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Media Banned From Julian Assange Speech At Cambridge Union

Media are barred from attending Cambridge University’s debating society, the Cambridge Union, tonight when it hosts WikiLeaks co-founder and libertarian/lefty hero Julian Assange. The Australian, who has been hiding in the Ecuador embassy in London since 2013, will appear before the 200-year-old

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Wikileaks Posts First Round of CIA Director John Brennan’s Emails

Wikileaks has begun posting the emails of CIA Director John Brennan, having presumably obtained them from the “stoned high-school student” who compromised his America Online account. Half a dozen of the documents that were attached to Brennan’s emails were posted on Wednesday, with Wikileaks promising that more would be forthcoming over the next few days.

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Report: Obamatrade Undermines Intellectual Property, Crushes Freedom of Expression

The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 other countries contains a chapter on intellectual property rights that could impact freedom of expression, according to The Guardian. This news comes after Breitbart News reported there is a controversial chapter on immigration law within the Trade in Services Act (TiSA), another part of President Obama’s trade pact.

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Revealed: The Secret Immigration Chapter in Obama’s Trade Agreement

Discovered inside the huge tranche of secretive Obamatrade documents released by Wikileaks are key details on how technically any Republican voting for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that would fast-track trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would technically also be voting to massively expand President Obama’s executive authority when it comes to immigration matters.

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Wiki-Leaker Bradley Manning Now Tweeting from Jail

Bradley Manning, now legally known as Chelsea Manning–the US soldier convicted of leaking thousands of pages of US secret documents to the Wikileaks website–is now tweeting from jail. On April 3, Manning began tweeting from jail through an intermediary by