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WikiLeaks launches site for Edward Snowden's legal defense
Wikileaks has set up a new website, Free Snowden, to collect money to defend National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. The site allows for donations by credit card, PayPal, bank transfer, WePay payment, and virtual currencies Bitcoin and Litecoin.
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Sarah Harrison joins other Edward Snowden files 'exiles' in Berlin
Sarah Harrison, the British journalist and WikiLeaks staffer who has been working with Edward Snowden since his arrival in Moscow, has left Russia and joined the growing band of net activists stranded in Berlin.
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US patent moves are 'profoundly bad' in leaked TPP treaty
The year's most controversial secret treaty just became very, very public. WikiLeaks has posted a full copy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership proposals from this August, revealing many provisions that have only been seen by a small group of lobbyists and heads of state. Nothing in the text has been definitively agreed to, but it offers a rare look into the state of a treaty that could lock in a broad range of rules about information access, patents, and consumer hardware.
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WikiLeaks publishes secret draft chapter of Trans-Pacific Partnership
WikiLeaks has released the draft text of a chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, a multilateral free-trade treaty currently being negotiated in secret by 12 Pacific Rim nations.
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Julian Assange lawyer calls on US to make formal decision on prosecution
Plea comes amid off-the-record remarks that the US is unlikely to pursue charges against WikiLeaks founder over leak of state secrets
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Julian Assange unlikely to be charged in US
The Justice Department has all but concluded it will not bring charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing classified documents because government lawyers said they could not do so without also prosecuting US news organisations and journalists, United States officials say.
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WikiLeaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3 a Day
Contractors for Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi’s worked in close concert with the US Embassy when they aggressively moved to block a minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers, the lowest-paid in the hemisphere, according to secret State Department cables.
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It's Not a WikiLeak: Assange-Manning Chat Logs Surface on Army Website
In March of 2010, WikiLeaks was just weeks away from bursting onto the world stage with the first of its major leaks from intelligence analyst Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning: the “Collateral Murder” video showing a 2007 Apache helicopter attack that killed civilians and wounded children. Julian Assange, in Iceland, was in contact with Manning in online chats, getting more leaks and keeping his source updated on WikiLeaks’ progress.
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No charges ever pressed: Assange marks three years of UK detention
WikiLeaks founder and journalist, Julian Assange, has marked the third year spent in detention in UK under constant threat of extradition to Sweden. On December 7, 2010 Assange was taken into custody after voluntarily attending a British police station. He spent 10 days behind bars, before being released on bail with a residence requirement at Ellingham Hall in Norfolk, England.
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Are WikiLeaks' best days behind it?
After Manning’s initial leaks were published, WikiLeaks' profile took the world stage. The site was subsisting on online donations from citizens around the world who were becoming increasingly interested in the idea that states should have nothing to hide.
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Mediastan, WikiLeaks Film (Part 1 of 3)
Mediastan, WikiLeaks Film (Part 1 of 3)
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Wikileaks releases Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - Environment Draft
Today, 15 January 2014, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Environment Chapter and the corresponding Chairs' Report. The TPP transnational legal regime would cover 12 countries initially and encompass 40 per cent of global GDP and one-third of world trade...
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‘Assange won’t come’: Swedish MPs urge end to whistleblower case
Swedish MPs are calling on the prosecutors in the Julian Assange sexual assault case to travel to London and question the WikiLeaks founder at the Ecuadorian embassy, where he has been taking refuge since June 2012.
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UK shells out over $8mn to monitor Julian Assange
The UK has spent over $8 million on monitoring the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where Julian Assange has been holed up for 20 months. His stay is having a knock-on effect on British taxpayers, reportedly costing them over $16,000 a day.
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Julian Assange at SXSW: All Talk but Nothing to Say
AUSTIN, Texas — Embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a rare onstage appearance at SXSWi on Sunday via Skype in a wide-ranging conversation about the NSA and WikiLeaks...
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80 Tech Companies Cooperating with NSA, Claims Wikileaks
Since we’ve had quite a bit of time between Snowden disclosures of NSA activities, it appears as though Wikileaks has gotten ahold of some secret NSA documents that name names as to whom has been cooperating with them. They claim that they have over 80 different companies in their strategic partnerships.
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WikiLeaks statement on the mass recording of Afghan telephone calls by the NSA
The National Security Agency has been recording and storing nearly all the domestic (and international) phone calls from two or more target countries as of 2013. Both the Washington Post and The Intercept (based in the US and published by eBay chairman Pierre Omidyar) have censored the name of one of the victim states, which the latter publication refers to as country "X".
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Swedish court sets date for Julian Assange rape case hearing
Prosecutors in Sweden pursuing Julian Assange over rape allegations have rejected a demand by his lawyers to hand over new evidence and withdraw the warrant for his arrest, setting the stage in two weeks' time for the first legal battle in the case since 2012.
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Julian Assange Arrest Warrant For Rape Allegations Upheld
A judge in Sweden has upheld an arrest warrant for the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. At a hearing in Stockholm, Judge Lena Egelin upheld the arrest warrant having heard arguments from both sides. Assange who was not at the hearing - having not left the Ecuadorian embassy in London for over two years - believes this hearing was just one part of his on-going legal battle.
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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange to leave embassy 'soon'
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has suggested he will be leaving London's Ecuadorean embassy "soon" after two years' refuge but gave no more details.
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