Le fondateur de #WikiLeaks Julian #Assange vient de s’alarmer des pressions exercées par les autorités américaines sur certains réseaux sociaux, dont #Twitter et #Facebook. D’après lui, il y a même eu un inquiétant glissement, ce qui l’amène à affirmer que ces derniers « sont aux ordres de #Washington ».
#Julian #Assange #candidat #sénatorial .
http://www.argotheme.com/organecyberpresse/spip.php?article1631
#Webjournaliste, avide et épris de #vérité, sur la voie #politique
#WikiLeaks est une #organisation de #Web #Journalistes et son travail est connu dans le #monde entier. Son fondateur, #JulianAssange a déposé son #dossier pour briguer un siège au #Senat #australie n, son pays. L’ #information a été rapportée par le site d’ #informations « #THEAGE » qui précise que cette #candidature est faite sous les couleurs d’un nouveau parti ayant aussi le nom de « Wikileaks ».
Wired publishes the full Manning-Lamo chat logs - Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/2011/07/14/wired_7
Compare the claims #Wired magazine made about what it concealed to what it was actually hiding
Comment Wikileaks a explosé en plein vol « InternetActu.net
►http://www.internetactu.net/2012/09/03/comment-wikileaks-a-explose-en-plein-vol
L’une d’elles est que #Wikileaks a accepté d’être associé à un agenda politique particulier : celui d’Assange. Cela concerne aussi la question de l’anti-américanisme. #Assange a déclaré qu’il ne considérait pas le site comme antiaméricain et il est vrai que les fuites n’ont pas exclusivement visé les Etats-Unis. Une des premières fuites importantes de Wikileaks concernait le Kenya – et il y a d’autres exemples. Néanmoins, depuis 2010, il est assez difficile de défendre l’idée que Wikileaks est un système de transmission neutre. Presque toutes ses opérations majeures ont visé le gouvernement américain et des entreprises américaines. Même quand il annonce la publication de télégrammes syriens en juillet dernier, Assange est prompt à déclarer que ces documents sont gênants pour la Syrie, mais aussi pour ses alliés. Assange n’a pas accru sa crédibilité avec son talk-show The World Tomorrow, diffusé par RT (une chaîne créée par le gouvernement russe) dans le premier épisode duquel il a réalisé une interview un peu complaisante du leader du Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah. Par ailleurs, Assange, défenseur de la transparence, se retrouve maintenant en ménage avec Rafael Correa, le président équatorien, qui n’est pas connu pour être un grand défenseur de la liberté de la presse. Le gouvernement américain a sans doute toujours considéré Assange comme une menace, mais il aurait été plus écouté par les Américains critiques du fonctionnement de leur administration s’il n’avait pas tout fait pour passer pour antiaméricain. D’autant qu’après avoir dit détenir des documents compromettants pour le Kremlin, on n’a jamais rien vu sortir, ni sur la Russie, ni sur la Chine.
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“Je suis le coeur et l’âme de cette organisation, son fondateur, son philosophe, son porte-parole, son premier codeur, son organisateur, son financier et tout le reste. Si tu as un problème avec ça, va te faire foutre”, a écrit Assange à l’un de ses bénévoles islandais… qui a pris Assange au mot et a quitté l’organisation, comme beaucoup d’autres.
Assange : que les Etats-Unis cessent la « chasse aux sorcières »
http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2012/08/19/assange-demande-que-les-etats-unis-cessent-la-chasse-aux-sorcieres_840542
Julian #Assange told to turn himself in at London police station | Media | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/28/julian-assange-london-police-station
A spokesman for the Metropolitan police service said: “The MPS have this morning, Thursday 28 June, served a surrender notice upon a 40-year-old man that requires him to attend a police station at date and time of our choosing. This is standard practice in extradition cases and is the first step in the removal process.”
He said Assange remained in breach of his bail conditions, adding: “Failing to surrender would be a further breach of conditions and he is liable to arrest.”
Earlier this week, a letter signed by leading US figures in support of Assange’s application for political asylum in Ecuador was delivered to the country’s London embassy. Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover. Others who put their names to it included the author Naomi Wolf, comedian Bill Maher and Daniel Ellsberg, the former US military analyst turned whistleblower, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and has been a long-standing supporter of Assange.
Robert Naiman, policy director at the Just Foreign Policy campaign group, delivered the letter to the embassy on Monday, along with a petition signed by more than 4,000 Americans urging President Rafael Correa to approve Assange’s request for asylum.
Dear President Correa,
We are writing to urge you to grant political asylum to Julian Assange.
As you know, British courts recently struck down Mr. Assange’s appeal against extradition to Sweden, where he is not wanted on criminal charges, but merely for questioning. Mr. Assange has repeatedly made clear he is willing to answer questions relating to accusations against him, but in the United Kingdom. But the Swedish government insists that he be brought to Sweden for questioning. This by itself, as Swedish legal expert and former Chief District Prosecutor for Stockholm Sven-Erik Alhem testified, is “unreasonable and unprofessional, as well as unfair and disproportionate.”
#Wikileaks, le blockbuster // #Spielberg lines up WikiLeaks film based on Guardian book | Film | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/mar/02/spielberg-assange-wikileaks-guardian
Steven Spielberg looks set to oversee WikiLeaks: the Movie after securing the screen rights to WikiLeaks: Inside Julian #Assange's War on Secrecy, the book by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding. Reportedly conceived as an investigative thriller in the mould of All the President’s Men, the film will be backed by DreamWorks – the studio founded in 1994 by Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen.
Leigh and Harding’s book charts Julian Assange’s turbulent life and times, from his itinerant childhood through to the creation of the WikiLeaks website in 2006. It also provides the inside story of Assange’s explosive partnership with the Guardian newspaper and the release, last December, of over 250,000 secret diplomatic cables.
Énorme. La photo à droite derrière le gars : une explosion atomique. (Tiens : la vidéo Reuters ne s’affiche pas en Oembed.)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/16/swiss-whistleblower-rudolf-elmer-banks
The offshore bank account details of 2,000 “high net worth individuals” and corporations – detailing massive potential tax evasion – will be handed over to the WikiLeaks organisation in London tomorrow by the most important and boldest whistleblower in Swiss banking history, Rudolf Elmer, two days before he goes on trial in his native Switzerland.
British and American individuals and companies are among the offshore clients whose details will be contained on CDs presented to WikiLeaks at the Frontline Club in London. Those involved include, Elmer tells the Observer, “approximately 40 politicians”.
Yesterday, Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer was arrested by Swiss authorities after handing over two CDs of client data to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Elmer had just avoided jail time related to a previous release of data to WikiLeaks in 2007.
http://wikileaks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/01/20/collaborate_with_wikileaks_at_your_own_risk
Vanity Fair portrays WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a shrewd negotiator and master shape-shifter. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
http://img.slate.com/id/2280157
More than anything, journalists expect a combination of trust and servility from their leakers. (...) The #Assange lesson is that if a source has the brains, the guts, and the leaks, he can take the driver’s seat and tell reporters to ride in the trunk.
COMMENT: This biased portrait reminds us of the CIA’s depiction of Mossadegh as a Communist before the coup that overthrew him. — There is abundant evidence testifying to facts that contradict Ellison’s account: — (1) Assange is not an anarchist; — (2) The organization has had a remarkable record of successes over its four year life that are never mentioned by Ellison; — (3) The notion that it “dumps raw material,” using “no standards,” is a myth; — (4) Simply maintaining the cablegate material online is a remarkable triumph in the face of a cyber-onslaught by a superpower (never mentioned by Ellison) waged in a terroristic climate in which American politicians are calling for Assange’s assassination (also never mentioned by Ellison). — Vanity Fair, it should be noted, is owned by Condé Nast, which is in turn owned by Si Newhouse’s Advance Publications, “the exemplar [of the] concentration of media ownership [that] has perverted the free flow of information in the United States,” according to the American Journalism Review. — And, as if to demonstrate that she is utterly shameless, Ellison tries to turn George Orwell’s Animal Farm against Assange at the end of her article!
Wikileaks Rest in Peace
http://cryptome.org/0003/wikileaks-rip.htm
John Young (qui édite le site cryptome & est co-fondateur de WikiLeaks) critique la transformation de Wikileaks en agence de comm’ :
The original #Wikileaks initiative is dead, replaced by a bloated apparatus promising 260,000 cables at slower than a snail’s pace.
The original merits of Wikileaks have been lost in its transformation into a publicity and fund-raising vehicle for Julian #Assange
plus grave :
What will be surprising will be revelations about the 1 million files Assange claimed to have in December 2006, what has not been published, what was sold on the black market, who the secret big funders are behind the public little ones, where the money has really gone beyond the Wau Holland partial account.
et en écho :
http://www.mail-archive.com/nettime-l@kein.org/msg02774.html
et voici les wikileaks-leaks : les mails internes du groupe qui a créé WL
http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/wikileaks-leak.htm
http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/wikileaks-leak2.htm
#Assange qui fait son gentleman farmer pour la photo, c’est assez con. Mais Assange en père Noël, là, #ça_fait_pingouin.
http://www.newsweek.com/photo/2010/12/30/exclusive-photos-of-wikileaks-julian-assange.html
#John_Pilger a mis en ligne, il y a deux jours, une longue interview (une heure d’entretien) avec :
http://vimeo.com/18269080
Interview réalisée durant le tournage de « War You Don’t See », sans doute en août 2010.
Freed on bail – but US steps up efforts to charge #Assange with conspiracy - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/freed-on-bail-ndash-but-us-steps-up-efforts-to-charge-assange-with-co
US authorities have stepped up their efforts to prosecute Julian Assange by offering #Bradley_Manning, the American soldier allegedly responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of government documents, the possibility of a plea bargain if he names the #WikiLeaks founder as a fellow conspirator.
10 days in Sweden : the full allegations against Julian #Assange | Media | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-sweden
tous les détails connus sur les allégations d’agression sexuelle
Quoi qu’il en soit :
“men are pretty much never treated the way Assange is being treated in the face of sex crime charges”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/jaccuse-sweden-britain-an_b_795899.html
Runner-Up : Julian #Assange - Person of the Year 2010 - TIME
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037118_2037146-3,00.html
Il reste des trésors dans les coffres-forts de #Wikileaks
The worst — or best, in the view of advocates for radical transparency — could be yet to come. John Young, a New York City architect who left the WikiLeaks steering committee after clashing with Assange, says the group members are storing “a lot more information underground than they are publishing on the surface.” Some of it comes from a hacker-on-hacker sting in 2006, when data jockeys at WikiLeaks detected what they believed to be a large-scale intelligence operation to steal data from computers around the world. The intruders were using TOR, an anonymous browsing technology invented by the U.S. Navy, to tunnel into their targets and extract information. The WikiLeaks team piggybacked on the operation, recording the data stream in real time as the intruders stole it.
In an encrypted e-mail dated Jan. 7, 2007, decrypted and made available to TIME by its recipient, one of the participants boasted, “Hackers monitor chinese and other intel as they burrow into their targets, when they pull, so do we. Inxhaustible supply of material?... We have all of pre 2005 afghanistan. Almost all of india fed. Half a dozen foreign ministries. Dozens of political parties and consulates, worldbank, apec, UN sections, trade groups.” (See a profile of Person of the Year 2010 runner-up: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai.)
The theft scandalized some WikiLeaks insiders, and Assange has held back from publishing most of its fruits. But shortly before his arrest in London, he issued a veiled threat that “comes straight out of cypherpunk fiction,” according to Christopher Soghoian, a well-known security researcher.
Last July, it turns out, as controversy erupted over its release of the Afghanistan war logs, WikiLeaks had posted, without explanation, a 1.4-gigabyte encrypted file called “insurance.aes256.” Some 100,000 people around the world have downloaded it. On Dec. 3, Assange said in an online chat with readers of the Guardian newspaper that the file contains the entire diplomatic archive, most of which has yet to be released, and additional “significant material from the U.S. and other countries.” He added, “If something happens to us, the key parts will be released automatically.”
Evading a shutdown, #WikiLeaks mobilizes Twitter supporters
http://wikileaks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/12/04/evading_a_shutdown_wikileaks_mobilizes_twitter_supporters
Les barbus se rebellent, et Foreign Policy préférerait qu’ils ne se constituent pas en brigades anti-occidentales :
“Aggressive action like arresting or killing #Assange could spawn the rise of a vast, permanent network of radicalized #hackers ‘systematically challenging those in power – governments and companies alike – just for the sake of undermining ’the system’.’ That could prove an extremely dangerous threat to the global economy and diplomatic sphere.
(...) governments [should] try to steer WikiLeaks into a more productive direction. ‘It is a choice between WikiLeaks becoming a new Red Brigades, or a new Transparency International,’ he writes, arguing that a responsible version of the organization could pose more of a challenge to closed regimes than to the West.”
The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange - David Samuels - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/12/the-shameful-attacks-on-julian-assange/67440
“But the truly scandalous and shocking response to the Wikileaks documents has been that of other journalists, who make the Obama Administration sound like the ACLU. In a recent article in The New Yorker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Steve Coll sniffed that ‘the archives that WikiLeaks has published are much less significant than the Pentagon Papers were in their day’ while depicting Assange as a ‘self-aggrandizing control-freak’ whose website ‘lacks an ethical culture that is consonant with the ideals of free media.’ Channeling Richard Nixon, Coll labeled Wikileaks’ activities - formerly known as journalism - by his newly preferred terms of ‘vandalism’ and ‘First Amendment-inspired subversion.’”
#Assange (#Wikileaks) sur la #censure et la #liberté_d_expression
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assange-wikileaks
“The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be ‘free’ because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free. In states like China, there is pervasive censorship, because speech still has power and power is scared of it. We should always look at censorship as an economic signal that reveals the potential power of speech in that jurisdiction. The attacks against us by the US point to a great hope, speech powerful enough to break the fiscal blockade.”
Ce qui rappelle la thèse classique de Chomsky: «La propagande est à la démocratie ce que la violence est au totalitarisme.»:
http://www.zpub.com/un/chomsky.html
“Democracy permits the voice of the people to be heard, and it is the task of the intellectual to ensure that this voice endorses what leaders perceive to be the right course. Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to totalitarianism.”
Après les prisonniers de guerre qui ne sont pas des prisonniers de guerre (Guantanamo, extraordinary renditions...), les Américains définissent l’organisation médiatique qui n’est pas une organisation médiatique: #Wikileaks. Et #Assange n’est pas un «#whistleblower», mais un «acteur politique» (sans doute un «anarchiste»).
►http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2010/12/152291.htm
“QUESTION: Do you know if the State Department regards WikiLeaks as a media organization?
MR. CROWLEY: No. We do not.
QUESTION: And why not?
MR. CROWLEY: WikiLeaks is not a media organization. That is our view.
QUESTION: So P.J., going back to the answer to your last question, have you contacted governments that have been censoring this to protest that – or sites that they have —
MR. CROWLEY: I’m not in a position to say what governments have done or what conversations have occurred between governments and media. There’s – certainly, there are countries around the world that do not have as robust a focus on these issues as ours does. That’s probably not a surprise to us, and when we do meet with these governments, we talk about media issues among key human rights issues. Our dialogue is not going to change over this.
QUESTION: P.J., on that subject of WikiLeaks, Amazon, as we know, did have them on their server for a time and then stopped doing that. And there’s a human rights group that says that Amazon was directed by the U.S. Government to stop that relationship. Do you know anything –
MR. CROWLEY: All I can say is I’m not aware of any contacts between the Department of State and Amazon.
QUESTION: Or the U.S. Government or just State?
MR. CROWLEY: I’m not in a position on this particular issue to talk about the entire government. I’m just not aware of any contacts directly.
QUESTION: From your perspective, what is WikiLeaks? How do you define them, if it is not a media organization, then?
MR. CROWLEY: Well, as the Secretary said earlier this week, it is – one might infer it has many characteristics of some internet sites. Not every internet site you would call a media organization or a news organization. We’re focused on WikiLeaks’s behavior, and I have had personally conversations with media outlets that are reporting on this, and we have had the opportunity to express our specific concerns about intelligence sources and methods and other interests that could put real lives at risk.
Mr. Assange, in a letter to our Ambassador in the United Kingdom over the weekend, after documents had been released to news organizations, made what we thought was a halfhearted gesture to have some sort of conversation, but that was after he released the documents and after he knew that they were going to emerge publicly. So I think there’s been a very different approach. And Mr. Assange obviously has a particular political objective behind his activities, and I think that, among other things, disqualifies him as being considered a journalist.
QUESTION: What is his political objective?
QUESTION: The same letter —
MR. CROWLEY: Hmm?
QUESTION: What is his political objective?
MR. CROWLEY: Well, his – I mean he could be considered a political actor. I think he’s an anarchist, but he’s not a journalist.
QUESTION: So his objective is to sow chaos, you mean?
MR. CROWLEY: Well, I mean, you all come here prepared to objectively report the activities of the United States Government. I think that Mr. Assange doesn’t meet that particular standard.
QUESTION: But just so I understand, P.J., what – I mean you just said the – that you thought he was —
MR. CROWLEY: Well, but I mean – let me – he’s not a journalist. He’s not a whistleblower. And there – he is a political actor. He has a political agenda. He is trying to undermine the international system of — that enables us to cooperate and collaborate with other governments and to work in multilateral settings and on a bilateral basis to help solve regional and international issues.
What he’s doing is damaging to our efforts and the efforts of other governments. They are putting at risk our national interest and the interests of other governments around the world. He is not an objective observer of anything. He is an active player. He has an agenda. He’s trying to pursue that agenda, and I don’t think he can – he can’t qualify as either a journalist on the one hand or a whistleblower on the other.
QUESTION: Sorry. What is that agenda, that political agenda? Can you be more —
MR. CROWLEY: I’ll leave it for Mr. Assange to define his agenda. He has been interviewed by some of your news organizations. He has the ability to talk for himself. But you asked — I was asked a specific question, “Do we consider him a journalist?” The answer is no.”
Pour le Département d’État, pour être journaliste ou whistleblower, il ne faut donc pas avoir d’«agenda politique».
Réponse d’Assange:
“I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time. However, it is not necessary to debate whether I am a journalist, or how our people mysteriously are alleged to cease to be journalists when they start writing for our organisaiton. Although I still write, research and investigate my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.”
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assange-wikileaks
Julian #Assange's rape case : is Sweden just making it up ? Julian Assange’s former lawyer writes for Crikey
http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/02/when-it-comes-to-assange-r-pe-case-the-swedes-are-making-it-up-as-they-go
"Apparently having consensual sex in Sweden without a condom is punishable by a term of imprisonment of a minimum of two years for rape. That is the basis for a reinstitution of rape charges against #WikiLeaks figurehead Julian Assange that is destined to make Sweden and its justice system the laughing stock of the world and dramatically damage its reputation as a model of modernity."
Pour soutenir son idée de « consensual sex without a condom », l’avocat se base semble-t-il sur les déclarations initiales des deux femmes telles que rapportées par une « source policière » par le Daily Mail en août dernier :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1307137/Supporters-dismissed-rape-accusations-WikiLeaks-founder-Julian-Assange-
WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/06/07/100607fa_fact_khatchadourian?currentPage=all
PORTRAIT DE JULIAN ASSANGE CO-FOUNDER OF WIKILEAKS
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