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WikiLeaks Party unveils Australian election plans
Whistleblowing group WikiLeaks unveiled plans Saturday to field candidates in at least three states in Australia’s elections and said it would be “embarrassing” if Julian Assange won but could not take his seat. Assange, Australian-born founder of the controversial WikiLeaks site, announced that he would run for the Senate last…
Ecuador asks UK to back non-extradition deal for Assange
Diplomat brings up subject of WikiLeaks founder taking refuge in embassy at meeting with shadow foreign secretary Ecuadorean diplomats have raised the case of Julian Assange with the Labour party as part of attempts to lay the groundwork for a resolution of the diplomatic standoff between Britain and the South…
Australian foreign minister: Extradition of Julian Assange to U.S. a ‘sheer fantasy’
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has dismissed as “fantasy” claims by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that Sweden’s case against him is a conspiracy to have him extradited to the United States. Assange has been holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in Britain for eight months as he seeks to avoid extradition…
Assange to Maher: Americans should know how easily their government can kill them
Friday night on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Maher’s first guest was Julian Assange, founder of the website Wikileaks and the author of the book Cypherpunks. Assange was appearing by video from the Ecuadoran embassy in London, where he is living as a virtual prisoner for fear of extradition to…
Former backer says Assange has turned into ‘L. Ron Hubbard’ figure
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange risks turning from a popular hero into an L. Ron Hubbard figure, tolerating only “blinkered, cultish devotion”, said one his former backers Jemima Khan. Claiming Assange had alienated his supporters, Khan, associate editor of the New Statesman, wrote for the weekly British magazine that Assange’s anti-secrecy…
Assange to run for Australian senate: WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will run for a seat in the Australian Senate during this year’s elections, his organisation announced Wednesday, with his mother saying he would be “awesome” in the role. WikiLeaks unveiled the plan with a tweet that read “Australia: Julian Assange has confirmed he will run in…
Julian Assange calls WikiLeaks movie a ‘massive propaganda attack’
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hit out on Wednesday at a Hollywood film about his secret-spilling website, calling the movie “a massive propaganda attack”. Speaking to students at Britain’s prestigious Oxford University by videolink from the Ecuadoran embassy in London, Assange revealed that he had acquired a copy of the script…
Julian Assange: WikiLeaks is preparing to publish one million new secret government documents
Founder of whistleblowing website marks six months’ confinement in Ecuadorean embassy with bullish speech Julian Assange has said that WikiLeaks is preparing to publish 1m new secret government documents as he marked six months of refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London with a speech from its balcony on Thursday.…
Julian Assange to make public speech on Thursday
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will mark six months holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London next Thursday with a public speech, the whistle-blowing website announced on Sunday. WikiLeaks released a Twitter message reading: “London, Thursday December 20, 7PM: Julian Assange to address the crowd in front of the Ecuadorian…
Julian Assange: the fugitive
Julian Assange has been in the Ecuadorian embassy for six months. In a rare interview, Decca Aitkenhead asks the WikiLeaks founder about reports of illness, paranoia – and whether he’ll ever come out The Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge looks rather lavish from the street, but inside it’s not much bigger…
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