After being held in custody for an unprecedentedly long period of 19 months, Bradley Manning now faces trial. Accusations include aiding the enemy and giving out US military secrets to Wikileaks.

The Nobel Peace Prize nominee is finally on trial after 19 months of being held in custody. Accused of providing Wikileaks with [...]

A poster created by a WikiLeaks volunteer to promote its leak of Bank of America’s files. Note the Bank of America logo on the body of the spider. (Click to enlarge. )

Julian Assange’s promise in 2010 of a trove of scandalous leaks from a major U.S. bank generated equal [...]

Updated: 04:04, Thursday February 23, 2012

WikiLeaks aims to release documents revealing that Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt is a US spy, as part of a ‘smear campaign’ to stop Sweden from extraditing founder Julian Assange to the United States, a Swedish daily reports.

The whistleblower website has threatened in an internal memo [...]

More than 400 people crowded into a lecture theatre at the University of Technology Sydney on February 17 for a public forum, “Don’t shoot the messenger: WikiLeaks, Assange and Democracy”. The forum was organised by the Support Assange and WikiLeaks Coalition.

Speakers at the forum included socialist historian Humphrey McQueen, Greens [...]

The heightened surveillance of classified government information networks that was a predictable response to the unauthorized disclosures published by WikiLeaks is becoming more clearly discernible.

“USSTRATCOM/USCYBERCOM is monitoring use of the SIPRNet and now has a mechanism for reporting certain anomalous behaviors for appropriate remediation,” said Thomas A. Ferguson, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense [...]

Marge Simpson and Homer Simpson with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in an episode of “The Simpsons.” Pic: AP/Fox
Source: The Daily Telegraph

CONTOVERSIAL WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has appeared on The Simpsons as it reached its landmark 500th [...]

The group referred to as Anonymous downed the Central Intelligence Agency’s website last week, adding it to the list of banks, copyright holders, private interests and other government agencies whose sites have become victim to the loosely structured “hacktivist” organization.

In 2012 alone, Anonymous has claimed responsibility for overwhelming the Justice Department’s website, [...]

Add to that the three or four documentaries on the WikiLeaks adventure, the dozen books — including, weirdly, Assange’s unauthorized autobiography — and a couple speculative Hollywood projects, in which I have a twofold interest. (1. The very slight possibility that I might make some money for my small piece of the story. 2. [...]

Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie were exiled to a community of outsiders where they met the controversial figure.

Sunday’s episode, titled At Long Last Leave, the Simpsons sneaked into a secret town hall meeting where they found out they were to be banished from Springfield.

They ended up making a new home in ‘The [...]