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5 hrs ago | War Is A Crime

June 1: Mass rally for Pfc. Bradley Manning at Ft. Meade

A thousand supporters of Army whistleblower PFC Bradley Manning will come from around the country for a mass demonstration on Saturday, at Ft.

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Related Topix: Fort Meade, MD, Theater, Arts, Prison, US News, Liberal Political News

Fri May 24, 2013

Fire Dog Lake

Director Alex Gibney Responds to 'We Steal Secrets' Review Posted at Firedoglake

The following is a response I received from Alex Gibney, director of the new documentary on WikiLeaks, "We Steal Secrets." I have not added any comments to this response.

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Related Topix: Julian Assange

Mashable

Is Strongbox the New Wikileaks?

The New Yorker 's new Strongbox feature claims to be an online safebox for whistleblowers to submit documents safely and anonymously.

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Related Topix: Computer Security, Science / Technology, Julian Assange, Journalism, Computers, Boston University

International Business Times

Julian Assange's WikiLeaks 'Barely Able to Cover Costs' as Donations Dry up

Donations totalled only $68,000 in 2012 according to the Wau Holland Foundation, a German not-for-profit body that processes the money given to the site.

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The Island Packet

WikiLeaks tale goes beyond site founder Assange

When director Alex Gibney began work on his documentary "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," he thought he would be telling the story of a charismatic, silver-haired free speech advocate named Julian Assange, who had exposed dark corners of powerful governments and corporations using little more than his laptop.

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Related Topix: We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, Julian Assange, Fort Meade, US Military, US Army

WNYC-AM New York

Documentary Introduces Us To The Man Behind WikiLeaks

David Greene talks to filmmaker Alex Gibney about the new documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks .

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Related Topix: We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange

Bradford Today

WikiLeaks Donations Down to a Trickle

As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange approaches the one-year anniversary of his confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a report released Wednesday reveals that donations to the secret-spilling site have slowed to a trickle.

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Thu May 23, 2013

Deadline

Specialty B.O. Preview: 'Before Midnight', 'We...

Cannes is winding down with the year's first glimpse of titles that will hit the fall release slates for companies Stateside, with a number likely to factor into the fall awards season.

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Related Topix: Before Midnight, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, Slacker, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Richard Linklater, A Green Story

Palo Alto Weekly

Ruthless silenced

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is heading to Capitol Hill , where he's expected to be grilled over the Justice Department's decision to secretly seize the work, home and cellphone records used by almost a hundred reporters and editors at the Associated Press.

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Related Topix: Julian Assange

The Independent

Don't forget about my rights, says Julian Assange 'sex victim'

A lawyer for one of the women who have accused Julian Assange of sex crimes has called for more pressure to be placed on Ecuador to allow the WikiLeaks founder to face Swedish justice.

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Related Topix: Julian Assange

OhNoTheyDidnt

Julian Assange Didn't Want Benedict Cumberbatch To Play Him

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange did not want "Star Trek Into Darkness" actor Benedict Cumberbatch to play him in upcoming film adaptation "The Fifth Estate." Cumberbatch told New York Magazine Assange asked him to pass on the role.

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Related Topix: Benedict Cumberbatch, Julian Assange

Mother Jones

Alex Gibney's new documentary traces the rise and fall of WikiLeaks and its prickly founder.

Julian Assange already hates this movie. That six-word review may be all that his diehard supporters need to know about We Steal Secrets , Alex Gibney's exhaustive and exhausting new documentary on the rise and fall of WikiLeaks .

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Related Topix: Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Julian Assange, Prison

Daily Star

Aretha Franklin scraps...

Rock icon DAVID BOWIE has paid tribute to his former bandmate TREVOR BOLDER after the bassist lost his battle with pancreatic cancer on Tuesday .

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Aretha Franklin, Soul, Pancreatic Cancer, Health, Blake Shelton, Country, Julian Assange

Wed May 22, 2013

OC Weekly

'We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks': All the News That's Fit to Hack

There's a thing that sometimes happens to copy editors, the workhorses who do the final grammar cleanup, general fine-tuning and, sometimes, miracle-working before a story goes to print: An editor higher on the food chain will receive a disheveled manuscript from a writer, make a few halfhearted tweaks, and pass it along with a note that says, ... (more)

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Related Topix: We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, Movies, Entertainment

Babalu Blog

AP's Havana bureau continues to carry water for Cuba's repressive dictatorship

The AP 's Havana bureau ran a story today about U.S. diplomat Conrad Tribble's efforts to interact with some of the Castro regime's official bloggers.

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Related Topix: Cuba, Central America, World News, Conservative Political News, US News

KXXV-TV Waco

WikiLeaks case file fight moves to federal court

A House committee taking Congress' latest look at the Internal Revenue Service's mistreatment of tea party groups will apparently have to do so without input from the star witness.

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Related Topix: Tornado, Natural Disasters, Prison, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

KFVS12

WikiLeaks case file fight moves to federal court

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop... By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to ... (more)

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Related Topix: Prison, Hagerstown, MD

WTVF Nashville

WikiLeaks case file fight moves to federal court

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop... By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to ... (more)

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Related Topix: Hagerstown, MD, Journalism, Fort Meade, US Military, US Army

The Baltimore Sun

Journalists, campaigners sue over Manning trial access

A group of journalists and freedom of information campaigners are suing in federal court in Baltimore to get greater access to proceedings in the military trial of Army Pfc.

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Related Topix: Journalism, Julian Assange, Baltimore, MD

The Atlantic

What 'Stop the Leaks' Hardliners Don't Realize: They Can't and Won't Ever Win

Many journalists are outraged that James Rosen, a Fox News correspondent, stands accused of criminal activity for soliciting classified information from government sources, something all national security reporters do.

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Related Topix: Journalism, Julian Assange, Computer Security, Science / Technology, US Politics, US News