Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks

Full interview with Julian Assange on Democracy Now!, including a debate with investigative journalist Allan Nairn. 

The full version of Mark Davis's exclusive interview with Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in February 2011, where he talks about his relationship with the Australian government and his extradition hearing over sexual assault allegations in Sweden. 

As the US continues to pursue Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition from the UK, an explosive story from Yahoo News has revealed that top officials including the then CIA Director Mike Pompeo discussed extraditing and even assassinating him. Michael Isikoff, one of the r ...  Show more

Julian Assange, one of the world’s most notorious hackers and the face of the website Wikileaks, is now a free man. He’s been in a high security prison in the UK for the last five years, fighting extradition to the US, wanted for charges under the US Espionage Act. But who is he ...  Show more

Julian Assange dreams of a world where secrets are open and truth reigns. So he builds a haven for whistleblowers, Wikileaks.org. But when a US military leak sparks a global controversy, it puts his source in danger. Will Assange's ideals survive the storm?Listen to British Scand ...  Show more

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo crashed a meeting of EU foreign ministers today ... and he had Iran on the brain. Tensions between the US and Iran have been heating up for weeks, and now Pompeo is asking US allies: ‘are you with me?’ Meanwhile, Sweden and the US are about to st ...  Show more