In Defense of Julian Assange

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Title
Copyright
Epigraph
Contents
Introduction: Tariq Ali and Margaret Kunstler
Chronology of Major Events
Caitlin Johnstone: Responding to Assange’s Critics 1–3
PART I: EXPULSION
1. Chris Hedges: The Martyrdom of Julian Assange
2. Noam Chomsky: The Scandal of Assange’s Arrest
3. Alan MacLeod: The Media Cheer Assange’s Arrest
4. Charles Glass: Prizes for Some, Prison for Assange
5. Katrin Axelsson and Lisa Longstaff: We Are Women
Against Rape but We Do Not Want Assange Extradited
6. Lisa Longstaff: Unpublished Letter on Arrest of Assange
7. Kevin Gosztola: WikiLeaks and the Democrats
8. Margaret Kimberley: The Naïveté of Julian Assange
9. Vivienne Westwood: If Julian Goes . . .
10. Matt Taibbi: Julian Assange Must Never Be Extradited
11. The Courage Foundation: The “Assange Precedent”
12. Daniel Ellsberg: Assange’s Espionage Charges
13. Pamela Anderson: Outside Belmarsh Prison
14. Geoffrey Robertson: Assange in Prison—Forever?
Caitlin Johnstone: Responding to Assange’s Critics 4–8
PART II. CONFINEMENT
1. Fidel Narváez: Open Doors for Julian
2. Julian Assange: A Letter to the Ecuadorian President,
Rafael Correa, Concerning My Application for Asylum
3. Srećko Horvat: What’s the Point of Swimming in the Sea,
If You Don’t Believe in Anything?
4. Serge Halimi: For Julian Assange
5. John Pilger: The Prisoner Says No to Big Brother
6. Teresa Forcades i Vila: To Make the World a Better and
Safer Place
7. Angela Richter: Endgame for Assange
8. Ai Weiwei: A Conversation with Julian Assange
Caitlin Johnstone: Responding to Assange’s Critics 9–15
PART III. THE INTERNET, CENSORSHIP, AND
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALISM
1. Julian Assange: A Cypherpunk in His Own Words
2. Slavoj Žižek: Assange Has Only Us to Help Him!
3. Franco “Bifo” Berardi: Truth and Chaos
4. Sally Burch: Exposing Abuse of Power: For the People
5. Nozomi Hayase: Imprisoned Light of Our Civilization
that Kindled the Heart of Democracy
6. Geoffroy de Lagasnerie: Julian Assange for the Future
Caitlin Johnstone: Responding to Assange’s Critics 16–22
PART IV. THE LEGACY OF WIKILEAKS AND ASSANGE
1. Patrick Cockburn: Calling Assange a “Narcissist”
Misses the Point
2. Jennifer Robinson: Injustice and Justice
3. Naomi Colvin: A Return to the WikiLeaks of 2010
4. Renata Avila: Who Is Julian Assange and What Did
WikiLeaks Do
5. Craig Murray: The Real Muellergate Scandal
6. Mark Curtis: WikiLeaks and UK Foreign Policy
7. Stefania Maurizi: Inside the WikiLeaks Revolution
8. Jesselyn Radack: Assange and Whistleblowers
9. John C. O’Day: Assange and the Corporate Media’s
Demarcation Problem
10. Natália Viana: Julian and His Creatures
Caitlin Johnstone: Responding to Assange’s Critics 23–29
Michael Ratner: Epilogue
Appendix: Superseding Indictment
Editors and Contributors
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