Marcel Rosenbach, Holger Stark: Staatsfeind WikiLeaks (2011) [German]
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WikiLeaks hat sich viele Feinde gemacht. Seit den spektakulären Enthüllungen geheimer Dokumente aus US-Botschaften sowie über die Kriege in Afghanistan und Irak werden die Organisation und ihr Gründer Julian Assange von den USA als Staatsfeind bezeichnet, als Bedrohung betrachtet und mit aller Macht verfolgt.
Holger Stark und Marcel Rosenbach stehen seit Jahren in Kontakt mit WikiLeaks und kennen die Organisation wie kaum ein anderer. In ihrem Buch geben sie exklusive Einblicke in die Arbeit von WikiLeaks und schildern den Aufstieg der Organisation bis zur Jagd auf Assange Ende 2010. Dabei diskutieren sie Fragen, die auch viele Geheimdienstler und Politiker bewegen: Wie weit darf radikale Transparenz gehen? Gibt es nicht auch legitime Staatsgeheimnisse? Ist WikiLeaks eine Art »Geheimdienst des Volkes« und die Zukunft des investigativen Journalismus – oder schlicht die gefährlichste Seite im Internet?
Staatsfeind WikiLeaks. Wie eine Gruppe von Netzaktivisten die mächtigsten Nationen der Welt herausforde
Publisher: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, München, in der Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH und SPIEGEL-Verlag, Hamburg, 24 January 2011
ISBN 978-3-87763-094-5
336 pages
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Comment (0)Alexander Star (ed.): Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy (2011)
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“Open Secrets” is the definitive chronicle of the WikiLeaks documents’ release and the controversy that ensued. It brings together all of the classified diplomatic cables and war logs posted on The Times’s Web site, along with 27 new cables selected for this volume — and substantial analyses of what the documents mean and why they matter. In the introduction, Times executive editor Bill Keller takes readers behind the scenes to explain how and why The Times published the documents. Learn more about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a profile by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Times reporter John F. Burns. There are also essays on Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private suspected of being WikiLeaks’s source, and on what the story has revealed about American diplomacy and government secrecy.
Both a legal and technological thriller, as well as a primer on world politics, “Open Secrets” should be of special interest to anyone interested in one of the most compelling news stories of our day.
Complete and Updated Coverage by The New York Times
With an Introduction by Bill Keller
Publisher The New York Times Company, Jan 2011
ISBN 0615439578, 9780615439570
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Comment (1)Kontekst Archive 06/07/08 (2008) [English/Serbian]
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Gallery Kontekst represents one of the politically most important initiatives in Belgrade in the field of contemporary art. Through critical approach to the social reality and persistence to initiate
discussion on topics that are rarely discussed and thus take part in struggles against most conservative social processes, the team of *Kontekst Gallery *created unique space in the cultural-artistic scene in Belgrade. Some of the issues that Kontekst and people involved in its work dealt with (in collaboration with other artists, theorists, cultural workers and activists) are sex work (“Sex, Work and Society” project), Serbian nationalism and wars in Yugoslavia (especially through censored exhibition “Exception, contemporary art scene of Prishtina”), racism in Serbia (especially in relation to Roma community through actions against demolition and fencing of a Roma slum during the international sport event Universiade), contemporary mechanisms of surveillance (“Control and Resistance on the Street” project), privatization and illegal appropriation of public space (“Fifth Park-Struggle for the Everyday” project), homophobia (collaboration with QueerBelgrade festival), critical approach toward the process of the expansion of the European Union and its mechanisms of exclusion (Without Borders? project), etc.
The publication features interviews and program selection from 2006 to 2008.
Editors: Vida Knežević, Ivana Marjanović
Translation Novica Petrović, Vida Knežević, Ivana Marjanović
Publisher: Kontekst, Belgrade, 2008
ISBN 978-86-87291-01-0
208 pages
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