The Crimes of Julian Assange:
Publishing a US Army manual on "standard operating procedures" for Guantanamo Bay, showing a policy of hiding some prisoners from Red Cross inspectors & holding new prisoners in isolation for 2 weeks to make them more "compliant" for interrogators
Publishing a US Army manual on "standard operating procedures" for Guantanamo Bay, showing a policy of hiding some prisoners from Red Cross inspectors & holding new prisoners in isolation for 2 weeks to make them more "compliant" for interrogatorsThe Crimes of Julian Assange: 2/
Publishing Collateral Murder: the infamous video footage from a 2007 U.S. Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad, Iraq, that killed at least 9 men, incl. a Reuters news photographer and his driver, and wounding 2 children.
collateralmurder.wikileaks.org
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 3/
Publishing more than 90,000 documents related to Afghanistan and more than 400,000 documents from the war in Iraq. Documenting how the US had underreported civilian deaths by at least 15000.
#WikiLeaks #FreePress #assangecase
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 4/
Publishing 250,000+ diplomatic cables verifying US' secret drone strikes in Yemen, a push by Saudi royal family to have the US strike Iran and a description of Russia under Putin as a "virtual mafia state."
#Assangecase #JournalismIsNotACrime
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 5/
Publishing emails showing how the Democratic National Committee had favored Hillary Clinton over her rival, Bernie Sanders in 2016, and that then-acting DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile had given the Clinton campaign debate questions in advance.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 6/
Publishing emails in 2016 that showed how Clinton received campaign contributions
from Saudi Arabia.
And that the government of Saudi and the government of Qatar have been funding ISIS.
Interview video available here:
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-new
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 7/
Publishing 250,000+ messages sent by US diplomats which revealed that the US wanted to collect "biographic and biometric" information - including iris scans, DNA samples and fingerprints - of key officials at the UN.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
The Crimes of Julian Assange:8/
Publishing how the CIA is “involved in a concerted effort to write various kinds of malware to spy on just about every piece of electronic equipment that people use”, incl. cars, smart TVs, web browsers & operating systems of most smartphones...
...One file indicated that the CIA were looking into ways of remotely controlling cars and vans by hacking into them.
“The purpose of such control is not specified, but it would permit the CIA to engage in nearly undetectable assassinations,” said WikiLeaks.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 9/
Publishing evidence of at least 195 civilians killed by coalition forces in Afghanistan, a secret special forces unit tasked with killing Taliban leaders without trial, and efforts to downplay Taliban forces' capabilities.
#WarCrimes #Journalism
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 10/
Publishing that US officials had failed to investigate 100s of reported cases of abuse,rape,torture,murder by Iraqi soldiers. And that 66,000 of the 109,000 casualties (over 60%) were civilians,despite US gov claim that no official count existed
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 11/
Publishing docs from Kaupthing Bank shortly before the crash of the Icelandic banking sector which caused the 2008–2012 financial crisis, showing suspiciously large sums of money loaned to owners of the bank, and large debts written off.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 12/
Publishing how company Trafigura tried to stop The Guardian from reporting on an internal doc abt the toxic dumping of 500tonnes of a mixture of fuel, caustic soda & hydrogen sulfide in CĂ´te d'Ivoire, which led to the poisoning of 26000 people.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 13/
Helping Edward Snowden (who leaked the 2013 NSA mass surveillance docs)
by asking the Ecuadorean embassy for emergency travel documents when the US canceled Snowden's passport.
WikiLeaks paid for Snowden's lodging in Hong Kong and his flight.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 14/
Publishing documents which showed that the NSA spied on the French government,
including then President Francois Hollande and his predecessors Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac.
#FreePress #FreeAssange
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 15/
Publishing documents which showed that the NSA had tapped the telephones
of many German federal ministries,
including that of
the Chancellor Angela Merkel,
for years since the 1990s.
#AssangeCase #AssangeTrial
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 16/
Publishing documents which showed that
29 Brazilian government numbers were selected for
secret espionage by the NSA,incl.
then-President Dilma Rousseff, assistants, advisors,
her presidential jet,
and other key figures in the Brazilian gov.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 17/
Publishing secret intercepts and the related target list showing that the NSA spied
on the Japanese government,
including the Cabinet
and Japanese companies
such as Mitsubishi and Mitsui.
#AssangeCase #FreePress
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 18/
Publishing the 2016 emails/docs from Hillary Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta, documenting Clinton's paid speeches to banks, including Goldman Sachs, and her Wall Street connections.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 19/
Publishing about Yemen:
"The war in Yemen has produced 3.15m internally displaced persons. Although US gov has provided most of the bombs&is deeply involved in the conduct of the war itself reportage on the war in English is conspicuously rare."
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 20/
Publishing over 57,000 emails from Erdogan’s son-in-law, Berat Albayrak, who was Turkey’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, which revealed indirect involvement with ISIS’s oil trade and free press crackdowns.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 21/
Publishing how a technology company called Peter-Service helped state entities gather detailed data on Russian cellphone users, part of a national system of online surveillance called System for Operative Investigative Activities (SORM).
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 22/
Publishing the secret Bibles from the toxic cult Church of Scientology, including notes from founder L Ron Hubbard.
The cult is notorious for harassing, surveilling and oppressing excommunicated members.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 23/
Publishing The Guantánamo Bay Manual which incl. methods of evading protocols
of the Geneva convention.
Also revealed how military dogs are used to intimidate prisoners and that children as young as 15 are held there.
#FreeAssange #FreePress
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 24/
Publishing former Governor of Alaska and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's e-mails, which revealed how she was using her private e-mail accounts to get around public record laws.
#corruption
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 25/
Publishing reports on extrajudicial executions by Kenyan police for one week in November 2008, on its home page. Two human rights investigators involved were assassinated several months later. WikiLeaks called for info on the assassinations.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 26/
Publishing about complex arrangements made by
Barclays Bank to avoid tax,
after the docs were ordered to be removed from The Guardian.
The Guardian wrote that tax collectors (HMRC) now must rely on sites like Wikileaks to obtain evidence.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 27/
Publishing the list of sites to be banned under Australia's Internet censorship laws. The officially stated intention was preventing access to child pornography & terrorism,
yet the list leaked on WikiLeaks contains a number of unrelated sites.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 28/
Publishing the history and secret meeting reports of the
Bilderberg Group, whose stated agenda is bolstering free market Western capitalism around the globe.
Participants incl political leaders,experts from industry, finance, academia& media.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 29/
Publishing recordings of Peruvian politicians and businessmen involved in the Petrogate oil scandal:
a government official and a lobbyist discussing payments to help the Norwegian company Discover Petroleum win contracts
#FreePress #FreeAssange
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 30/
Publishing report disclosing a serious nuclear accident at the Iranian Natanz nuclear facility in 2009 where the number of enriched centrifuges mysteriously declined. This may have been a cyberattack via the Stuxnet worm, developed by US&Israel.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 31/
Repeatedly reaching out to US Department of State
& Hillary Clinton,
asking for help to redact names that could be placed at
"significant risk of harm" by diplomatic cables releases,
but being ignored and denied help.
reuters.com/article/britai
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 32/
Publishing the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement IP text with effects on medicines, publishers,internet services,civil liberties& biological patents.
TPP was the largest-ever economic treaty between nations with 40+% of the world’s GDP.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 33/
Publishing the secret
Trade in Services Agreement draft.
TISA, an international trade deal aimed at market liberalization, covers 50 countries and 68% of the global services industry.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 34/
Publishing the secret
Trans-Pacific Partnership Investment Chapter.
"The TPP has developed in secret an unaccountable supranational court for multinationals to sue states." -Assange
#FreePress
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 35/
Publishing documents from
Sony Pictures Entertainment showing that the influential corporation has direct ties to
the White House and the
US military-industrial complex, allowing opportunities to influence laws and policies.
#Hollywood
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 36/
Publishing secret Saudi Arabian government documents indicating that
the British government
under David Cameron
may have traded votes with Saudi Arabia to support each other's election to
the UN Human Rights Council.
#Corruption #Conspiracy
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 37/
Publishing emails of Erdogan’s post-coup purges, of which Assange said:
"The government’s counter-coup efforts have gone well beyond their stated purpose..and are now primarily used to steal assets and eliminate critics.”
haaretz.com/middle-east-ne
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 38/
Possibly starting the Tunisian Revolution by publishing cables describing the opulence of now former president Ben Ali's lifestyle and deep corruption.
#ArabSpring
theatlantic.com/daily-dish/arc
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 39/
Staying true to the ethos:
"Transparency for the Powerful
Privacy for the Weak"
at massive, incomprehensible personal cost while constantly attacked by multiple governments, organizations, corporations and suffering torture.
The Crimes of Julian Assange: 40/
Publishing more verified documents
than any other journalist in history,
which makes this thread
open-ended
and impossible to finish.
WikiLeaks has a 100% pristine record in document authentication.
#FreeAssange
wikileaks.org/What-is-WikiLe
"When exposing a crime
Is treated as committing a crime
You are being ruled by criminals" -@Edward Snowden
#Assange #JournalismIsNotACrime #FreePress #FreeAssange
Here's a thread helping show what Assange has done for humanity.
@Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW @Assange Defense @AssangeHOME🎗Our #RightToKnow #FreeAssangeNOW @Australians For Assange 🗣 @Committee to Defend Julian Assange @Artists for Assange @People For Assange @Pris, Gandalf and Buffy for Assange @Don't Extradite Assange @Gabriel Shipton @Richard Medhurst @Kevin Gosztola @Craig Murray - @Russell Brand @Yanis Varoufakis
We just had #ArmenianGenocide Remembrance Day, so here's one more for my tiny country of
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The Crimes of Julian Assange: 41/
Publishing and reporting on proof of "overwhelming evidence" of genocide,
and how Turkey is trying to to erase it from history.
twitter.com/wikileaks/stat
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The Crimes of Julian Assange: 41/
Publishing and reporting on proof of "overwhelming evidence" of genocide,
and how Turkey is trying to to erase it from history.
twitter.com/wikileaks/stat
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As Biden expected to officially recognize Armenian Genocide, a look back on this 2017 documentary 'Architects of Denial' with Julian Assange, George Clooney & others #ArmenianGenocide
Assange: "There is overwhelming evidence to support that there was a serious Armenian Genocide"
A good documentary on Assange and WikiLeaks, providing an overview of the entire story.
youtu.be/99DAA-KBx1s
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Creative Director & Visual Artist @AmaryllisVR. Media Technology MSc (VR UX)🌿Anti-war, Anti-imperialist, Against Surveillance Capitalism 🍀#FreePress
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