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The world’s most dangerous men: Žižek and Assange

Democracy Now Host Amy Goodman lead a discussion between Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange July 2. Check out the video below.

The Demonizing of WikiLeaks

Call me a conspiracy theorist. It might be coincidental that MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and Amazon.com have all almost simultaneously decided to sever ties with WikiLeaks (though when your organization is on the other side of a moral dispute from a credit card company, you have to be doing something right). Much as they may try [...]

On the WikiLeaks debate

The New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks lays out many of the central issues in the debate over whether WikiLeaks is doing the public service or harm in publishing previously inaccessible military and diplomatic communications (including more than 1,200 cables sent by the U.S. Embassy in Prague). While critical of WikiLeaks decision to release [...]