Secret Power
WikiLeaks and Its Enemies
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Ken Loach
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*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021*
*Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Journalism 2022*
*Winner of the Premio Angelo Vassallo Award 2022*
'I want to live in a society where secret power is accountable to the law and to public opinion for its atrocities, where it is the war criminals who go to jail, not those who have the conscience and courage to expose them.'
It is 2008, and Stefania Maurizi, an investigative journalist with a growing interest in cryptography, starts looking into the little-known organization WikiLeaks. Through hushed meetings, encrypted files, and explosive documents, what she discovers sets her on a life-long journey that takes her deep into the realm of secret power.
Working closely with WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange and his organization for her newspaper, Maurizi has spent over a decade investigating state criminality protected by thick layers of secrecy, while also embarking on a solitary trench warfare to unearth the facts underpinning the cruel persecution of Assange and WikiLeaks.
With complex and disturbing insights, Maurizi’s tireless journalism exposes atrocities, the shameful treatment of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, on up to the present persecution of WikiLeaks: a terrifying web of impunity and cover-ups.
At the heart of the book is the brutality of secret power and the unbearable price paid by Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, and truthtellers.
©2022 Stefania Maurizi, Ken Loach, Lesli Cavanaugh-Bardelli (P)2023 Pluto PressDiese Titel könnten dich auch interessieren
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'The vindictive hounding of Julian Assange by the US government deserves as wide an audience as possible. There is no journalist better placed to tell the story than Stefania Maurizi.... As well as being the most detailed account of the persecution of Julian Assange, Maurizi weaves in the stories of whistle-blowers such as Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, making it one of the most comprehensive accounts yet of the battle between the national security apparatus and advocates of privacy and press freedom.' (Ewen MacAskill, Pulitzer Prize winner for Public Service 2014)
'A rigorous, compelling and highly readable reconstruction of the WikiLeaks case. I highly recommend this work. No one conveys better the urgency of averting the extradition and prosecution of Assange.' (Daniel Ellsberg, US whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers)
'Stefania Maurizi's book on the persecution of Julian Assange is the definitive text on this tragedy. To read it is to resist, it is a must read. Free Assange.' (Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd)
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Gesamt5 out of 5 stars
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Sprecher5 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte5 out of 5 stars
- L. T.
- 22.06.2024
A must-read for everyone who cares about press-freedom, human rights, democracy & actually the future of humanity
The author is not just a witness of Wikileak's development from its early years but experienced many events on her own. In other terms, she knows what she's writing about. The book not just points out the most important work of the publisher but also sheds a light of the events that accured while she was working as an investigative journalist with them. Therefore, the information is first hand.
I think it's a very important piece of history, just like Nils Melzer's deep investigation of Assange's case. While he focused mainly on the case itself, Maurizi writes about her experiences from the past and her frustrating attempts to receive information from the gouvernments under the FOIA (Freedom of information Act), which gives the right to ask any public sector organisation for information.
The facts that she found out (and also didn't, because evidence got destroyed!!) are showing that there are literally "secret powers" within the gouvernment, that try to undermine not just a free press, the first amendment of the US and democracy, but our freedom to know the truth about crimes & decisions, committed in our name behind secret doors too. We only can have a real democracy, if our decisions are based on truth.
The enemies of Wikileaks tried to create a huge fog of smear campaigns and persecute its founder for "publishing" the truth. 175 years prison for publishing war crimes, while the people in charge didn't get any punishment at all? There were even plans to kidnap and assasinate Mr. Assange while he was in the embassy and extraditing a person to a foreign country that planned such horrible things is completely irresponsible. This man should be as free as the truth, that he had published, just like other journalists at the time.
Conclusion:
The more you read the book, the more you understand that there must be a cooperation between secret powers, with the only intention not just to take revenge but especially to intimidate future Whistleblowers, Journalists and Publishers to not dare to share an inconvenient truth with the public. The world only can grow in a positive way, if the public gets educated through the truth and facts. As long as we get lied into wars or manipulated to believe in lies, we can't be a real democracy. As long as we persecute people for telling the truth, we're far away from becoming a healthy society. Maurizi's book is a very important work and summary of the last 15 years and the actual proceedings. Thanks for this amazing piece of history. Therefore, 5 Stars out of five!
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