Julian Assange

Julian Assange Rails Against NSA surveillance, Preparing New WikiLeaks Release

March 9, 2014 Martin Bryant, www.thenextweb.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange, NSA

Indeed, Assange said a new WikiLeaks release of “important” material was in the works although he didn’t want to offer a timeframe for its publication as he didn’t want to tip-off “alleged perpetrators.” He criticized the standard journalistic practice of approaching subjects of stories for comment ahead of publication, as it simply gave them time to spin acounter-argument to the allegations. While this may annoy many journalists, it will come as no surprise to anyone who followed the unredacted release of the US diplomatic cables in 2010 and 2011. While the content of the session wasn’t Earth-shattering, it amused us to note the irony that Assange was criticizing NSA surveillance while his head was being displayed next to a Skype logo.

Snowden Documents: Surveillance Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters

February 20, 2014 Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher, www.firstlook.org Educate! Julian Assange, Surveillance, Wars and Militarism, Wikileaks

The attempt to target WikiLeaks and its broad network of supporters drew sharp criticism from the group and its allies. “These documents demonstrate that the political persecution of WikiLeaks is very much alive,” says Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish former judge who now represents the group. “The paradox is that Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks organization are being treated as a threat instead of what they are: a journalist and a media organization that are exercising their fundamental right to receive and impart information in its original form, free from omission and censorship, free from partisan interests, free from economic or political pressure.” For his part, Assange remains defiant. “The NSA and its U.K. accomplices show no respect for the rule of law,” he told The Intercept. “But there is a cost to conducting illicit actions against a media organization.” Referring to a criminal complaint that the group filed last year against “interference with our journalistic work in Europe,” Assange warned that “no entity, including the NSA, should be permitted to act against a journalist with impunity.”

NSA Documents Show How Wikileaks & Allies Were Targeted

February 18, 2014 Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher www.firstlook.org Educate! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange, NSA, Wikileaks

One classified document from Government Communications Headquarters, Britain’s top spy agency, shows that GCHQ used its surveillance system to secretly monitor visitors to a WikiLeaks site. By exploiting its ability to tap into the fiber-optic cables that make up the backbone of the Internet, the agency confided to allies in 2012, it was able to collect the IP addresses of visitors in real time, as well as the search terms that visitors used to reach the site from search engines like Google. Another classified document from the U.S. intelligence community, dated August 2010, recounts how the Obama administration urged foreign allies to file criminal charges against Assange over the group’s publication of the Afghanistan war logs. A third document, from July 2011, contains a summary of an internal discussion in which officials from two NSA offices – including the agency’s general counsel and an arm of its Threat Operations Center – considered designating WikiLeaks as “a ‘malicious foreign actor’ for the purpose of targeting.” Such a designation would have allowed the group to be targeted with extensive electronic surveillance – without the need to exclude U.S. persons from the surveillance searches.

Assange: Obama Surveillance Pledge Will Change Little

January 17, 2014 Staff, http://www.afp.com/ Educate! Julian Assange, NSA, Surveillance, Wikileaks

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday dismissed President Barack Obama's proposals to curb the reach of the National Security Agency (NSA), saying they would change very little. Assange described Obama's speech as "embarrassing", telling CNN in an interview from London that the proposals would have little effect. Obama had been "dragged, kicking and screaming" into making Friday's comments, only because of revelations from Snowden and other intelligence leakers before him, Assange said. "It's embarrassing for a head of state to go on like that for 45 minutes and say almost nothing," Assange told CNN. "He is being very reluctant to make any concrete reforms. And unfortunately today we also see very few concrete reforms." Assange was skeptical that a move obliging NSA agents to seek endorsement from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), before accessing data on a specific target would be effective.

WikiLeaks: Defeating The Conspiracy Of Governance

January 3, 2014 Nozomi Hayase, www.roarmag.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Jeremy Hammond, Julian Assange, Sarah Harrison, Wikileaks

Three years after WikiLeaks came to public prominence, where are we with the equation in Assange’s Conspiracy as Governance? Has it been tested and its solution enacted? As leaked documents continue to shed light on the darkness of the world, illegal wars, drone attacks, bankster heists and corporate dirty deals continue. Yet thanks to Manning, we now have a clearer picture what modern war really looks like and the extent to which the military-industrial complex has morally bankruptcy itself. Thanks to Hammond, we are more aware of the collusion of governments and corporations in a network of spying on activists. Thanks to Snowden’s NSA files, we are now only beginning to see the latent tyranny of an out-of-control surveillance state. 2013 was the year that we saw the courage of individuals who speak truth to power become truly contagious. There is no doubt that in this past year, WikiLeaks and other budding organizations have helped the world move one step closer toward a more humane form of self-governance.

Julian Assange Calls On Hackers To Unite Against NSA Surveillance

December 31, 2013 Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Jeremy Hammond, Julian Assange, NSA, Sarah Harrison, Stratfor, Wikileaks

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addressed a major gathering of computer experts Monday at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, calling on them to join forces in resisting government intrusions on Internet freedom and privacy. We play highlights from Assange’s speech, as well as the one given by Sarah Harrison, the WikiLeaks member who accompanied Edward Snowden to Russia. We also hear from independent journalist and security expert Jacob Appelbaum, who reveals a spying tool used by the National Security Agency known as a "portable continuous wave generator." The remote-controlled device works in tandem with tiny electronic implants to bounce invisible waves of energy off keyboards and monitors to see what is being typed. It works even if the target computer is not connected to the Internet.

Sarah Harrison Contagious Courage

December 4, 2013 John Goetz and Bastian Obermayer, www.international.sueddeutsche.de Resist! Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Sarah Harrison, Wikileaks

Sarah Harrison closes her eyes. She’ll talk, but on the topic of Snowden and his situation in Moscow, she won’t say anything more than what was released in a statement made by Wikileaks on Wednesday. A statement? It’s more of a manifesto. A bit celebratory, as most manifestos are, and a little flat, but quite clear and angry. It begins laconically, “As a journalist, I have spent the last four months with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and arrived in Germany over the weekend.” It ends: “When whistleblowers come forward we need to fight for them, so others will be encouraged. When they are gagged, we must be their voice. When they are hunted, we must be their shield. When they are locked away, we must free them. Giving us the truth is not a crime. This is our data, our information, our history. We must fight to own it.” What a mission. And then just three words: “Courage is contagious.” What a sentence.

Calle 13, Julian Assange, Tom Morello & Kamilya Jubran

November 18, 2013 Democracy Now!, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Arts, Julian Assange, Video

Calle 13, one of Latin America's most popular bands, released a new song this week featuring an unlikely collaborator -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The song, "Multi_Viral," also features Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and the Palestinian singer Kamilya Jubran. To create the lyrics, Calle 13 lead singer and songwriter René Pérez, better known as "Residente," asked followers on Twitter to express their social justice concerns in a live brainstorming session with Assange. This is not the first time Calle 13 has made headlines for its political work. In 2005, the group quickly recorded and released a song about Puerto Rican independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos just hours after he was shot dead by the FBI. They have called for the release of independence activist Oscar López Rivera, who has spent more than 32 years in jail, and have spoken out about police brutality and government spying. His group has won a record 19 Latin Grammy Awards.

The Obama Apology That Is Needed

November 17, 2013 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Create! Democracy, Health Care, Julian Assange, TPP, Wikileaks

My fellow Americans, tonight I want to apologize for the results of my efforts in reforming US healthcare. It is now evident from the roll-out and the technical problems that have been exposed that we have created a complex system in which these types of problems will exist, not just at the beginning in the setting up of a website to sell health insurance, but as the law takes full effect. Therefore, tonight I am announcing my intent to work for a major but simple change in direction.

Watch Mediastan WikiLeaks Challenger To Fifth Estate

October 20, 2013 Staff, www.wikileaks.org Educate! Julian Assange, Wikileaks

WikiLeaks and Sixteen Films have released MEDIASTAN—a WikiLeaks road movie. The release of MEDIASTAN is timed to challenge the UK opening today of THE FIFTH ESTATE - the multi-million dollar Hollywood anti-WikiLeaks movie produced by Dreamworks in collaboration with Disney. UK audiences will be able to watch MEDIASTAN online for free during The Fifth Estate’s opening weekend. WATCH MEDIASTAN FROM THE UK HERE http://wikileaks.org/Mediastan.html from 7pm BST. Video on Demand is available globally from Journeyman Pictures. For the first time ever, audiences get a behind-the-scenes insight into the world’s first truly global media event: "Operation Cablerun" : the 2011 operation during which WikiLeaks ran hundreds of thousands of secret US government cables to media outlets around the world.

Julian Assange Letter To Actor Who Plays Him In Movie

October 10, 2013 Julian Assange, www.wikileaks.org Educate! Julian Assange, Wikileaks

I believe you are a good person, but I do not believe that this film is a good film. I do not believe it is going to be positive for me or the people I care about. I believe that it is going to be overwhelmingly negative for me and the people I care about. It is based on a deceitful book by someone who has a vendetta against me and my organisation. In other circumstances this vendetta may have gone away, but our conflict with the United States government and the establishment press has created a patronage and commissioning market – powerful, if unpopular – for works and comments that are harmful to us. There are dozens of positive books about WikiLeaks, but Dreamworks decided to base its script only on the most toxic. So toxic is the first book selected by Dreamworks that it is distributed to US military bases as a mechanism to discourage military personnel from communicating with us. Its author is publicly known to be involved in the Dreamworks production in an ongoing capacity.

Why Did Wikileaks Post All Its Secrets to Facebook?

August 19, 2013 Aja Romano, www.dailydot.com Educate! Julian Assange, Media, Wikileaks

WikiLeaks abruptly released the files and asked the public to mirror them-on Facebook and Twitter, no less, hardly the place you go to drop off highly classified intelligence. With nothing better to go on, the Internet has decided that "insurance" may be code for "back off" to the U.S. government-coming just before the sentencing of WikiLeaks cause célèbre Bradley Manning. File encryption means that the data is hidden and no one can see what's in the shared files without a key to unlock them-which, of course, hasn't been publicly released. The size of one of the files is 349 gigabytes, which means that there's either A) enough textual data inside to power a nationwide security crisis for the next 300 years or so, or B) a few very incriminating pieces of video footage.

Top TIME Journalist Calls For Drone Killing Of Assange

August 18, 2013 Staff, www.rt.com http://rt.com/news/assange-time-grunwald-twitter-624/ Educate! Julian Assange, Media

The unethical and legally questionable statement made by TIME magazine’s senior national correspondent has been met with a barrage of criticism. Although Michael Grunwald deleted the comment and apologized, WikiLeaks is still pushing for his resignation. The scandal was sparked by a Twitter post on Grunwald’s account which stated that he is eager to write an article on Julian Assange’s execution by a drone. WikiLeaks tweeted that they have sent a letter to the publication demanding Grunwald’s resignation. They have said that the magazine must show that journalists calling for the murder of other journalists is “never acceptable.”

FBI Used ‘Baby-Faced’ Teenager to Spy on, Frame Julian Assange

August 10, 2013 Ryan Gallagher, www.slate.com Educate! Julian Assange, Wikileaks

In an extraordinary sequence of events, Icelandic teenager Sigurdur Thordarson went from accompanying Assange to court hearings in London to secretly passing troves of data on WikiLeaks staff and affiliated activists to the FBI. The now 20-year-old Icelandic citizen’s account is partly corroborated by authorities in Iceland, who have confirmed that he was at the center of a diplomatic row in 2011 when a handful of FBI agents flew in to the country to meet with him—but were subsequently asked to leave after a government minister suspected they were trying to “frame” Assange.

Assange: Journalism Is Now Espionage

July 30, 2013 B y Julian Assange, www.wikileaks.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

Bradley Manning’s alleged disclosures have exposed war crimes, sparked revolutions, and induced democratic reform. He is the quintessential whistleblower. This is the first ever espionage conviction against a whistleblower. It is a dangerous precedent and an example of national security extremism. It is a short sighted judgment that can not be tolerated and must be reversed. It can never be that conveying true information to the public is ’espionage’. In 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama ran on a platform that praised whistleblowing as an act of courage and patriotism. That platform has been comprehensively betrayed. His campaign document described whistleblowers as watchdogs when government abuses its authority. It was removed from the internet last week.

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