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Wanted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded with British actor Benedict Cumberbatch to drop out of the Hollywood adaptation of his story after objecting to an early version of the film's script.

The following donations have been received through bank transfer or by checks / cash sent to the Wau Holland Foundation, listed by month: Donations to WikiLeaks since January have only been enough to cover expenditures in essential infrastructure, such as servers, according to a transparency report.

"[I]t is unprecedented for the government, in an official court document, to accuse a reporter of breaking the law for conducting the routine business of reporting on government secrets." a " [T]his is the same argument the Justice Department has been using in their attempt to indict WikiLeaks and Julian Assange ," Trevor Timm writes.

Back Lot Records will issue a digital release of the soundtrack for We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, the new documentary from Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, today, May 21st.

May 20 - JAMES GOODALE, via Devi Shah, dkshah at debevoise.com . Available for a limited number of interviews, Goodale represented The New York Times in the landmark Pentagon Papers case, when the Nixon White House attempted to stop the Times from publishing top secret documents about the Vietnam War leaked by Daniel Ellsberg.

But Gibney ended up following his story into other, even weirder areas. He comes to view the whistle-blowers, the cyberguerrillas in the war against all forms of secrecy, from a sort of psycho-anthropological perspective: Here, he says, is how the culture created them.

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks gestures as he speaks to the media and members of the public from a balcony at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Thursday, Dec.

Unembarrassedly biased, they only tell one side of the story, often at top volume.

Filmed with the startling immediacy of unfolding history, Academy AwardA -winning director Alex Gibney's We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks details the creation of Julian Assange's controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has poignantly stated that the very sovereignty of Latin American and Caribbean nations has been compromised by a reliance on US-based telecommunications.

One of the two Swedish women who accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes has spoken out publicly about her ordeal for what is believed to be the first time.

United States diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show that the US Department of State lobbied across the globe on behalf of the Monsanto company and other biotech corporations that peddle genetically-modified crops.

Julian Assange's newly formed Australian WikiLeaks Party announced that if elected, it will immediately introduce a national shield law to protect a reporter's right not to reveal a source, as current state-based shield laws are "inadequate." "Only a uniform shield law covering the whole Commonwealth is acceptable," WLP spokespersons Cassie Findlay ... (more)

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China's catch-up spurt has a few more years to run in the Western hinterlands perhaps, but when the full story comes out we may find that nationwide growth has already fallen below 7pc.

A tiny tip of the vast subterranean network of governmental and intelligence agencies from around the world dedicated to destroying WikiLeaks and arresting its founder, Julian Assange, appears outside the red-brick building on Hans Crescent Street that houses the Ecuadorean Embassy.

I had an opportunity to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been granted political asylum since June 2012.

LINDSAY LOHAN has settled a lawsuit with a paparazzo who sued the actress after she allegedly ran over his foot.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London, Feb. 1, 2012. Alex Gibney, director of a new documentary about Wikileaks, says he was dismayed by Assange's "self-regard and narcissism." Alex Gibney has directed his share of controversial documentaries.

"We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks" features music from Fall On Your Sword and will be available May 21.