Dissident Voice
WikiLeaks dropped a bombshell on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named “Vault 7”, the whistleblowing site began releasing the largest publication of confidential documents that have come fr...

Sources Bookshelf

The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire
Assange, Julian et al
Book
2015
A compilation of contributions from WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange, WikiLeaks section editor Sarah Harrison, and a team of journalists, professors, and writers. The book is full of eye-openi...


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