“I mean, there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.” WorldWayMeanHardStatesUnitedUnited StatesSpeechPressureChinaEnormousAround The WorldFreedom Of SpeechLegislationTransparency Author:Julian Assange
“In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being amateurs. Their quality is not comparable with the quality of intelligence services even if most of them harbor a remarkable degree of corruption and incompetence.” IfsHas BeensUnitedQualityStagePrideDegreesVariousCorruptionProfessionKingdomsJournalismGentlemanRemarkableHarborsIncompetenceUnited KingdomIntelligence Services Author:Julian Assange
“Wikileaks has - we specialize in bringing the First Amendment to the world, and we were always very surprised one of our biggest battles would be trying to bring it to the United States under an Obama administration.” WorldTryingFirstsStatesWould BeUnitedUnited StatesBattleAdministrationAmendmentsFirst AmendmentWikileaks Author:Julian Assange
“The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.” StatesBigsUnitedTalkingUnited StatesGroupsMilitaryMajorsPresidencyBig BusinessTalking Heads Author:Julian Assange
“Let us not compare Edward Snowden's situation with that of Chelsea Manning or Jeremy Hammond, who is also imprisoned in the United States. As a result of WikiLeaks' hard work, Edward Snowden has political asylum, has travel documents, lives with his girlfriend, goes to the ballet and earns substantial speaking fees. Edward Snowden is essentially free and happy. That is no coincidence. It was my strategy to undo the chilling effect of the 35 year Manning sentence and it has worked.” YearsHardStatesPoliticalUnitedResultsSituationUnited StatesEffectsHard WorkStrategySentencesCompareGirlfriendBalletDocumentsCoincidenceChillFeesAsylumsChelseaWikileaksSnowden Author:Julian Assange
“In fact, during her [Hillary Clinton] tenure as Secretary of State, total arms exports from the United States in terms of the dollar value, doubled.” StatesFactsValuesTermUnitedUnited StatesArmsDollarsClintonSecretaryTenure Author:Julian Assange
“Hillary Clinton is the smooth central representation of all that, and 'all that' is more or less what is in power now in the United States. It's what we call the establishment or the DC consensus. One of the more significant Podesta emails that we released was about how the Obama cabinet was formed and how half the Obama cabinet was basically nominated by a representative from Citi Bank. This is quite amazing.” StatesUnitedHalfUnited StatesClintonSignificantEstablishmentRepresentativesRepresentationSmoothEmailConsensusCabinets Author:Julian Assange
“My answer is that [Donald] Trump would not be permitted to win. Why do I say that? Because he's had every establishment off side; Trump doesn't have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment, but banks, intelligence [agencies], arms companies... big foreign money ... are all united behind Hillary Clinton, and the media as well, media owners and even journalists themselves.” IfsWellsBigsWinningSidesAnswersUnitedBehindsCompanyMediaArmsTrumpClintonJournalistAgencyExceptionOwnersEstablishmentIntelligence Agencies Author:Julian Assange
“I would be immediately arrested by the British police and I would then be extradited either immediately to the United States or to Sweden. In Sweden I am not charged, I have already been previously cleared [by the Senior Stockholm Prosecutor Eva Finne]. We were not certain exactly what would happen there, but then we know that the Swedish government has refused to say that they will not extradite me to the United States we know they have extradited 100 per cent of people whom the U.S. has requested since at least 2000.” PeopleKnowsStatesGovernmentHappensWould BeCertainUnitedUnited StatesPoliceBritishCentsSeniorArrestedSwedenProsecutorSwedishStockholm Author:Julian Assange
“The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal, adversarial litigation. [So it's] me and the U.N. verses Sweden and the U.K. Who's right? The U.N. made a conclusion that I am being arbitrarily detained illegally, deprived of my freedom and that what has occurred has not occurred within the laws that the United Kingdom and Sweden, and that [those countries] must obey. It is an illegal abuse.” MadeCountryWholeLawNationsUnitedSituationGroupsMonthsAbuseKingdomsConclusionIllegalVersesFormalUnited NationsArbitraryDeprivedEighteenSwedenUnited KingdomDetention Author:Julian Assange
“Sweden formally writing back to the United Nations to say, 'No, we're not going to [recognise the UN ruling], so leaving open their ability to extradite.” WritingNationsAbilityUnitedLeavingUnited NationsRulingRecogniseSweden Author:Julian Assange
“Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call them political prisoners in China, they don't call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don't call them political prisoners in the United States, U.K. or Sweden; it is absolutely intolerable to have that kind of self-perception.” PeopleShouldKindSelfStatesReasonPoliticalCoursesUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesPerceptionChinaPrisonerSwedenSelf PerceptionPolitical PrisonersAzerbaijanDetaining Author:Julian Assange
“Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been cleared [by the Stockholm prosecutor] and found to be innocent, where the woman herself said that the police made it up, where the United Nations formally said the whole thing is illegal, where the State of Ecuador also investigated and found that I should be given asylum. Those are the facts, but what is the rhetoric?” ShouldMadeSaidStatesWholeFactsFoundGivenNationsUnitedCasesCrimePoliceInnocentMade ItIllegalRhetoricUnited NationsAsylumsProsecutorSwedishEcuadorStockholm Author:Julian Assange
“[The rhetoric] is trying to avoid [the truth that ] the U.N. formally found that the whole thing is illegal, never even mentioning that Ecuador made a formal assessment through its formal processes and found that yes, I am subject to persecution by the United States.” TryingMadeStatesWholeFoundProcessUnitedUnited StatesSubjectsIllegalRhetoricFormalPersecutionAssessmentEcuador Author:Julian Assange
“Trump doesn't have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment, but banks, intelligence agencies, arms companies, big foreign money, are all united behind Hillary Clinton, and the media as well, media owners and even journalists themselves.” IfsWellsBigsUnitedBehindsCompanyMediaArmsTrumpClintonJournalistAgencyExceptionOwnersEstablishmentIntelligence Agencies Author:Julian Assange
“Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations and the communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to US intelligence. Facebook, Google, Yahoo.. all these major US organizations have built-in interfaces for US intelligence. It's not a matter of serving a subpoena. They have an interface that they have developed for US intelligence to use.” PeopleWorldMatterStatesUseNamesUnitedUnited StatesParticularCommunicationMajorsSittingBuiltMachinesOrganizationAddressesServingGoogleLocationComprehensiveInterfacesDatabasesSubpoenas Author:Julian Assange
“Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.” ShouldStatesUnitedUnited StatesBuildingAddAgencyDatabasesIntelligence Agencies Author:Julian Assange
“Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence? No, it's not like that. It's simply that U.S. intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure on them. And it's costly for them to hand out records one by one, so they have automated the process. Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.” ShouldStatesHandsRunningAblePoliticalProcessUnitedCasesUnited StatesRecordsBuildingBearsPressureAddAgencyDatabasesIntelligence Agencies Author:Julian Assange
“Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.” WellsMeanRealStatesUnitedUnited StatesTruth IsJournalismTabloidsMean Girls Author:Julian Assange
