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On Saturday, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange appeared in one of his first public events in London since being put under house arrest. He spoke with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek in a conversation hosted by Amy Goodman. The video above is the complete conversation, or you can watch highlights from the first part here, as broadcast today on Democracy Now! Among the topics covered are the impact of WikiLeaks on world politics, the release of the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, Cablegate, his new defense team, and U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning, the accused Army whistleblower who has been jailed for the past year. As of this time, the rush transcript was not yet available, but should be later.
this looks like mindfood….nibble nibble….
wish they would have remembered to bring their *special* water containers and filled up at the drinking fountain, though….the memo on bottled water is like, how old????
ah well, the hamsters are down and out, it’s 97 F& outside…
will have to come back when my satellite can operate effectively……with the wee folk…
k/k
say what?
how could you?
k*/k*
that’s how!!
peace
you are welcome, green-star. fe bongolan tipped me off to the interview this weekend, and when i heard bits of the highlights today on the radio, i finally remembered to go grab the video for here. i’ll have to listen again — it was hard for me to focus on work and the program at the same time.
Thank you Eric for embedding this astonishing discussion. I was riveted for the whole thing. Oddly, when Julian mentioned that he was essentially being blackmailed and that was why the Bank of America material had not yet been released, the feed died (for me) shortly afterwords… for a moment I thought, my god, they’re fast…. but I just refreshed the feed and picked it up where it dropped…
So much phenomenal information in here… thank you thank you.
“It doesn’t only matter what you say, it matters what you imply to say.” ~Slavoj Zizek
“Information is a matter of life and death.” ~Amy Goodman
I only had time for the highlights (well worth the 50 minutes) but have been following Amy Goodman and Democracy Now for some time.
The atrocities of the Iraq war are hardly the only thing WikiLeaks has uncovered, but allow me a shameless plug for a non-profit artists, pro-peace collective (founded by a young friend of mine) of Iraq war veterans who are offering free workshops to help other veterans and their loved ones heal from the trauma of war. These young men and women are shredding their military uniforms, pulping it into fiber and creating art from handmade paper, a transformative process that empowers vets to begin reclaiming their lives.
http://www.combatpaper.org
Just listened to this before I saw your post. Listened to the 1st hour on DemocracyNow website. The plot sickens.