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Secret Power : WikiLeaks and Its Enemies.

By: Maurizi, StefaniaContributor(s): Loach, Ken | Cavanaugh-Bardelli, LesliMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2022Copyright date: �2022Description: 1 online resource (279 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780745347639Genre/Form: Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: Secret PowerOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Ken Loach -- Introduction: The Man Who Stood Up to Secret Power -- 1. The WikiLeaks Revolution -- My Source at Risk -- Saying No to the Pentagon -- Publishing What No One Dared to Publish -- A Phone Call in the Night -- Like a Band of Rebels -- Destroy WikiLeaks -- 2. The Exceptional Courage of Chelsea Manning -- Collateral Murder -- A Lesson -- She Could Have Looked the Other Way -- "I Want People to See the Truth" -- 3. Afghanistan: The Faraway War -- Forever War -- An Extraordinary Window on the War -- The Pentagon's Poison -- The Fog of War -- Meeting Confirmed -- Alexanderplatz -- "Our Boys" -- 4. The Cypherpunk -- A Highly Intelligent Individual -- Visionaries and Libertarians -- 5. A Database from Hell: The Iraq War Logs -- The Word "Democracy" Only Eight Times -- Like an Acid that Corrodes -- 6. Cablegate: Rattling Power at the Highest Levels -- Crimes, Scandals and Political Pressure -- Surrounded -- A Cottage in the English Countryside -- A Democracy on a Short Leash -- Like in Chile under Pinochet -- 7. Guantanamo: The Black Hole of Civilization -- The Worst of the Worst? -- Guantanamo's Barbarity Persists and Risks Setting a Precedent -- 8. "The Huffington Post Gang Is Driving Me Nuts" -- Ellingham Hall -- Whose Fault Was It? -- Isolated -- Divide, Discredit, Sabotage -- 9. From Sweden to Ecuador -- "He Needs His Head Dunked in a Full Toilet Bowl at Gitmo" -- An Investigation Opened, Closed and Reopened -- When Ecuador Said: "Colonial Times Are Over" -- Confined to 20 Square Meters -- 10. No Place for Protection -- NSA: The "No Such Agency" -- The Exceptional Courage of Edward Snowden -- A Brutal Law from World War I: The Espionage Act -- The Cruel and Inhumane Treatment of Chelsea Manning -- Exile -- In Prison, in Exile or Confined -- The "Blood on Their Hands" that Never Was 175.
11. My Trench Warfare to Unearth the Truth -- When Google Handed Over WikiLeaks' Data -- A Suspicious Impasse in Sweden -- To Look Out the Window -- Not Just Another Extradition Request -- How Keir Starmer's Crown Prosecution Service -- Helped Create the Quagmire -- When Marianne Ny Finally Changed Her Mind 196 -- 12. Arbitrarily Detained -- One International Law for Us and One for Them: -- How Sweden and the UK Ignored the United -- Nations Working Group -- Justice for No One -- 13. A Russian Connection? -- Useful Idiots -- The Information Trumps All -- 14. The Fury of the CIA -- A Robbery in Rome -- The Invisible Arsenal: Vault 7 -- A Spine-chilling Speech -- 15. Under Siege -- From Protection under Correa to Oppression under Moreno -- Why Did the UK Crown Prosecution Service Destroy Key Documents? -- The Lives of Others -- A Love Born in Hell -- The American Friends -- 16. The Final Attempts -- The Diplomatic Route -- The Legal Route -- The Poison -- The Last Meeting -- 17. In the Would-be Guantanamo -- A Brutal Arrest -- The State within the State -- Fifty Weeks -- The Law as a Sword -- 18. 175 Years for the Crime of Journalism -- The First Time in United States History -- The Full Force of the State -- The Espionage Act for Whistleblowers: Prison, Cruelty, Bankruptcy -- The Espionage Act for Generals and Spymasters: Impunity -- Something is Rotten in the State of Sweden -- A Special Rapporteur -- 19. Only Kafka -- The Trial -- He Remained in Belmarsh -- Changing the Game -- The Witnesses -- 20. A Monstrous Injustice -- The Cruelty of American and British Justice -- Killing Julian -- Piercing the Wall of Darkness -- 21. Secret Power -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: An uncovering of the terrifying depths of authoritarian power that hide behind the infamous story of WikiLeaks.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Ken Loach -- Introduction: The Man Who Stood Up to Secret Power -- 1. The WikiLeaks Revolution -- My Source at Risk -- Saying No to the Pentagon -- Publishing What No One Dared to Publish -- A Phone Call in the Night -- Like a Band of Rebels -- Destroy WikiLeaks -- 2. The Exceptional Courage of Chelsea Manning -- Collateral Murder -- A Lesson -- She Could Have Looked the Other Way -- "I Want People to See the Truth" -- 3. Afghanistan: The Faraway War -- Forever War -- An Extraordinary Window on the War -- The Pentagon's Poison -- The Fog of War -- Meeting Confirmed -- Alexanderplatz -- "Our Boys" -- 4. The Cypherpunk -- A Highly Intelligent Individual -- Visionaries and Libertarians -- 5. A Database from Hell: The Iraq War Logs -- The Word "Democracy" Only Eight Times -- Like an Acid that Corrodes -- 6. Cablegate: Rattling Power at the Highest Levels -- Crimes, Scandals and Political Pressure -- Surrounded -- A Cottage in the English Countryside -- A Democracy on a Short Leash -- Like in Chile under Pinochet -- 7. Guantanamo: The Black Hole of Civilization -- The Worst of the Worst? -- Guantanamo's Barbarity Persists and Risks Setting a Precedent -- 8. "The Huffington Post Gang Is Driving Me Nuts" -- Ellingham Hall -- Whose Fault Was It? -- Isolated -- Divide, Discredit, Sabotage -- 9. From Sweden to Ecuador -- "He Needs His Head Dunked in a Full Toilet Bowl at Gitmo" -- An Investigation Opened, Closed and Reopened -- When Ecuador Said: "Colonial Times Are Over" -- Confined to 20 Square Meters -- 10. No Place for Protection -- NSA: The "No Such Agency" -- The Exceptional Courage of Edward Snowden -- A Brutal Law from World War I: The Espionage Act -- The Cruel and Inhumane Treatment of Chelsea Manning -- Exile -- In Prison, in Exile or Confined -- The "Blood on Their Hands" that Never Was 175.

11. My Trench Warfare to Unearth the Truth -- When Google Handed Over WikiLeaks' Data -- A Suspicious Impasse in Sweden -- To Look Out the Window -- Not Just Another Extradition Request -- How Keir Starmer's Crown Prosecution Service -- Helped Create the Quagmire -- When Marianne Ny Finally Changed Her Mind 196 -- 12. Arbitrarily Detained -- One International Law for Us and One for Them: -- How Sweden and the UK Ignored the United -- Nations Working Group -- Justice for No One -- 13. A Russian Connection? -- Useful Idiots -- The Information Trumps All -- 14. The Fury of the CIA -- A Robbery in Rome -- The Invisible Arsenal: Vault 7 -- A Spine-chilling Speech -- 15. Under Siege -- From Protection under Correa to Oppression under Moreno -- Why Did the UK Crown Prosecution Service Destroy Key Documents? -- The Lives of Others -- A Love Born in Hell -- The American Friends -- 16. The Final Attempts -- The Diplomatic Route -- The Legal Route -- The Poison -- The Last Meeting -- 17. In the Would-be Guantanamo -- A Brutal Arrest -- The State within the State -- Fifty Weeks -- The Law as a Sword -- 18. 175 Years for the Crime of Journalism -- The First Time in United States History -- The Full Force of the State -- The Espionage Act for Whistleblowers: Prison, Cruelty, Bankruptcy -- The Espionage Act for Generals and Spymasters: Impunity -- Something is Rotten in the State of Sweden -- A Special Rapporteur -- 19. Only Kafka -- The Trial -- He Remained in Belmarsh -- Changing the Game -- The Witnesses -- 20. A Monstrous Injustice -- The Cruelty of American and British Justice -- Killing Julian -- Piercing the Wall of Darkness -- 21. Secret Power -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

An uncovering of the terrifying depths of authoritarian power that hide behind the infamous story of WikiLeaks.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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