Tagged: julian assange

April 11, 2019 @ 1:42 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Julian Assange, the controversial founder of the transparency group Wikileaks, was arrested by British police and removed from the Ecuadorian embassy early this morning. A statement from London’s Metropolitan Police reported by the Washington Post indicates that Assange was, “arrested on behalf of the United… Read More

June 12, 2018 @ 12:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Guardian Newspaper has reported that Brittany Kaiser, a director at Cambridge Analytica, a data firm tied to election interference across the globe, told friends that she visited Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in February 2017 to discuss the outcome of the 2016 US… Read More

April 23, 2018 @ 10:15 am By Cali Haan  |  

In a form letter correspondence consistent with the low service levels crypto clients have come expect, Coinbase, operators of the planet’s 11th largest crypto exchange, pulled the plug on payments to the Wikileaks store April 20th. In a screenshot of the letter posted by Wikileaks,… Read More

October 16, 2017 @ 9:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks who is holed up in the Embassy of Ecuador in London, is thanking the US government for boosting his investment returns. Assange shares in a tweet that the illegal banking blockade targeting Wikileaks compelled him to look elsewhere to… Read More

December 12, 2014 @ 12:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Well, this is a first. Earlier this week, British journalist Vaughan Smith has hit Kickstarter to raise £100,000 so that he may build life-like statues of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange along with Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. These statues are known as being part of… Read More