Julian Assange

The Fourth Estate, that historical unelected grouping of societys scrutineers, has become something of a rabble. An essential premise in the work of WikiLeaks was demonstrating, to a good, stone-throwing degree, how media figures and practitioners had been bo…

EPA Bows to Big Agriculture, OKs Pesticide Apparently, scientific studiesincluding those produced by the Environmental Protection Agency itself showing that the pesticide chlorpyrifos can damage brain development in children are not enough to stop the Trump …

Whether you believe in conspiracy theories or not, we can all agree that the use of the term has exploded in media and in conversation. The question is, why? Are we now using the term Conspiracy Theory more indiscriminately and on more platforms than previous…

Data on millions of people stolen from the Bulgarian government has already popped up on hacker trading forums. A hacker originally stole the data from the National Revenue Agency (NRA), which is part of Bulgarias Ministry of Finance, sending media outlets a…

Consortium Newsa news website devoted to investigative journalism founded by the late Robert Parry and which has steadfastly defended WikiLeaks editor Julian Assangewas the target of a malware attack last Monday that took down the site for more than five hour…

Historys scope for the absurd and tragic is infinite. Like Sisyphus engaged in permanent labours pushing a boulder up a slope, the effort of making sense of such scope is likewise, absurdly infinite. To see images of an exhausted and world-weary Julian Assang…

Julian Assange has dropped an appeal against his 50-week jail term for jumping bail by going into hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy. The WikiLeaks founder entered the embassy in London in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he was wanted in connection …

Former President Rafael Correas claim that Julian Assange abused his political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to influence the US 2016 elections and his publicly proclaimed admiration for Hillary amount to nothing less than the completion of Ameri…

Someone stole the personal and financial information of millions of Bulgarian taxpayers, likely the majority of the adult population. Bulgaria police head of cybersecurity Yavor Kolev said on Thursday an unidentified 20-year-old cybersecurity worker was arre…

This blows a hole in the conspiracy theories meant to excuse Julian Assange, and by extension the Russians, from malicious actions in the 2016 election. The source of this confirmation makes the admission even more compelling. Rafael Correa was Assange’s grea…