Julian Assange Books

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.'

What Cablegate tells us about the reach and ambitions of US Empire. Published in collaboration with WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks came to prominence in 2010 with the release of 251,287 top-secret State Department cables, which revealed to the world what the US government really thinks about national leaders, friendly dictators, and supposed allies. It brought to the surface the dark truths of crimes committed in our name: human rights violations, covert operations, and cover-ups. The WikiLeaks Files exposes the machinations of the United States as it imposes a new form of imperialism on the world, one founded on tactics from torture to military action, to trade deals and “soft power,” in the perpetual pursuit of expanding influence. The book also includes an introduction by Julian Assange examining the ongoing debates about freedom of information, international surveillance, and justice. An introduction by Julian Assange—writing on the subject for the first time—exposes the ongoing debates about freedom of information, international surveillance, and justice. With contributions by 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, and Stephen Zunes.

The WikiLeaks publisher and free speech campaigner Julian Assange has, since April 2019, been remanded at a maximum security prison in London facing extradition to the United States over WikiLeaks’ groundbreaking 2010 publications. Now, in this crisp anthology, Assange’s voice emerges – erudite, analytic and prophetic.Julian Assange In His Own Words provides a highly accessible survey of Assange’s philosophy and politics, conveying his views on how governments, corporations, intelligence agencies and the media function. As well as addressing the significance of the vast trove of leaked documents published by WikiLeaks, Assange draws on a polymathic intelligence to range freely over quantum physics, Greek mythology, macroeconomics, modern literature, and empires old and new.Drawing on his insights as the world most famous free speech activist Assange invites us to ask further questions about how power operates in a world increasingly dominated by a ubiquitous internet.Assange maybe gagged, but in these pages his words run free, providing both an exhortation to fight for a better world and an inspiration when doing so.

Año de 1324. El ex caballero hospitalario Galcerán de Born, el Perquisitore, preocupado ante las noticias que recibe acerca de la conducta inapropiada de su hijo, Jonás, y de su disoluta vida en la corte de Barcelona, decide enviarle una misiva que contiene órdenes muy precisas para el joven y se convertirá en su Liber peregrinationis. Acompañado por un caballero de Cristo (antiguos templarios), Jonás de Born iniciará una nueva andadura en su vida: prestará el solemne juramento de la caballería iniciática, convirtiéndose así en gentilhombre y adalid de la antigua Sabiduría y el Conocimiento.Para ello, recorrerá el Camino de Santiago o de la Gran Perdonanza, como un peregrino más, descubrirá toda la magia y el simbolismo que se encuentran en la ruta, reflexionará larga y seriamente sobre su futuro e irá cumpliendo, uno a uno, todos los rituales de su iniciación.

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.