Faine GreenwoodJanuary 27, 2013 22:51

Filming has just begun on "The Fifth Estate," a movie focused on the drama surrounding WikiLeaks and Julian Assange — and now, a displeased Assange says that he's managed to obtain a copy of the script.

'Detainee Policies': Wikileaks releases US rulebook on military prisoners

Jessica PhelanOctober 25, 2012 10:59

The 'Detainee Policies' supposedly reveal the official guidelines at US military prisons at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere.

Julian Assange given Aboriginal passport in 'show of solidarity'

Talia RalphSeptember 15, 2012 10:30

Julian Assange was given an Aboriginal passport by an Australian activist group in a ceremony on Saturday as a "show of solidarity."

Julian Assange: Why we love and hate the WikiLeaks founder (INFOGRAPHIC)

Kyle KimAugust 16, 2012 16:12

Depending on who you ask, and perhaps where your politics lie, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is either a modern-day hero or a dangerous pariah. Here are the reasons the world either loves him or hates him.

WikiLeaks back online after AntiLeaks DDoS attack

Daniel DeFraiaAugust 14, 2012 10:25

Is this just the beginning of a WikiLeaks vs. AntiLeaks war?

AntiLeaks: WikiLeaks website is down

Daniel DeFraiaAugust 11, 2012 10:18

AntiLeaks claims responsibility.

Fake New York Times editorial defending WikiLeaks, with Bill Keller byline, fools Times staff

News DeskJuly 29, 2012 14:25

The op-ed, titled "WikiLeaks, a Post Postscript," appears to have been published July 29 by the Times.

WikiLeaks says Baltasar Garzón will lead defense of Assange against 'extrajudicial actions' and 'secret US processes'

Lizzy TomeiJuly 25, 2012 20:07

Garzón, like his client, has become a controversial figure.

Jeb BooneFebruary 27, 2012 12:58

Wikileaks emails allege 'Stratfor spied on activists'

Wikileaks: Coke and Dow allegedly hired Stratfor to monitor PETA and others.

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This February 27, 2012 photo shows a screen from the Internet site Wikileaks. Wikileaks, which triggered an earthquake in 2010 in world diplomacy, said Monday it has begun the publication of more than five million emails to the American private intelligence and Stratfor strategic Analysis. Electronic messages, which spread from July 2004 to December 2011, reveal employment by Stratfor 'networks of informants, payment structures of bribes, wine, money laundering techniques and methods of psychological 'said a statement from Wikileaks. 'The documents show how a private company working in information and how it targets individuals for their private and government customers,' the statement added. (Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images)

According to Wikileaks, the first of five million emails it's releasing from servers belonging to global intelligence firm Stratfor suggest that the company was used by private corporations to monitor activist groups in the US and Canada.

The authenticity of the emails — reportedly obtained by Anonymous hackers and released early Monday morning — could not be independently verified.

They appear to show that Stratfor was contracted by Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical, and Union Carbide to monitor anti-corporate activists, The Yes Men and PETA.

The Yes Men were working to raise awareness concerning the Bhopal chemical disaster in India that took place in December of 1984, considered to be one of the world’s worst industrial catastrophes where thousands were killed in a toxic gas leak.

Dow and Union Carbide sought to determine whether or not the 25th anniversary of the disaster would foment further anti-corporate sentiment towards their companies. The emails detail personal information about Yes Men activists, public appearances, media releases made by the group, and general coverage of the group’s activities in news outlets.

Jeb BooneFebruary 27, 2012 10:42

Wikileaks and Anonymous release "global intelligence files" from Stratfor

Wikileaks and Anonymous release 5 million emails from a global security firm.

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Wikileaks, the internet’s home for whistle-blowing and classified dumps, has begun publishing over five million emails from the “global intelligence” firm Stratfor. The emails were most likely obtained from when hacker collective Anonymous gained access to the Statfor’s servers last December in an unprecedented cooperation between the two whistle-blowing organizations.

Wired.com’s Threat Level blog has also reported that sources within Anonymous have stated that the hacker collective did indeed turn the hacked emails over to Wikileaks because the site was “more capable of analyzing and spreading the leaked information than Anonymous would be.”

On Monday morning, twitter account @AnonymousIRC began publishing a number of tweets linking Wikileaks to the hacker collective as the source of the hacked emails.