For many years, Assange has been speaking very uncomfortable truths – truths that some didn’t want to hear. It is surely time to listen to him now. He may be imprisoned, but his words are not.
What follows are the words of Julian Assange, captured in video, audio and text and shared on the internet. Captured, but – unlike the man himself – not imprisoned. His words are still free to travel the world and be shared by all.
While far from an exhaustive library of links, these entries cover the main events in the public life of Julian Assange, providing an extensive insight into the evolution of his thoughts and activities. Due to space constraints, only a few key releases from WikiLeaks itself are highlighted here. These include the 2010 releases that put WikiLeaks on the map, the 2016 DNC & Clinton releases that incurred the wrath of the US “left”, and the 2017 Vault 7 releases that ensured the undying hatred of the “intelligence” community. The rest are all listed on WikiLeaks.
On images used
The images included here also provide a visual history of Julian Assange as he negotiates a very difficult Via Appia (PART 10 will have more to say on that topic).
Some images permit the related video to be watched from within this document. In other cases I have included a screengrab instead. In those cases, the image caption includes a link to the video, from which you can watch it on its original platform.
In order to provide a ‘one stop’, searchable file, this compendium is very large, so please be patient if some images (especially interactive videos) are a little slow in loading. This compendium is best watched on a desktop with plenty of memory.
On dates and places
Many videos do not carry the place or date of the event covered and now, in many cases, YouTube (and some other platforms) even hide the specific date of publication (which may be months or years later). Sometimes videos have been copied without stating the original date or source.
Our shared history, where it remains, is becoming an amorphous junk heap on a muddled timeline – something Julian Assange would abhor. Perhaps some of this is deliberate. Where it is not, I beg of those who make videos – please do better with your labelling and video header data.
I have done my best to locate correct dates. If readers have a correction to suggest (or an addition), please put it (with a link to source) in the comments.
On censored sources
YouTube (and other social media) have drastically stepped up their levels of censorship recently. This has meant that many of the entries in my extensive archives cannot now be seen – YouTube annotates such videos, in many cases, with “This video is not available in your country” when what they really mean is that YouTube has ensured that the video can’t be viewed in ANY country.
Some other sites (particularly legacy press sites) have “memory-holed” various videos and articles, or made them otherwise inaccessible (sometimes just through careless changes to website structure, but also via paywalls). Despite this, I have left in links to some of these sources in the hope that these suppressions will not remain a permanent state of affairs. Where possible, I also provide an alternate link.
♦ INDEX
Listed below are videos and articles containing the direct speech of Julian Assange.
1997
1999
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
– Release of Collateral Murder (5 April)
– Release of Gitmo Files (25 April)
– Release of Afghan War Diary (25 July)
– Release of Iraq War Logs (27 Oct)
– First Release of US Diplomatic Cables (28 Nov)
– First arrest of Assange (7 Dec)
2011
2012
– Assange enters the embassy (19 June)
– Ecuador gives Assange asylum (16 Aug)
2013
2014
2015
2016
– Release of US Clinton emails(16 March)
– First Release of US Podesta emails (22 July)
– First Release of US DNC emails (22 July)
2017
– First Release of Vault 7 (CIA Hacking Tools) (7 March)
2018
– Assange gagged by Ecuador (28 March)
2019
– Second arrest of Assange and imprisonment (11 April)
2020
2021
2022
Addendum: The Revelations of WikiLeaks (Consortium News)
En fin: Julian speaks
Author and This Series
♦ 1997
1997 TEXT “Underground: Tales of hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier” by Suelette Dreyfus [Underground]
In the acknowledgments:
”I also want to thank Julian Assange for his tireless research efforts. His superb technical expertise and first-rate research is evidence by the immense number of details which are included in this book.”Later editions of this book list Julian Assange as a co-author. [Amazon]
♦ 1999
1999 EVENT Assange registered the domain ‘leaks.org’
1999 Nov 15 TEXT Suelette Dreyfus “Network: This is just between us (and the spies)”
[The Independent]
The article begins:
“THE US National Security Agency has designed and patented a new technology that could aid it in spying on international telephone calls. The NSA patent, granted on 10 August, is for a system of automatic topic spotting and labelling of data. The patent officially confirms for the first time that the NSA has been working on ways of automatically analysing human speech.
The NSA’s invention is intended automatically to sift through human speech transcripts in any language. The patent document specifically mentions “machine-transcribed speech” as a potential source.”
Assange, who already wrote a book with Suelette Dreyfus, is quoted as saying:
“This patent should worry people. Everyone’s overseas phone calls are or may soon be tapped, transcribed and archived in the bowels of an unaccountable foreign spy agency.”He refers to this article nearly two decades later, in 2015, soon after the Snowden revelations, when addressing the Commonwealth Lawyers Association on surveillance issues
♦ 2007
2006 -2007 TEXT “IQ.ORG Selected Correspondence” [Archived]
2007 Oct 7 TEXT “On the Take and Loving It – Academic recipients of the U.S. intelligence budget.“ [WikiLeaks]
“Over the last decade, U.S intelligence funding of academic research has taken on cavalier, even brazen qualities. This article reveals over 3,000 National Security Agency and over 100 Defense Intelligence Agency funded papers and draws attention to recent unreported revelations of CIA funding for torture research. […]
