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2024, The Spectator Australia
Some are celebrating the release of Julian Assange while others beg to differ. Were his actions those of a whistleblower interested in calling out war crimes and human rights violations? Or were his actions those of a traitor? Was it freedom of the press or a childish action by a self-centred activist with financial interest that threatened the lives of our military personnel and the lives of our allies?
This book is about Julian Assange and Wikileaks. This Australian citizen and his global news agency are household names. For many, their basic narrative requires no introduction. This text takes nothing for granted. Part 1 of this volume titled ‘Who’ defines Assange’s narrative. Part two of this book outlines the personal and professional accomplishments of Julian Assange with reference to his Wikileaks related ventures. The following two parts explore ‘where’ and ‘when’ matters concerning the same context. This section concludes by presenting a bullet point summary of key milestones of Julian Assange’s involvement with Wikileaks since 2006. Parts five to ten of this book explore Wikileaks as an institution. I examine its objectives, ideology, modus operandi at the organizational level, separate to its founder, Julian Assange. This section also explores victories, external criticisms and setbacks of Wikileaks over the past 13 years. The next demarcated section titled ‘Witch hunt’ examines accusations that Wikileaks has engaged in gross journalistic misconduct and other transnational crimes. I conclude this book by examining recent developments that concern Julian Assange and Wikileaks as at mid-August 2019. Julian Assange Wikileaks
This essay updates (to early 2019) earlier work on the WikiLeaks story in order to consider what more recent developments reveal about the theoretical promise that Assange articulated at the time of the website’s emergence. Assange has characterized secrecy as both a form and symptom of corruption, and ultimately as the foundation of a “conspiracy” of governance that states like the U.S. inflict on their subjects and the world. He advocates a non-political, vigilante form of transparency in which WikiLeaks serves as a neutral entity that will save the public and free the world with information. He predicted that corrupt political orders would fall as the threat of exposure forces the collapse of their conspiratorial communication networks. But WikiLeaks has failed not only to save the world but to save itself from politics—and in the process has itself become a bit player in the larger geo-political drama that it had hoped to disrupt. Assange’s theory of information disclosure, as well as his assumptions about the state and governing institutions, have proven far too descriptively and normatively simple. More prominent, less radical theories of transparency should take note of these failures to the extent that they share many of his assumptions.
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The ‘world’s most wanted man,’ Edward Snowden, might be one of the most polarizing figures in modern history. This is particularly true in the United States, where the debates pertaining to his leaks of classified information could not be more divided. Many Americans, including senior level government officials, have publicly argued that Snowden is a cowardly traitor, and have forcefully stated their belief that Snowden should return home to face a myriad of criminal charges, including those under the 1917 Espionage Act. However, many others have gone to great lengths and taken immense personal risks to support Snowden and help further his goal of bringing to light some of the most egregious surveillance abuses ever released into the public sphere.
About the recent development and extradition of Julian Assange to Sweden. I look into the main issues of the European Arrest Warrant in connection to due process.
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In June 2013, Edward Snowden burst onto the world media scene. He had worked as a contractor for the National Security Agency and collected a vast quantity of top-secret documents. Snowden leaked the documents to the Guardian, a well-known British newspaper and media group, revealing that the NSA had been secretly carrying out extensive spying on electronic communications. Snowden quickly became one of the world\u27s best known whistleblowers. As well as extensive commentary in the mass and social media, several major books have been published about him and his revelations
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Future Commemoration of the Trial of Julian Assange: A Passion Play for Truth reframing the Christian glorification of speaking truth to power2020 •
Cast of characters in speaking truth to power: key role of women? Tricoteuses -- relishing the repression of truth? Fake news -- "let them eat cake"? Show trials, mock trials and regicides in a period of farce? Passion for truth as highlighted by a play Ambiguities regarding the justice of a trial Kangaroo court -- for the trial of an Australian? Paradox of folk heroism? Secretive security services constraining Assange? Appropriate symbolic alternative to crucifixion for Assange?
special to Consortium News, February 10, 2020 https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/10/julian-assange-wins-2020-gary-webb-freedom-of-the-press-award/ Imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has been awarded Consortium News’ 2020 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award for courage in the face of an unprecedented attack on press freedom.
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