What Cablegate tells us about the reach and ambitions of US Empire. Published in collaboration with WikiLeaks.
Julian Assange has been the Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks since 2006. Since 2010 when the website published thousands of US military and diplomatic documents, he has been under investigation by the United States. That year he was called criminal and a terrorist by some politicans, but also won the Sam Adams Award, was named Person of the Year by Le Monde's readers' and received the Time Readers' Award. In 2011 he accepted the Sydney Peace Foundation Gold Medal for Peace, the Martha Gelhorn Prize for Journalism, the Walkley Award for most outstanding contribution to journalism, and the Amnesty International UK Media Award. Since June 2012 he has been seeking political asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy, London.
Long after the debate over the publication of these cables has been
forgotten, the documents themselves will remain a valuable archive
for scholars and students of US foreign policy. The essays that
make up The WikiLeaks Files shed critical light on a once secret
history.
*Edward J. Snowden, July 2015*
Reveals a profound hatred of democracy on the part of our political
leadership.
*Noam Chomsky*
A deep dive into what the cables reveal about America's dealings
with a variety of states. It will be left to other books to argue
whether WikiLeaks is right or wrong in their mission and approach.
This one gives solid context to the cables themselves, explaining
what they mean to the wider world.
*Kirkus Reviews*
Takes on a huge amount of data and delivers a thorough introduction
to the narratives of US policy that the cables reveal [and] . makes
the information in the cables accessible to a wide audience of
readers who may not otherwise have the time or background knowledge
to search through the data themselves.
*Publishers Weekly*
Provides accessible insight into nearly every major news topic of
today.
*Portland Press Herald*
Wikileaks is the absolute most important project on the globe.
*Jacob Appelbaum*
From government to big business, if you have a dirty secret,
Wikileaks is your nightmare.
*Guardian*
I've heard the impact of these releases on our foreign policy
described as a meltdown, as a game-changer and so on . Is this
embarrassing? Yes. Is it awkward? Yes.
*Bob Gates, US Defense Secretary, 2010*
The guy ought to be . and I'm not for the death penalty, so if I'm
not for the death penalty, there's only one way to do it: illegally
shoot the son of a bitch.
*Fox News*
The whole weighty book is a missile aimed at breaking the plate
glass of US diplomacy and revealing its motivations.
*Sydney Morning Herald*
The book is interesting for two reasons. The first is that it's
serious . The second point of interest in The Wikileaks Files is
its section on Ecuador. US cables here support [Rafael Correa's]
suspicion of CIA shenanigans, including a coup attempt against him
in 2010.
*Times (London)*
A treasure trove of information and analysis . immensely
clarifying.
*Al-Jazeera*
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