Assange News

The whereabouts of the whistleblower at the heart of the recent U.S. phone and Internet surveillance controversy are unknown. Edward Snowden checked out of his Hong Kong hotel Monday night, BBC News reports.

London - Julian Assange made a rather pontifical speech on the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy this past weekend, with the current Wikileaks farce at a stalemate.

Julian Assange lies cramped up in the Ecuadorian embassy at Knightsbridge. Britain wants to extradite him to Sweden, while Assange wants to be granted passage to Ecuador.

Sydney - During the Cold War, anyone who spoke against US and USSR governments could be, and was, literally persecuted. Thanks to Joe McCarthy and Joe Stalin, nobody had any actual right of protest. Things haven’t changed much.

Wikileaks has recently released a series of emails from global intelligence agency Stratfor; what is contained in several of these emails though may make a serious impact on the upcoming presidential election.

Sydney - Julian Assange’s move to the London embassy of Ecuador may look like a desperate move, but there may be good reason for the desperation. Readers note- This is a very long article, because it's a very difficult subject and involves legal principles.

Now that Julian Assange's appeal against extradition has failed, fears are that he will then be shipped on from Sweden to the U.S.A.

Sources close to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange have told RT, “The FBI is apparently collecting evidence to indict Julian Assange before a grand jury. Sweden must not be the final destination of the designed extradition.”

London - "There's nothing that terrifies the U.S. government more than the threat of democracy breaking out in America." Julian Assange interviews representatives from OWS and Occupy London.

Washington - WikiLeaks recently ended its long period of silence with the new release of five million e-mails from the global intelligence company Stratfor. One such email relates to Osama Bin Laden's body.