Australian - Activist | July 3, 1971 -
I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.
Julian Assange
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I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.
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Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.
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I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election.
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Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.
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All over the world, the barriers between what is inside an organisation and outside an organisation are being smoothed out. In the military, the use of contractors means that what is the military and what is not the military is smoothed out.
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You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.
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Through the confessional system, the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.
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To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.
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The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.
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Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.
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The media helps keep government honest.
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