Wikileaks (Media)

Wikileaks ("WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists (our electronic drop box). One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth. We are a young organisation that has grown very quickly, relying on a network of dedicated volunteers around the globe. Since 2007, when the organisation was officially launched, WikiLeaks has worked to report on and publish important information. We also develop and adapt technologies to support these activities.

WikiLeaks has sustained and triumphed against legal and political attacks designed to silence our publishing organisation, our journalists and our anonymous sources. The broader principles on which our work is based are the defence of freedom of speech and media publishing, the improvement of our common historical record and the support of the rights of all people to create new history. We derive these principles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In particular, Article 19 inspires the work of our journalists and other volunteers. It states that everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. We agree, and we seek to uphold this and the other Articles of the Declaration."]

Wikpedia: Wikileaks

Democracy Now: Julian Assange

Twitter: @wikileaks


Resources about Wikileaks:

Aftergood, Steven and Glenn Greenwald. "Is WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange a Hero?: A Debate." Democracy Now (December 3, 2010)

"Anonymous and the global correction: A loosely organised group of hackers is targeting oppressive regimes and says this is just the beginning." Al Jazeera (February 16, 2011)

Appelbaum, Jacob. "'We Don’t Live in a Free Country': Jacob Appelbaum on Being Target of Widespread Gov’t Surveillance." Democracy Now (April 20, 2012)

Appelbaum, Jacob, William Binney, and Laura Poitras. "More Secrets on Growing State Surveillance: Exclusive with NSA Whistleblower, Targeted Hacker." Democracy Now (April 23, 2012)

Assange, Julian. "The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’." The New York Times (June 2, 2013)

---. "End the WikiLeaks Witch Hunt: Julian Assange’s Full Address from the Ecuadorean Embassy." Democracy Now (August 20, 2012)

---. "In Conversation with John Pilger (Extended Interview from the documentary The War You Don't See (2010)." Top Documentary Films (2010)

---. "In U.N. Address, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Urges Obama Admin to End 'Regime of Secrecy.'" Democracy Now (September 27, 2012)

---. "Responds to Increasing US Government Attacks on Wikileaks." Democracy Now (August 3, 2010)

---. "On 'When Google Met WikiLeaks' While He was Under House Arrest.'" Democracy Now (January 2, 2015)

---. "Why the World Needs Wikileaks." TED Talks (July 19, 2010)

---. "WikiLeaks, War and Resisting Government Crackdown." Democracy Now (December 31, 2010)

Assange, Julian and Michael Ratner. "Julian Assange on Being Placed on NSA "Manhunting" List & Secret Targeting of WikiLeaks Supporters." Democracy Now (February 18, 2014)

Assange, Julian and Slavoj Zizek. "Discussion About the Pressing Issues of Our Time." Dialogic [Frontline Club event and Democracy Now Special Broadcast: July 2012]

Attewell, Wes, et al. "Leaky Geopolitics: The Rupturesand Transgressions of WikiLeaks." Geopolitics (July 2012)

Beckett, Charlie, et al. "Information Wars." (February 25, 2011)

Benchler, Yochai. "Fear of a Networked Estate." Radio Berkman (April 29, 2011)

---. "A Free Irresponsible Press: Wikileaks and the Battle Over the Soul of the Networked Fourth Estate." Forthcoming essay in Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (Accessed August 17, 2012)

"Berkman Center’s Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic Challenge Injunctions Against Wikileaks and Dynadot." Berkman Center for Internet & Society (February 27, 2008)

Branfman, Fred. "The Significance of the Wikileaks Documents." Antiwar Radio (January 6, 2011)

Broudy, Oliver. "Has Assange Turned Me Into An Anarchist?: WikiLeaks wants to topple the Information State. Bring it on." Mother Jones (December 9, 2010)

Burnside, Julian, John Pilger and Andrew Wilkie. "Breaking Australia's Silence: WikiLeaks and Freedom." Vimeo (Video of a public forum held on March 16, 2011 at the Sydney Town Hall staged by the Sydney Peace Foundation, Amnesty, Stop the War Coalition, and supported by the City of Sydney, Australia)

Chomsky, Noam. "On WikiLeaks, Obama’s Targeted Assassinations and Latin America’s Break from the U.S." Democracy Now (May 14, 2012)

Coleman, Gabriella, Peter Fein, and X. "Hacktivism’s Global Reach, From Targeting Scientology to Backing WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring." (August 16, 2011)

"Egypt Today, Tomorrow the World." Crimethinc. (February 2, 2011)

Ellsberg, Daniel. "Julian Assange is Not a Terrorist." Democracy Now (December 31, 2010)

---. "Open Letter to Amazon." [Personal Website: December 3, 2010)

Ellsberg, Daniel, et al. "The New Pentagon Papers: WikiLeaks Releases 90,000+ Secret Military Documents Painting Devastating Picture of Afghanistan War." Democracy Now (July 26, 2010)

---. "WikiLeaks: Why It Matters. Why It Doesn't?" FORA TV (January 19, 2011)

"Governments vs The Left." Best of the Left (January 1, 2011)

Greenberg, Andy. "An Interview With WikiLeaks' Julian Assange." Forbes (November 29, 2010)

Greenwald, Glenn. "Joe Lieberman emulates Chinese dictators: The Connecticut senator pressures Amazon to block Americans from viewing WikiLeaks documents." Salon (December 2, 2010)

---. "The Media Failed on Wikileaks." (December 3, 2010)

---. "The WikiLeaks Afghanistan leak: What will be the consequences of the greatest government leak since the Pentagon Papers?" Salon (July 25, 2010)

Griffin, Ben and Michael Ratner. "Ecuador Grants Julian Assange Asylum; U.S. Seen as "Hidden Hand" Behind U.K. Threat to Raid Embassy." Democracy Now (August 16, 2012)

Hedges, Chris. "The Death of Truth." TruthDig (May 5, 2013)

Hoffman, David. "A Running Tour of YouTube Nation." Open Source (April 19, 2010)

Hrafnsson, Kristinn. "'The Kissinger Cables': Three Years After 'Collateral Murder,' WikiLeaks Explores U.S. Diplomacy." Democracy Now (April 8, 2013)

Leigh, David. "US Cables Leak Sparks Global Diplomatic Crisis: Classified embassy dispatches reveal Saudi king pressed US for military action on Iran and Washington used diplomats to spy on UN." Common Dreams (November 28, 2010)

Leigh, David, James Ball, Ian Cobain and Jason Burke. The Guantánamo files: Guantánamo leaks lift lid on world's most controversial prison." The Guardian (April 25, 2011)

Lessig, Lawrence and Jonathan Zittrain. "Wikileaks and the Information Wars." Radio Berkman (December 9, 2010)

Ludlow, Peter. "WikiLeaks and Hacktivist Culture." The Nation (October 4, 2010)

McDermott, Quentin. "Wikileaks: The Forgotten Man." Four Corners (June 14, 2012)

McGovern, Ray. "In Support of Imprisoned Wikileaks Whistleblower Pvt. Bradley Manning." AlterNet (August 8, 2010)

Michael, Gabriel J. "Here’s why Julian Assange is picking a fight with international relationships professors." Washington Post (August 3, 2015)

Murray, Craig. "America’s Vassal Acts Decisively and Illegally." (Personal Website: August 16, 2011)

Pilger, John. "The siege of Julian Assange is a farce - a special investigation." (November 16, 2014)

"Questions for Secretary Clinton concerning "Internet freedom"." Berkman Center for Internet & Society (February 15, 2011)

Ratner, Michael. "Exposed: U.S. May Have Designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks an 'Enemy of the State.'" Democracy Now (September 27, 2012)

Roberts, Paul Craig. "Our Time of Universal Deceit Needs an Orwell ." Foreign Policy Journal (March 14, 2011)

Rosen, Jay. "The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization." Press Think (July 26, 2010)

---. "The Watchdog Press Died; We Have This Instead." Vimeo (2011)

Scahill, Jeremy. "The World Is a Battlefield: Jeremy Scahill on "Dirty Wars" and Obama’s Expanding Drone Attacks." Democracy Now (April 24, 2013)

Schor, Francis. "WikiLeaks, Ideological Legitimacy and the Crisis of Empire." Truthout (January 2, 2o11)

Slajda, Rachel. "After Getting Amazon To Boot Wikileaks, Lieberman Eyes Other Firms (VIDEO)." Talking Points Memo (December 2, 2010)

"Snowden, Greenwald, Wikileaks & the NSA." Media Roots (May 29, 2014)

Vidal-Hall, Judith. "A press fit for the purpose?: Finding a new model for press and public service broadcasting." Eurozine (December 31, 2010)

Werve, Jonathan. "Wikileaks and Internet Censorship: a comparative study." IndyMedia UK (February 22, 2008)

"Wikileaks 'hacked ahead of secret US document release'." BBC (November 28, 2010)

"Wikileaks Hounded." Reporters Without Borders (April 12, 2010)

"Wikileaks -- Key Players: Meet Eight of the Central Players in the Wikileaks Saga as They Reveal the Story Behind the Story that Took the World by Storm." ABC News (2011)

"Wikileaks: The Truth is Out There." Rap News (December 17, 2010) [Satirical Commentary Video Series -- this is a cultural example of the controversy]

Zeese, Kevin. "Bradley Manning and the Rule of Law." Truthout (January 14, 2011)

Zelaya, Manuel. "The U.S. Role in Honduran Coup, WikiLeaks and Why He Was Ousted." Democracy Now (May 31, 2011)