{"id":33108,"date":"2018-04-04T08:18:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T13:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33108"},"modified":"2018-04-04T08:18:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T13:18:59","slug":"a-retrospective-look-at-the-work-wikileaks-made-possible-as-assange-remains-silenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33108","title":{"rendered":"A Retrospective Look At The Work WikiLeaks Made Possible As Assange Remains Silenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav id=\"flash-breadcrumbs\" class=\"breadcrumb-trail breadcrumbs\">\n<h3 class=\"trail-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/2018\/04\/a-retrospective-look-at-the-work-wikileaks-made-possible-as-assange-remains-silenced\/\">A Retrospective Look At The Work WikiLeaks Made Possible As Assange Remains Silenced<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/nav>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"site-content\">\n<div class=\"tg-container\">\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"content-area\">\n<article id=\"post-9690\" class=\"post-9690 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-censorship category-global-chess category-human-trafficking category-leaks category-media-tech category-whistleblowers tag-dnc-emails tag-dnc-fraud-lawsuit tag-dnc-leaks tag-dutroux tag-dyncorp tag-ecuador tag-embassy tag-haiti tag-hillary-clinton tag-julian-assange tag-laura-silsby tag-wikileaks tag-yemen tag-zoes-ark\">\n<div class=\"entry-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2DDA6D7E-C073-4303-A1B0-8FCC10E185A0_cx0_cy4_cw0_w1023_r1_s.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2DDA6D7E-C073-4303-A1B0-8FCC10E185A0_cx0_cy4_cw0_w1023_r1_s.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2DDA6D7E-C073-4303-A1B0-8FCC10E185A0_cx0_cy4_cw0_w1023_r1_s-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2DDA6D7E-C073-4303-A1B0-8FCC10E185A0_cx0_cy4_cw0_w1023_r1_s-768x432.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1023\" height=\"575\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content-block\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">An argument is only as good as the evidence it cites. For this reason, WikiLeaks embodies one the most significant information armories in existence. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/ZdVFJ#selection-167.18-167.338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Pilger<\/a>\u00a0spoke to this importance when he compared WikiLeaks with a mainstream press that he called nothing more than \u201cstate-stenography.\u201d In the wake of news of Assange being cut off from the outside world by order of the Ecuadorian government, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/h6ycK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pilger<\/a>\u00a0also wrote that the \u201csilencing of Assange is the silencing of us all.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>After this author and other independent journalists, whistleblowers and friends of Assange took part in a ten-hour vigil to call for the journalist\u2019s freedom of speech to be upheld under the banner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p2GEYS7Xvec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ReconnectJulian<\/a>, many have <a href=\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/wikileaks\/@caitlinjohnstone\/the-persecution-of-assange-proves-him-right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continued to publicize<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CassandraRules\/status\/980576858428362752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">injustice of his inability to speak<\/a> and have contact with the outside world on top of his ongoing arbitrary confinement.<\/p>\n<p>As this writer previously noted, a topic of discussion during the online vigil centered on the irreplaceable impact WikiLeaks has had through the documentation of evidence of corruption and war-crimes. The consequences of WikiLeaks\u2019 most well-known accomplishments cannot be overstated.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2016 conversation with <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/HnBYo#selection-545.7-545.60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democracy Now,<\/a>\u00a0Julian Assange described WikiLeaks:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c\u2026.WikiLeaks has become the rebel library of Alexandria. It is the single most significant collection of information that doesn\u2019t exist elsewhere, in a searchable, accessible, citable form, about how modern institutions actually behave. And it\u2019s gone on to set people free from prison, where documents have been used in their court cases; hold the\u00a0CIA\u00a0accountable for renditions programs; feed into election cycles, which have resulted in the termination of, in some case\u2014or contributed to the termination of governments, in some cases, taken the heads of intelligence agencies, ministers of defense and so on. So, you know, our civilization can only be as good as our knowledge of what our civilization is. We can\u2019t possibly hope to reform that which we do not understand.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Retrospective Look At The Work WikiLeaks Made Possible As Assange Remains Silenced An argument is only as good as the evidence it cites. For this reason, WikiLeaks embodies one the most significant information armories in existence. John Pilger\u00a0spoke to this importance when he compared WikiLeaks with a mainstream press that he called nothing more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,5655,15091,18022,7743,2001,880],"class_list":["post-33108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-democracy-now","tag-disobedient-media","tag-elizabeth-vos","tag-john-pilger","tag-julian-assange","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33109,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33108\/revisions\/33109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}