This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
Julian Assange
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Hacktivists Are Helping Fight Terrorism. So Why Do So Many of Them Face Jailtime?
America's aggressive sentencing against computer crimes is unmatched by any nation, despite the U.S.'s long and storied history of celebrating peaceful civil disobedience.
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Why the World Needs WikiLeaks
Despite the mounting legal and political pressure coming from Washington, we continue to publish valuable material, and submissions keep pouring in.
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Act Out! [75] - More Yellowstone, Less Climate Change & Who’s Going Green in 2016
This week, we're celebrating 100 years of national parks by pushing for more of them.
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UN Panel Calls On U.K. and Sweden to End Julian Assange's "Deprivation of Liberty"
The WikiLeaks founder has been arbitrarily detained by the U.K. and Sweden for more than five years and should be released immediately with compensation, according to a Geneva-based UN working group on arbitrary detention.
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Julian Assange and the Value of WikiLeaks
This is a dangerous person, in words and deeds – dangerous to those who constantly make a killing from war, vast inequities and the plunder of the planet.
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Wikileaks Publishes the Saudi Cables
The release of more than half a million cables and documents from the Saudi Foreign Ministry contains top secret reports and communications – to be published in numerous tranches over the coming weeks.
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"Anything To Say?" Statue of Snowden, Assange, Manning Honors Whistleblowers In Berlin
“They have lost their freedom for the truth, so they remind us how important it is to know the truth."
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Wikileaks Releases Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Investment Chapter
The classified document, which was supposed to be kept secret for four years, highlights the creation of a supra-national court where foreign firms can "sue" states and obtain taxpayer compensation for "expected future profits."
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Susan Sarandon and Slavoj Žižek Lead Celebrity Call for Greater Whistleblower Protections
The public can finally see for themselves the war crimes, corruption, mass surveillance and abuses of power of the U.S. government and other governments around the world.
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The Games of #GamerGate: Unpacking the Latest Viral Controversy
As with Occupy Wall Street, the organic rise of the GamerGate movement – though sprung from an environment as politically irrelevant as video games – is creating odd alliances and surprising bedfellows.
