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Julian Assange (from Wikileaks) Quotes – Beginning
“What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.” This page lists all the quotes from the Julian Assange Random Quote Generator , a generator I made with quotes from speeches/interviews by Julian Assange who is a representative of Wikileaks. It’s a simple and interesting way to see the ideas of Wikileaks and also many of the deep insights that leaked documents (and the subsequent reactions to them) have provided. This is an ongoing project and will be updated regularly. If you would like to download the current batch of quotes to your computer (in text format) right click and “save as” this link .
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian Julian Assange is self-consciously an individual. He thinks in his own way, primarily as a physicist, having studied pure maths and physics at university in Australia where he grew up. So, for example, explaining his decision to found Wikileaks , he starts with his interest in the physics of a small release of energy triggering a much larger release; asks what small actions might release energy for "just reform"; identifies the role of information and observes the restriction on the amount of information flowing into the system; and sees Wikileaks as a mechanism "to maximise the flow of information to maximise the amount of action leading to just reform".
Julian Assange profile: Wikileaks founder an uncompromising rebel | Media | The Guardian
Daniel Ellsberg, PhD, (born April 7, 1931) is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation , precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers , a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War , to The New York Times and other newspapers. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. He is also known for a fundamental contribution to decision theory , the Ellsberg paradox . [ edit ] Early life and career Ellsberg was born in Chicago , Illinois, in 1931 to ethnic Jewish parents who had converted to Christian Science , and raised in a devout Christian atmosphere.
Daniel Ellsberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Is Wikileaks Like the Pentagon Papers? | Floyd Abrams | Big Think
Floyd Abrams: Well, I don’t know of anything in what Wikileaks has published which violates any law. There’s been some suggestion in some of the press that this is treason. It’s not treason for one thing because the people that run it aren’t even American. It’s not spying. It’s not the publication, so it seems, of the sort of material which we’ve ever made illegal.Pentagon Papers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A CIA map of dissident activities in Indochina published as part of the Pentagon papers The Pentagon Papers , officially titled United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense , is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States ' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The papers were first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of the New York Times in 1971. [ 1 ] A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers "demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration had systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress, about a subject of transcendent national interest and significance". [ 2 ] The report was declassified and publicly released in June 2011. [ edit ] Contents Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara created the Vietnam Study Task Force on June 17, 1967, for the purpose of writing an "encyclopedic history of the Vietnam War".
The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in. This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall Australian man named Julian Paul Assange, with gray eyes and a mop of silver-white hair, arrived to rent the place.
WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange : The New Yorker
