Julian Assange Books

'Gripping ... A highly intense and enjoyable read.' Rolling Stone

The Internet has led to revolutions across the world but a crackdown is now in full swing. As whole societies move online, mass surveillance programs are being deployed globally. Our civilization has reached a crossroads. In one direction lies a future promoting "privacy for the weak and transparency for the powerful"; in the other is an internet that transfers power over entire populations to an unaccountable complex of spy agencies and their trans-national corporate allies. Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the mass use of strong cryptography as a way protecting our basic freedoms against this onslaught. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of an visionary behind Wikileaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since the 1990s. Now, in a timely and important new book, Assange brings together a group of rebel thinkers and activists from the front line of the battle for cyberspace to discuss whether the internet will emancipate or enslave all of us.--

'We had the activist experience and the will to disempower. We had our laptops and our passports. We had servers in different countries. We knew that we would be the most secure platform for whistleblowers the world had ever known. We had gumption. We had philosophy. Game on.'

When WikiLeaks came to prominence in 2010 by releasing 2,325,961 top-secret State Department cables, the world saw what the USA really thought about national leaders, friendly dictators & supposed allies. It also discovered the dark truths of national policies, human rights violations, covert operations & cover-ups. The WikiLeaks Files is the 1st volume that uses experts to collate the most important cables & show their historic importance. The book explores in a series of chapters covering the major regions of the world how the USA has imposed its will. It reveals how it imposes its agenda on the world: a new form of imperialism that uses a variety of tactics from torture & military action, to trade deals & “soft power,” in order to expand its influence. It shows the details of the close relationship between government & big business in promoting US goods. The WikiLeaks Files is the most comprehensive analysis of State department cables to date. Assange's introduction exposes the on-going debates on freedom of information, international surveillance & justice. Regional expert contributors include Dan Beeton, Phyllis Bennis, Michael Busch, Peter Certo, Conn Hallinan, Sarah Harrison, Richard Heydarian, Dahr Jamail, Jake Johnston, Alexander Main, Robert Naiman, Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Linda Pearson, Gareth Porter, Tim Shorrock, Russ Wellen & Stephen Zunes.IntroductionAmerica & the dictators Dictators & human rightsWar & terrorism Indexing the empire/Sarah Harrison US war crimes & the ICC/Linda PearsonEurope/Michael Busch Russia/Russ Wellen Turkey/Conn HallinanIsrael/Stephen Zunes & Peter CertoSyria/Robert Naiman Iran/Gareth Porter Iraq/Dahr Jamail Afghanistan/Phyllis BennisEast Asia/Tim Shorrock Southeast Asia/Richard Heydarian South Africa/Francis Njubi NesbittLatin America & the Caribbean/Alexander Main, Jake Johnston & Dan BeetonVenezuela/Dan Beeton, Jake Johnston & Alexander Main

Julian Assange erzählt in seiner Autobiografie von seinen Anfängen als Physiker und Computer-Hacker bis hin zu seinem Leben als Gründer von WikiLeaks. Er beleuchtet seine Antriebe und die Philosophie hinter seiner Veröffentlichungsstrategie, die Regierungen und Konzerne herausfordert. Das Buch verspricht ein einzigartiges Medienereignis zu werden.

V roce 2006 se Assange stal spoluzakladatelem kontroverzního webového serveru WikiLeaks a od té doby fungoval v dozorčí radě tohoto projektu. Od svého spuštění se server stal známý tím, že zveřejnil různé tajné dokumenty, zejména Spojených států amerických. Tyto dokumenty se týkaly Operace Trvalá svoboda, tj. války v Afghánistánu, války v Iráku či diplomatických úřadů Spojených států ve světě. Koncem roku 2016 zveřejnil tajné dokumenty a emaily týkající se amerických vojenských aktivit v Jemenu. V roce 2017 zveřejnil dokumenty Vault 7 popisující hackerské techniky a nástroje používané americkou CIA. WikiLeaks zveřejnil dokumenty týkající se mnoha dalších zemí, včetně Turecka, Ruska, Číny, Peru nebo Keni. Někteří američtí a kanadští politici otevřeně vyzývali k dopadení, odsouzení nebo dokonce popravě Juliana Assangeho.